though I am a Vijay Fan and its a fact that Gautham rips off most of his movies from Hollywood, if this DVD givin thing (tht too Sivakasi/Thirupachi) to Gautham is true then Vijay needs to get his head examined. Appreciate his growth to the top without any big directors involved, but this is the right time for him to get some movies with dir's like Gautham/Ameer/Selva/Bala etc. On the flip side, any hero talks to a director asking to add in commercial stuff, Gautham adha public panra alavukku enna nadandhudho. Gounder dialogue thaan - cinema vula idhellaam saadharanamappa

do you have the link to the interview ?! interesting that Goudham says the hero's name open..

infact i felt, sarath was the right choice for Patchai kili muthu charam.. and he did underplay it prety descent enough.. what do you say ?! ;-)

Yathirigan, You are right. I thought Sarath was a perfect fit. Gautam says, he wanted to ahve cheran play that role. I can't even think of that nightmare.

The link to the interview is on the post. but vikatan needs online subscription to read it.

I am neither a Vijay fan nor am i enamoured of Gautham's "directorial" abilities. However, of late I find that Gautham has become fairly outspoken. Similar to his comments about Vijay, he has openly expressed his "dismay" at Vikram's judgment in accepting a movie like Bheema recently. All this indicates only one thing - Gautham is not going to go far in Tamil filmdom if he continues to express his views about actors openly - which is fine with me as I don't think the industry will be worse off without him.

Vijay has always been unapologetic on doing Masala films. If Gautam wants an actor and not a star he must not have met Vijay at all.

hey can you give a brief outline about what GM said about Varanam Aayiram, I been looking forward to this film from its annoucement and i can't read tamil!

I don't understand what is so great about Sivakasi and Thirupachi, that Vijay is so proud of, and wants to emulate the same stuff in all his movies.. Those were some of his pathetic movies... No wonder, none of the high profile directors want to cast him in their movies.

Vijay nallavara kettavara ngrathu vaera kathai...aana intha gautam menon pathi ennatha solla.over eh thaan paesikitu thiriyaran. mind this was the guy who wouldn't budge his ego even with a class actor like kamalhassan..no worries having an attitude.but every man's definition about success and good films are different and it's for sure that his films are not the best of the kinds. What stopped him from returning the DVD at the same spot to vijay and say to him that "sorry boss, ithu sari pattu varathu"...ennamo avan thanga petti leh vechi DVD eh kudutha maariyum atheh avaru ezhu kadal thaandi poyi saami munnadi vechi open panni paarthu sivakasi um thirupachi um irunthu, atheh paarthu narayana nu ulahathukku solluraaan...ellamae publicity thaaan...the problem here is not understanding the difference between being outspoken and being a n unruly spoken kind...one should also mind the way he had questioned sankar's risk appetite by asking once in the sme magazine as to something like why does he put so many peoples life at stake with a movie like shivaji. He is clearly the most over rated director .

Well,what Vijay did was a big mistake.He should have given him hollywood DVD's instead of Tamil ones.LOL.But hey,is there any Hollywood DVD that GM doesnt have.All his movies are ripped from them.GM has been talking too much.He had even critisized Shankar for Shivaji budget.Cinema is a business were all these things do happen and they all stay under the carpets.By bringing things out in open,GM does more harm to himself than to Vijay.Even a child knows what to expect from Vijay movie.Why did GM go there at the first place.

well Goutham predominantly lives through English DVDs, may be bad that Vijay gave him a Tamil DVD.. See when directors, want the actor to observe the behavious of a blind person, when the actor plays a Blind Hero, whats wrong in a 6+ crore salary(next only to Rajini and Kamal) actor in Tamil Cinema, telling the director, what commercial elements he expects to have in his projects. Is this wrong?!?! Everyone has to live mutually in this world. If GM wants to do a KK or VV, so be it, if Vijay wants to do a Tirupachi(the biggest commercial hit in his career, till date) or Sivakasi, so be it.. If they dont want budge an inch from their way of movie making, so be it.. but GM spits a private conversation out to public, this shows how cheap his character is?!?!?! GM is nothing but an overated 3 movie wonder, while Vijay is a 46+ movie Superstar in TN. GM keeps speaking out against top actors/technicians whoever he doesnt have a good relationship with!! How cheap that he says, his biggest mistake was casting Sharath Kumar. He cannot accept the basic fact that Pacchaikili Muthucharam, was a disaster at the box office..

Ya, maybe GM made a mistake going public. But, Vijay needs to grow up too.. He needs to learn from people like Rajni and Kamal, and know the secret of their growth in the industry. If he continues to act in pathetic masala movies like Sivakasi and Thirupachi, he will get stagnant. He doesn't realise it now, but gradually he will.

Rajni was at a peak of his career when he worked in Dalapathi with MR. He was in a position to tell MR to add all the usual Rajni ingredients into the movie like his style, punch dialogues etc, just to satisfy his fans. But being a professional he is, he just acted the way MR wanted, without any style or any punch dialogs. Just acting. And don't we love the movie. So, the point is, when Vijay gets a chance to be different, with a director, who has the potential to make a good movie, he should accept it without making any noise.

I agree with both prem and manju

Can someone please translate the excerpt from Tamil to english or even "Tamil written in English is fine " ... please !

Hi, could someone pls translate what gautam said abt vijay in that article?
i can't read tamil..thanks!