As audience, is there anything wrong with us ?

When i wrote my earlier article, on my frustration about Tamil Cinema in the past three months, some of my film maker friends were furious saying, that it's noting wrong with the directors but with audience.

But as i see it, i don find anything wrong with the audience. Because of one single bloody reason.

Reason:

I remember, till 5 years back i could see that there would be few good films which would not run properly in theater. They wouldn't run because, they din have proper publicity or they din release at the right time or its some sort of a arti parallel cinema. But for the past five years, if you look back i couldn't think of a single good film which din run properly in theater. Patience level of audience has actually improved, they have forgiven so my bad films and made them run. One very important thing to notice is that, all the films that did well in the past few years are low budget films with content which is very different, just to remind you 'Subramaniyapuram' to 'Angadi Theru'.

I still believe that if people come out with films which have stories that are not just different, but also some really interesting 'unnoticed' stuff in the society, that would be enough to come up with a entertaining film.

Audience taste changes with time its quite natural, otherwise we will all be stuck in the times when film was invented, we have moved so far because taste has changed, it for good.Its a process of evolution, rather than development.We have to accept it, its natural.The solution is simple, make people's film. Make films about people not about heroes, a very good example is 'Boss yengara Bhaskaran'. Though it was treated as a comedy film, if you look deep into the roots, its all about us, what we aspire to do, what we are and what we can never be.

We have crossed the classical road skipping the modern cinema into a post modern world, i fell proud of our audience for being patient to watch some of the ridiculous content. Thanks to them, otherwise the industry would have closed by now.

Disappointed as an audience, Tamil cinema, the last three months

I have been watching almost all Tamil films for the past three months for reason, especially on the first day in Udhayam. By now every employee of Udhayam theater knows me, the reason is that i have been walking out in the middle of almost every film i have seen in this past three months, along with the other frustrated audience. As an audience i have some expectations and the most important thing that stands out in the list of expectations is entertainment, next comes everything else.

I didn't even expect a good cinema with quality of screenplay and stuff, at-least entertainment, ummhummmmm.

Some of the films staring from Kanimozhi to Nadunisai naigal, every thing looked like a spoof. One film stood out, that is Siruthai, i really appreciate the team for coming out with at-least such a entertaining film. I loved the film for just one reason, entertainment. Our taste has boiled down to that, not because we as a audience have evolved out or something, but there is no good content of any another sort . More than good content its all about the confused directors on, what is a good cinema ?, rather than that, what entertainment is ?.

Entertainment is not sex or semi-porn stuff of showing hips and breasts, its all about connecting people by striking the right notes of emotions, whether its comedy or tragedy. Entertainment as a word is very being abused and misused. One amazing thing i had seen in this past three months is that, the directors wanted to just keep away from the word entertainment and gone into to the opposite, to show them out distinct, saying that they are trying out experiments on cinema. But what i found was that, they were not experimenting, but rather they were trying to be a 'WANABE NO ENTERTAINING DIRECTORS'.

Not having a BGM in a film, is not an experiment, but coming out with a good film which will not require a BGM is an experiment.
Confusing the audience is not a good screenplay, but coming up with a confused character is a good screenplay.
Having a story set in village is not a contribution to the rural India, having relevance to it is a contribution.

I'am frustrated to say that i have seen some the worst films in Tamil cinema in this three months.I din want to take out the names of the films, for just one bloody reason that they are too many and i really get pissed thinking of them. Its my frustration of spending 70 rs for ticket, 100 rd for water and popcorn, and 30 rs for petrol for every movie, to avoid pirated DVD's and what do i get, fucking shit.
But thanks to all those directors who have wasted crores of rupees to learn the worst ways to make films, i at least 'how not, to make films'

KANDASAMI, A SUPER ZERO

Kalaipuli S Dhanu is the most generous and the niceist producer in the world, because he has beard Kandasami.
Kandasami = mixture of Ramana + all Shankar's films like gentleman and Anniyan sort.
It's a super spoof of super heroes.Please watch the film, if you like spoof films or if you want to know how money can be wasted or if you want to know how Vadivelu can be wasted or IF YOU WANT TO KNOW HOW KANDASAMI CAN BE WASTED.

Aaranya Kaandam

When i was just about to close down my this year articles i came across the pooja for the film Aaranya Kaandam, directed by Mr.Kumar Raja, the dialouge writer for the much acclaimed cult film Oram Po.I could'nt resist writing about it.It seems that the whole industry is buzzed with the screenplay of this film, i never believed untill i saw the poster design of the film.Just the poster design convinced me that, this is going to be one of the best films in 2009.
It has all deadly actors from Jackie Sheroof to Sampath.The shooting has started and the first schdule is going on.All the very best of luck.Im waiting to watch a deadly film this year, Aaranya Kaandam.

The kind of films i would love to watch

I was boared so badly yesterday that i wanted watch some good funny comedy film, my friend suggested me to watch ARASANGAM (Captain Vijayakanth's) or NAYAGAN (J.K.RITHEESH's) ,but what i meant was a "comedy, comedy film" which can been seen twice ,thrice types( by the way i had seen both the films earlier and laughed out loud LOL )
I decided to watch some good old films ,so i went to a dvd lending library and saw the list .The following were the ones which i selected.
1.Pammal K Sambatham
2.vasul raja mbbs
3.singara velan
4.avvai shanmugi
5.michael madhana kama rajan (my favourite of all )
6.thillu mullu
7.sathi leelavathi
8.guru sishyan
9.kathala kathala

how wonderful , our top super actors like kamal bhai and rajini ji topped in the list in comedy..both are great actors with beautiful sense of humor....the was saved ......