 How long have you had a gnome in your backyard? I, wait, my wife has six gnomes back, dude. There's six of them? There's six. Do you ever put one of them on your stove? Why would I put them on my stove? Gnome. No-mum. The range. Thank you. That was a really dumb joke. Hey, welcome back to our stupid director's episode of Corbin. I'm Rich. It's the Clown. Today, this is called VJ Satapathi Acting Philosophy. I gossed it. I gossed it. I gossed it. I gossed it. Right. So, essay. Done by a movie buff on VJ Satapathi's style of acting and how he remains fresh and accepted in the eyes of the audience. I found it interesting, so thought we'd share it with you. Cool. Thanks. Appreciate it. Ah, VJ. Satapathi. Ooh, we like a lot. Very, very much. Everything we've seen him in, we've liked so far from his performance in Super Deluxe to 96. Yeah. To, I don't know if that's the only two I've seen. There's one more. I think there's one more, but I don't remember what it was. There's a younger one, I think we saw. Is it a younger performance of his? I thought so. Probably. Anyway. But I forget. So, it's like a video essay. Cool. Somebody made about his acting style. Here we go. Let us see. He's an actor. Hi, my name is Kishore and this is Movie Images. Cool. Since making his splash. Looks great with a beard. I've seen movies as a lead, VJ Satapathi has embodied a very particular kind of acting that comes across as coolly distant and a bit ironic. In a very few years, Satapathi has transcended from a promising lead to that of a star and one of the busiest actors in the business today. But releasing back-to-back movies and still remaining fresh and distinct is truly a challenge and in Satapathi's case, a constant criticism on his alleged lack of differentiation among the characters he plays. Lack of differentiation? Maybe it's coffee the ones that we've even seen. Today, we are exploring the acting philosophy of VJ Satapathi where we try to understand how he approaches each role and what the audience never seemed to get enough of him. Is that him? Apparently so. That's good prosthetics. Have you ever noticed how in many VJ Satapathi's movies, he doesn't seem to be taking the plot seriously? He stands slightly at a distance from what is happening around him to maintain a dry and sarcastic country. This was very apparent in Nadolakonju Pakatha Kaanam where the whole plot revolved around Satapathi being removed from his reality. Or especially when he played Das in Sudhukum. Das lives in a world of his own that is detached from the plot. VJ is attached to his characters but is also detached from the plot that he can deflate an otherwise serious scene. In most characters VJ's plays, he seems to acknowledge the absurdity of the plot the character is put in. He deflates the climax in Vikram Beda by being nonchalant about enemies shooting him. His character has lost everyone he loved and hence he finds it absurd that he has to live on. This approach to each of his roles follow the philosophy of absurdism. In philosophy the absurd refers to the conflict between the human tendency to seek inherent value and meaning in life and the human inability to find any in a purposeless, meaningless universe. As a philosophy absurdism furthermore explores how individuals once becoming conscious of the absurd should respond to it. The absurdist philosopher Albert Camus stated that individuals should embrace the absurd condition of human existence while also defiantly continuing to explore and search for meaning. The characters VJ said the very place in each film acknowledges the absurdity of their roles and yet the name tries to prove better than I say. This by itself is something of a subplot that VJ has created. It doesn't even sound like what I say. Not only does the film revolve around the main story but we get to see how his characters deal with the story. This is why VJS is one of those rare actors who is such a trait to observe both on and off screen. His ironic acting is unique. Ironic acting? I don't know what that means that the characters work on the audience. So far we're not talking about his philosophy of acting, it's his philosophy of role selection and script analysis. His ironic performances are such that the characters realize the meaning of his words or actions but the audience know that VJ Siddhwati knows. For instance, in his latest outing as Rasool, a cock caught in the middle of brothers warring against each other in Chakkachi Vandavanan. His character's reaction to one of the brother's war cryers. VJS sees his character as almost Godlike who knows how the story is going to end. He uses his knowledge of the entire plot and how the movie is going to end to play Rasool. So the motivations and aspirations of each brother just comes across as a joke and absurd to him since he knows he's going to kill them all at the end. Rasool doesn't know how the film is going to end but we know that VJ Siddhwati knows. Hence it is a fun watch to see VJS play his wisecracking nonchalant self in an otherwise serious movie. The undistinguishable nature between VJS and the characters he plays have actually paid away for his audience to identify with those characters. They understand without much explanation why his character reacts this certain way as they have come to realize that this is how VJS would react. The actions and motivations of the constrictors VJS portrays are determined by the writers but how his character reacts is entirely VJSiddhwati. Until next time this is Kishore signing off saying I'd consider that more like you said more about his role selection than his actual acting philosophy. Absolutely. Maybe we just have different thoughts on what an acting philosophy is. That, I mean I guess when you take into consideration like his character's mind. When you take into consideration the choices of a role and the way you analyze a script that does all come into the broad spectrum of your philosophy. But what I was anticipating when you say an actor's philosophy what we're talking about is technique and approach to the way you portray people. Maybe I was just looking at it. Yeah that's what I was anticipating. I was coming into it thinking like that. Like him talking about his philosophy of acting. The way he goes about doing what he does in terms of his process. Not that his characters just know they're ironic. Which I guess is part of what you would come into play if you knew a character. Because obviously films do know that. Like that could be a part of what a character is. But I don't know that I would consider an acting philosophy. No unless he's already predetermined that irrespective of whatever script has been written or what the director wants to do. He said all of my characters are going to be ironic whether the writer or the director wants them to be or not. Because that's what I'm going to do with my characters. It doesn't seem like he's that guy to me. No me neither. And that's not really a philosophy. That's a dictatorial stance. The two that I know that I know from specifically are not like that for sure. 96 and Super Deluxe for sure aren't like that. No, neither one of them are. The one of his character in Super Deluxe was pretty subdued. There was no absurdity. But obviously in fact he was the one thing in Super Deluxe that I found to be the most grounded that I enjoyed and didn't see either the absurdist nature of it or the disconnect from the plot. You know what I mean? Now there may be a common theme that are being picked up by other people and that is their philosophy of his work. Maybe. But I don't know if this is his philosophy of his work. But also we've only seen like what two of his films as well. So it's not like we're experts on VJ whatever he said. No at all. I say Sarapathy but that didn't sound like what he was saying. No. But his is probably correct. I'm sure it was. But you know, whatever. I was just expecting a little different of more about his actual acting technique, philosophy. Process. Than what the video gave me. But I will watch more VJ Sarapathy films. Let us know what should be the next of his films that we should watch down below.