You have heard of planes crashing due
to bird hit, but this time it's about
a bird in a chopper. This one is for
Vijay's film Kuruvi. Incidentally, this
film's shooting was on in Malaysia for
a long time and the crew had only recently
returned to Chennai. A stunt scene was
picturised with Vijay taking on few
men who belong to the African mafia
in a huge bar-cum-disco set erected
for this purpose.
Kuruvi's crew is following another trend that
was started off again by Rajini's Sivaji,
where the superstar uses a chopper to travel
to a village and even in the climax. Chopper
was also used to shoot a tsunami sequence
in Kamal Haasan's Dasavatharam. Aerial shots
using choppers are not new to Tamil cinema,
just that it is now being used for more relevant
scenes than only a few shots in a song. In
Kuruvi, the director has used a chopper to
shoot an entire song sequence to give it a
feel of grandeur. Directors are now willing
to go any lengths to experiment even in the
technical department.
