Monday, January 28, 2013

Viswaroopam Review


Once in a while there comes a movie which makes me so passionate that I write a review of it. But very rarely comes a movie which makes my blood boil. I mean this movie is all about hatred – it is intended to bring out everything that Kamal Hassan hates.  It is ok to focus on your personal hatred – however some of the themes in this movie are highly consistent with his previous movies and highly distracting from the main story.
To start with – why should Kamal portray as a gay in this movie and dance to a Krishna song as a Brahmin? It seems like an attempt to mock the gay community. It doesn’t stop there. In all his movies he needs to mock or put down the Brahmin community. These are a bunch of people who are highly tolerant of everything and would not raise a voice against anything. In this movie, he uses words such as Papathy which is very derogatory of Brahmins, on top of it he also makes fun of them saying they are experts at eating meat – all unwanted to the story line.  Kamal could make a movie just to make fun of the things he hates and could call it Viswa comedy or something.  A lot of scenes in this movie is highly distracting, doesn’t move the story forward or reveal about the character. Even the Kathak song – what is the point of it?  
I would say it is pretty offensive to the Muslim community. Why would a Muslim Indian Army person change his name to a Hindu Brahmin and live in NYC? Why would he go to Afghanistan? Nothing makes sense.  As always there are dialogues which make fun of Hindu gods , he says “Which God?” . He also makes fun of the fact that Hindu gods have 4 hands and that we dunk our gods in the ocean - highly distracting, not relevant to the story. What is the point of the movie?
 It is just an opportunity for Kamal to vent out his anger and frustration. The amount of violence that too really unwanted speaks of the level of perversion in Kamal’s mind.
I would like to bring out these points to Kamal’s attention
1)      Please stop making fun of the Brahmin community
2)      Please stop making fun of Hindu Gods
3)      If a person is God fearing doesn’t mean they are bad people
4)      Please stop directing and stick to acting. Your thoughts are extremely perverse and not fit to be shared with the rest of the world. 

2 comments:

hsirkbc said...

I guess you really need to get a better perspective of life. Look around you and tell me how many of your so called "Brahmin" friends eat meat? Get a reality check. It offends you that someone portrays that in the movie. Didn't you watch the subsequent rapport / relationship Andrea's character shares with Kamal as fellow agent?

I can go on & on, but point is, you really need to learn laugh at things and take it easy. That I guess will be a better start & start accepting counter opinions as they are. If you believe there is a right & better way, live & show it. Don't say "he shouldn't do this, he shouldn't say this". Thats just childish, like a 3 year old.

saranya said...

Well - like Kamal has freedom of speech, so do I . I beleive I can voice out my opinion and I dont need to just go with the crowd blindly