Settu-win comedy kathaigal

I was thinking of writing again for sometime now and was just not getting any interesting topics. But not for long... I struck upon this really interesting one in a kollywood gossip site. I will tell you what is interesting in the end. Read through to see if you can find it yourself ;-)

Ilayathalapathi Vijay is nearing his 50th film. Vijay who started his career at the age of 17 has starred in 48 films so far in his career spanning 15 years without any experiments or mask gimmicks. Following the footsteps of superstar Rajinikanth, the actor has always tried to satisfy his fans with the simple ingredients of a good movie.

Now he is playing the same simplistic and youthful role in the forthcoming Prabhu Deva directed produced by Ayngaran International. His next film will be produced by AVM Balasubramaniam under the legendary AVM banner. This would be his 49th film.

The actor is having some plans to celebrate the launch of his 50th film. This film would be produced by his father S.A.Chandrasekaran under his own banners either VV Creations or Shobha Creations. Chandrasekharan himself announced this in an audio release function held recently

This 'wonderful' article has been written by one 'settu shankar'. I had a weird thought instantly. Why would someone be called settu. settu in tamil actually refers to 'seth' - north-indians settled in south are invariably referred as seth's. i knew that the person was called sethu shankar. But there can be only 2 reasons to explain this. Either its been changed numerologically or its a printing mistake. But one thing in the above paragraphs is not a mistake. Its the best comedy ive come across.

Read these lines again -
"........who started his career at the age of 17 has starred in 48 films so far in his career spanning 15 years without any experiments or mask gimmicks......"

No experiments and no mask gimmicks ???? Mr. 'settu' calls acting a gimmick & an experiment. My good god ! What is an actor supposed to do then ?

This is what you call extreme 'stupid'-optimism. Paint all your negatives with positive shades shamelessly !

The image ive put for this post is what you can call as 'tamil cinema's irony'.
Something no one can escape from. You can see kamalhasan handing over a trophy to vijay for his film's 175 days completion. Even an actor like kamal cant avoid this. But how does he take it in his stride. He does that with his own style. When it was his turn to take over the mike, he simply said that vijay works hard, a couple of other formalities and left the dias. Nothing much for a movie that ran for 175 days !

& dont try to think too much over the "-win" in the title. I saw it first in a poster near velachery which said 'simbu-win ....' ;-)