If you look at the grand-daddies of the genre - Akira Kurosawa’s Yojimbo / Sergio Leone’s Fistful of Dollars - you’ll see why the namelessness is so important. We will soon learn that his name is KK, but early on, when he’s hurt and admitted to a hospital, his chart says “Name: Unknown.” This really made me sit up, for we usually don’t get the Man With No Name action movie in Tamil cinema. It’s as pure an “action” opening as you’ll see.Īnd this man is as pure an action hero as you’ll see. Then a window near the top of a Tower splinters open as a man (Vikram) jumps out.
The score becomes louder… louder… louder. The camera keeps zooming in on the Petronas Towers, and Ghibran’s score begins to make itself felt - it’s as though the sounds of the city are giving way to the sounds of this movie. (The Punnagai Mannan theme reminds us of this film’s producer, Kamal Haasan.) Day, slowly, turns into night. It’s a longish announcement, and it’s followed by a programme of Ilayaraja songs. A panoramic view of downtown Kuala Lumpur is backed by a radio announcer talking about an arts festival. There’s a hint of promise in the opening stretch of Kadaram Kondan, by writer-director Rajesh Selva.
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