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Schizophrenia | Brother
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Best Special Effects | 2002
Best Actor | 2002 | Kamal
Best Negative Performance | 2001 | Kamal
Budget 300,000 USD
This movie prevailed as an inspiration for the animated sequence involving fight scenes and violence in the Quentin Tarantino movie - Kill Bill.
Upon release in 2001, the film received a very polarizing response from critics and audiences everywhere, who found it difficult to connect with the complicated script and characters, and found the violence, sex and drugs featured to be very repugnant and extreme for mainstream audiences. The technicality, visual effects and Haasan's performance were very praised, however. Over the years, especially with the rise of social media during the late 2000s, the film gained a more positive reaction from the public, who praised the film for its filmmaking style and content. Hollywood director Quentin Tarantino's admission that he was inspired by this film to create the animated fight sequences for his "Kill Bill" films was what incited this reassessment.15 years following its release, the film was screened at the 2016 Fantastic Fest in US, where it opened to unexpected critical acclaim by all the audiences, most of which were non-Indian Americans.
The scenes where both Vijay and Nandhu characters appear were not done with the traditional matte or masking shots technique, which always involved static shots (where the camera would not move). 'Aalavandhan' took it one step further by not using any static shots for both characters to appear in, and instead went for a motion-control rig to mount the camera on and film these sequences with shifting camera angles. This expensive rig did not exist in India, so it had to be imported from Australia. Filming twice the same sequences with Vijay first and, weeks later, Nandhu next was thus made much easier from both a cinematographic and technical standpoint. This was the 1st time an Indian film used a motion-control rig.
Kamal Hassan regrets doing this film.
Quentin Tarantino said that the animated action scenes in the film inspired him to make Kill Bill 2003 in similar way.
"Abhay: I don't write poems, I speak them."
