Kutty Srank vs Anti Gravity dude

My last post was met with a furious backlash on Facebook (I'm looking at you, Renjith), both against the apparent snore fest Kutty Srank and what is, apparently, the best film of all time, the anti-gravity dude starrer, Endhiran. I meant to explain with a few comments, but as I started writing, felt that it merited more of a blogpost than a comment So is poor Kutty Srank even comparable to Endhiran?

Starting with Kutty Srank, my friends argue that the movie is dragging. They couldn't have been more right. I nearly fell asleep during a couple of stretches of time (I saw it after having a cocktail they called 'Deathwish', so could have been that). I'll also add a couple of negatives of my own. It doesn't have one linear story, instead the movie takes the viewers attention and plays volley with it. And perhaps what disappointed me the most was that with the type of narrative used, I went is expecting the three stories to uncover different facets of the title character, but instead got the same character in three stories. A massive potential gone untapped.

So you must be wondering why I, in my quest to brand it an awesome movie, first made it look like birdcrap. I wish I could tell you, but I'm not sure.

But moving on to the positives, the settings (all three of them) and the characters are as good as any you'll ever find on a movie screen. The three backgrounds of the three stories are mesmerizing in their contrast. The lack of an effective linear story does affect it, but when you get out of the theatre, you feel as if you've woken up from a series of dreams. It will all come back to you in a series of incherent scenes for a fleeting instant, but you'll find yourself wishing you could hold on to it. It's like watching a girl turn around and flash one last mesmerizing smile before she goes off forever.

Now moving on to the anit gravity dude, the biggest positive they have to tell of it is the special effects. They tell me it is the best anyone's ever seen in an Indian film. But that is not saying much, is it? A few years ago, that diahorreic cow of a director, Vinayan, was saying the same about some of his movies, and he wasn't exaclty light years away from the truth. I mean, I saw a lot of the trailer and none of the animation in it struck me as being as impressive as the video they play every week before a Premier league match starts.

So, please, don't compare that masterpiece, albiet flawed, but still a masterpiece, to a movie where they spent 165 crores on wigs and photshopping the wrinkles off Aishwarya Rai's face. Many a master will turn in his grave.