(Strangely, while sitting through the film, I found it merely dull – but talking about it later to a, um, colleague, I realised I was more annoyed by it than I thought I was.)
Which means explanations after explanations, mostly delivered in the very earnest enunciations of Shruti Haasan, who speaks, sometimes, as if addressing someone extremely hard of hearing but who can lip-read. Merely an extremely dull one, burdened with having to demystify to the average movie-goer its high-tech premise. This angst against the wretchedness of finger-wagging apart, this isn’t a bad movie.“Pizza saapidum Thamizhanukku Pongal thiruvizha edharku?” Words fail me… I was reminded of a classic (and thoroughly misguided) quote by Thangarbachan in Kalki a couple of years ago, when he took to arms about the “westernisation” of us evil-incarnate, city-dwelling Tamils.Why are these movies about the glories of Tamil culture always made by directors who hop, skip and jump to exotic foreign destinations for their songs, which feature whites and where the hero is dressed like a hip-hop artist, mouthing words like “ragamuffin?” Songs and dance videos are exempt from “Tamil culture?” Considering that Suriya is a circus artist, you couldn’t have a down-to-earth kuthu paattu for him? And you have the gall to dole out advice about the benefits of kolam pottufying and manjal thechufying? When you’re sitting behind the director’s camera in jeans, having probably arrived there in a German car?.Does Bodhidharman care more about his newfound Chinese compatriots than the wife and family he left behind? Or were they already dead by the time he lost his hair and consumed poisoned food and kicked the bucket? And if he knew about the cure for the disease that causes blisters and boils and bleeding eyes, why did he share this information only with the Chinese and not with his people back in India?
VIJAY TV NADANTHATHU ENNA NOKKU VARMAM HOW TO
I kept waiting for a scene where the Chinese kept falling asleep and this Tamilian introduced them to a counteractive brew (it’s safe to assume they knew nothing about tea, either), and the other scene where he took pity on their barren shelves and taught them how to make Ming vases.
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