There is nothing wrong with remakes. What I have a problem with is director and actors who blatantly copy other films and then have the audacity to deny it and claim that their film was not 100% inspired by the film they ripped off. AL Vijay claim that I am Sam was just a minor influence is laughable and also insulting since his movie is a blatant rip off right down to Vikram’s performance. Does he think by adding a dash of masala to his movie that intelligent movie fans will not recognise this?! This film is not a milestone in the Tamil movie industry it is just another example of the lack of originality that exists in the South.
Re: No originality in Kollywood
by Abirami on Jul 19, 2011 06:47 PM
I believe the reviewer has been generous with their 2 start rating. This film deserves no starts since its an awful film.
Re: Re: No originality in Kollywood
by sathish kumar on Jul 20, 2011 11:10 AM
so you think you are one of those "intelligent movie fans?".. crap.. you need to grow up..
Re: Re: Re: No originality in Kollywood
by thirukkumara pandian on Jul 21, 2011 01:54 PM
you should grow up dude, its damn funny for you to say, you are the one who thinks you are inteligent by adding the comment!!
I always see when Director Vijay's films release, readers comment on reviews with two words, "Awesome and Hats-off". Then, some insults thrown at the reviewer. I don't know why director Vijay's fans throw insults. Are they employed by Vijay just for this purpose?
Why be such a fanatic? Ask yourself if Director Vijay deserves it with his sheer inability to write stories of his own. He is IMPOTENT! If it would require him to be a MAN to write stories, he would rather prefer to be the OPPOSITE SEX.
When reviewers do their job, let them do it. I personally liked the movie but can't give it more than three stars because Vijay wants to take the advantage of doing it easy without having to strain his brain and creative muscles.
He is not any good for the Tamil Film Industry, if you honestly care, because when Fox Studios and Warner Brothers come in, they will sue directors and producers that made cheap inspirations (read rip-off) of their prestigious works.
We don't need to be sentimental fools, emotional fools, sentimental idiots for the sake of defending a director. The comments made by fans of Vijay have always been senseless. He does have an online community that tries to justify his blatant COPIES.
Whoever says, "Hats off" and "Awesome" belong to Vijay's online community that justifies copying with silly arguments like, "Even school students copy, why not Vijay?" H
Re: Hats offs and Awesomes? How much more?
by Ramachandran KA on Jul 19, 2011 02:29 PM
fully disagrre with you...I mentioned awesome and i'm not a vijay fan...will pavithra write the same comments for Kamal/Maniratnam movie that are inspired from hollywood????...don't try to distract the audience...Again I'm saying this is one such milestone movie of tamil industry
Re: Re: Hats offs and Awesomes? How much more?
by narayanan ramasami on Jul 20, 2011 09:13 AM
sorry . already ajay devgan and susmita sen had portrayed the role years ago.mile stone movies are moonram pirai,sethu,anjali,16 vayathinile,in contrast with the time of their release.not the copied movies.
Re: Re: Hats offs and Awesomes? How much more?
by vignesh M on Jul 19, 2011 05:38 PM
yeah u r right man.. cha wat a movie... awesome performance from chiyan and sarah...i liked it a lot.. each and every scene of the movie making us sink in sentiments..
Re: Re: Hats offs and Awesomes? How much more?
by thirukkumara pandian on Jul 19, 2011 02:46 PM
You know if we say copying stories from hollywood is considered a milestone then its a shame for tamil film industry
Re: Re: Re: Hats offs and Awesomes? How much more?
by maaster on Jul 19, 2011 05:46 PM
remaking is not illegal.if remaking is illegal,then we would not have great movies like aboorva sagotharargal,avvai shanmugi,gilli,chandramukhi,unakkum enakkum,m.kumaaran,jeyam and then RAJNI's blockbuster movies of 1980s like billa,muthu are remakes of amitabh's movies.if they copy the movies they are milestones in cinema.if vikram and director vijay modified the story for tamil audience many like pavithra will say it as illegal.....enna koduma sir ithu?This movies is rare in recent times...a neat family entertainer.........
Re: Re: Re: Re: Hats offs and Awesomes? How much more?
by Dinesh Babu on Jul 19, 2011 06:18 PM
Oh those were official remakes. Deiva Thirumagal is a kind of pirated remakes. Get the facts right!
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Hats offs and Awesomes? How much more?
by sathish kumar on Jul 20, 2011 11:17 AM
Accepted!.. If you are so worried.. pls contact jessi nelson and sean penn and sue the makers of deiva thirumagal...
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Hats offs and Awesomes? How much more?
by maaster on Jul 19, 2011 09:23 PM
ok.what's your problem?i think your problem is only remake.i watched i am sam.there was no feel in it.i am not saying the film was bad.but on seeing DT it had our culture's feel and more over only first half was 80% like i am sam.second half was more different.you also said vijay is not good for tamil film industry.only few of them like born in england will see english films but see there are seven crore people in tamil nadu who might not have seen this masterpiece.if you saw the original film then dont watch DT.tamil cinema needs directors like vijay.
