Comments on: Subhash K Jha’s criticism & praise of Kamal

By: Karthik

Karthik — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 08:54:16 +0000

It is the creative meglomanias who have contributed most to cinema.
eg: Stanley Kubrick, Kamal, Tom Hanks etc.

It is a fact that people like Kamal are antidotes to the otherwise mediocre Indian cinema. I think the only way people will realise this is by forcing a rule to seperate songs from films like in Hollywood. Then we will know who truly ‘act’!

By: manix

manix — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 07:50:32 +0000

Kamal, for as long as memory serves, has admittedly lamented the requirements for songs as part of a formulaic condition for indian movies - esp tamil movies. If one takes count of tamil movies without songs, most of these will be with kamal’s taking the most.

However, this age old formula of 4 songs, 3 fights and an irrelevant comedy track is here to stay for a long long time.

By: Krishnan

Krishnan — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 14:06:40 +0000

I don’t think you can mention Kubrick, Kamal, and Tom Hanks in the same list. I’m as big a fan of Kamal as any other diehard fan, but I beg to differ. I think Kamal is yet to reach the level of cinematic genius like Kubrick in his heydays did. And Hanks should not even be compared to Kamal, let alone Kubrick. I think Ed Norton would have been a far better choice.

A Clockwork Orange is one movie I will never ever be able to forget. It disturbed me like no other movie has done in my entire life. As far as Kamal’s works are concerned, Guna brought me very close to that experience. But he’s not quite there. He definitely has the potential, no doubt. But due to the commercial and social constraints in India, he is not able to reproduce the magic of Guna or Hey Ram for that matter.

I know some of you might differ with my opinion, but this is what I honestly feel.