We curse our misfortune and disappointments in Life, without realizing that they provide you an opportunity to realize your potential and your toughness of character.
Faced with a No Win situation the individual finds himself/herself , his / her true potential if only they allow themselves.
A girl faced with the prospect of her married life being doomed when the arranged a marriage is called off by her fiance finds herself,
In traditional Indian families calling of the marriage at the last moment would attract a stigma against the girl and it becomes difficult to get married.
An innocent girl, ditched at the last moment by her fiance after the marriage ceremony begins, goes abroad honeymoon’ only to find herself.
How she finds herself is the theme of the Film Queen.
A Director’s Film from the word Go, Queen makes an impact subtly.
Sometime back I came across a news item that,for the first time, a Kannada movie shot entirely by an amateur Videographer had gone viral in the Social Media and it has been made into a Film and it is running successfully.I decided to see the Film as it is reported to belong to thriller genre.
Fear of the unknown haunts us all.
The self-professed non believer professes to be so, shivering inside.
I belong to the majority of idiots who believe on things beyond us.
I have witnessed some of the paranormal phenomena and has posted some articles on them.
A horror or a thriller becomes effective when things are left to your imagination rather than trying to scare you with loud eerie Music and gory images.
Alfred Hitchcock has this magic of scaring you as in "Birds' or a blind Aubrey Hepburn make you scream when she leaps from near a refrigerator in a dark room with a Killer inside her house !
I can not resist seeing the film of this genre.
I saw the film with my friend and his wife.
It is reported to be original and real-time experience without any additions or deletions.
6-5=2
The Film is "6-5=2"
You are informed in the beginning of the Film that no editing was done to the Video recovered from a hilly terrain in Karnataka.
They also say that some editing was done only to enhance the quality of visual and Audio experience.
The story or Adventure starts with six youth,4 boys and two girls, go trekking in a dense forest .
One of them, as aspiring Movie cameraman, recorded every thing .
And this was the recovered Video which the film claims to have been released.
This Adventure was based on the news item in Kannada newspapers which claimed that of the six people who went trekking on 26.10.2010, three bodies were recovered, one is alive and two are untraceable.
On the third day of their trekking,some unusual things happen.
For no reason, their backpacks catch fire, their food destroyed,they hear voices,things get knocked down.
On Day four they are forced to pitch in a tent at a place, where they find a tree which had replicas of dead skulls instead of leaves.
They lose their way and after spending a whole night they return to the same spot they left.
(One of them has been left at the first camp)
The rest is interesting.
The film maker claims that the videos were by the dead man while the photographer of the fim says otherwise.
Read the news at the close of the post.
The film is so natural that one tends to believe it is real.
I still do not know whether it is a story taken slickly ,promoted through the Social Media.
There are no songs, fights,dance sequences, comedy track or even a back ground score .
It keeps you glued to your seat.
“A strange complaint has reached the Karnataka Film Chamber of Commerce (KFCC)against the makers of the Kannada film 6-5=2. The horror film has caught the fancy of the audience, many of whom have believed the claims that the film is found footage from cameras of trekkers who died in 2010. The film also credits, ‘the late Ramesh’ one of the trekkers, as the cameraman of the film. Now, B K Magesh, a cinematographer from Chennai, has filed a complaint that he was the cinematographer of the film and not only have the film makers not given him his due credit, but also cheated him of his remuneration…
Speaking to BANGALORE MIRROR, Magesh, said, “I have been cheated by the filmmakers.They contacted me in December 2012 about the film. I shot the movie for 15 days in Madikeri in January this year. The idea for the film came from Hollywood ‘found footage’ films. It was a huge challenge and I proposed shooting only with natural light and using small artificial lights, which will not be evident. The director KS Ashok took advantage of me, learnt all the tricks and then dumped me. My remuneration was fixed at Rs 1.5 lakh. Payment of Rs 95,000 is still pending.” Magesh says that he will have to got to court if the issue is not solved by the film chamber. His complaint has arrived through the South Indian Cinematographers Association (SICA), Chennai.
