After two successful documentaries, Lightman and Neelam, director Venkatesh Kumar has come up with his next, The Beautiful Eye. It is an 80 minute long documentary on blindness and has been officially selected to be screened at the 8th Friendship Film Festival, New Delhi.
Here we have a visually challenged person, talking about which actor inspired him the most and why. He says, "I admire people who come up on their own. In Tamil cinema, I am inspired by Ajith Kumar sir. Nobody knows clearly about his background and how he came up. They say he was initially a mechanic, but nobody knows for sure. He worked hard, entered bike racing first, then went into car racing and won the 3rd place for Asia in the 1990s. Now he is in cinema and holds a huge position. He doesn't need fame and he is one of the most responsible people in the cinema industry. In the latest trend, I like Ajith sir a lot."
The first glimpses of Vivegam that we caught were the on-set images of Thala Ajith. He looked stylish and sophisticated. We saw how he transformed himself for this film, physically, by stunning us with his six packs and inspiring all his fans, and unanimously, all his co-stars. The first look took social media by storm and gave a strong essence of an international film.
Completely shot in Bulgaria and its neighboring European countries, the film promises to be an entirely international premise. Director Siva strategically revealed many images from of Thala Ajith, one by one, on his Twitter page making sure that the fans are teased to the maximum level. Then came the teaser in which we saw a stylized AK. The cinematography, editing, and the locales were all ultra-modern and gave us a lot to expect. Anirudh Ravichander has been an important reason for the reach and the standard of this film to go one league higher. His music has been outstanding, and its paradigm has been thoroughly westernized.
The script seems to touch upon terrorism with some sequences involving military weapons and tanks, cyber-crime with space satellites, and it is widely discussed that it also includes the significance of time. Siva has taken a lot of effort in research to develop a storyline which would also showcase the mass side of Ajith, while also trying to deliver a classy script.
In the recently released trailer, we got a better view of the masterclass in Vetri's visuals and Ruben's cuts and every character's new avatar, making every element in this story, an important contributor to its pre-release success and rise in the expectation meter. With the film's release just two days away, will Ajith and team elevate Tamil cinema to international standards? We'll know soon.