Topic started by sarayana (@ 202.1.60.18) on Wed Jun 26 22:52:10 .
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I could not believe it when i read that Kannathil Mutuamital is technically declared a flop (www.cinesouth.com). What is the tamil cinema comming to!!! How can a great movie like this both technically and acting wise be a flop . Movies like Gemini and Roja Kootam do not even come close.But these two movies are some of the hits so far.
Why has it flopped? Is it because the indians cant associate with the movie since it is based on the Srilankan conflicts. I think the reason why it did so well overseas is because there are a lot of srilankan tamils living overseas.
Maybe India is not ready for this kind of cinema yet. If maniratnam put a duet song here and there and asked a north indian actress to come and shake her hips we could have had a hit on our hand.
Mani dont take a movie like this again becuase your talent is not being appreciated it seems.

Responses:

• From: Tamilan (@ 24-29-107-120.nyc.rr.com) on: Thu Jun 27 00:30:48
  
  guys...everyone visit the following site..
  http://www.bollywoodworld.com/forums/
  read the lines that was posted last and somewhere in the front and middle...they said all southindians r dark n ugly...especially Tamil Indians...this is such an insult...I would like everyone to go there and beat the $hit out of them...go to general topic and then check beauty ques
  
  
• From: Kajan (@ wc05.ym.rnc.net.cable.rogers.com) on: Thu Jun 27 01:18:21
  
  mmmm....
  
  when i saw this film , immediately i felt that it would be flop in India.
  
  I have graded this film on top. It is a flop in TN but in toronto it had been housefull for more than ome month which is a big success.
  
  People in TN could not understand how child adoption has well fitted with current on going problem in SL. They even don't know how sufferings of Srilankan tamils has expressed in the movie.
  
  Even in this forum, some members described this is repition of terrorism and blamed maniratanm.
  ( May be they want to show something different by critisizing mani )
  
  I was so sad because of this flop whereas masala movies are always hit.
  
  
• From: viko (@ cache6.156ce.scvmaxonline.com.sg) on: Thu Jun 27 08:44:39
  
  i don't think the movie is a flop
  because there r people with brain in TN right???
  
  
• From: sweetlad (@ proxy2.bcbsm.com) on: Thu Jun 27 11:44:30
  
  It was like a TV Drama, not a silver screen movie...
  
  IT IS GOOD THIS WAS A FLOP OTHERWISE EVERY DIRECTOR WOULD MAKE DRAMAS FOR HIGH PRICE IN THE NAME OF MOVIES.
  
  i AM VERY HAPPY IT IS A FLOP.
  
  That girl in that movie got on my nerves.
  
  That looked so ugly, nasty, these days there is no yardstick for people to be selected to act in silverscreen..if one is from the family of an influential or a famous person, then even if he or she is like a PIG, that person could be a famous star!!
  
  The film had absolutely no contents...
  Maniratnam thinks he is a big director,
  
  but all he does is make people talk at their lowest voices so audience cant hera the dialogues and adding to that puts the sound in surround so all other voices apart from the main talkers are also heard...along with all the buses and cars sounds, if the scene is in a road...
  
  CRAZY IDEA....sometimes I feel like spitting on his face when the dialogues are unnecessarily low toned...
  
  he thinks it is a modern way of making movies, but tell u what, people get sick of his techniques!
  
  FILMS like KM should be an utter flop!! GOOD!!
  
  
• From: galnextdoor (@ webcachem07b.cache.pol.co.uk) on: Thu Jun 27 16:25:56
  
  if any1 iz callin kana..muuth.... a flop coz of Sri-Lanka den dey hav got anuvver fing cumminCOZ I AM A TRUE SR-LANKAN AND NO1 GETZ AWAY WID INSULTIN MY HOME COUNTRY!
  
  
• From: viko (@ cache42.156ce.scvmaxonline.com.sg) on: Fri Jun 28 09:08:10
  
  i think kM was super
  
  
• From: Sweetie (@ webcacheh04a.cache.pol.co.uk) on: Sat Jun 29 09:05:10
  
  Galnextdoor, totally agree.
  