In his complaint,Magesh says producer Krishna Chaitanya and director Ashok contacted him for the movie, and promised the remuneration. He was paid in small installments of Rs 5,000 and Rs10,000 during the shooting. After shooting was completed, his calls went unanswered. Magesh said, “A fictional dead man’s name was used for publicity.I donot mind if it benefits the film.But I am more concerned that they cheated me of my payment.”
6-5=2, a film inspired by the ‘found footage’ genre of Hollywood, does not reveal the actors and technicians of the film.
There were no executions posted Live on YouTube of the terrorists shooting people or slitting their throats.
There was No 9/11.
No attack on Malala the Pakistani Girl by the Taliban.
No attack on US Embassies or an attack on Marriott Hotel Paris.
Osama Ben Laden is a Scholar .
He was murdered by The Satan , The US.
Kamal Hassan has agreed to cut the scenes which ‘offended the Muslims” from his Film Viswaroopam>
There is a report that some intolerant Hindu Out fits filed a case against Viswaroopam for offending Hindus , especially the Brahmin Community.
Mr.Kamal Hassan, please, please do not ever remove the offending scenes to assuage the feelings of the Hindus nor ‘restore’ Hinduism as you have done for your Islamic brothers’.
Spare us and Hinduism the ignominy of being restored by YOU.
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Viswaroopam Stills
If at all, as usual Kamal Hasasn digs at Hindus(especially Brahmins), Hindu Culture may be found as when asked by the psychiatrist whether she will have illicit affair, the woamn replies,
“what,Me? illicit affair, Not now’
what about future”
You mean Sex, So what, it may not rain In US”
(an allusion to Tirukkural on Chastity(I f a Chaste woman,though not worshiping God ,worships her Husband,Heaven’s will open up and rain if she were to order so’
“An unpalatable aspect of the film – totally ignored by the secular media – is the debasement of Brahmin women and their cultural practices. Kamal Haasan, like many actors and politicians in the State, has for years thrived on anti-Brahmin diatribes. Thus, Vishwaroopam has a scene where the hero tells the heroine, a Brahmin and a vegetarian, to eat a chicken and tell him how she finds it.
He addresses her as “paapathi”, which has upset this community. While this is the Tamil word for Brahmin women just as parpaan denotes Brahmin men, under the Dravidian movement the word has long degenerated in an abusive term for Brahmin women. In fact, a decade ago, a fringe party painted words to the effect that “Brahmin women should be made common property” on walls around Chennai.
“After nearly 10 days of high drama, marked by protests, mediation and negotiations, actor-director Kamal Haasan’s trilingual film “Vishwaroopam” is finally set for release in theatres across Tamil Nadu. The actor agreed to seven demands of Muslim leaders, mostly muting of the audio of portions objected to by them, thus bringing the curtains down on an episode in the history of the Tamil film industry, marred by allegations of infringement of freedom of expression and hurting of communal sentiments.
“I would like to thank the chief minister and the home secretary for facilitating the talks,” said Kamal Haasan, who arrived from Mumbai this morning after his film’s Friday release in theatres in the north. “We discussed many scenes with our Muslim brothers and finally both parties agreed to delete some sound clips from the film,” said Kamal, adding, “We will withdraw our writ petition (in the Madras high court) and hope that the court will lift the ban soon. The release date of the movie will be announced very shortly.” He said the altered film would be sent to the Censor Board of Film Certification for approval.
With state home secretary R Rajagopal playing mediator, the actor and 15 representatives of the Tamil Nadu Federation of Muslim Organizations sat around the negotiating table at the state secretariat and talked for nearly four hours before thrashing out a compromise. The talks began at 3pm and went on until 7pm, when the group emerged to announce a happy ending to the controversy. Reacting strongly to Kamal agreeing to the demands of Muslim leaders, filmmaker K Hariharan said, “It is absurd according to me. Kamal did this under pressure. He can’t do anything about it.”
But not the way one hurts by ridiculing A Region or a Community, specifically Muslims.
