22 students of a teachers’ training institute in Tamil Nadu get caught cheating in an exam using mobile phones. The incident happens shortly after the Kamal Hassan starrer Vasool Raja, MBBS, the Tamil rip-off of the Sanjay Dutt film Munnabhai MBBS, is released.
So life imitates art?
Far from it, says the thespian, currently celebrating 50 years in cinema. Kamal defending the film fraternity in the Madras High Court:
“We only borrow what we see in society as we have a dearth of stories. So don’t blame us…. We’re a happening society and we only look to society for such ideas.”
So art imitates life?
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Nobody can match the quality and originality of Kannada movies – take the case of that Kasaravalli movie about the mother marrying her re-incarnated husband. Waaah. Waah ustaad ! And the music – the Kongas have third rate shit like ARR and Illayaraja.
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alva , frustration shows.
grow up man , the local film industry is still backward , the reason being simple , with fanatics like you around , the film makers take everything for granted and come up with some third rate stuff.
and finally they try to wriggle out by demanding subsidy changing theatre rentals and discriminating against other language films
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