A comparison of Tamil and English movies

I watch lots of English movies and a fair amount of Tamil movies. I always used to wonder about the similarities, differences and peculiarities. Here is my opinion.

Romantic Movies:
Surprisingly movies that would be classified in US as romantic movies(or chick flick if you want to be crude!!) do very well in Tamil. For example Kadhal Kottai(I know it is old!!) got a good review from both men and women. Whereas in US it would be branded a romantic movie.

Scenes that are impossible in real life:
Tamil and English movies have different ways of packaging impossible scenes into the movies. In Tamil it is usually achieved either by having a hero with mass appeal do them(for example heroes catching speeding bullet etc) or have it be done by some supernatural entity(Usually it is an Amman!). In English movies the same thing is achieved by introducing the scene as invented in some science lab!!(Like Jurassic Park). But neither of them care about how impossible the thing actually is. In Tamil they just put it open whereas in English they wrap it in Science hoping people would not probe further!!

Comedy:
Comedies in Tamil are usually laugh out loud comedies(Example ullathai alli thaa). Whereas in English they are more subtle(woody allen movies). Also I find some Tamil comedies dont have that much logic but usually people ignore them because they make you laugh out loud and in a way that is fine for comedies.

Sentiment:
The sentiments that are popular for a hero in English movies are afffection towards his child(ren) and affection to his wife. English movies rarely deal with emotional attachments of a hero with his mother or other parts of the family. Whereas in Tamil they have a rich variety to choose from. Mother/son, Mamaa/Marumagan, husband/wife, father/child, brother/sister(some of the movies done by Pabhu are examples of this) etc.

Emotions:
Surprisingly many English movies deal with a wide variety of emotions of the hero. Some of the finer emotions portrayed in movies include learning to adopt to a change, accepting defeat, reacting to bereavement, boredom of everyday life, ego, inferiority complex, superiority complex etc. Whereas in Tamil movies it is usually love(towards a girl, family member or country) hate and revenge.

Ages of actors:
In tamil movies usually heroes take roles that are lesser than their age whereas heroines are portrayed in characters that are older than their real age. In English most people are portrayed with whatever age suits the actor.

There are many more difference and similarities between Tamil and English movies. Some of them are obvious, some are subtle. I just presented some aspects that I think are underemphasized by Tamilians watching English movies...