Who is the Best Film Director of the present lot

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Topic started by manuel on Fri Jul 7 16:12:46 2006.

Guys let us look at it this way ..A film director is a equivalent to a team lead and what are his desired qualities?
I look at it purely from a layman's perspective, so may be we can say : -

He essentially is a good story teller who captures and brings his ideas and thoughts in a piece of camera and affects the audience or say make them feel happy or provokes them to think on issues.
In the process he may utilize his own or his team members skills to bring overall satisfaction of every one involved.

Let us look at the following points -

a)Story,script,screenplay - A director who dares to venture in to unthought or unimaginable may be comercially unpopular but socially relevant themes and narrate it well.
b)Technology - A director who chooses and uses the best technology available interms of cinematography,editing, picturisation and other techniques involved.
c)Music - A diretcor who chooses the right kind of music- BGM or even songs (as these are inevitable in our movies) to comprehend the story.

And any other qualities that you may think off which makes your chosen director the Best among the lot (but pls specify)

Note- we are excluding commerciall sucess of the movies in question

I would rate it this way -

1) Director Bala - he can think of uncanny story line & narrate it well with good gel of music and comic in his movies (Sethu, nandha Pithamagan)
2) Diretcor Cheran - Brings in socially relevant messages in his movies dares to make clean movies at a time of vulgarity at its prime (autograph, thavamai thavamirundhu)
3)Maniratnam - The only film maker who can think out of the box ideas ... mixes technicalities with emotions. (anjali, nayakan, agni natchathiram... so on and on ..)

So who do you think is the best director ????? or who will make it big in future not just in tamil cinema but also internationally.

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Responses:

From: Surya on Fri Jul 7 17:27:14 2006.

#1 : Manirathnam

#2 : Murugadas

#3 : Vishnuwardhan
From: m_23_bayarea on Fri Jul 7 17:31:48 2006.

Surya wrote:

#1 : Manirathnam

#2 : Murugadas

#3 : Vishnuwardhan

Mani is a class apart .... I guess Gowtham Menon is doin good in the present lot !!
From: Surya on Fri Jul 7 17:36:07 2006.

Oh Ofcourse!! How could I leave him GM...Director of Kaaka Kaaka and Vetaiyaadu Vilaiyaadu!
From: Alien on Fri Jul 7 18:03:26 2006.

Selvaraghavan
From: TamilMoon on Sat Jul 8 11:57:08 2006.

Shankar
From: villan007 on Sat Jul 8 12:03:24 2006.

Surya wrote:

Oh Ofcourse!! How could I leave him GM...Director of Kaaka Kaaka and Vetaiyaadu Vilaiyaadu!

You've left Ameer (Mounam pEsiyadhE , Raam )
From: Ramakrishna on Sat Jul 8 12:32:14 2006.

Selvaraghavan
From: Aravind_06 on Sat Jul 8 12:51:34 2006.

Selvaragavan, shankar, Vishnuvardhan, dharani
From: Surya on Sat Jul 8 14:52:40 2006.

I just realized...that there is no "THE BEST" now-a-days. There are soo many awesome directors in the industry. I'm just gonna name all of em.

Manirathnam - A Director of a Different Caliber! The first Revolution in Tamil Filmdom in the Modern Era.

Shankar - Freaggin Awesomeness! ROCKS MY SOCKS!

Selvaraghavan - A Trendsetter!!

Vishnuwardhan - The Newbie fella who has a knack for making awesome action movies.

Gautham Menon - WAAH!! THE REASON I BECAME A SURYA FAN! The Creator of the BEST COP MOVIE TO COME OUT IN AGES!!

Murugadoss - The Next Shankar, I'd say. Different Themes in his movies, but definatly a guy to watch!!!

Ameer - A man who likes to bring in Unexpected twists @ the end of his stories! HE KICKS ASS!!

Dharani - His Style and knack for racy masala entertainers is great! Although I hear that Bangaram = The Biggest Blade of the Year!
From: airtime2310 on Mon Jul 10 14:28:07 2006.

My favorite director is Ezhil because of his stories and Fazil is also another favorite director of mine. But in Recent times I think it's Bala. His direction in Sethu and Pitha was UNBEILEVABALE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It was amazing. Vikram also deserved a National Award for his performance in Pithamagan. Suriya also did well in Bala's 2 Movies. Bala has shaped up both actors. He is my recent favorite director.
From: manmadan on Mon Jul 10 17:34:31 2006.

Shankar, Murugadas

From: kb on Wed Jul 12 11:51:21 2006.

airtime2310 wrote:

My favorite director is Ezhil because of his stories and Fazil is also another favorite director of mine. But in Recent times I think it's Bala. His direction in Sethu and Pitha was UNBEILEVABALE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It was amazing. Vikram also deserved a National Award for his performance in Pithamagan. Suriya also did well in Bala's 2 Movies. Bala has shaped up both actors. He is my recent favorite director.

unga fav director adutha padam ready.. title DEEPAVALI
jeyam ravi and bhavana in lead..
http://www.indiaglitz.com/channels/tamil/article/23667.html

From: Sanguine Sridhar on Wed Jul 12 13:56:13 2006.

1.Cheran
2.Bala
3.Ameer
4.Shankar
5.Dharani
From: joe on Thu Jul 13 5:25:48 2006.

1.Cheran
2.Bala
3.Thangar Pachan
4.Gowtham
From: alwarpet_andavan on Thu Jul 13 5:52:36 2006.

1) Iyakkunar Imayam Kalaignani Padmashree Dr.Kamal Haasan

Balu Mahendra, Bharathiraaja [present day????, mmm maybe...]

Mani, Balaji Sakthivel, Bala [as a director, not as a script-writer], Gautham, Selva [Puduppettai]....

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