Uttama Villain
Kamal Hassan is one
of the versatile actors that Indian cinema has produced and can be included
amongst the greats like Sanjeev kumar,Shivaji Ganesan ,Mohanlal and Naseerudhin
shah ,of course Amitabh Bachan .
The sheer variety of
the roles Kamal has done over the years is mind boggling .
From the quintessential lover boy which I feel
suits him the best ,to the innocent orphan he portrayed in Kalaathur kanamma
where captured the hearts of a million mothers
to the sun glassed serial murderer in Sigappu rojakkal
As an agile dwarf clown
in his own Mera naam joker ,
how could one forget the
middle aged matron with inviting eyes in Chachi 320 where he showed how a man
could do a stag act with perfection ,or the raw emotions of a mafia don who
loses his dearest in Nayakan , classical dances which he did with élan and
grace unbecoming of a man are legends
what about the many comedy roles he has done
with so much ease ,
once upon a time he
was the darling of many girls in Kerala as the most popular red lipped hero of
those times .
Even today above 60
he can give a run to other younger heroes in romantic roles even with a paunch
that threatens to peep out these days .
Movies Maro cahritra
the Telugu romantic taken by his mentor K Balachander are almost epics (Maro
Charitra later on became the hindi super hit Ek duje ke
liye )
In Tollywood they say
if one needs to ne knuckled in the head better to get it done by someone
wearing a diamond ring and that mostly means to be groomed under Balachander because
that is like a passport for success in the tinsel world .
It’s not a myth but a
truth .
look at all those talents
he groomed from Nagesh the brilliant comedian and actor par excellence to Kamal
and Rajini and countless others .
To Balachander
amongst his protégés Kamal and Rajni are like his own children .
It’s this
relationship that is the most significant in this film made before the legend
left this world
It’s a rare few who
can live a role with a mentor just as in life and kamal is lucky that he could .
“ Utamma villain “ is
almost his story with him in it being a
superstar having a mundane family life with a fat wife of convenience and a
lover in the form a doctor .
Very dramatically in
the film kamal gets to know he has Glioblastoma multiform which is a brain tumor
stage four and his days are numbered so he goes back to Balachander his mentor
director who shouts at him at first telling he has done all he could with him
and the present kamal is more of an icon than the one he knew but kamal goes on
to say that he needs to do a film again directed by his mentor ,
finally he blurts out
the truth and the scene that followed was one of the best I liked in the film ,
K Balachander is not
only an excellent director he is such a wonderful actor probably all his love
for Kamal was really expressed on the camera as he pours his grief on his protégé
,he agrees to do the movie and the film is about the film making and the story
of the film that is made which is a period film where kamalhassan is a lucky
guy thought to get the spell of life forever and the funny things that happen
with a clowning Nasser as the king and seductive heroine who is after kamal and
this gives them pleny of ops to romance on the screen and it all ends with a
narasimha avatar to kill Hiranyan
strangely here the
hero is Hiranyan and narasimhan the villain gets a sudden itch to go to the loo
when its time for him to tear the villain to pieces and the villain becomes the
king
This part was
excellently choreographed by blending theru koothu ,theyyam and nangyar koothu
and since it was kamal doing the dance with others there was no doubts about
the professionalism in the dances
The film making was
blended with real life scenes of kamals illness slowly getting known to his
family ,the scene between him and his teen son after he knows the truth is one
of the most outstanding ones ,the sheer emotion is portrayed so well by both .
An in the end Kamal
bids farewell with a mischievous wink the hallmark of his in real life too
I liked the movie a
lot
Please do see it
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