The recently released SPARK song from G.O.A.T has evoked harsh reactions from the netizens with the de-aging of Vijay who is just 50 years old. Well, the song itself was just mediocre according to the standard put up by Yuvan Shankar Raja which further deepened the question if Venkat Prabhu is compromising quality with quantity so far. The deaging is so bad that Vijay doesn’t even look like a guy in 20 years old but more of a kid trying to be an adult with an amateurish short trimmed beard that doesn’t even look good and the chemistry between Vijay and Meenakshi looks so awful to be honest.
If the whole point of the director Venkat Prabhu was to just show as a younger guy, It could have been simply done would have been simply resolved by applying some hair dye & a little bit of shaving/trimming would have convincingly made Vijay look at least two decades younger.And this is what was successfully done by Lokesh Kangaraj who went for the VFX only at places where it was needed in LEO and successfully gave a superb Young Vijay looks that literally carried the aura of the mediocre second half of the film. Well, that’s how you use a star in a commercial film.
It becomes once again makes the case clear that how Shankar in Tamil Industry has pioneered the usage of VFX and technical aspects in his filmmaking journey in spite of making his recent bomb – Indian 2.Audience to an extent are still interested for Indian 3 and Game changer just because of the glimpses of de-aged kamal Hassan that he has added at the end of the film that was perfectly and well done only because Shankar and team spent an entire year to render the output. Thus, making things clear that de-aging tech is not suitable for short term projects like G.O.A.T and trying going back on traditional practical effects work for films.
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