The whole movie was considered to be shot for more than 6 hours and later trimmed to the final 3 hours.
One of those rare movies where every department be it screenplay, music, direction, worked in perfect synergy, like the Swiss cheese model flipped upside down (yes, I’m misusing it!). Instead of flaws aligning, strengths came together to create a masterpiece
In the previous collaboration between Rajini and AR Rahman, it was alleged that some fans of Rajini threw stones at Rahman's house because Rajini could not dance to the beats of Rahman. Thats the kind of influence Rajini had/has in Tamilnadu.
There is a line in the opening song of the movie எம்பேரு படையப்பா "My name is Padyappa"
என் ஒரு துளி வியர்வைக்க ு ஒரு பவுன் தங்க காசு கொடுத்தது தமிழல்லவா !
For every drop of my sweat, Tamil Nadu gave me a sovereign of gold!
Just imagine the money Rajini or other film stars make. Why do they get paid so much of money?
A non IT person usually has the same doubt about engineers working in IT.
Especially in 2000s this comparison was crazy.
Why is this?
The reason is SCALE.
Scale is: With your single piece of work, how many people can benefit in a shorter time.
If Rajini was an actor before 1940s, he could not have sang such a song. 😄
Because acting was a low-status profession until cinema scaled its reach.
They were called Koothadis(Street Actors). Koothadis acted in plays on every street corner.
Their life style was very bad except the one who owns the group. It was similar to the circus in 1990s and prior to that.
Motion Camera single handedly changed the fortunes of actors. Because recording it once allowed the movie to be played at multiple places. Thats SCALE.
This is the same reason software engineers get paid more than others. What we develop can be easily copied and played/executed at multiple destinations/devices.
Padayappa's collection of 20 Crore, all came from one film shot in months. That’s SCALE!
Or for IT: A single app like WhatsApp, coded once(of course maintained), serves billions globally. That’s why Software engineers earned 10x-100x more than others. Recording medium allows us to scale rapidly.
Just think about this, the microcontroller that runs your fridge/washing machine has software likely deployed in it 10-15 years ago which was developed by a software engineering team in Seoul or Bangalore.
Write once/Record once, play/execute everywhere.
Thats scale.
SCALE is why Rajini to every other person in cinema industry gets paid insanely.
SCALE is why there is so much of demand for software engineering courses in India
Go and SCALE what you are good at.
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