  
• From: galnextdoor (@ webcachem04b.cache.pol.co.uk) on: Sat Jun 29 15:48:35
  
  SUM INDIANZ R SOOOOOO STUK UP DESE DAYZ.
  WEN I SAW KM,I THOUGHT IT WAZ OK,COZ IT WOZ DIFFERENT, AND MY COUNTRY WOZ IN IT.
  I SWEAR,SUM DAY 1 OF UZ SHOOD GO KIK DA FLAMIN IDIOTZ UP DERE STINZIN AS!SES.DA AS!SHOLEZ
  
  
• From: raju (@ webport-cl4-cache5.ilford.mdip.bt.net) on: Wed Jul 3 19:49:04
  
  yo me mate gal next door...yo tellin me world is fine with good filmz like KM. i is feelin' you dont see film last november they showin' at NFT festival abt srilanka tamilz.i cant believe mate that now it's july it's still nonstop rainin'..
  ps....sorry abt cricket though ....egh...
  
  
• From: Boy from windy hill (@ its-wn-prox3.its.rmit.edu.au) on: Thu Jul 4 00:44:40
  
  oh my god! I told you it is sh-it house. I was right wasn't I.
  
  
• From: phantom (@ out.capitalone.com) on: Wed Jul 10 17:33:07
  
  I am a little disappointed that KM was not a super hit but with people like sweetlad here .. what else can one expect ?
  
  However I did hear that KM has done decently in big cities in Tamil Nadu and Bangalore ...
  
  
• From: Janani (@ cwpp-p-203-54-200-3.prem.tmns.net.au) on: Fri Jul 19 23:05:38
  
  KM ran for a 100 days, how can it be a flop????
  
  It was also a tamil film that ran in Mumbai, with just dubbing for a 100 days. SO there is not justification in calling it a flop. I liked the song sequence, no lovers eagerly searching eachother, no masala. It was true drama for 3 hours. This is what all movies should be like. And as for the reason it might have not done as well in TN, I feel that maybe the people in TN wouldn't have been able to undertsand the struggles of the Sri Lankan civilians who were and continue to be caught up in the ethnic conflict.
  
  
• From: Ganesh (@ 61.11.79.153) on: Sat Jul 20 00:24:46
  
  Janani Aalaandaan, Shajahan, Tamizhan too ra for 100 days, but it is considered a flop althogh these films did run for 100 days they did not recover its costs.
  
  
• From: Mila (@ 203.116.61.131) on: Mon Jul 22 04:01:44
  
  i think it's a nice movie. i like the child's character, because the girl is talented and acts very well! keep it up!
  
  
• From: Eswari (@ 210.186.89.5) on: Wed Jul 31 02:42:00
  
  Well, it was a different movie from what I have seen so far. It was a good movie from Mr Maniratnam. Keep it up! Besides that Madhavan and Simran have played a very nice role as a loving parent and caring. Good job!
  
  
• From: ms (@ 203.199.213.3) on: Wed Jul 31 05:01:13
  
  
  JEYACHANDRAN SHOWN THE WORLD HIS TALENT IN PLAYBACK SINGING!
  
  
• From: reena (@ 210.186.29.53) on: Mon Aug 5 05:43:37
  
  the people who talk bad about this movie ur mother will suck ur uncle.......
  
  
• From: reena (@ 210.186.29.53) on: Mon Aug 5 05:44:03
  
  the people who talk bad about this movie ur mother will suck ur uncle.......
  
