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New dawn of Tamil cinema

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I am just excited as I was 20 years ago when I eagerly awaited few actors and directors and musicians releases per se their movies, today. The reason for this excitement lies in new age actors like Nayanthara, Dhanush, Vijay Sethupathy, Bobby Simha, Jeeva, Vishnu, Vikram, Suriya, Karthi, Dinesh, Vimal, Prithviraj, Siddharth, Thambi Ramaiah, Bhaskar, Jayaprakash, Soori, Sasikumar, Arulnidhi, Sibiraj ..... Image Courtesy-www.youtube.com Image Courtesy-www.tamilcinemastills.com Image Courtesy-blog.plig.in All above actors have dared to try different things especially Vikram putting his career on line with some stunning portrayals with little regard to Mass movie appeal, yet they do fall back to honeytrap of mass entertainers............................ New age actors are more in comfort zone to experiment without any kind of image issues or fans expectation. Especially Vijay Sethupathi, Siddharth, Dinesh, Arulnidhi are few such talented actor...

எதிர் நீச்சல்- a mismatched Timepass

2nd May 2013, terrible summer night in Chennai; but a potpourri of movies had been decorated in Chennai's biggest screens- Devi Cineplex. a Landmark on Mount road next only to Santhi theaters in age- of those still doing business. The movie line up was titillating from Nagarjuna's Greek Veerdudu to New sensation Hero Vijay Sethupathi's flick to Siddharth's Kollywood foray NH4- (a new attempt in south.) So we friends decided to take a plunge on a less risky option of a comedy flick in form of a Ethir Neechal- a Siva Karthikeyan's another so called comic caper. As all other movies were watched by my friends. So after i decide on a movie my brain works backwards to see what the plot would be ON?, without attempting to read a TOI/ The Hindu's/ or any channel's movie reviews or ratings,  and hence image of Veteran Actor Nagesh's role in KB's block buster Ethir Neechal stuck. As i was imaging possible shades of Shiva in Nagesh's epic role, a F...