Marlon Brando had charisma, but Rod Steiger didn’t have it. John Wayne had charisma, but Lee Van Cleef didn’t have it. SSR (lt) and MGR (rt) in their salad daysĬharlie Chaplin had charisma, but W.C.
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As a subjective exercise, to distinguish movie stars who had charisma and who didn’t have charisma, I provide a select list who excelled themselves in Hollywood and in India. But, only a fraction of them exuded charisma. Thousands of actors have thrilled the cinema fans for nearly one hundred years. The popular belief maybe that all movie stars were blessed with charisma, because camera lens blows up their physical features, in multiple angles and close-up shots of face.
I have titled this chapter as ‘camera lens and charisma’.
To delve into charisma theme, one should study his contemporaries in Hollywood and India.Īll were contemporaries of MGR. But, Mohandas’s focus was mainly on MGR’s last decade of his life, after MGR’s ascension as the chief minister of Tamil Nadu state. Mohandas had occasionally springled the charisma word, in his portrayal of MGR. Pandian, in his snobbish criticism of MGR’s movie and political career) had tackled this theme. My focus was, when did he acquire such charisma? None of previous MGR’s biographers (especially M.S. Even MGR’s detractors and strong critics will agree that MGR had charisma in abundance. In this chapter, I provide some thoughts on MGR and charisma. In Bulwer’s 1644 book, ‘Chirologia and Chironomia’, it appears as, “is used in the conveyance of that charisma or miraculous gift of healing.” In its original sense of meaning, charismatic persons are understood to possess ‘healing powers’. It lists that one of the earliest use of this word in English was by John Bulwer (1606-1656), an English physician and natural philosopher.
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A free gift or favour specially vouchsafed by God a grace, a talent”. The Oxford English Dictionary defines charisma as, “ Theol. In recent times, like other respectable words such as genius, legend and superstar, charisma (or charismatic) word also has received depreciation when journalist hacks began using it as an adjective indiscriminately to politicians. Here, I include only two episodes SSR had described about MGR at the end. I appreciate Kannan for his help in getting a copy of this book in time. I plan to write a review of this book separately. Now one can add that, we also have SSR’s ‘incomplete’ autobiography, Naan Vantha Pathai in Tamil, published just before his death. I also mentioned that “one can rely on the autobiographies of four principals – Kannadasan, MGR, Karunanidhi and Sivaji Ganesan – to learn about the inner currents which prevailed then” in DMK party. In the previous chapter, I noted the death of Sedapati Suryanarayana Thevar (SS) Rajendran (affectionately addressed as SSR by Tamilians all over) on October 24 at the age of 86. I shall try to get two copies and send you one if possible…” I am trying to get hold of SSR’s autobio. Also that SSR was one of Anna’s closest and had criticized MGR for his talk ‘Anna is my guide’. You may have wished to also mention that SSR did ‘Thanga rathnam’ as a propaganda film for the DMK in the 1969 polls. You might have wished to record SSR and MGR showing up at the Vellore General Council meeting together from an adjacent room when Sampath gets into a situation. Here is the comment, which I received from fellow MGR biographer and friend R. MGR and SSR with K.R.Ramasamy after release from detention
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