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Originally Posted by RAM KOLLAM
I agree iam a rajni fan but....
u cant have the same scale for a malayalam movie and a tamil movie....
in that case there is hardly any movie in tamil that is better than malayalam...
an autigraph,veyil....very rare
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For the sake of a few silver coins, our modern-day avatar of Judas - Rajinikanth - having decided to sell his soul, gathered up all his spittle and in one swift motion spat on the faces of millions of his Tamil fans worldwide.
For a highly-paid star like Rajinikanth to associate with and actively collaborate in the making and delivery of a piece of trash like
Kuselan is a Judas-like betrayal - a dirty and shameless repudiation of the decades-long affection and loyalty of his legions of fans.
Directed by a lobotomized bozo called P.Vasu based on a story by Srinivasan,
Kuselan is a piece of junk not worthy of even YouTube.
This buffoon Vasu also claims credit for the cretinous screenplay and sophomoric dialogs, both of which set a new nadir in Tamil movies.
Unless you’ve just come in from Mars, you know by now that
Kuselan is a remake of the 2007 Malayalam film
Kadha Parayumbol.
The half-baked story centers on the visit of a movie superstar Ashok Kumar (Rajinikanth) to a village where unbeknownst to him his old friend Balu (Pasupathy) has a run-down barber shop and is having a hard time making ends meet.
When villagers get to know about the barber’s old friendship with the superstar, everyone in the village suddenly discover ‘affection’ for Balu and his family. You see, everyone has the same axe to grind - they all want to meet the superstar for their vested interests.
But
Kuselan is not a
ode to friendship although some have wrongly tried to characterize it as such.
Au contraire, it’s an odiously bad crap-show, the likes of which we are mercifully seldom subjected to
even in the augean gullies and bylanes of Kollywood.
Friendship, the supposed
leitmotif of the movie, never comes to life in
Kuselan because the movie, very early on, goes off track into infantile comedy and nauseating refrains about the superstar.
Through his involvement with a movie like
Kuselan, Rajinikanth sends only one message to his Tamil fans -
I don’t give a Flying F*&k for you all because no matter what manure I shovel at you, you schmucks will lap it up.
Kuselan is the kind of garbage you’d expect brats like Simbhu, Ajith or Vijay to feature in, not a superstar like Rajinikanth or a talented artiste like Pasupathy.
No ifs and buts,
Kuselan is plain and simple a pathetic piece of shit - an ugly
ensemble of poor story, horrible acting, mediocre music and sophomoric comedy would be a charitable description of this ghastly production.
In
Kuselan, Pasupathy lives up to the first half of his name (
Pasu - meaning cow). This
Pasu goes about his role as the village barber Balu in the most expressionless manner possible. Surely, this is not the same Pasupathy who made mincemeat of Kamal “
Dasavatharam Freak-Show” Haasan in
Virumandi or delighted us as the morose son returning to an unwelcome home in
Veyil.
From the scene in the loan office in
Kuselan when we first see
Pasu to the scene in the school when Rajinikanth talks about his friendship with him to the final scene when he walks arm-in-arm with Rajinikanth, this
Pasu has thrown in a cud-chewing, lazy performance unworthy of his talents.
Ditto with Rajinikanth. Is this an actor with 33-years experience or a mere three-months behind him. Seems more like the latter because of the lethargic way Rajinikanth goes about his role.
The scenes of the movie within a movie featuring Rajinikanth and Nayantara are insufferably amateurish and are worse than the Vannarapettai School annual day drama.
Of course, Rajinikanth was never known for his histrionics (save perhaps in
Aaralinthu Aravathu Varai). Rajini’s fame owes more to his hard work and sheer luck (or as they say in Tamil -
Avanakku Ange Machai Iraku Da, a reference to the mythical mole on the
schlong of fortunate individuals).
But in
Kuselan what Rajinikanth delivers is not acting but an ugly parody of acting. His charisma aside, sometimes we wonder if Rajinikanth can even pass a Hollywood screen test.
Rajinikanth enters the movie 41.58 minutes after the movie begins, far too early in our opinion.
And what the hell is Vadivelu doing in
Kuselan? By golly, are Tamil movie fans complete idiots that they must frequently be roused from their slumber by the asinine antics of a Vadivelu or a Vivek in movie after movie. In
Kuselan, Vadivelu’s irritating antics - and his completely irrelevant role - as the rival barber Shamugham are not endearingly funny but nauseatingly
Punny (pig in Tamil). They also distract from the main theme of the movie.
Besides Vadivelu’s so-called comedy scenes, there are two other parallel awful ‘comedy’ tracks in
Kuselan involving Santhanam and M.S.Baskar. Talk of tripling our misery. What a waste of screen time.
Unlike that slick show (but disappointing storyline)
Sivaji from director Shankar,
Kuselan has no worthy punch dialogs either although there’s some repetition of lines from some of Rajinikanth’s earlier movies.
Nayantara seems to have been brought in just to titillate the audience, which she does in her usual ugly way wearing a red checked mini-skirt and a tight maroon blouse over a large bosom in that rain song-dance.
With her mini-skirt billowing up, her right hand slapping her buttock and her bottom shaking obscenely, Nayantara displays as much grace as a she-dog in heat during the
Chaaral song-dance.
If Nayantara’s mini-skirt had gone up any higher, the audience would have been exposed to the horror of her
mons veneris. Ach mein Gott!
Surely, the young children who were part of the
Chaaral song-dance would be traumatized for life at being subjected to such a lascvious assault on their tender eye-balls. What were the dolts at the
Censor Board doing when the semi-nude Nayantara was cavorting with the young children. Do you think they were bribed?
The song
Chaaral, by the way, was perhaps the only decent song in
Kuselan. The rest are hideous, merciless assaults on the eardrums.
Meena is cast in the role of Devi, the poor barber’s wife but looks more like a rich landlord’s wife. Sadly, acting is as alien to Meena as grace is to Nayantara. Again, a precious waste of screen time.
If you are determined to go through the masochistic ordeal that watching
Kuselan amounts to, do keep some Kleenex handy. You’ll need plenty of those tissues to wipe the messy spittle that Rajinikanth deposits on your face.
We Survived this Kuppa (trash) a.k.a Kuselan. Can you?
P.S: By making the sisters of a convent school seem so disgustingly obsessed with getting the superstar to visit their school,
Kuselan casts these Christian nuns in a most unfavorable light. We have a hard time believing this subliminal assault on Christianity in
Kuselan was accidental.
I saw 14 comments and none of them objecting the review!
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