Nadigar Thilagam - The man who came, saw & conquered
[COLOR="#000080"][SIZE=3][B] GUTS - THY NAME IS NADIGAR THILAGAM
INDIAN (OR) WORLD CINEMA HAS WITNESSED TWO TYPES OF HEROES -
1) A HERO WHO IS CONFIDENT ON HIMSELF AND WHO IS OPEN TO HAVE MULTIPLE EQUALLY POWERFUL ACTORS TO BE CASTED IN HIS FILM
2) A HERO WHO IS NOT CONFIDENT ON HIMSELF WHEN IT COMES TO PERFORMING ALONG WITH POWERFUL ACTORS EVEN IF HAPPENS DOES EDIT LARGER PORTIONS OF THE OTHER BETTER PERFORMING ACTOR .
OUR NADIGAR THILAGAM IS THE TYPE 1, WHO IRRESPECTIVE OF MULTIPLE EQUALLY POWERFUL ACTORS CASTED IN HIS FILM HAS ALWAYS PERFORMED ONE STEP AHEAD THAN THE TOUGH COMPETITORS. NEITHER NADIGAR THILAGAM BELIEVES IN CUTTING DOWN THE PERFORMANCE OF GOOD ACTORS IN THE EDITING ROOM WHO WERE CASTED IN THE FILM . THERE WERE/ARE ACTORS WHO DELIBERATELY EDIT THE SCENES OF OTHER ACTORS IF THAT PARTICULAR SCENE HAD THIS HERO AND THE OTHER GOOD ACTOR & WHERE THE SCENE GETS STOLEN BY THE OTHER ACTOR.
NADIGAR THILAGAM'S FILM DOESN'T BELIEVE IN PRAISING THE HERO UNWANTED EVEN IN THE SCENE WHERE THE HERO IS NOT PRESENT, WHILE THERE ARE OTHER ACTORS, WHO DELIBERATELY HAVE SUCH SCENES CRAFTED......WHETHER THE SCENE REQUIRE OR NOT, WE HAVE SEEN MANY OTHER ACTOR MOVIES WHO WILL PRAISE PRAISE AND PRAISE THE HERO EVEN IF IT IS IRRELEVANT...THE SIMPLE REASON IS, NADIGAR THILAGAM DOESN'T BELIEVE IN SELF PRAISING.
WHAT A HERO SHOULD DO AS GENERALLY BELEIVED BY THE SO CALLED "MASSES" ?
THERE IS ALWAYS A BIG DEBATE ON THIS...A HERO IS GENERALLY REGARDED AS GOOD SAMARITAN. HE WILL ALWAYS HELP THE NEEDY AND POOR EVEN IF HE IS VERY VERY POOR...HE WILL ARGUE AGAINST ANY SENIOR OFFICIALS OF THE GOVT. DEPARTMENT. HE WILL BE ALLOWED TO DISCOVER THE WORLDS BIGGEST MYSTERY BY THE POLICE DEPARTMENT...
ANY NORMAL ACTOR WHO ALWAYS TRIES TO ATTRACT THE MASSES DOES ALL THESE ACTIVITIES...WHEN I SAY MASSES, I WOULD LIKE TO GIVE A MEANING -
WHO ARE MASSES?
