Shankar

Shankar has taken the first step, as he so often has. Now is Tamil cinema’s chance to follow the precedent and grab the opportunity to get bigger while the glow of Endhiran is still alive. Well. We are not being overly optimistic or confident about the success of the movie. But, as a person who truly wishes that Tamil cinema gets bigger and better, there is nothing else that I would want more than Endhiran succeeding. If (and I am hoping it will) Endhiran brings back the 200 crores that was spent on it, it will prove to the industry that even such a big budget is feasible. We have had great artistes and technicians who have had to keep the best of their ideas in cold storage because budgets could just not be met. Endhiran might just open the doors for all of them to script their dreams.

The prime candidate for this would be Tamil cinema’s long standing dream, Marudhanayagam. More than a decade back, a few portions were shot for the trailer of the movie at a (then) whopping cost of 6 crores. It would have been the biggest ever in Indian cinema. The total budget was estimated to cross 50 and so it never happened. At today’s costs, it would go past 200, one guesses and the chances of it being revived and made depending on Endhiran’s show at the box office. Marmayogi too is something similar