[Movie] Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness

America Chavez and Stephen Strange are looking for the book of Vishanti. In the space between the universes they were chased by a monster.

Stephen Strange
America Chavez

After Strange died accidentally in that encounter, Chavez brought Strange’s corpse to Earth-616. Earth-616 has a version of Dr Strange. With the help of Buddhist Chief Sorcerer Wong, he saves Chavez from the octopus monster.

Wong

Chavez explains that demons haunt her because she has the power to travel between universes.

Strange consults with Wanda Maximoff as he realized the evil tantric acts in that octopus monster.

Wanda Maximoff

But Dr Strange realizes that she is responsible for the attacks.

Maximoff has two children, Billy and Tommy. She created them during his time in the Westview.

Westview image (c) marvelcinematicuniverse.fandom.com

She is trying to reunite with them. Scarlet Witch Maximoff hopes that she will be able to use Chavez’s cross-universe-travel skills to reunite with her children.

Maximoff at Westview – image (c) marvelcinematicuniverse.fandom.com

Dr Strange refuses to handover Chavez. He hides her inside the Kamar-Taj Buddhist monastery. War is raging between the witch Maximoff and the monastery sorcerers led by Wong. But Maximoff tricks them and kills many sorcerers. Before she capture Chavez, Chavez takes herself and Dr Strange to Earth-838.

Kamar-taj

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Earth-838 has a verion of Maximoff in a suburb and lives with his children Billy and Tommy. At the same time as Chavez escapes, Maximoff uses the dream-walk technique of ‘Darkhold’ to control her counterpart, living on Earth-838 in a dream state. Sarah, a Buddhist sorcerer who survives the Kamar-Taj attack, sacrifices her life to destroy the witch’s Darkhold’s magical action, breaking her dream-walk.

Sara

An angry Maximoff threatens Wong to take her to the forbidden ancient temple, Mount Wundagore. There she continues her dream-walk again. She causes destruction in Earth-838 through her counterpart.

image (c) marvelcinematicuniverse.fandom.com

Meanwhile Strange and Chavez are looking for help. He is then arrested by Supreme Sorcerer Carl Morto of Earth-838, and is brought before the Illuminati, a group consisting of Morto, Becky Carter, Blogger Bolden, Maria Rambieau, Reid Richards and Charles Xavier.

Carl Morto

The Illuminati had previously recklessly used the Darkhold of their universe in an attempt to defeat Thanos. So they explain that Dr Strange version of Earth-838 triggered the “incursion” that destroyed the universe.

Thanos

After defeating Thanos, the Illuminati kill their Dr Strange, to prevent further harm. Morto believes that Dr Strange (the one currently seeking help) of Earth-616 is equally dangerous.

Before the Illuminati’s verdict on Dr Strange is finalized, Maximoff restores her dream-walk from the Forbidden Temple on Wundagore Hill to arrive at the body of her Earth-838 native. She brutalizes all members of the Illuminati except Morto, and subdues Strange before he escaped with Chavez. The two escape with the help of Christine Palmer who is the ex-fiancé of Dr Strange’s of Earth – 838, He was a scientist working for the Illuminati.

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Strange, Chavez and Christine enter the space between the universes and locate Vishanthi’s book which helps to destroy the evil acts of Darkhold. Alas. Maximoff appears and destroys it. She, then, takes Chavez’s mind. She uses Chavez’s potential to infiltrate others and send them into an universe which is destroyed due to incursion.

Meanwhile, on Earth-616, Maximoff begins her next attempt of Chavez’s attempt to seize power.

Meanwhile Dr Strange, sent by Maximoff, defeats the Strange version of the infiltrated universe. The Darkhold of that universe has spoiled the native version of Strange. He became a bad boy already!! After pushing down the villainous Strange, Dr Strange infiltrates the corpse of Strange buried in Earth-616 by the same Dream-walk technique. The corpse rises and acts against Maximoff. Was Dr Strange able to beat Maximoff? Was he able to save Chavez? You need to see the movie.