THE SO CALLED "MASSES" ARE GENERALLY BELIEVED TO BE DOWNTRODDEN IN THE SOCIETY, FRONT BENCHES, DOES NOT HAVE ANY HIGH AMBITIONS, TOTALLY ILLITERATE (OR) MINIMALLY LITERATE, BUT DEFINITELY, WHO DOES NOT WANT TO COME UP IN LIFE EVEN IF A GOOD OPPORTUNITY IS GIVEN, WHO ALWAYS TRUSTS AND GOES BEHIND THE MYTH, WHO ALWAYS APPRECIATES ANY HERO - WHO HITS A VILLAIN, WHO QUESTIONS THE LAW, WHO QUESTIONS THE POLICE WHO LOVES THE VILLAINS DAUGHTER(IN MOST CASES) ETC., MASSES TEND TO LIKE ONLY SUCH TYPE OF HEROS IN TAMIZHNADU BECAUSE, THEY CHOOSE TO BE MUM AGAINST EVIL DOERS IN THE SOCIETY...BUT CHOOSE TO FIGHT / DEMAND UNREASONABLE FROM THE DO-GOODERS. ( WE HAVE OFTEN HEARD OF THE PROVERB...PICHAYILAYUM PICHA ADHIGARA PICHAI)
NADIGAR THILAGAM IS ONE ACTOR WHO GIVES OPPORTUNITY TO ALL ACTORS WHETHER GOOD OR BAD, WHO IS HUNGER FOR DOING GOOD CHARACTERS IN SOCIAL, HISTORICAL, MYTHOLOGICAL AND SCOPE FOR PERFORMANCE UNLIKE OTHER HEROES WHO DUE TO THE BORN INFERIORITY COMPLEX DOES A GOOD EDITING JOB BY CUTTING DOWN THE ROLE OF OTHER ACTORS. THEY ARE INFACT, BETTER EDITORS THAN MR.LENIN AND OTHER STALWARTS.
NADIGAR THILAGAM'S MOST OF THE FILMS HAVE STRESSED UPON ETHICS OF ONE SELF, ETHICS OF FAMILY, FAMILY BONDING ETC., TO A LARGER EXTENT AND THEREFORE, IF THE SOCIETY HAS TO WATCH A GOOD FILM ALONG WITH ALL FAMILY MEMBERS, THE ONLY OPTION THEY LOOK FOR IS OUR NADIGAR THILAGAM FILM.
NADIGAR THILAGAM DOES NOT PREACH WHAT HE DOES NOT PRACTICE. WHEREAS OTHER ACTORS PREACHES WHAT THEY DO NOT PRACTICE TOO.
NADIGAR THILAGAM'S CAREER IS A GOOD EXAMPLE FOR OTHER ACTORS - BE IT IS THE BACKSTABBING EPISODE OF DMK AS EARLY AS 1953 Ie.,JUST 2 YEARS OF HIS ENTERING FILMDOM / CONGRESS / EVEN BY SOME OF HIS CLOSE ASSOCIATES. HIS CLOSE ASSOCIATES WHO HAD BECOME MILLIONAIRES HAVE BACK STABBED HIM AND SHIFTED CAMPS FOR PETTY REASON. UNFORTUNATELY, THE MYTH THEY BELEIVED AND WENT DID NOT MAKE THEM THE ROYALS..NEITHER THEIR EGO ALLOWED TO GO BACK UNLIKE FEW TO NADIGAR THILAGAM. INSTEAD THEY CHOOSE TO SPREAD FALSE RUMORS TO SAFE GUARD THEIR EGO.."PERUMAIKKUNNU PANNIYA MAEIKARADHU" AS WE SAY IN TAMIL.
IT IS THE CAPABILITY,CONFIDENCE OF NADIGAR THILAGAM AND ZEAL TO PERFORM MADE HIM TO CHOOSE THE CHARACTER OF 70 YEAR OLD OR 80 YEAR OLD WHEN HE WAS IN HIS 40s. ALL THE ROLES SUITED NADIGAR THILAGAM THE BEST WHICH OTHER HEROS COULD NOT EVEN DREAM OF AS THEY KNOW, THEY CANNOT PERFORM TO THE STANDARDS OF NADIGAR THILAGAM.
can we imagine any other actor who could have performed or can perform, karnan or voc or kattabomman or kodikaathakumaran or barrister rajinikanth or sp.chowdary or vijayakumar or manohara or gunasekaran or rajasekaran...or...or...or...or...............