I, as a Hindu, am hurt that it was Nathuram Godse, a Hindu, Killed Gandhiji.
I am ashamed and humiliated as a Hindu beyond words, when a few charlatans,criminals like Nithyananda, Premananda and many more Anandas and self styled Gurus sully my great Religion.
Similarly , imagining myself a Muslim, I was hurt when a Fanatic jihadi prevents his wife from being treated by a Doctor, or when he is in turmoil when he forbids son to learn English or becoming a Doctor.
Or when he shows his inner conflict between a committed path, which he feels is not correct but unable to shake off !
“I do this for Him! Why is h punishing me!
Any human being will be torn asunder by this crisis of identity when you know your Religion teaches Brotherhood and peace but by zealots has been turned into a fanatic Cult.
You can’t revolt,You can’t get out of it, such is your faith.
But, as a Human being you know you are wrong and are powerless to prevent it.
This is exactly what I felt as I watched the Film Viswaroopam.
The rigorous training, the discipline, sublime indifference to Human values- to what depths a zealot can a Great religion and in the process create a crisis of faith for Millions!
But insult to Islam or Muslims NO.
If at all, as usual Kamal Hasasn digs at Hindus(especially Brahmins), Hindu Culture may be found as when asked by the psychiatrist whether she will have illicit affair, the woamn replies,
“what,Me? illicit affair, Not now’
what about future”
You mean Sex, So what, it may not rain In US”
(an allusion to Tirukkural on Chastity(I f a Chaste woman,though not worshiping God ,worships her Husband,Heaven’s will open up and rain if she were to order so’
But enormous research has gone into details including Afghan scenes,Jihadis training,their methods of killing.
Acting wise there is no scope for an actor of Kamal’s caliber sans the scene where he essays the Natya Bhavas in a dance sequence.
Even here age tells.
Other characters are set properties.
Editing ,Photography, Stunt sequences are top class in that order.
The weakness is screen play and there seems to be no definite idea as what the film is about, Is it a Crime thriller or a tussle or crisis of faith or plain human story, there is a bit of all, but none too clear.
A Shankar would have made it an entertainer or a Manirathnam would have it a Human Drama with a patriotic touch.
The Film is as clear as Kamal Hassan’s Public speeches in Tamil!
If, as I was telling my son while driving down, after Kamal hangs up his boots, one were asked to list Kamal Hassan’s Films, this film not find a place in the list.
If you are a loyal Kamal fan, don’t expect Kamal Hassan in this film, see it any way for his industriousness and his supreme confidence in the medium and his Art.
The release of the Tri-lingua(Tamil,Telugu and Hindi)l Film produced by Mr.Kamal Hassan was delayed t in Tamil Nadu by The State Government invoking Section 144 for the Cr.Pc.
This is how the events unfolded as described Ms.J.Jayalalithaa in a Press Conference on 31 January 2013
The Actor filed a case against the State Government in Chennai in the High Court and the ‘Ban’ was lifted .
However this order was revised, upholding the State Government’s Order on appeal.
In the mean while there were reports of Violence reported in Tamil Nadu on 31 January for a period till the ban was over turned by The Bench of The High Court.
There were also incidents of Violence, there smashing , throwing of petrol bombs by the Islamic Groups in Tamil Nadu, protesting against the objectionable content in The Film.
This died down once the order to keep in abeyance the ‘Ban’
There were also reports of violence in pockets of Kerala,Andhra and Karnataka after Film was screened.
Theater Attacked,Tamil Nadu Viswaroopam
However those who have seen the film assert that there is ground for banning the Film as there are no scenes in the Film that hurts the Minorities.
Kamal Hassan went to the Media on 30th, and declared that ‘thee was a Political Conspiracy at work”,Tamil Nadu Does Not want me .”I will settle down from Kerala to Kashmir where artist and Freedom Of Speech is respected” ‘Will settle aboard like M.F Husain”.
Meanwhile Karunanidhi jumped into the fray that the film was banned because Kamal Hassan did not sell the Film to Jaya TV controlled By Jayalalitaa, because Kamal ,in a Public Speech preferred that India/Tamil Nadu had a Dhoti clad Chief Minister/Prime Minister.
