If Only Ajith And Vijay Were More Like Dulquer Salmaan And Nivin Pauly!

What must a good movie comprise of? A good story, a great direction, a pleasant cinematography, and sensible actors to bring it all together. Acting is a skill that takes a lot of effort, practice, homework and most of all, the actual eagerness to do it. The actors shouldn’t ever feel that it is the camera they are acting for, but vice versa, that is, the camera should capture them at their natural best. Cinema has come a long way from where it all began. Earlier stages of cinema witnessed a lot of day to day stories that had subtle and simple story ideas with great acting – that’s how movies evolved.

Actors like Sivaji, Gemini, Savithri, KR Vijaya, MG Ramachandran and Jayalalithaa showed their audience what they are in for with over whelming acting through minimalistic stories. The audience used to be equally intelligent where they knew to differentiate between good and bad quality of acting, decent stories and most of all, they knew if it was worthy enough to run in the theatres or not.

The class of cinema should have only gone up by now, but it hasn’t. On the other hand, Malayalam movies have evolved extensively. While their old generation stories used to be as they were with other languages, with generations the stories have turned out to be more broadminded, rustic and beautiful.

Mollywood now caters to pan-Indian audience purely because of its natural acting talents and a rather well-weaved story. Not that Kollywood doesn’t have any – of course, it does. However, more small budget films have inspiring stories than the larger ones. The audience who are ardent Kollywood fans is watching films that have their favorite actors in it. That is not a bad thing but it definitely is an intense thing. There comes a responsibility where both the audience and the actors encourage stories that are sensible and develop as the generation evolves.

 

And that is why Dulquer Salmaan and Nivin Pauly contribute better towards a good filmography than heroes of the “masses” Ajith and Vijay. Be it Dulquer’s ‘Kali’ where it talks about women safety or Nivin Pauly’s ‘Njandukkalude Nattil Oridavela’ where he gives equal importance to all the other characters. There was a time when the two worked together (Bangalore Days) and created magic on screen proving that commercial movies could look this good, have a subtle and feel good story to it.

Why do mass actors like Ajith and Vijay choose movies like “Mangatha” and “Puli” where nothing makes any sense, the female leads are just used as objects. Why can they not do more movies like “Yennai Arindhaal” and “Kaththi”? They have the entire love of their fans and they have every chance to take full advantage of this love and support to create magic. Why is there more of “Thalai vidudhalai” and “Thalapathy entry”? There is no necessity to glorify them. Rather, they could glorify the story by concentrating more on the acting.

Actresses need to be given equal importance in the story, there is no necessity for any entry songs that revolve around their “massness” and most of all, these actors that contain so much power can choose better stories than stories that talk just about them.

There are a lot of ways these actors could put their power to use just like Dulquer and Nivin have. Vijay Sethupathi is a clear example of good cinema where he proves time and again that he is a genuine believer in simple, good stories. Only if Ajith, Vijay, Rajini and many more actors that drive the masses choose better stories, there is a lot of scope for Tamil cinema to go a long way just like ‘Visaranai’ did!

Not necessary that actors need to choose films only related to social messages. But, they could definitely choose commercial stories that do not glorify themselves and suppress others in the movie directly or indirectly.