PRODUCERS OF OTHER LANGUAGES TOO WISHED TO PRODUCE FILMS CASTING NADIGAR THILAGAM AS THEY KNEW THE VALUE OF LION SKIN. AS THE SAYING GOES "YAADHUM OORAE YAAVARUM KAELIR", NADIGAR THILAGAM WAS MAGNANIMOUS TO ACCOMMODATE THOSE PRODUCERS OF NEIGHBORING STATES TOO DESPITE HIS VERY BUSY 3 SHIFT SCHEDULE IN TAMIZH...HIS PERFORMANCE IN NAGAMMA NAICKER, BHAKTHA THUKARAM ENSURED A BIGGER MARGIN FOR PRODUCERS AND DISTRIBUTORS WHICH ENCOURAGED THEM TO PRODUCE FILMS IN TAMIZH AND WHEN THEY DID, THEY CASTED ONLY NADIGAR THILAGAM AND NO ONE ELSE. OUR NADIGAR THILAGAM WAS THE MOST COOPERATIVE ACTOR TO THE PRODUCER, DIRECTOR AND OTHER TECHNICIANS...HE DOES NOT HARASS THEM WITH PETTY FEUDAL EGO.
THERE WAS / IS NO OTHER ACTOR ACROSS THE WORLD WHO HAD PERFORMED SUCH DIVERSIFIED CHARACTERS / ROLES BE IT IS BEFORE NADIGAR THILAGAM....DURING NADIGAR THILAGAM....AFTER NADIGAR THILAGAM ..! THOSE WHO DID, CHOSE ONLY THE PATH OF NADIGAR THILAGAM JUST TO REMAIN/SUSTAIN THEMSELVES IN THE MARKET & LUCKILY, GETTING THE APPRECIATIONS AND ACCOLADES ACROSS THE WORLD WITH THE SUPPORT OF HIGHLY GROWING MEDIA.
EVERY GENUINE, TALENTED & WHO WANTS TO COME UP IN LIFE AND ACHIEVE AS AN ACTOR ACROSS THE GLOBE HAS HIGH RESPECT AND REGARDS FOR NADIGAR THILAGAM AND HAVE EVEN ACCEPTED HIM AS THEIR "GURU". NADIGAR THILAGAM'S FILM HAS ALWAYS BEEN THE BIGGEST MONEY SPINNERS FOR THE PRODUCERS AND DISTRIBUTORS..WHENEVER, HIS FILMS HAD FAILED TO EVOKE THE REVENUE FOR THE PRODUCER, NADIGAR THILAGAM MAGNANIMOUSLY HAD DONE FILMS WITHOUT TAKING ONE SINGLE RUPEE...BALE PANDIYA IS ONE EXAMPLE OF DOING IT FREE.
NADIGAR THILAGAM WAS THE DARLING OF PRODUCERS AND THE MOST PREFERRED ACTOR TO PRODUCE A FILM WITH. NADIGAR THILAGAM'S 198 FILMS WERE PRODUCED WITHIN A SPAN OF 25 YEARS(from 1952 onwards)..ALMOST 8 FILMS PER YEAR IN AVERAGE, BUT FOR MAKKAL KALAIGNAR JAISHANKAR, NO OTHER ACTOR WAS APPROACHED BY PRODUCERS FOR CASTING SO FREQUENTLY..THE OTHER ACTORS UNABLE TO WITH STAND THE COMPETITION OF NADIGAR THILAGAM, ENSURED HUGE GAPS SO THAT THE REVENUE IS GUARANTEED. NADIGAR THILAGAM ALSO HAD THE GUTS OF RELEASING TWO FILMS SIMULTANEOUSLY WHICH MEANS, ALMOST ALL THE THEATERS SCREENING NADIGAR THILAGAM FILMS..ONE EXAMPLE IS 1972, SAW THE RELEASE OF GNANAOLI. WHEN GNANAOLI WAS RELEASED ALMOST 20 FILMS OF NADIGAR THILAGAM WAS RUNNING IN AND AROUND. THE BIGGEST COMPETITOR OF NADIGAR THILAGAM FILMS ARE HIS OWN AND NO OTHER ACTOR OR THEIR FILMS WAS EVER A COMPETITOR AS PER STANDARDS OF COMPETITION. HIS TALENT AND STRENGTH WAS TOO HARD TO DIGEST BY OTHER ACTORS. NADIGAR THILAGAM IS THE ONLY GLOBAL HERO WHO HAD WON THE BIGGEST INTERNATIONAL AWARD..OF BEST ACTOR IN THE ASIA-AFRO CONTINENT(2/3RD OF THE WORLD) IN JUST 7 YEARS OF HIS COMING TO FILM INDUSTRY. HE IS THE ONLY INDIAN ACTOR TO BE INVITED AS THE GUEST OF HONOR BY THE THEN JOHN F KENNEDY IN THE YEAR 1962 REPRESENTING THE ARTS AND CULTURE OF INDIA. NADIGAR THILAGAM IS THE ONLY INDIAN ACTOR TO HAVE BEEN MADE THE ONE DAY MAYOR OF NIAGRA FALLS IN THE CITY OF CAIRO TILL DATE. THE OTHER INDIAN WAS PANDIT JAWAHARLAL NEHRU.
