Vettaiyaadu Vilaiyaadu

This is the latest Kamalhasan movie. We saw it recently. Very unmemorable. A serial killer movie without much to recommend it. I hope Indian cinema does only a brief stop at the serial-killer/other-mindless-killer theme on its march to modernity. A dead-end theme to begin with and even more irrelevant in the Indian context. Two small points of interest:

-- in the movie Kamal is a police DCP from Chennai who goes off to the US to investigate some murders there involving Indians. There he works with a NYPD cop and outshines him and solves the crimes more or less single-handedly. Even 10 years back one could not imagine someone convincingly trying to show an Indian person showing up his Western counterpart on their home turf. One can literally see the change in confidence happening in real-time. Another interesting thing was that they had dialogue in English (in the US part of the film) with Tamil subtitles. Again something quite new to Indian cinema.
-- I took the photos above from my cameraphone, the last one is inside the theater, a still of the movie itself. A cameraphone opens up all kinds of interesting possibilities.