NANBAN---Review

Not to argue, puni88, but if Shankar wanted to convey the stress-busting feel to the Tamil audience, he could have produced it, rather than redacting it scene by scene.

A quote from Rediff website comment:

 

Is Endhiran Copied from Hollywood movie??

I felt so withWill Smith's I,Robo.

 

I am waiting to watch this one..

 

story line is from Hollywood only.

 

Nemesis, it's not as if Shankar is the only one who is into remakes of films. As much as I hate this trend, we can't deny that almost every other movies that are released in Tamil today are remakes of movies from other languages- Pokiri, Thilalangadi, Kaavalan, Siruthai, Uthama Puthiran, Velayutham and many others.

The only difference is whether the directors are open in their admission of the films being remakes or not. Most directors are quite truthful in saying that their films are a remake of so and so movies. But there are also some like A.L.Vijay who has never admitted til date that his Deivathirumagal is a direct copy of I Am Sam. Or even Jayam Raja who still continues to say that Velayutham is merely "inspired" by Nagarjuna's Azad.

In that sense, Shankar should be applauded for coming out in open and saying that he is remaking 3 Idiots. Plus, he never claimed to be the best director or one with the most "original" storylines, so I don't see why he should be targetted or even criticized for his decision.

And I'm so sorry to say this but the quote from Rediff is by far, one of the most absurd remarks I'm ever read. First of all, there's no requirement that a director should think of his own story and screenplay. Shankar has always credited his dialogue writers, story writers and screenplay writers when and where it's due. Just because he uses Sujatha's or Balakumaran's writing, doesn't mean that he is riding behind the brains of these esteemed writers. Obviously the one who wrote this remark has no clue what it takes to be a director hence this half-baked statements.

Just to be clear, KB doesn't write his own stories. The late Ananthu is instrumental in contributing stories and even ghost writing dialogues for many of KB's acclaimed films. Maniratnam engaged Sujatha to write the dialogues for Aaithe Ezhuthu and Kannathil Muthammital while Balakumaran too had worked with Mani for Nayagan. All these doesn't make KB or Maniratnam any lesser directors than the ones who write their own screenplay.

A movie is afterall a product of a team work and it's the job of the director to ensure that each and every team members contribute their parts well. Thus, to get the best from Sujatha and Balakumaran, there has to be great interpretation of ideas from Shankar too right?

 

The story line is based on late writer Sujatha's novels, titled En Iniya Enthira and Jeano. The techno part and some plots of the film are of course taken from Hollywood films.

 

She must have taken good care of her body all those years ;-)

Thanks Preethi for the wonderful review :thumbsup Where did you watch the movie- Lotus / Midvalley or Suria KLCC? How was the songs btw? I only heard the songs during the audio launch-didn't like any of them then. Maybe it might sound nice when you're watching it with the film...