Character One : A typical US-return-type guy - who always carry a 'bisleri' bottle with him- who thinks Credit card is something universal and finds it hard to believe the fact that there are places in India which don't know credit card and for that matter not even ration card - who doesn't like queues, thinks here(India) even after spending extra money he is not getting ahead of the queue - who doesn't care about the people standing in the queue but just want to be ahead of all them because he can throw some money - a guy who thinks he is one that India is privileged to get because he is earning money in dollar-converted-rupee - who even changes his name to "Ars" - to make his US employer's life easier when called - where his actual name is Anbarasu a true Tamil name - A man who has never seen the reality part of 'the' common Indian - Having said that this guy is not all bad but just very selfish - but deep down the heart he is a humane - who will cry on seeing people suffering but just that never get a chance to see such things in life yet.
Character Two: This is the guy who our first character has never seen before and could not have dreamt about. A simple blue-collared employee - who strongly believes in communism and is part of a employee union - Fighting or rather protesting even to get a hike of Rs 200 weekly with the employer - Takes life as it comes - who usually travels in unreserved-class train - but always gets ticket - who is willing to stand in queue for a genuine reason and never want to jump ahead of the queue - who even carries a small meal covered in a news paper while traveling in a low-cost-flight - who has lots of friends across states and has good network still down to earth - who thinks life can be runned with any money in hand - who thinks its possible to even travel from Orison to Chennai with just Rs. 15 in hand. and more interestingly will find a mode of transport for that just Rs.15 - which usually baffles the other character - a guy who met and came alive from a drastic accident some years back and has his face damaged - damaged to the extent that it gives a real, scarry look - with multiple scar in his face - full of yellowish untamed-teeth - wearing a 2 inch-spectacle - and with one of his leg shorter than the other due to this accident and always lymph while walking - a regular blood donor - who always fight against employer-exploiting-employee - who carefully carries a piece of cucumber and salt-chilly mix along during a flight trip - simply put a Practical Guy in mid 30s - who can never impress anybody at first look instead make people think who the hell this cripple is and what damn thing this guy knew - people didn't even bother to stare or look at him - who believes god is not a 3rd person of some divine entity but the one who empathize on the sufferings of others (which happens to be the theme of this...) - who argues, rationally, for anything and has a reasoning for everything - who even gets angry in a very cool composed manner
Character - 1: Played by Madhavan. Typically playing against Kamalhasan is just impossible - Everyone had failed - be if Arjun, prabhudeva or whoever - you just cant match to this magical name - Kamal. But Madhavan is different - may be the gravity and casting of the character. This guy has really done a great job. At times he might have surprised Kamal too.
Character - 2: Kamalhaasan. The names says it.Should I specify anything - even after this!!! Such a heavy character Kamal just carries so simply and casually. Am satisfied to see Kamal back again in such a landmark type character. In my view this is "The character" of the decade. With the due-respect to other India actors (note: Not just kollywood) nobody can even dare to take this role and match Kamal. Once you have seen the promo of this movie - kamal with a scar face and thick glass - Its too hard for anybody to resist from watching this movie. One request .pls..pls..for heaven sake DONOT remake this move to other language and have some 'stars' playing this role which will only bring shame to that movie industry - a similar nonsense already happened in the name of "Dayavan" already. This is one movie where you can enjoy Kamal to the fullest and will have a complete satisfaction of watching a real-good movie. truly a real good movie
Fact is this movie was declared Flop because of poor reception in box-office...but I have seen this movie may be 10 times now and I own a DVD. The theme of the movie , only the theme is based on the English movie - Planes, trains and automobiles. However the rest is real genuine.
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