I had still two days though my planned work was finished early. So I muted my senior manager job for two days and stepped into my journalist work. Therefore I decided to do a survey and meet as many as possible. But what’s the topic? I hope you guessed it right. How can I exclude movies from Tamilians when it is their religion? So I chose the topic ‘Hot and happening star.’
Before starting the topic I was just chatting with a friend in front of the restaurant, when two young women drove by. The kinetic Honda went ahead a few feet, screeched to a halt and reversed. ‘Oh my God, have you seen Vikram in that poster?’, One of them screamed.
Can you guess what happened next? When she saw it the girl at the wheel shrieked, pressed down the accelerator instead of the brake, sending the Honda into a tree.
They recovered .The tree’s okay. But the state wasn’t. State? I was not sure but surely the city wasn’t. There was hysteria of hero Vikram. Toddlers wanted to dance like him, young kids put his photograph under their pillows see that they may dream of him and their mothers had very well immaterial thoughts about the actor.
Like Kavita, Kovai based exporter who went to see Dhool with her teenaged children, ‘I was absolutely hysterical when I was watching the movie.’, she said unblinkingly ‘They had to keep me down because I was getting so excited.’ Or the 45 year old woman in Gandhi Park who has seen the movie ‘Saamy’ 5 times and ‘Dhool’ 8 times and has still not had enough of him and the maamis are gung ho about accompanying him. Collegian Madhu, 20 says she would be lying if I said that my heart wouldn’t skip a beat when he comes on any channel. Even in cultured cities the teeny boppers were faintly cannibalistic about the talented actor. Ramya, 19 likes everything about him. ‘I like his biceps, I like the way he smiles. It’s so cute. I like his powerful, strong muscles, cute cheeks, overall his hot.’ Sheena, 16, lets out a shriek when I mentioned his name. Then spent the next to gushing about him. ‘He is so sweet a wonderful change from the arrogant actors. He looks good enough to eat!! Wow! He is one fabulous human being and actor but there’s also something vulnerable about him that makes you feel protective. The type you can take home to your mother. But they should be warned, mama may fancy him too.
Boy o boy, I was laughing in my sleeves about the opinions I had received. When I met a housewife named Geeta, 38 year old she remembered his ‘Meera’ movie when she fell in love with him, ooops! Then again how she closed her eyes with a pain at the climax of Sethu. She couldn’t take it. Not one or two, thousands of people voted for him. Obviously he left everyone far behind by getting 69% of votes.
I couldn’t understand anything. Why was everybody drooling over this person all of a sudden? 4 years ago hardly anybody had liked him or heard of him. Mention his name today and a light comes on in most people’s eyes. The fact was through his modesty, acting skills, nature and all those X factor he cuts across gender .Men admire him and women adore him. Both sexes were rooting for him. I felt there is a certain amount of intelligence which made him even more charismatic. He is being failed both as a superstar and a super actor by the media, the first time for any actor in Tamil Nadu ever. All this is something which has not happened in the history of Tamil cine field.
Before starting the survey I had thought he would just get passing marks. But what he got was much more and it was growing and shocking one. He was emerged as a third generation moviewala (combination of mass and class art) whom nobody really noticed for years – has become the screen messiah people were eagerly awaiting for!
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