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Apoorva Raagangal (Rare Melodies) is a 1975 IndianTamil social drama film directed by K. Balachander. The film was controversial upon release as it examines relationships between people with wide age gaps, which challenged Indian social mores. It won three National Film Awards and three Filmfare Awards South. It was later remade by Balachander into Hindi as Ek Nai Paheli with Kamal Haasan and Hema Malini in the main lead. The film marked the debut of Rajinikanth. Apoorva Raagangal released on 18 August 1975 and was a success. It is remade into Telugu as Thoorpu Padamara.

1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Soundtrack
4 Critical reception
5 Awards
6 Remakes
7 References
8 External links

Plot

Prasanna (Kamal Haasan) is nursed back to health by a classical singer Bhairavi (Srividya) after a bloody street-side fight. The two are slowly drawn to each other and decide to marry in spite of their age difference and a past relationship that Bhairavi is still inextricably tied to. In the meantime, Prasanna's father (Major Sundararajan) embarks on a relationship with the young Ranjini (Jayasudha). We soon find out that Ranjini is Bhiaravi's daughter (born to her out of wedlock). Both relationships arrive at a dilemma with an unexpected twist when Bhairavi's long-lost husband (Rajinikanth) comes into picture.

Cast

Kamal Hassan as Prasanna
Major Sundarrajan as Mahendran
Srividya as M. R. Bhairavi
Jayasudha as Ranjani
Nagesh as Dr.Soori
Rajinikanth as Pandiyan (Abaswaram)
Y. G. Mahendran (Special appearance)
Kannadasan (Special appearance)
Jaishankar (Special appearance)

Soundtrack

The music for the film is scored by M. S. Viswanathan and lyrics by Kannadasan.

Song	Singers	Duration (mm:ss)
Athisaya Raagam	K. J. Yesudas	04:15
Adisaya Ragam	K. J. Yesudas	2:59
Ezhu Swarangalukkul	Vani Jayaram	5:36
Kai Kotti Siripaargal	Siak Mohammed	2:54
Kelviyin Nayagane	Vani Jayaram, Sasi Rekha	6:44

Critical reception

Apoorva Ragangal received widespread critical acclaim. On 22 August 1975, The Hindu said: "K. Balachander has contributed a unique story, dialogues and superb direction in Kala Kendra's Apoorva Ragangal. A film with a revolutionary offbeat theme it provides poetic experience."
In 2011, after Balachander had been given the Dadasaheb Phalke Award, Rediff named the film one of Balachander's best and wrote, "Many filmmakers of that time would have hesitated to touch a subject like this, particularly at a time when relationships were still being gingerly tested on celluloid. But not K Balachander". In 2003, Rediff wrote, "In an era where every other moviemaker claims to have come up with a daring, original, premise, this 28-year-old film is worth remembering. A trademark K Balachander film, this was the first to showcase Kamal’s histrionic abilities".

Awards

23rd National Film Awards

National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Tamil — D. Jayalakshmi, G. Vijayalakshmi (Producers) and K. Balachander (Director)
National Film Award for Best Cinematography — B. S. Lokanath
National Film Award for Best Female Playback Singer — Vani Jayaram

Filmfare Awards South

Filmfare Award for Best Film – Tamil — D. Jayalakshmi, G. Vijayalakshmi
Filmfare Award for Best Director – Tamil — K. Balachander
Filmfare Award for Best Actor – Tamil — Kamal Haasan

16 Vayathinile (read as "Pathinaaru Vayathinile"; English: At the Age of Sixteen) is a 1977 Tamil feature film directed by Bharathiraja. The film stars Kamal Haasan, Rajinikanth and Sridevi. The film also marks the debut of famous South Indian comedian Goundamani. The film's score and soundtrack were composed by Ilaiyaraaja and cinematography was by P. S. Nivas. The film focussed on rural Tamil Nadu and was the first Tamil film to be shot completely outdoors. It began the trend of outdoor shooting in Tamil film industry.
16 Vayathinile was Bharathiraja's directorial debut, it met with a strong critical reception upon release, was a blockbuster and completed a 175-day run at the box office. The film won four State Awards and one each in the South Filmfare Awards and National Film Awards ceremonies. The remake rights for the film were bought by Rajalaxmi Art Films to remake it in Telugu as Padaharella Vayasu.

1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Production
4 Soundtrack
5 Remakes
6 Release
7 References
8 External links

Plot

Mayil is a 16-year-old girl, (Sridevi), filled with ambitions of becoming a teacher. She is an attractive, intelligent woman living in a small society and experiences ripe love when sees the new veterinarian who has come to visit. Many are impressed by this charming young fellow who has entered the village. He seems to be a wealthy, prosperous man and soon develops a relationship with Mayil. Mayil, who is deeply in love, sacrifices her opportunity to study in the teaching college course to spend time with him. But his intentions are not pure and he dumps Mayil after consummating their relationship.
Mayil's mother also passes away, leaving her only with distant cousin Chappani (Kamal Haasan) for support. Chappani, a village bumpkin, is taken advantage of and isolated by the society. He is secretly in love with Mayil, but is jealous and upset about the vet. Another important character is the village roughie Parattai (Rajinikanth) who also has an eye on Mayil. How Mayil lives and whom she chooses as her man forms the rest of the story.
The theme of this emotive story is to show how vulnerable women are when in love. This story conveys strong themes and depicts an issue faced by many young women all over the world.

