Movies are all about hypes !~while heroines are the most adored, it is the hero who gets super projection.In Tamil movies, viewers get so worked up when the name of their fav hero is projected on silver screen on various methods, sometimes, the hero comes dancing, sometimes comes down jumping, and sometimes first the leg or face is shown !!!!!
People love a good hero. Ever since the ancient Mesopotamian myth The Epic Of Gilgamesh, humans have had a fascination with characters who defy all the odds – and mostly it is same narrative of rich being bad and poor hero raising to defend his group. If there is a failed narrative that needs the quick fix it is the – hero myth !!Comedian turned heroes too can send 20 people holding deadly weapons on air, with their every moment fighters fall on glasses, ground, houses, cars and what not breaking them and unable to get up – some have audacious power of tonnes of power on their arms.It is not fiction, but power, fantasy and people believe them !!
In 1936, American archaeologist Indiana Jones recovers a Golden Idol from a booby-trapped Peruvian temple. Rival archaeologist René Belloq corners him and steals the idol; Jones escapes in a waiting float plane. The Raiders of the Lost Ark released in 1981 directed by Steven Spielberg from a screenplay by Lawrence Kasdan, based on a story by George Lucas and Philip Kaufman was a class movie. Set in 1936, the film starred Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones, a globetrotting archaeologist vying with Nazi German forces to recover the long-lost Ark of the Covenant which is said to make an army invincible.
The opening scene showed - Indy the hero, portraying what to expect of him: bravura adventuring and artifact-finding, but also failure at the hands of Belloq. That one scene set up the whole movie.
Tamil cinema has often been praised for normalising dark-skinned heroes. In fact, in the years following superstar Rajinikanth’s debut, filmmakers have even incorporated into their films songs dedicated to highlighting the hero’s skin tone as desirable. The same privilege, however, has not been extended to women in Tamil cinema. The number of Tamil women playing the role of lead Tamil characters on screen has been minimal. There have been Tamannaah, Nayanthara, Sonali Bendre, Sonia Agarwal, Tabu, Kriti Kharbanda, Kajal Aggarwal, Hansika Motwani, Aishwarya Rai, Rani Mukherjee, Deepika Padukone, Manisha Koirala, Urmila Matondkar, Bhumika Chawla and more - it is often women from north India or neighbouring States who are tasked with the role of a Tamil woman on screen, be it modern or rustic.
Kaalaiyan, a well-to-do and honourable landlord, lives modestly with his four brothers in a village. Sundaravelu is an equally rich but less honourable landlord in the neighbouring village. He lusts for Kaalaiyan's property and sends his assistant Saamipillai to him with an offer to buy his property. Murattukalai produced by AVM directed by SP Muthuraman turned the lives of erstwhile hero Jai Shankar and upcoming Superstar Rajinikanth.
The introductory jallikattu sequence and song "Pothuvaaga En Manasu Thangam" were shot at Paganeri, a village near Karaikudi while the close-up shots of Rajinikanth fighting with the bull in the field were shot at the AVM school playground in Chennai – were iconic images for Tamil movie fams/
அண்ணனுக்கு ஜே… அண்ணனுக்கு ஜே…
காளையனுக்கு ஜே… காளையனுக்கு ஜே… ஜே…
பொதுவாக என் மனசு தங்கம்… ஒரு போட்டியின்னு வந்து விட்டா சிங்கம்…
உண்மைய சொல்வேன்… நல்லத செய்வேன்…
தன்னானா தானா தன தன்னானா தானா…வெற்றிமேல் வெற்றி வரும்…
ஆடுவோம் பாடுவோம் கொண்டாடுவோம்… ஆனந்தம் காணுவோம் எந்நாளுமே…
The song introducing the hero jumping on the ground from a cart in front of rousing bull was iconic !the film also hadsome of the best action sequences including the fight on top of a running train in the climax
This man is no hero and not a scene from any movie, for people, there are daily chores and they do it happily without bothering to know who is watching.Life goes on,Sunday thoughts of Aasami sirippu sinthanaiyan
With regards – S Sampathkumar
22.9.2024
