Lead Hero Syndrome

iView Author:Santosh
(Mumbai, India )

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Indian Cinema is LHS +

…i.e. Lead Hero Syndrome. Kamal Hassan’s latest release, Dashavataram, once again brought the epidemic to fore.

The disease however is an age old one and heroes, more so superstars have an extremely high rate of susceptibility.

So what’s Dashavataram about? If you think it’s about some undercover agent, some temple priest or even the costliest epic ever produced in India, you are still way off the mark. It is simply this – Kamal Hassan’s acute denial of ageing. He contracted the virus a while back; it’s just that the effects are more visible and pronounced today. There are many expressions of this syndrome, Kamal Hassan’s illness took the ego-trip route. Even in the near past, in films like Hey Ram, one could see the actor’s overwhelming urge to hog each and every frame …


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