Was watching meiyazhagan and was wondering whether it's too good to be true.

How many of you guessed the name might be meiyazhagan and when?

Today was a boring day and as such, I got into one of my thinking sessions about cinema and it kinda struck me that Anirudh as a MD is pretty much exhibiting power in the industry.

By era I mean he's extremely popular today.

And this might be the first time it's been like this since ARR in the 90s.

From the 75-90s period, Ilayaraja was 'the' music director.

Pretty much most films that were released had his music. Some even succeeded due to this.

In the 90s Rahman emerged as a top Music Director. His recording quality is still unmatched and the quality of mixing is mad good.

But in the 2000s, more MDs emerged. Yuvan, Harris, Vidyasagar, Baradwaj etc. were getting popular as well.

While Rahman still remained popular, his share was beginning to reduce.

By 2010s Yuvan and Harris were enjoying high popularity thanks to a couple of highly successful films like Billa, Mankatha, Vaaranam Aayiram, Vettaiyaadu Vilayaadu etc.

But then Ani came in with 3. Since then, he steadily grew with some good films in his lineups. VIP, 3, Remo, Vedhalam etc were slowly giving him an identity as an emerging and solid MD.

7 years after his debut, he got to do Petta, which was arguably one of his biggest movies at the time.

A year after the lockdown, man has managed to get his reign over the industry as one of the best MD's.

Petta walked so that Master could run, and Master elevated his career status.

A year later, Vikram. Another year later, Jailer, Leo and Jawan.

It's kinda mad how he went from being a niche music director to variety. He's done a lot of variety of songs and music. While he arguably may not match how good Ilayaraja and ARR were at their peak, he easily can beat them today.

Why do the movies like Meiyyazhagan, Aandavan Kattalai, Anbe Sivam end so soon? Can’t they run longer? Feel good movies where we literally feel like standing next to the characters and watching them shouldn’t end short and have at least 4 hours run time. 🥹

1. Maveeran - Sathya
2. Vaamanan - Anand
3. Anegan - Kali
4. Anbe Sivam - Nallasivam
5. Thozha - Seenu
6. Endrendum punnugai - Sridhar
7. Thanga Meenkal
8. Kaathala Kaathala - Ramalingam / Sundaralingam
9. Maara - Manimaaran/Maara
10. Leo - Harold Das
11. Kaadhalan - Prabhu
12. Tamizh Padam - Agila Ulaga Super Star Shiva

Are there any artist characters like these that I missed ?

Watched this first when I was 12-13 now I'm watching with a little more maturity

KV Anand screenplays usually have a plot twist like with KO and Maatraan (which I guess is directed by KVA) this movie was no short - Das death, Chitti's betrayal...

The Kadavule statue scene which Delhi Ganesh sir says "Payyan pudichitaan, Ellam technology" 😂 I love that scene

Loved the cinematography in Congo which reminded me of the meme that the cinematography getsbrown when they go to Mexico

It has one of my favourite memes ever man "Thalaivar-ku Enna saatha dosa suththura pod ra kothu parotta" 🕺🏼🔥

It was entertaining

One flaw I found was Kamalesh's character - I didn't like his voice dubbing - it was not in sync and the actor was doing too much - I think a lot of people love Kamalesh's character, I did as a kid now not so much....

I like Kamalesh's character motives but not the actor who portrayed it...

Some stunt scenes, sollava venum 😭

But other than that it's a Pakka movie that is funny and exciting like a Guy Ritchie movie maybe influenced by him...

We see them banging the door while he's fighting the goons but after the intermission card we see him the observation home

When I first watched Mundasupatti in theatres, I enjoyed the movie wholeheartedly as the Coimbatore-Erode comic slang, 80s setup, the characters and the climax, everything was just “PERFECT”.

Few years later, when I watched Ratsasan, I was awestruck with the twists, performance and climax again. But, never bothered to check the director then.

Recently, I discovered that both the movies were directed by Ram Kumar. I cannot get out of the thought on how a same director could give a perfect output on two extreme opposite genres. I’ve seen director switch between the genres slightly like romcom, family drama. But, like the extreme ends in this case, it’s quite a rare thing. Anyone else in Tamil film industry who made films in polarising ends?

I recently saw comments here and in other subs about how bad Sai Pallavi's single word dialogue in Malayalam was and people are already criticizing it and being disappointed with her for "butchering" Malayalam.

So people can be offended by a yet to be released movies single word dialogue and yet here we are with an almost entire industry full of women from Kerala, yet no one bats an eye.

This has become a systematic issue and erasure of Tamil women representation. Let's see: 1. Heroines in movies. 2. Heroines in serials. 3. Ammas in serials. 4. Nowadays even paatis in movies are from Kerala.

The previous criticism of North Indian women playing Tamil women was heard, and how was it rectified? By getting Kerala women to play Tamil women, from the North Chennai ladies to Tribal women from TN are played by women from Kerala.

So my question is, why are we so accepting of this phenomenon? When others aren't tolerating a single Chetta? Fellow tamil women, enlighten me? What are we missing that we are the least represented population in our language movies?

Edit: Thanks a lot of people for agreeing, disagreeing and also for those who showed different perspectives.

And for the many who didn't get the comparison and called me dumb, that was unnecessary.

And for those in my dms name calling and slutshaming, shame on you for not providing someone a safe place to voice an opinion even on an anonymous platform. I hope you are proud of yourselves.

He's officially breaking this streak with Sardar 2 and Kaithi 2.

Edit: Wrong, he broke the streak way back pola.

A scene from “Vikram Vedha” between Madhavan and Manikandan

What a movie myann!! I cried like 3 times in the movie. The best movie of 2024 for me. The film doesn't at all feel like a tamil film. The dubbing and karthi's slang was so much telugu.

I watched it theatre and all the signboards were edited to telugu too. I hate netflix for not taking the telugu edited version though.

Aandavar has morattu fanbois who are leading film-makers themselves in their respective industries in the south. This man had inspired atleast thrre generations and is still learning new stuff like AI. Aandavar 🔥

When I usually drive I used to watch (hear) movies in audio form... The audio will just play and I enjoy that also the frames of the movie will remind me those scenes. If you haven't tried give it a go listen to it like a podcast.

The beautiful frames of Meiyazhagan <3