( Post covers multitude of issues, all related to a single root Sivaji- The BOSS. I wanted to throw light on anything and everything that surrounds this movie. )
A movie buff that I am, couldn't find a better topic to begin with. A social animal that I am , couldn't digest the injustice.
A movie buff that I am, couldn't find a better topic to begin with. A social animal that I am , couldn't digest the injustice.
Before I go into the details I must admit that I myself is a SSRK fan but definitely not dumb enough to worship him. Another thing to admit - I strongly feel that SSRK's acting potential ( not as versatile as kamal haasan) is not exploited to its extreme, which when ever done, would be a fitting reply to all those narrow minded geeks (no offense meant, its for who ever they are and other's jus brush it aside) who projects Hindi cinema (avoided Bollywood intentionally) as the face of Indian cinema. This is something being proved wrong, time and again by kamal Haasan and Maniratnam.
One man's hero is another's zero (Lifted from another blog). This is how things work in this world. The world is so diverse that everyone has something to like and that by every means can be unique and worthy in it's own sense. If one understands that philosophy, there wouldn't be any clash between followers of different ideals. But you know how people work, everyone wants their faith to prevail, be it anything. It's nothing but human nature which grows on poking and subsides on apathy.
Here comes the people who exploit this very human nature for their own gain. There are many of this kind , but I would confine myself to Indian media- the hype that's been generated by it and the issues that linger in my mind. As usual even Indian politics is trying its hand here, which I would talk in another post.
First and foremost, Why did the Indian media hyped the movie (Sivaji- The BOSS) to unimaginable proportions? The answer is very simple, they wanted to rise their viewer ship down south. Thats all. But if you have watched the coverage carefully , you could have noticed one thing, they never understood south and they never will, to be more precise they doesn't ever want to. That was completely evident in the way they had handled the entire episode. Every frame was intentionally sarcastic. Sarcasm on issues in which one is least informed or not informed at all shows his/her ignorance and this explains their intentional deviations. Further, I strongly believe that if you wanna talk publicly on some issue, you gotta either be intellectual enough to do that or do atleast with right amount of professionalism. They haven't done both. I have no idea how the people involved will be answering this ambiguity, but any answer would be a proper cover up. Big deal, they are here to stay.
They made a complete mockery of the entire issue. They hyped..they praised...they criticized...made people criticize...then waited for the reaction..reverted back...what's all this shit!!! Is there no better thing to cover in this country or it's the people who prefer these coverage. A question that cannot be answered ever.
Here comes the people who exploit this very human nature for their own gain. There are many of this kind , but I would confine myself to Indian media- the hype that's been generated by it and the issues that linger in my mind. As usual even Indian politics is trying its hand here, which I would talk in another post.
First and foremost, Why did the Indian media hyped the movie (Sivaji- The BOSS) to unimaginable proportions? The answer is very simple, they wanted to rise their viewer ship down south. Thats all. But if you have watched the coverage carefully , you could have noticed one thing, they never understood south and they never will, to be more precise they doesn't ever want to. That was completely evident in the way they had handled the entire episode. Every frame was intentionally sarcastic. Sarcasm on issues in which one is least informed or not informed at all shows his/her ignorance and this explains their intentional deviations. Further, I strongly believe that if you wanna talk publicly on some issue, you gotta either be intellectual enough to do that or do atleast with right amount of professionalism. They haven't done both. I have no idea how the people involved will be answering this ambiguity, but any answer would be a proper cover up. Big deal, they are here to stay.
They made a complete mockery of the entire issue. They hyped..they praised...they criticized...made people criticize...then waited for the reaction..reverted back...what's all this shit!!! Is there no better thing to cover in this country or it's the people who prefer these coverage. A question that cannot be answered ever.
A movie involving a hero who is none less than a demi-god to his fans, a director who churned out seven back-to-back hits, a music director who is addressed as Mozart of Madras by the so called cultured public of west, a production house that's been in business ever since Tamil talkies came into existence and finally the movie itself, the costliest ever made in India to date. Can anything get bigger than this? A question only time can answer. But people mock at it. They want content! well! what is content for them? Is everything that Big B comes up with is content, is it SRK, is it Emraan hashmi ( LOL ) or the ever menacing Salman khan? I must admit that I respect Aamir Khan and Ajay Devgan in this regard. I do agree that lots of experimentation is being done in Hindi cinema in the new millennium owing to the increasing urban crowd and westernized Indian minds, all said and done, what is the outcome. A string of flops in 2007 and the only profitable movie has come from MADRAS TALKIES. By this arguement I shouldn't be overshadowing the experiment that is being done in Tamil or any other regional language for that matter. Though their reach is minimal ,profit rivals Hindi cinema.
Coming Back to Sivaji, yes, it is a regular mass entertainer with all ingredients that's our SSRK is lately into. Yes, it is a story of riches to rags to riches which forms his success formula. So what? He is a perfect entertainer and his fans come from every age group. He has been entertaining two generations of people and still going strong. His movies are message driven and for the mass. He doesn't experiment because people doesn't want him to. It's completely a people's verdict.
This in particular is a movie that completely lies on SSRK's gimmicks and Shankar's execution wherein SSRK has emerged as a winner due to Shankar's sacrifice. Shankar's screenplay doesn't stick to the plot on many occasions which is a major misgiving in the movie. In many scenes, Shankar seems to have given more importance to SSRK and grandeur rather than story and screenplay. Hence, he succeeded in the former but failed, not miserably though, in the latter. So there is a popular notion that the movie doesn't stand the hype. Yes, it is. Even if it is bitter, truth cannot be neglected. For such people, I can say only one thing. Never go by the hype, go by your instincts.
At the end of the day, I can say that this is about a person who was born pauper and became a prince by sheer hard work and there is another Biggie who was born prince, still prince but trying to become a peasant!!!
2 comments:
Good review ji. May be u shld right a blog abt the plus and minuses of sivaji.
I do strongly accept the view that through this movie rajini had again raised as a mass mania.. under the sacrifice of shankar's formula(!?). This one of the films which had made the world turn back to the south ( bcoz of the major media hype also!). Jus wanna to put forth one of my views, Tamil film industry can produce films with world class standards with our flavour, but those are left unknown to the mass. Any film with such a huge glamour and bright starcast , paves way for that much more easily( though not gonna be awarded) ... !! Not really much of stroy line or anythin but the latest technology and commericalism.. had really proven that...! But the hypes given are much beyond the limits.. but nobody is to blamed. People want that and media gives it more spicy taste.
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