Kamal as the karma yogi

The more I talk of Kamal Hassan, the veteran star from Tamilnadu, the more enamoured I am of his multivarious talents. I think of the brod shoulders of this squat hero and see the hours that he puts behind the exerise mill to maintain sculpted muscles even at a relatively geriatric status.

I see his local "madaras" tamil and realise his devotion in playing to perfection the role of a street pick pocket or a stunt master he has chosen fit to dub.
I feel his nasal twang in the voice of his rendering of "Anbe Sivam" and come face to face with his energy that flows behind the voice. His rendering of the sanyasa mantra in "Hey Ram" made me feel I was in the temple.

His raptures as a man at tete a tete with the Goddess of his dreams in "Guna" : it transported me to the haven he supposed himself to have been at. The perfect heart rending cry of the father who realises his daughter has been exploited in "Mahanadhi", the perfect maniac in "Allavanthan..the heart stricken father denounced by his daughter in "Nayagan" .. all bear testimony to his acting prowess. Not that I ever need to mention it.

His perfect love scenes, much to the chagrin of most puritans of Tamil cine goers, evoke much spirit in the youg lovers of today. They amuse me to no end and I really must confess that I enjoyed them in Virumandi and also in all other movies he's had the stomach to carry it off.

His sense of direction, his strength in subtle shots, increasing the pique of the viewer if they have enough cinema sense to discern it. The piano in "Hey Ram" in "nee partha.." . the perspective of two people and the truth that lies buried in "Virumandi". All this merely stand to point that he is an unparalleled undefinable thing that zoomed, rocked and raises to world par the otherwise "condemned to doom" mediocrity of tamil cine sense.

Born a Brahmin to a paramakudi family, pious and orthodox, no doubt he is an eyesore, a thorn on the side. With him parading all his romantic conquests to the entire world, I think I understand Vani seeing him as constantin demeris to Melina in the other side of midnight.

But till date, no cases have been filed against him for exploitation. He only takes what that comes to him and naturally too. He has been taken too. Thats all. There ends the issue.

But as impious as he claims himself to be, as a proponent of atheism, as the only distinguished member of the DK in India..He only reiterates Krishna's words in his life.

He is the perfect karma yogi. He believes in excellence in everything that he does. The devotion to his karma oozes out of every movement of the muscle he constrains, of every flicker of the eyelid that he shutters to control the light to change the emotion reflected in them.

Excellence in work in Yoga : "Yoga karmasu Kousalam"-Shri Krishna . What more can I say?