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Also like the reviewer in live mint says this part is not complete on its own and that is simply not fair. Or like gangs of wasseypur he shd have released both together. Trying to tie the pieces in end credits is so rushed and worthless.
Why the need to elevate tamil cinema to Hollywood? I can understand elevating it in terms of organic story telling and taut screenplays but why place it in NYC? The A center audience has seen more of these movies in English so this comes across as shoddy and amateur. For the B & C this is clear OHT. I would prefer kamal to stick to roots like Thevar Magan.. The more local you get the more global the movie flies.(point in case aadukalam, subramaniapuram).
All in all vishwaroopam was not a class apart or anything on those lines. Just regular good guys winning over bad guys with some neat action sequences, one class kathak performance and Osama. #headdesk!
I liked it. A slick, well made (by Tamil movie standards) thriller shorn of the usual Masala tropes (translation: Lovers of Alex Pandian and Kanna Bhagyaraj Kathayai Tiruda Aasaiya can stay at home pretending Murugadoss is a real director).
You say that Kamal Hassan is much more interesting these days as writer director (and I did agree about Manmadhan Anbu), but here Andrea does absolutely nothing in the movie. She is there with the hero all along (the NY portions) and does nothing. Why make her tag along with the hero and make her do nothing?
The idea of using pigeons to sabotage the search for the bomb also appears in The Fifth Horseman by Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre, which is also, incidentally, about a hidden nuclear device in NYC.
Aayirathil Oruvan was awful(but still much better than 7G Rainbow colony). Since Selvaraghavan was involved initially with viswaroopam before he got canned Kamal fanboys can blame the screenplay lapses on him ?
For a man who directed (without apostraphes) Hey Ram and Virumaandi, this was a let down. Example of terrible writing and direction is the stretch starting from the kid on the swing to the bombings. He has made the point about lost childhoods and in 2 seconds (masterful) and then stretches it more than the street side hotel cook stretches the barotha maida.
As Meera says, the closer he was to the roots, the better the movies were and maybe the trend that you rightly point out of him attempting to connect global cues is not helping him. What would we not give for one final masterpiece from him so that we do not remember him of Manmathan Ambu and Vishwaroopam!
I disagree that his character took a back seat during the Afghan portion of the movie. In fact, he portrayed himself as the only (literal) voice of reason during that segment, be it asking the Lord for forgiveness for him and his compatriot spy, or consoling a weeping Omar that only blood, not tears, are shed on a battlefield.
Its another matter altogether that he is too old and too fat to play an action hero. Old is ok (look at Clooney) but come on man , get into some shape , at least make us believe that this man can run 100m without needing a respirator at the end of it.
Apram, who is that saying bad things about fun filled Vikram? It was Sujatha at his male chauvinistic best- nga! I still have the bound copy of the story which came on kumudam every week! (Lizzy: women can do all that men do! kamal: naan suvathula 8 poduvEn!,)
Btw, I was surprised to hear that Kamal wanted Mani to direct this one).
Nathan: I felt that most of the Kamal-isms were reasonably organically integrated here. The few scenes that I felt were excessive were the ones like the interrogation room scene, with the African American woman. There, I agree, it seemed thinichified. But given the theme of this film, the rest of the places the Kamal-isms did fit in well, IMO.
@Manix. Now that you mentioned, I realized that lots of my facebook friends have/had their hats off to Kamal/Vishwaroopam recently. My guess is that all of them are Engineers ( and not students of literature or fine arts) and possesses limited English vocabulary -that includes me too. So, when we are impressed, it is mostly hats off.
Remember Kill Bill, that was a singular story Tarantino had to split up into two following studio pressure, but I never felt let-down after the first part ended. The climactic fight followed by the quiet scene in the airplane and the conversation between Bill and Budd just felt like the perfect ending. It felt complete within the first film, yet left me anticipating for the second. That is how to properly end a film when you know a sequel is in the offing.
regd V, if they make the other characters speak urdu then these nitpickers complain that the subtitles are annoying and too fast to read. if its english they complain about fake accents. there is no end to this madness.
dont they watch troy and gladiator? does he have to make an apocalypto to shut them up?!
About Kamal appearing fat, check the movie out again and see the timeline. If New York scenes are current time, and Afghanistan was 2002, that is approx 10 years. So he is underground for 8-10 years. And in the training scenes in Afghanistan he is shown as superfit ( cgi ? ). So it makes complete sense from a characterization standpoint to be overweight.
Kamal is a person who has been evovling over a period of time since Kallathur Kannamma to Viswaroopam 2 and he is one who works hard to get better everytime. I see so much of hardwork going behind to develop himself over and again to entertain people which is his profession.
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