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Nolan vs Shankar: Tollywood trumps Hollywood

Nolan vs Shankar: Tollywood trumps Hollywood

New York magazine compares Christopher Nolan's "Inception" with S. Shankar's South Indian smash hit "Sivaji!" and thinks Nolan could use a lesson or two in the art of OTT movie making, Tollywood style
3 August, 2010
Link to "25 Reasons Why This Indian Dance-Battle-Romance Spectacle Is More Mind-blowing Than Inception" slideshow.
"'Inception' had a good run. For two whole weeks, people talked about how mind-blowing it was. But then something hit the web so absolutely brain-ripping that it made 'Inception' look like an old man pulling a quarter out of your ear."

NYMag is comparing the movie of the moment, Christopher Nolan's "Inception", with the 2007 Tamil film "Sivaji!"directed by S Shankar. We need to take Shankar's creation seriously because it stars one of the most popular Indian actors of all time, "the incomparably mustachioed Rajnikanth" and is scored by none other than Madras music maestro A.R. Rahman.

Wielding light sabre-style shotguns and rockets in the shape of guitars, dancing with a fetish-friendly troupe in black leather, riding a motorbike while asleep with a cowboy hat on his head -- all these make Shankar's Rajnikanth score over Nolan's downright sissy DiCaprio any day.

Here is NY Mag's "25 Reasons Why This Indian Dance-Battle-Romance Spectacle Is More Mind-blowing Than Inception".

 

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