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That comedy is Kamal Hassan's forte comes to the fore in 'Vasool Raja MBBS'. A remake of the Hindi hit, 'Munnabhai MBBS', 'Vasool...' is comedy all the way, interwoven with a bit of practical thinking.

A die-hard Kamal fan may loathe 'Vasool...' for the ambiguous one liners and the routine dance-around-tree sequences. A super intelligent human being - what is he doing dancing with an ever-smiling girl in a heavenly part of the world? And that too when they were at a local hospital just a minute ago! All this meaningless dance-around-with-the-girl reduces Kamal to a clown, and a very ordinary person.

Then again, isn't that what director Saran aims at? The moment we think Kamal has turned crazy, that is the moment he wins. 'Vasool Raja' Rajaraman had to be a bit crazy, adopt traditional methods and reel off funny one liners - Kamal fits the character he plays to a T.

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Sarcastic one liners (including a clever dig at Anbe Sivam, Virumaandi and an even cleverer dig at Rajinikanth), muscular body (when he takes off his shirt during the college ragging- God, he doesn't get older at all, does he?!) wonderful eye expressions (when he cries on screen, you can actually see red lines in his eyes) - all these and much more make Kamal Hassan a truly great all-rounder.

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Prabhu isn't much of an all-rounder though. Playing second fiddle to Kamal with ease, he doesn't get the coverage he deserves. Prakashraj's astonishingly awesome acting talents have been reduced to nil - he is the 'laughing stock' of the movie. Sneha simply smiles and smiles. She's the kind of woman you can call 'sweet' - she doesn't smooch, doesn't expose - a good homely heroine.

Just as in the engrossing 'Anbe Sivam' and KB's movies of the past, here too the small-time characters get noticed. The 30-yr-old sweeper, the cancer patient, the studious Swaminathan and the carrom-'crazy' father, everybody does well and the scenes involving them are well shot.

There is no Kamal the genius. No Kamal the thinker. It's Kamal the entertainer all the way!

Srinivasa Ramanujam
Published on 25^th Aug, 2004

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