Dear RK,
I believe Amir Khan said so because he is unable to understand malayalam movies, whereas it is easy to enjoy Rajni movies as it does not call for any reasoning! If one has to understand good, classic malayalam movies, there has to be fairly good knowledge about the language. Sub-titles will help only to a certain extent, but to get to the essence of the movie, thorough understanding of dialogues is very important.
We from Kerala are keen, and apply our mind, to learn other state languages; that is why we can survive in any state of India, and our grasp over English has enabled us to carve a niche in the Western World. I have seen other state people who are so fanatic that they speak only in their mother tongue, and deliberately stay away from learning new languages, including our national language. And the very same people criticise us saying that when two keralites meet, they speak only in Malayalam, ignoring others around (however, my experience had been different; if we speak a common language for all to understand, they stick to their mother tongue when they address their natives!). I am sorry to say, it's true that India stands divided on state-basis.
To enjoy a Tom & Jerry cartoon, you don't need to understand what the cat and mouse speak. Same is the case with Rajni movies (by the way, a majority of his old hits are remakes of Amitabh movies), and that helped Aamir to enjoy his movie. To understand movies of Ms, you need much brilliant brains.
I have nothing against Rajni or Aamir, I also enjoy their movies, but I am surprised with the undue popularity of Rajni across the country. There are much better actors in Tamil (Kamal Haasan is one, far better!), and other terrific movies. No way you can compare Rajni's 3rd grade commercial style with the way Ms brilliantly portray full life/energey into their characters.
Aamir is nothing as compared to Amitabh Bacchan, and you should have read what he had commented about Mohanlal (during his last visit to Kerala).
Thanks
Jayakumar
2010/10/4 radhakrishnan nair <radhakrishnanair@yahoo.co.in>
From: John Thomas <joal0791@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [www.keralites.net] യന്തിരന് തരംഗം കേരളത്തിലും
To: Keralites@yahoogroups.com
Date: Sunday, October 3, 2010, 11:01 PM
Dear Balachandran sir,
I don't know where you are from. We Malayalees do not consider our films as chotta mayali films. In fact it is our personal ego. I watch movies for the last 40 years since my childhood. We do not count our films with respect to their budgets. We have nearly two dozens or more films which are internationally honored with several awards including the national awards, Cans, Toronto, Florance, Tokyo, etc. Our actors like Ms have got 3 national awards each. Shaji M Karun got the Cans award long after Satyajith Rai. Gopi was selected as the best Asian actor. I just name a small part of the great achievements of Malayalam movie fraternity. This is our proud movie tradition and continued that saga till 90s. It is not about throwing cigar or rolling the pistols. Please try to understand this point. People may enjoy films in their own ways, but of course there is good and bad, deep and shallow, serious and silly. Rajanikant always represented the second type, silly and shallow. I won't say the same remarks about Kamal Haasan who was flourished through Malayalam industry and knows what is a good film means.
regards,
John
--- On Sat, 10/2/10, BALACHANDRAN <balanauto@gmail.com> wrote:
From: BALACHANDRAN <balanauto@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [www.keralites.net] യന്തിരന് തരംഗം കേരളത്തിലും
To: Keralites@yahoogroups.com
Date: Saturday, October 2, 2010, 2:11 PM
Dear friend,
Dont tell other language film viewers are low class.......They have been enjoying their movies in their own style.Dont compare Mammooty & Mohanlal with Rajanikanth......All are good actors..Rajinikanth is stylish and can do superhuman characters well which are acceptable to almost all viewers in the world.Our BIG Ms are products of chotta kerala only .....can be sold only in kerala and few places outside kerala.So never compare their talents based on no of releasing theatres,fame...All are proud of Indian film Industry.........
2010/10/2 John Thomas <joal0791@yahoo.com>
When Mammootty and Mohanlal compete with Rajanikanth in 'Tamil Style', everyone know that they can't come any near to Rajani as he is doing the trick for the last 30 years to entertain the low class and young population of Tamil Nadu. Our superstars are good for their acting skills not for style-shows. They should realise this point and go back to the real story based movies just like they did in past decades. Otherwise action based Tamil movies will fully wipe out all these stars and Malayalam movie industry very soon.
--- On Fri, 10/1/10, Said Alavi <sonu49999@yahoo.com> wrote:
From: Said Alavi <sonu49999@yahoo.com>
Subject: [www.keralites.net] യന്തിരന് തരംഗം കേരളത്തിലും
To: "Keralites" <keralites@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Friday, October 1, 2010, 3:45 AM
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