THE RECORDS OF NADIGAR THILAGAM'S @ BOX OFFICE AND HIS POWER ARE SECOND TO NONE..! EVEN IN YEAR 2012..2013...! HIS FILMS MAY NOT WITNESS WEEK AFTER WEEK AFTER RELEASE AS THE DISTRIBUTORS OF NADIGAR THILAGAM FILMS ARE SETTLED VERY WELL IN LIFE AND HAVE DIVERSIFIED THEIR INTERESTS INTO OTHER VENTURES,,HAVING SAID THAT, WHEN ANY OF HIS FILMS GETS RE-RELEASED, NADIGAR THILAGAM FILMS ALWAYS HAVE ENSURED, THE RECORDS ARE RE-CREATED MUCH MUCH TO THE ENVY OF HIS COMPETITORS WHO COULD ONLY FUME AND BAD MOUTH IN DESPERATION.....BUT COULD NOT COMPETE WITH NADIGAR THILAGAM.
WHAT COMPRISES OF NADIGAR THILAGAM?
IT IS NOT JUST ONE PIECE OF ACTING THAT COMPRISES OF NADIGAR THILAGAM..THERE ARE OTHER TALENTS THAT HE EQUALLY POSSESSED INFACT, MASTERED BETTER THAN THE OTHER ACTORS...THEY ARE
1) ABILITY TO CARRY THE CHARACTERIZATION INDIVIDUALLY
2) HIS STYLE OF DIALOGUE DELIVERY
3) HIS STYLE OF BODY LANGUAGE
4) HIS STYLE OF STUNTS
5) HIS STYLE OF WALKING
6) HIS STYLE OF DANCING
7) HIS STYLE OF SMOKING (SMOKING IS INJURIOUS TO HEALTH)
8) HIS STYLE OF DRINKING (KUDI KUDIYAI KEDUKKUM)
9) HIS STYLE OF REACTION TO THE ACTION OF CO-STARS
10) HIS DRESSING SENSE
11) HIS CAMERA SENSE
12) HIS FOLLOW UP SENSE IN CONTINUITY OF SHOTS
13) HIS DEDICATION TO THE ART OF CINEMA
14) HIS INTERESTS IN BRINGING UP THE CO-STARS IN-TERMS OF PERFORMANCE (NO OTHER HERO DID THIS )
15) HIS PROFESSIONALISM
16) HIS CHARACTER FITTING KARISHMA....YOU WILL SEE ONLY AN ADVOCATE, YOU WILL SEE ONLY AN INSPECTOR, YOU WILL SEE ONLY A MYTHOLOGICAL CHARACTER, YOU WILL SEE ONLY THE HISTORICAL CHARACTER, YOU WILL SEE ONLY A RICKSHAWPULLER, YOU WILL SEE ONLY A MILLIONAIRE, YOU WILL SEE ONLY A SAMRAAT, YOU WILL SEE ONLY AN INDUSTRIALIST, YOU WILL SEE ONLY A PRINCE, YOU WILL SEE ONLY A BUSINESS TYCOON, YOU WILL SEE ONLY A FLAMBOYANT, YOU WILL SEE ONLY A LOVER ...WHEN NADIGAR THILAGAM PERFORMS...,
NADIGAR THILAGAM - THE ONLY TRUE GLOBAL ACTOR BEYOND CONTEST AND COMPARISON !!