That was the usual confident Kamal talk. I wonder if he is all tensed up by the hype. not that he is in such a hype for the first time.

Let’s see how the movie plays out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wplU9yRiUc0

Sounds eerily like this is not coming from his heart.

The song looks, well, like the trailer Normal movie stuff.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhA-WCby1fo

Now that I have said that, let me end with this: I am a great Kamal fan. Thus the overly critical approach.

BTW its intriguing how we piece apart any small bit of info that trickles down about Dasa, and form conclusions. And i am the best example for that really bad habit!

But suffice to say once i enter the theatre to watch the film, i go in with an open mind.

I liked Hey Ram, but the screenplay did not work for me. The way Mahanadi moved me, Hey ram did not. And it could have.

Too many stories, too many ideas.

Even Aalavandhaan had some brilliant scenes. But as a film, it was a huge disappointment.

The problem with this anticipation of whether the movie will click or not is not unfortunately on the hands of kamal or the producer. it is unfortunately on the hands of us (the fans).

kamal fans are totally divided and they are kind of confused on what to expect from him (i am talking about the entire mass and not just the few of us here in this forum debating). I happened to catch “anbe sivam” in sathyam and during mid half of the movie even his own fans started shouting and raising catcalls and the entire audience became silent with disappointment. I thought that the movie was brilliant (if after all movies like forest gump, gladiator, english patient, shawshank can win an oscar anbe sivam should be given 2 for its treatment). But unfortunately the movie bombed and even sites like sify wrote it off as a disaster. On the other hand movies like vasool raaja was lapped up by the audience (which is a pure commerical one) while singaravelan bombed (which is till date a comedy classic and much better)

i think kamal fans are totally divided into wanting something like a commerically winning movie, hollywood style scripts and great drama, total masala, something novel etc. Unfortunately with the current trend and likes it is too tough to have everything packaged in a single movie. On the other hand, rajini fans dont expect any such thing. They just want unadulterated masala for 3 hours (the only reason why baba flopped ). Kamal is a genious but since his fans are divided the tension happens during his each and every release

btw, dont compare kamal and vijay and all please. it is great insult for genious like kamal.

That was well worth a couple of bondy producers. I mean, there are enough Vijay movies that flop – they may not be expensive in the abhay sense but sure they hurt the producers. it is okay if a few producers are hurt by Abhay type movies. I mean, there would be a 1000 producers bankrupted by stupid movies!

Marketing is a vital factor, almost bigger than just making a movie. How well you manipulate the mass, the imagination makes it a winning pic or not. I would not say Kamal is mocking the fans or such, he gave very good movies, the people did not understand, go figure. But one day when you watch some of his movies alone focusing on the subject matter, then you would understand what hes trying to tell. I dont mind sucking up to an egoist if he delivers stuff you and I cant think of. What hype is there, all movies are hype, we can absorb Ajith and Vijay hypes, and other stars, why cant we watch a Kamal hype.

And how come no one who have reservations of this movie or any Tamil movie talk about how they sell and oversell the movie way before releasing it. There is no big budgeted flops in the Tamil industry nowadays…I dont know how the distribution system works in India, but they do sell the movie well outside. Coupled with network channels, airlines channels, dvd, etc etc etc.

If only Tamil movies can jump into merchandising that works.

Alas, its just a 3 hours fun ride, some movies worth the rewatch, some dont. But Im just happy to see him making movies and not retiring. Coz there isnt much of a successor lined up. One day when we only get action-chick-trash_song movies, we will think back at the past stars contribution. Its a proud thing Tamil movies are the best and still is…compared to other regional languages.

Lets not worry about other’s problems. Lets not start thinking how people will accept it.

It is enough if the movie is good enough for me.