Befitting his cult status, Tamil film superstar Rajinikanth has developed his own law.
Rajini’s Law – You know, like Newton’s Law, Boyle’s Law or Charles Law.
This is what Rajini’s Law postulates to his fans – The longer I act in Tamil movies, infinitely worse my performance will get.
Thanks to Netflix and demands from some of the SearchIndia.com blog readers, we got a chance to watch Mullum Malarum again.
We believe 99.99% of movies must be watched in the time period when they are made, i.e within 3-4 years of their release (the remaining few like Casablanca, On the Water Front, Citizen Kane or Sholay are classics that transcend time and geography).
So we were initially reluctant to watch Mullum Malarum because 30 years had passed since its release and we wondered if we could relate to the movie. After some hesitation, we decided to take the plunge.
And what a delightful treat Mullum Malarum turned out to be.
Rajinikanth & Jayalakshmi
(Photo: Wikipedia)
Tamil Caliban
For those of us sick and tired of seeing Rajinikanth leaping hither and thither on the big screen with lesser grace than Shakespeare’s Caliban, his performance in Mullum Malarum is a revelation.
Boy, this bloke could act those days. In Mullum Malarum, Rajinikanth has turned in a performance par excellence in sharp contrast to his buffoon-like antics in recent movies like Sivaji and the recent disaster Kuselan.
Rajinikanth was 28 then and perhaps the rough role he was playing in Mullum Malarum reflected well his violent personality of those days.
When Rajinikanth’s character Kali tells the engineer (Sarat Babu), Rendu kai, rendu kaal ponakuda, kali angarava polachikava, sir. Ketta payan sir, avan, we empathize with Kali as we never have with any of Rajini’s other characters with the exception perhaps of the writer in Aarilinthu aravathu varai.
The stars were all perfectly aligned in Mullum Malarum – stellar Continue reading »
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