I watched the much hyped latest Tamil movie - Anniyan. Just because the director was due a movie, he seems to have taken his oft repeated ideas from his previous movies and conjured up a concoction that does not hide the lack of effort on his behalf. For a movie which took more than a 10 Million Singapore Dollars to complete, it’s definitely a disappointment. Half that money seems to have spent on a single song!
Even though I am angry with myself on spending so much on the movie, I am happy that in a small way the movie has asked the right questions to the Indian public. The question on corruption, small mistakes and acceptance need to be asked and needed such a grand stage as this. Hopefully it gets a few of us thinking. If 500 Million people steal 5 cents, then it’s a 5 Million dollar crime, people need to realize this. Another interesting point was regarding sports. For a country of our size domination in the sports arena should come easy, it’s the politics that’s stopping us. Take football for instance, the problem that countries like Thailand face is the physical edge, we don’t even lack that, so why is our team not even one-tenth as decent as the Thai’s – no one knows and no one cares……
It was slightly disappointing that the crux of the issue was criticized within the movie by the comedy actor Vivek; he did try to convince that problems within the society has be accepted, and one has to adapt himself to lead a normal life; that was a mistake in itself. Education has a much bigger role in India’s re-awakening. Re-awakening, because we were big before the British plundered us, and movies should play their part in it. Movies with such powerful social tones such as Anniyan if delivered the right way will get the common man thinking, if we combine this with the power of the students and the money from NRI’s, India will be back where it rightfully belongs.
As for the movie itself, the publicity blurb for the film says: 'He who comes from Hell is not afraid of Hot Ashes'. Well it’s partly true, the movie is definitely from hell and Shankar is not afraid to churn out crap even after ‘Boys’.
Even though I am angry with myself on spending so much on the movie, I am happy that in a small way the movie has asked the right questions to the Indian public. The question on corruption, small mistakes and acceptance need to be asked and needed such a grand stage as this. Hopefully it gets a few of us thinking. If 500 Million people steal 5 cents, then it’s a 5 Million dollar crime, people need to realize this. Another interesting point was regarding sports. For a country of our size domination in the sports arena should come easy, it’s the politics that’s stopping us. Take football for instance, the problem that countries like Thailand face is the physical edge, we don’t even lack that, so why is our team not even one-tenth as decent as the Thai’s – no one knows and no one cares……
It was slightly disappointing that the crux of the issue was criticized within the movie by the comedy actor Vivek; he did try to convince that problems within the society has be accepted, and one has to adapt himself to lead a normal life; that was a mistake in itself. Education has a much bigger role in India’s re-awakening. Re-awakening, because we were big before the British plundered us, and movies should play their part in it. Movies with such powerful social tones such as Anniyan if delivered the right way will get the common man thinking, if we combine this with the power of the students and the money from NRI’s, India will be back where it rightfully belongs.
As for the movie itself, the publicity blurb for the film says: 'He who comes from Hell is not afraid of Hot Ashes'. Well it’s partly true, the movie is definitely from hell and Shankar is not afraid to churn out crap even after ‘Boys’.
3 comments:
Hi! I haven't seen it as yet.
I guess Shankar can't use the same anti-corruption theme any more. He has used it too many times. Has he run out of ideas or is he too scared to try something different?
I feel that he has some sincere intentions in correcting certain things within the society but then he needs fresh ideas in delivering them, scare tactics or of the past, it not practical given the huge numbers
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