Jayalalithaa recounted the case .
While AGS Cinemas suffered the maximum damage, a few other cinema halls in north Chennai too, witnessed violence and vandalism on Wednesday — Photo: K. Pichumani
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1.24 Muslim Organisations had submitted a memorandum to The Chief Secretary,Tamil Nadu that the Film Viswaroopam contained scenes that hurt the Muslims and they wanted the Government to intervene.
2.The note was forwarded by The Chief Secretary to the Home Secretary who sent a letter to Kama Hassan to arrange for a show for the authorities and effect cuts of the scenes which offended the Muslims.
Mr. Kamal Hassan did not agree to the cuts nor was he prepared to meet with the leaders of the Muslim out fits.
3.The Film was scheduled to be released on the 25th of January 2013.
4.On 20 the when the officials went to Kamal Hassan’s residence to see the film ,as asked by Kamal Hassan , they were told that the Film release was being delayed and that he could not show them the Film.
5.In the meanwhile the Muslim announced a series of agitations of the film were to be released.
6. Then, Mr. Kamal Hassan requested for meeting with the CM .
7.As Mr. Kamal has already filed a case in the Court and as the matter was sub judice , CM did not meet him.
8.Immediately Kamal Hassan went to the media.
9.Later he agreed to effect changes as demanded by the Muslim outfits in a meet with the leaders of the Muslim outfits.
10.The Government had to resort to section 144 , as it apprehended a Law and order problem,one of organisations had more than7 Lakh members.
11.Had the Government wanted to ban the Film, it could have done so by invoking section 7 of Tamil Nadu Cinematograph Act,1955, as was done in the Film Dam 999. and he Court upheld the decision.
12.Notice of section 144 in force was for 15 Days and Mr.Kamal Hassan was asked to meet with the leaders and come to an amicable solution..
None of these were complied with by.Mr.Kamal Hassan.
I think she is 100 % correct and it does not be hove of Kamal Hasan to twist facst and act an inured martyr.
” Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa said on Thursday that Kamal Haasan’s movie Vishwaroopam was banned in the state due to fears of violent protests and not because she had a grudge against the actor.
Justifying the ban citing shortage of police to provide security at theatres, she said it was a purely law and order problem. “I do not have the police force to protect the 500-odd theatres in the state,” Jayalalithaa said.
“I have no personal grudge, no personal interest in banning the movie,” she told the media, while adding that her government decided to ban it for 15 days so that tempers could cool down and “both sides could have a discussion and come to an agreement”.
Pointing out that the movie had also been banned in neighbouring states as well as Qatar, the UAE, Sri Lanka, Malaysia and Singapore, the chief minister asked, “Was I responsible for all that?
The Tamil Nadu chief minister said trouble over the movie’s release could have been avoided. “Had the film maker screened the movie for the Muslim leaders in the beginning itself, all this would not have happened,” she said.
“Haasan called the Muslim leaders for a viewing only after he was set for release. And finally, he did call some Muslim leaders for a screening at his house. But after seeing the film, the Muslim organisations met the chief secretary and announced a series of agitations across the state,” she added.
Madras High Court sets aside single judge’s order lifting the ban on Kamal Haasan’s movie Vishwaroopam. The final verdict will be made on February 6, till then there will be no release in Tamil Nadu.
At the same time Kamal Haasan had a meeting with a few Muslim leaders at his house and agreed to cut few scenes and Quran verses from the film
Meanwhile petrol bombs were hurled this afternoon at two cinemas in Ramanathapuram in south Tamil Nadu which were scheduled to screenVishwaroopam.
Nobody was hurt, though glass windows were shattered at the theatres.
In Chennai city AGS multiplex in Vilivakkam where hoardings of Vishwaroopam were kept, the theatre was attacked though it had no intention of playing the film.
An effigy of Kamal Haasan was burned by some organisations in front of SSR Pankajam in Saligramam, where Vishwaroopam was about to start.
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