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Hats offs and Awesomes? How much more?
by thirukkumara pandian on Jul 20, 2011 01:27 PM
@Maaster: If you say there is no feeling in I am sam, please dont watch any hollywood movies you are not fit for it stick with the tamil movies and praise em like crazy even if its a remake and proper credit is not given to the original!!
Re: Re: Re: Hats offs and Awesomes? How much more?
by vignesh M on Jul 19, 2011 05:41 PM
do u know enthiran is copied movie original in bicentinal man.. i have a list of hit movies in tamil which is remake from hollywood.. u r accepting enthiran than y cant u accept this type of sentimental movies
Re: Re: Re: Re: Hats offs and Awesomes? How much more?
by sathish kumar on Jul 20, 2011 11:15 AM
Thats because... these are the guys who have a fair idea of english fims... and think they are god... and lash out at films which are remake of hollywood films(certainly restricted to their knowledge)... they are caught in a fix that remakes(only if they know that thet are really remakes) are crime...
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Hats offs and Awesomes? How much more?
by thirukkumara pandian on Jul 20, 2011 01:30 PM
Oh.... remakes are not crime you should tell the audience its a remake, but what does vijay say?? If we take scenes from one film its a copy but from two films its research!! The director is shameless the least he could do is accept that its a remake!!
Re: Re: Hats offs and Awesomes? How much more?
by Dinesh Babu on Jul 19, 2011 03:31 PM
Why not? Reviewers are not afraid of anybody. They are mostly independent. Sometimes, crime investigating journalists may be under any threat but reviewers don't have such constraints. The money they pay is negligible when compared to what websites pay. So, that is not a big thing too.
Re: Hats offs and Awesomes? How much more?
by Rajagopal P on Jul 19, 2011 06:11 PM
Hey Mr.Dinesh, dont try to be too smart. Accept it when someone's got talent.
Even hollywood folks copy from Korean, Japanese movies. Do u know that???
Re: Re: Hats offs and Awesomes? How much more?
by Venkat Narayanan on Jul 22, 2011 09:36 AM
Dear,
Hollywood does give credit to originality. Does these copycats do the same? Shamelessly claim it as their own. In recent interview, Director Vijay told that he was just inspired only characters but not the story. WTF? these kind of directors should be kicked out of film industry.
Re: Re: Hats offs and Awesomes? How much more?
by Dinesh Babu on Jul 19, 2011 06:24 PM
We are not in support of those Hollywood movies too. Nor did we claim them great. Imagine a movie like "Juno" isn't by any standards the best. This movie was copied from an Asian movie. Leonardo Di Caprio once said that the Hollywood movies copy one liners from Asia. Asians lift scenes.
However, people like Mani Ratnam and Kamal Hassan have only taken one-liners and weaved screenplays around them. Of course, they too have copied major parts of films but they have been original. Mani Ratnam's Mouna Raagam, Agni Natchathiram, Anjali, Bombay, Thalapathi (Please don't call it Mahabharatha), Iruvar, Uyire, Kannathil Muthamittal and Raavanan have been original but none of Vijay's films are original. Vijay is a piece of shit! Crap!
Re: Re: Re: Hats offs and Awesomes? How much more?
by sathish kumar on Jul 20, 2011 11:21 AM
Dinesh should start a world wide campaign about blatant remakes...nothing much to say...
Re: Hats offs and Awesomes? How much more?
by Aruna on Jul 19, 2011 08:56 PM
Please ask this lady to review the CRAPPY movie ENTHIRAN that is a BAD BAD COPY of iROBOT.
Re: Re: Hats offs and Awesomes? How much more?
by thirukkumara pandian on Jul 20, 2011 01:37 PM
oh... did you watch i robot?? Wait i remember, Sonny was loving another girl and became evil and kidnapped that girl, oh wait that wasn't the story!! So get your facts right dont blabber something!! Oh and your bringing up caste problems, I must say you are an idiot as far as i am concerned pavithra is unbiased!!
Re: Re: Re: Hats offs and Awesomes? How much more?
by Venkat Narayanan on Jul 22, 2011 09:38 AM
Exactly, I, Robot was good movie but Endhiran was crap and ultimate worst movie ever made. Robot loves a girl and kidnaps her.... hahaha this kind of shit happens only in India.
Re: Hats offs and Awesomes? How much more?
by ramanujam srinivasan on Jul 20, 2011 01:01 AM
dude..
lemme see how u react to the ripoffs done by kamal,mani ratnam,shankar,gautam menon....
u guys are total hypocrites,u went on to call Vijay IMPOTENT just for remaking movies,he ddnt do it Jayam Raja style cooy..rahter he has changed a lot from "I am Sam" and has given a movie everyone can watch with family and come out with no regrets
I'm not a fan of director vijay,but I have to defend him bcos of the way u guys trash his movie...Every director or actor copies from others....Even hollywood directors copy from Asian and Latin movies..
If copying is so bad,then y Nayagan is in TIME's list of 100 movies??? why Departed fetched oscar for scorcese even though it was a remake of Infernal affairs??? Why most of Spielberg's movies are based out of novels???
dude,if u see copying..criticise everyone including kamal,maniratnam..not just this director alone!!!!!!!!!!!
