DesiReviews: Kuselan - The Biggest Flop in Rajni's career

Rajnikanth has lost it once again.

Following my review from Thursday show, trade analyists are reporting that his latest release, Kuselan, has opened to a dismal 40-50% all over Tamil Nadu. This is indeed a huge shocker in comparison to Sottaji and Chappamukhi, Kanth's earlier releases back in 2007 and 2005 respectively.

A remake of Malayalam Blockbuster, Katha Parayumbol, the film had first been noticed by the people thanks to the marketer's poor planning. First and foremost, the film had not stuck to Sreenivasan's script as it was only revolved around Rajni and Rajni only. In the original, Mammooty's role was short and sweet and didn't involve any questions or punch dialogues regarding his life on politics, cinema, etc. Also, the film was to be about Pasupati (Sreenivasan in the original) and his struggles, not mindless songs by G.V Prakash about Cinema Cinema, etc. That's where the theme is lost. But then again, it's Tamil Nadu, where part of it's population highly regards of Rajni as their god, but really, he isn't.

Toss in the Begging to put all ends to the Hogenakkal controversy by kanth himself and there you end up with red faces in the form of the Nadigar Sangam. At the same time, Mixed reports are coming in from all centres (including it's Telugu version, Katha Nayakudu) saying that Rajni disappoints big time while some fans of the original are saying that

The original version was with some emotional touch. It was from "Srinivasan "point of view..not mammotty..but here ..[they] added masala.. like anythng .spoiled the core point of the movie..sucks to [the] Core..

In the meantime, Kamal Hassan's Dasavathaaram had celebrated it's 50 days of release yesterday with it's increase in shows yesterdays in the likes of theaters Sathyam, Mayajaal over Kuselan's shows. At the same time, the advance bookings were purely empty

Bottom line: Sivaji may have become the biggest hit but Kuselan is becoming the biggest flop. This is P.Vasu's next flop in a roll after Thottal Poo Malarum, Krishnaarjuna (with Nagarjuna as Guest Role, irony!) and Maharadhi (with joker star, Balakrishna).