Almost every gen-y is
out there in streets, beaches, clubs… roaming, eating ,boozing, yelling and
celebrating the last day of yet another diverse year – 2012. I was not
fortunate enough though, this year, as I missed out on this great day. I was
surrounded and confined by an usual companion; “boredom”. So I decided to do
what I most relish, ‘watching a movie’ and at ease, nicely cushioned in my sofa sans
the popcorn. and i was fortunate too, as I ended up watching a good
movie.
Movies are something that connects millions of people, so
why not I write a post on that?? That’s
how this came up .So here you go, The 5 epic fails @ the box office – 2012.
5. SAGUNI
Having a top star, a top director, a top banner, shooting
for almost 2 complete years and creating all the hype possible still failed
miserably. The Tamil audiences are not such fools and proved the director
totally wrong when he thought that, just by naming his lead protagonist with
the names of Superstar and Ulaganayagan he could turn his movie
into a blockbuster.
4. MUPPOZTHUM UN KARPANAIGAL
Getting inspired metaphorically from it’s own title, The
movie is very very very very long and of course boring. Romance-Fantasy as it was claimed to be, failed to stir any of
those hormones in it’s audience but was able to achieve the impossible and most
difficult task – ‘evoking laughter’. At the end of this long movie which seemed
almost infinite, the audience laughed at themselves with shame and some with
anger for wasting 120 bucks .
3. THAANDAVAM
Raging anger
expressed in the form of a dance art is called ‘Thandavam’ or ’Rudra Thandavam’.
After completely wasting several hours
on just thinking, “why such a title for this film” ???, I hardly
got even near to the answer. Maybe I am not intellectual enough to understand
the director’s view. Well what was very much evident to my not-so-intellectual
brain was that, almost everyone who watched the movie were filled with raging
anger on the Actor, the Director, a few on themselves and on their friends who
compelled and insisted them on watching the movie the very first day. Only later did it strike me that, maybe on knowing such an outcome well in advance, the director might
have selected the title. If that be the case, then, hats off !
2.MUGAMOODI
This actor has time and again failed at the box-office. Still, this year was quite good for him when compared to the last. And I have made
such a statement because, the year before, after tasting success with ‘Ko ‘ he
went on to give 3 massive flops; Rowthiram, Vandhan Vendran, Singampuli. And it’s
just 1 this year. Yeah yeah yeah….i hear some of you saying, ’hey what about
NEP???’ Well it somehow managed to stay out of the top 5 due to some other marvelous
contributions.
1.PODA PODI
This film wins the race undisputedly. Though all the above
were strongly contending for the NO.1 spot, leaving me highly confused on finalizing
the chronology, this came as a great relief. It was just a desperate attempt in
filming. This made me think, if I could even include this film in the list as a 'film' . Then
I thought, of course it has to be, films like this will never be made again (
hope so…) . And there is this Actor who thinks his films are super duper hits and
he proudly takes the privilege of declaring it himself.
P.S – The views aired above are purely that of the author. If
you find any of those unacceptable or totally false, I beg your pardon, you
have very bad taste.