Re: Re: Hats offs and Awesomes? How much more?
by Venkat Narayanan on Jul 22, 2011 09:44 AM
Dude, you should know the difference between copying and remake. Remake is done thru only legal copyrights procedure. Without the permission of original author or creator, you can't remake any film. Whereas, copying is illegal process, you don't have to ask anyone permission, you just straightaway rip off from the original and claim it as his/her own.
Moreover, Hollywood film makers does give credit to the original creator. For e.g "The Ring", hollywood horror movie which was based on Japanese movie. If you notice in the end credits of the movie, they would have given credit to the original Japanese story writer.
Do Indian filmmakers does the same? No, that's what i don't like about it. At least, our film makers should accept that they have taken or inspired from these films. But they are not doing it. Let it be Maniratnam, Shankar, Kamal, or whoever it is. Complete shame and disgusting.
Re: Hats offs and Awesomes? How much more?
by maaster on Jul 19, 2011 05:48 PM
remaking is not illegal.if remaking is illegal,then we would not have great movies like aboorva sagotharargal,avvai shanmugi,gilli,chandramukhi,unakkum enakkum,m.kumaaran,jeyam and then RAJNI's blockbuster movies of 1980s like billa,muthu are remakes of amitabh's movies.if they copy the movies they are milestones in cinema.if vikram and director vijay modified the story for tamil audience many like pavithra will say it as illegal.....enna koduma sir ithu?This movies is a rarity in recent times...a neat family entertainer.........
Re: Re: Hats offs and Awesomes? How much more?
by Venkat Narayanan on Jul 22, 2011 09:48 AM
Again, you are missing a point. Have you seen any credits given to the original creators? No, Aboorva sagotharagal was copy of "Coriscan Brothers", Avvai Shanmugi copy of "Mrs.Doubtfire (in hollywood, they had given credit to the original writer, i.e. Mrs.Doubtfire was based on French play).
Moreover, copying within ourselves doesn't matter, i mean Tamil film makers copy from telugu, hindi from malayalam. But copying from foreigners and claim it as your own is not acceptable.
Your comments should be the other way around. Movie was better, though it was a rip-off from 'I am Sam', but Vikram's acting was average (ameteurish on certain scenes). It was no way close to 'Sippikul Muthu' Kamal.
Saw the movie, Vikram is good but the movie is no way near world class it deserves its two star...nothing great abt the movie...as far as anushka ..she looks good but her performance is not great .. why in the world do they cast north indian heroines with dubbed voices for such roles is something i fail to understand...we really miss our heroines of yeteryear like Radhika,Revathi,Orvasi,Rohini,Banupriya etc who were cast in good roles and dubbed in their own voices giving depth to the character...this is one mistake directors should avoid...are their really shortage of heroines who can speak the language instead of using a ghost voice
I am a non-tamil speaking fan from south. Though I understand very little tamil, I became a great fan of vikram after seeing him in Anniyan. Superb acting, but I really feel he is not getting due credits for his acting caliber and that senior ppl r trying to foot him down.
Hi pavithra just understand onething finding faults is very easy appreciating good efforts is very tough and more unlike human, You proved this right. Just dont do review for tha sake of doing, please read through all the comments, I think except for one or two idiots everyone will go with me stating movie is awesome, just change the rating, really unfair, you rate 3 for singam puli and 2.5 for this you must be nutsss!!!!!!!! Rediff please employ some other reviewer if this continues everyone will stop visiting your site
Re: Pavithra- Somebody help her- she needs treatment (mental) yar
by Abirami on Jul 19, 2011 06:51 PM
How is this movie a good effort? Where is the effort in copying someone else’s work? If we were in school together and I copied your homework and got an A grade would you applaud me for my effort? You are entitled to your opinion and if you like the film then fair enough. However please dont ask the reviewer to change the score because it does not suit your opinion. You need to behave mature about such things and accept that other people will have different opinions to you.
Re: Pavithra- Somebody help her- she needs treatment (mental) yar
by thirukkumara pandian on Jul 19, 2011 03:12 PM
So u say copying films i a good effort huh, this film doenot even deserve a rating!!
Re: Re: Pavithra- Somebody help her- she needs treatment (mental)
by vignesh M on Jul 19, 2011 05:45 PM
hey even if u copy u can just copy the story and screenplay.. u can never copy acting, its the effort one individually has to show on his own.. y cant u accept tat..
Re: Re: Pavithra- Somebody help her- she needs treatment (mental)
by maaster on Jul 19, 2011 05:49 PM
remaking is not illegal.if remaking is illegal,then we would not have great movies like aboorva sagotharargal,avvai shanmugi,gilli,chandramukhi,unakkum enakkum,m.kumaaran,jeyam and then RAJNI's blockbuster movies of 1980s like billa,muthu are remakes of amitabh's movies.if they copy the movies they are milestones in cinema.if vikram and director vijay modified the story for tamil audience many like pavithra will say it as illegal.....enna koduma sir ithu?This movies is rare in recent times...a neat family entertainer.........