As the name implies, it is pure madness to write the plot of the movie. Unless we see on the screen, we’ll be mad!!

Earth-616 – Where Chavez and Strange escaped.

Earth-838 – The universe where Chavez and Strange escape after the defeat of the Kamar Das Monastery. This is where Maximofin’s children live.

Naan Nagesh – நான் நாகேஷ் – Book Review

The history of Tamil cinema cannot be written without Nagesh. Nagesh has left his unique way of his body, mouth and eye language. He was captivated as a promising actor and protagonist by Director Sridhar and K Balachander. So stamping him as a comedian is like an attack on his personality. He was a full fledged actor who acted in different roles like comedian, hero, villain and supporting actor. He was super busy in the industry to the extent of participating in the shooting of two to three film companies on same day. It was written like, many cars of different film companies will be waiting for him. Whatever the car he chose, will be followed by the rest, to take him to the other shooting spots. He was also the one abandoned by the same film industry. He has also been overlooked by the award committees of Government of India.

About the book

The newsletter from Kizhakku Pathippakam had information about ‘Nan Nagesh’. It was also in Amazon Prime Reading. It was written in a very simple (spoken) style so I was able to read it quickly.

Nagesh said that he was proud of his beauty at his young age. He thinks that he was punished by God for losing his face due to the subsequent measles for boasting his beauty. He has been humiliated in various places due multiple scars of chickenpox on his face.

He has worked in various places like factory, supermarket, drama companies and Indian Railways. Two kind of people can not stick to same job for long time. One – who does not know any work. Another one – someone who is not interested in doing same job repeatedly. Nagesh is of the second type. Even more, his interest in acting has pushed him into the screen industry.

Facial makeup is more addictive than alcohol.

-Nagesh

He faced various insults. So he nullified them over by his unique way of acting.

T.M.S. tried to know the actor for whom he will be singing. He used to mimic his voice while singing the songs. Accordingly, he asked “For whom I am singing this song?”. M.S. Viswanathan said “Nagesh”. On hearing the name, T.M.S. Laughed jokingly to say “I sing for him? Should I sing it? Such a big setup for him?” in a tone T.S. Balaiya’s dialogue of Thiruvilaiyadal.
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One day I was going for a walk on the beach. Then I met T.M.S. On seeing , he said “You won sir!, I said that the song will not be well received and there will be no one in the theater. Anyway, I heard that people watch the movie just because of that Song. I’m Happy sir” and greeted before he left.

A.V.M Kumaran,  Dhina Thanthi

This book is a compilation of auto-biography articles published in Kalki magazi with the title ‘Sirithu vaazha Vendum’.

Why this book is important?

Nagesh does not talk much. He does not have much media exposure like present day actors. This is a book containing 58 biographical articles to document his words.

It is written in a easy-reading style

Nagesh’s view on other artists (Director Sridhar, Actor Balaji, MGR, Sivaji, Rajini, Kamal, MR Radha, Manorama, Poet Vaali etc)

Could have done more

This book seems to be written with some restrictions to keep it simpler. Nagesh had concerns about the National awards avoiding Tamil artists. He raised his voice in an interview in The Hindu that Actor Sivaji Ganesan in particular was not given a good recognition by Delhi. These were not found anywhere in this book

This may be okay for the light readers of the magazine. The book should have shed more light on his personality to suit different set of readers.

Conclusion

Nagesh is no more. No further attempt is going to take place. In that sense, thanks to the effort of S Chandramouli to record his words.

As far as I am concerned, actor Nagesh deserves any major award presented in Cinema. If he was born in France, America or Germany, I can guess the kind of recognition he would have received. Despite 12 years having passed since his death, the government continuing to ignore him is a disappointment

Kamal Hassan, The Hindu, September 28, 2021,

Naan Nagesh – நான் நாகேஷ் (autobiography)
Publisher : Kizhakku
Writer : S Chandramouli
Language: Tamil
Price : ரூ. 239 / Kindle Prime / Kindle Unlimited
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 8184935625
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-8184935622