What exactly is Brad Pitt transforming into?

There is something extremely uneasy about Brad Pitt and the things that are being told about him in the media. 
 

Image Courtesy Wikimedia Commons.

Once upon a time, Pitt was a very handsome, good looking, gorgeous actor. He had friends, and he did things that most other human beings would. He acted in some very trendsetting films. He had a life. These days, if you can ignore the lifeless vibes that are coming out of him, he still retains some of his good looks, but he sure has become eerily perfect. The only stories you hear about him all revolve around how he spends time with his family, plans his wedding with Jolie, and cares for all those children of his, adopted, biological, lost-and-found at carnivals (kidding). There is only so much time a man can spend, caring for his children.

Even a routine boob job (his partner's, of course) was projected as a revolutionary health campaign.

When was the last time he was seen alone at any event, without Jolie, the Mysterious, stalking him by his side?

BTW, is he still friends with Clooney? Or, has he (Clooney) become a bad influence too?

A politically incorrect take on why '12 Years a Slave' won at Oscars

Poster of '12 Years a Slave'

I might not agree with Taki's views in his article, 'What 12 Years a Slave gets wrong – and The Book Thief gets right' (appears on The Spectator website), about German soldiers during World War 2, but this makes an interesting read.

Selvaraghavan’s new film with STR, Trisha

The poster of 'Vinnaithaandi Varuvaaya'

In my entire life, only four films made me walk out of the movie hall due to sheer boredom – ‘Vishwaroopam’, ‘Enthiran’, 'Kanthaswamy' (the Vikram-Shriya Sharan starrer), and ‘Irandaam Ulagam’. ‘Vishwaroopam’ is at No. 1 on top-of-the-mind recollection list simply because I paid for the tickets.

'Irandaam Ulagam' was an extremely ambitious film with so many things that went wrong - Arya with his strange accent (the accent worked for his other characters, but this time it was annoying), Anushka looking perpetually angry and stuck up for no reason at all, the strange makeup for Arya in the 'other world' scenes that actually made him look more like a cross-dresser, the zero chemistry, the boring music, weird dialogues and what else not.

Anyway, prior to the release of ‘Irandaam Ulagam’, Selvaraghavan gave some very straight-from-the-heart interviews. In some of them, he was contemplating retirement too, at the age of 37 because work was taking a toll on his health. There were talks that the producer had run into financial troubles because the film took more time than expected and the budget overshot too.

Looks like past is past and the director is getting ready to launch a new film, this time with the VTV pair, Simbu and Trisha, in the lead. The director hasn’t chosen a name yet.

Deccan Chronicle reports that the film will be launched in April this year. 

Meanwhile, STR was keeping himself superbusy - the protests along with students, his alleged break-up with Hansika Motwani (after his alleged relationship with her), his new film with Nayantara that will hit the screens soon...

Kamal Haasan Launches New Flick

The pre-release poster of 'Uthama Villain'

These are the facts that we now know about Kamal Haasan's new film, 'Uthama Villain'.

1. It is a comedy.
2. Most likely to be directed by Ramesh Arvind, an almost-regular in most comedies that Kamal makes and stars in.
3. M. Ghibran is composing the film's music.
4. Director Linguswamy's production house, Thirrupathi Bros. is co-producing the film, along with Kamal's Raaj Kamal Films.
5. Heroines haven't been announced yet.
Whenever a leading hero announces a film, Asin's (remember her, the annoyingly exuberant one?) name always pops up as possible female lead. This time too, it did. The last time I checked, the names of Pooja Kumar and Andrea were making serious rounds as most-likely heroines. But, as of now, the co-stars haven't been confirmed yet.

The film has already found itself on the receiving end of plagiarism allegations. Some claim the poster was lifted from a Theyyam (a classical dance form of Kerala) photograph taken by Eric Lafforgue ( click here for Lafforgue's FB page, has some very nice pictures), the French photographer.

Click here for the Facebook page that shows both the photographs.
 

Defenders/worshipers/blind followers of Kamal Haasan are already up in arms defending/explaining the similarities. The day is not far when one of them would claim that the poster came first...


This one has a lot of copycat posters/stills/concepts too. Nice collection.


BTW, what happened to 'Vishwaroopam 2'? 'Adhu thaan idhu?'