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| Kamal
on his journey through Life, Movies
and Rajini!! |
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However, when they come together,
it would result in something
that almost every Tamil would
look forward to. The biggest
question here, he said, was
who would direct the movie.
Obviously Rajini would not.
So it has to be either Kamal
or someone else. At the Thenali
silver jubilee function Rajni
recalled an incident when he
was riding pillion on Kamal’s
bike.
When the bike skidded Rajni
asked if he knew how to ride
a bike! Kamal assured him that
even if he fell, I wouldn't
let Rajini fall. |
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Rajini said, Kamal has kept that word
up through the years. Manirathnam,
another great of the Tamil industry
with whom Kamal made one of his best
movies, Nayagan, would be the ideal
person to direct Rajini and Kamal.
But will that happen? |
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| Songs…?
Indigestible!! |
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In spite of being a good singer
and a great dancer, Kamal detests
the song and dance routine in
movies. He said he was happy
was when Kannada movies came
out of that trap. And admonished
the Tamil industry for making
commercial crap. Saying that
songs were like whores in the
prostitution business, Kamal
breathed fire on the inescapable
reality of Indian Cinema, which
necessitated a silly song and
dance sequence even to characters
like a serial killer. Even greats
such as Shyam Benegal, whom
he had once admired for their
bold stance, have now fallen
into the familiar trap. He lamented
about the state where a useless
and pointless song was thrust
irrespective of the genre. |
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| Cannes
in Chennai |
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Dismissing
the Oscars as an exclusivist American
thing, he said it was an uneven playing
field that was not worth the effort.
His dream is to create an international
film festival in Chennai, on line
of the Cannes Film Festival. He also
hope his endeavor would be helped
by the press by staying out of his
personal life. |
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