Critics of Viswaroopam

...mix their personal feelings with their objective analysis.                                                                   .

Much is said and written about this film. What is there to say ?, well there is a lot to say, one- there is a second and presumable third part coming soon, the second is the criticism the movie has earned, good and bad. 

Praising Critics- 

A section of critics who are ardent Kamal followers. 

These people finds a meaning in everything in the movie, even if Kamal or other character sneezes they will find a reason and say there is a “metaphor” to it. 

For example, the scene when Rahul Bose (Omar) takes something from his mouth (possibly a speck of meat) and feeds it to a pigeon. This scene was praised by these kind of critics by adding a metaphor tag to it, oh Kamal portrayed how filth\bad Omar’ character is !, but actual in the recent interview Rahul said “feeding the pigeon” was not even in the script and he did it spontaneously as he had nothing to do in the scene. 

Venom-ic Critics- 

These people are anti-Kamal fans or anti-US fans. Preferable later, because these people liked earlier Kamal films such as Anbe Sivam (which had a communist ideologies). So you don’t like the subject, you criticize the film with a butcher’ knife!. 

These people with their “enormous” knowledge chop the film, scene-by-scene. They forget that this is not a “documentary” film to have historic accuracies and the filmmaker has to have dramatic sequences to thrill the audience. So if Kamal’s protagonist is pro-US, let him be one, it’s a bloody character he played.

In most of the Tamil films, our hero is a Rowdy-Gangster, doesn’t mean they are a gangster in real life? 

Both these critics mix their personal feelings with their objective analysis. I would like to quote, Chuck Klosterman (Who is he- an American Columnist!!), 

It's far easier to write why something is terrible than why it's good. If you're reviewing a film and you decide "This is a movie I don't like," basically you can take every element of the film and find the obvious flaw, or argue that it seems ridiculous, or like a parody of itself, or that it's not as good as something similar that was done in a previous film. What's hard to do is describe why you like something. Because ultimately, the reason things move people is very amorphous. You can be cerebral about things you hate, but most of the things you like tend to be very emotive.