  
• From: santosh (@ 210.186.29.53) on: Mon Aug 5 05:46:38
  
  suck if u tell anything bad of this movie
  
  
• From: nitya (@ 210.186.29.53) on: Mon Aug 5 05:50:54
  
  U PEOPLE ARE DO NOT NO HOW TO RESPECT OTHER PEOPLE CARRER OF FILM (MANIRATNAM AND MADHAVAN) THOSE aRE BEST IN THE WORLD NOT U BY READIND OF THE FLOP km...THIS IS one of best movie in the india malaysia,singapore,us and sri lanka also norway...maddy the best than vijay the gay
  
  
• From: analyser (@ banjo.cs.iitm.ernet.in) on: Mon Aug 5 06:52:30
  
  
  pl dont send in multiple names.
  
  
• From: Rajashree (@ 207.239.176.82) on: Thu Aug 8 18:52:53
  
  There is absolutely no reason for telling the girl about her biological parents.
  
  That is ridiculous!
  
  It is a blunder by Manirathnam.
  
  By the way, characters in Manirathnam's movies do not care about the morality. For example, in Dalapathy he will bring up the collector (Arvind) as the most honest person in the world. But, as soon as he learnt that Surya (Rajini) is his half-brother, he would not mind dropping all the charges on him.
  
  That is BS too!
  
  
  
• From: Janani (@ cwpp-p-144-134-187-113.prem.tmns.net.au) on: Fri Aug 9 03:07:30
  
  heheheheh, veyr objective people we have in here!!!!!!
  
  I had a danm good laugh out of some of the topics anyway as for not recovering its costs it could be possible, I am not sure about that cause I didn't audit their stuff and for Jeychandran, I listen to that song atleast once a day!
  
  It is sweetheaven and deseveres to be credited amongst one of the best in the world
  
  
• From: tamil vazhga (@ 203.106.55.182) on: Fri Aug 9 04:45:26
  
  Look at us... still talking abt "me being Sri Lankan" and "u being non Sri Lankan Tamil". Where r we heading? Let us first stop and put things into perspective: WE R ALL TAMILS and those r our brothers and sisters suffering in Sri Lanka. They need help. Stop this hypocrisy and let us make the world a better place for Tamils.
  
  
• From: RITZ (@ cache83.156ce.scvmaxonline.com.sg) on: Sat Aug 10 11:05:24
  
  well Tamils will rather appreaciate stories with no concepts plz wake up Tamils wake up wake up or else .............................................................
  
  
• From: viko (@ mcns242.docsis212.scvmaxonline.com.sg) on: Sun Aug 11 01:23:34
  
  ritz or ranjit,
  nearly all your comments seem to insult all tamils
  there r some tamils whom appreaciate movies such as aalavandaan,heyram n Kannathil Mutuamaital
  your misjudgement n ignorence here,
  shows u r a bigger idoit n a s s hole
  than those who do not appreaciate good movies
  
  
• From: ranjit (@ cache83.156ce.scvmaxonline.com.sg) on: Sun Aug 11 13:22:36
  
  well Mr Viko, i"m commenting on those uneducated useless Tamils who don"t klnow how to appreaciate movies, who is an insult to other Tamils.
  NAANUM TAMILANTHAAN ,BUTTHIYULLA TAMILAN,ARIVULLA TAMILAN ,ARIVUKETTA TAMILARGALAI VERUKKUM TAMILAN.
  
  
• From: viko (@ mcns242.docsis212.scvmaxonline.com.sg) on: Mon Aug 12 06:19:15
  
  in that case,
  i think i m like u too
  
  
• From: bindiya (@ 210.186.28.166) on: Sat Aug 17 12:38:38
  
  km is super movie
  
  
• From: Smitha (@ 203-195-201-74.now-india.net.in) on: Sun Aug 18 08:43:28
  
  KM was one superb movie. Really stands out of all the stupid movies that come these days(probably thats why its reels were standing outside theatres very soon)
  
  Overall the movie was very good in all departments like direction , music, sets, acting, lyrics, camera etc.
  
  There is not hard and fast rule that when an adopted kid should be informed. Its upto parents to decide. They decide to tell for good reasons but somehow has a bad affect and the parents try the best to bring things under control taking her to sri lanka itself.
  
  Music was excellent. God the title song .. should be one of Rahmans everlasting melodies.
  
  

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