5 reasons why ‘Kochadaiiyaan’s trailer is its biggest enemy

Once again the release of ‘Kochadaiiyaan’ has been postponed. The trailers are making the round, and that's the trouble. 

Here are the reasons why making the movie in a 3D animation format was a mistake (let me clarify that the writeup is based strictly on what is being shown in those trailer clips; the picture probably looks better and may be as part of a strange marketing strategy that they have released those horrible looking trailers because they want to pleasantly surprise the audience that braves them and walks into the theatres to watch the movie):

1    Money involved: I don’t have the exact numbers with me, but I heard that huge sums of money were spent on making this film. With that kind of money, and with technology like Centroid Motion Capture, one could have made a movie with it.

2   Quality of Animation: It is politically incorrect to say this, but the animation is simply terrible. The clips in the trailer look as if they were made by class VI students as part of their weekly school assignments. I have seen better works on Pogo. 

One of the posters of 'Kochadaiiyaan' (Observe the cuboid-like head and extremely tiny upper arm on the bare-bodied Rajnikanth)

3   The external anatomy of the characters all seem very wrong – spindly and disproportionate arms (the upper arms look so tiny, the shoulders look so lean and soft) and legs, badly designed torsos, cuboids-like heads, plastered hair…and what’s with those horses??? SPCA should file suits against the film for so badly portraying such flamboyant creatures. 

4   Inevitable comparisons – Whether the makers of the film like it or not, there is going to be comparison with other films of this category (this is a pretty elite group) like ‘Avatar’. They should, by now, be in a position to honestly evaluate their film and know how it scores. 

5  Constant postponements – Any film which has its release date postponed constantly is bound to fail at the box office. Exceptions to this rule are very rare.

They could have either stuck to 2D format or simply used the technology to make a film with real action, instead of animation.

Of course, it is not my money or efforts, but it hurts my feelings to watch so much of it getting wasted. Anyway, like everybody else, I too am excited about Rajnikanth’s new film, ‘Lingaa’.