Cast

Kamal Haasan as Chappani / Gopalakrishnan
Rajinikanth as Parattai
Sridevi as Mayilu
Kanthimathi as Kuruvamma
K. Bhagyaraj as Sathyajith (Vaithiyar)
Goundamani as Koothu

Production

The film was Bharathiraja's directorial debut, and was made on a budget of

5 lakh. Kamal Haasan was paid a salary of

27000, while Rajinikanth was reported to have been paid

3000. In 2013 however, Bharathiraja revealed that he had paid

2500 to Rajinikanth, who had earlier charged

5000. Bharathiraja said that he had approached Rajinikanth by telling him that he was making an art film. Kanthimathi was cast as Mayil's mother and Bharathiraja stated, "at the time I was writing Padhinaru Vayathinile, I was looking for someone who could speak the ‘vattara vazhakku' (local dialect) well, and I could not think of anyone else". K. Bhagyaraj was working as an assistant director to Bharathiraja in the film which was shot at Kollegal in Karnataka. For the role of a doctor, various aspirants were tried out but Bharathiraja decided that Bhagyaraj should play the role.
Bharathiraja told that the film was to be made in black-and-white by the National Film Development Corporation of India but it backed out at the last minute. Bharathiraja went ahead with the film, shooting for the first time in natural light. Kamal Haasan said that they did not have the budget to afford a camera that could shoot slow motion scenes and therefore Sridevi had to literally run in slow motion for a particular scene.
Tamil producer Rajkannu was a lorry driver by profession. He had an ambition to make at least one film in his lifetime! When Bharati Raja said he can make a film with four and half lakhs, Rajkannu agreed and started the film, but the film was not finished within the planned budget, and he had to sell off his lorry in order to complete the film. However, as the film reached its completion, no one seemed to come forward to release the film, and the producer was forced to release the movie himself with six prints.

Soundtrack

The music was composed by Ilaiyaraaja.

No.	Song	Singers	Lyrics	Length (m:ss)
1	Aattu Kutti	Malaysia Vasudevan, S. Janaki	Kannadasan	4:20
2	Cholam Vethakkaiyile	Ilaiyaraaja	Kannadasan	4:34
3	Manja Kulichi	S. Janaki	Alangudi Somu	4:26
4	Senthoora Poovae	S. Janaki	Gangai Amaran	3:33
5	Senthoora Poovae (Sad)	S. Janaki	Gangai Amaran	0:40
6	Sevvanthi Poo Mudicha	Malaysia Vasudevan, P. Susheela	Kannadasan	4:34

Remakes

Year	Film	Language	Cast	Director
1978	Padaharella Vayasu	Telugu	Sri Devi, Chandramohan, Mohan Babu	K. Raghavendra Rao
1979	Solva Sawan	Hindi	Sri Devi, Amol Palekar	Bharathi Raja

In 2009, Kannada actor Ganesh stated that he and his wife had acquired the remake rights of 16 Vayathinile.

Release

Reception

IndiaGlitz said, "Rajini as Parattai is as sly as a fox, Kamal as Chappani the innocent lad and Sridevi the attractive teacher give a enjoyable performance. You are sure to keep remembering "Pathavachitiye Parattai" after watching this movie." Rediff wrote, "Bharati Raja in this lyrical film, forcibly dragged Tamil cinema from the stuffy confines of studio sets into the great outdoors. It heralded the coming of age, in more ways than one, of erstwhile child star Sridevi. The brilliant musical score of Ilayaraja who, seemingly inspired by the outdoors, turned in a medley of outstanding tunes. Four years later, Rediff wrote, "Bharathiraja was also the producer and scriptwriter of this new genre of pastoral film, which was true to village life in characterisation, costumes and dialect". Behindwoods wrote, "Bharathiraja’s raw and near perfect depiction of a village had two of Tamil cinema’s most memorable all time performances, Parattai and Chappani".
16 Vayathinile is considered a cult classic and landmark in Tamil cinema. IBN Live included the film in its list of 100 greatest Indian films of all time. In 2007, The Hindu asked eight Tamil directors to list ten films they like most. Seven of them, C. V. Sridhar, K. Balachander, J. Mahendran, K. Bhagyaraj, Mani Ratnam, K. S. Ravikumar and Ameer Sultan, named 16 Vayathinile as one of their favourite Tamil films. Mani Ratnam stated, "‘16 Vayathinile’ is memorable for its script, high standard and realism.
16 Vayathinile was spoofed in the 2012 film Murattu Kaalai. The dialogue "Idhu eppadi irukku" spoken by Rajinikanth is very popular. In 2013, IANS included it in a list of dialogues popularised by Rajinikanth and wrote, "Rajini as the film's antagonist introduced us to one of the popular catch-phrases of a long forgotten era - "Idhu eppadi irukku?" (How's this?). This line was so admired that even after three decades since the film's release, it still lingers in the minds of the actor's fans". Rediff also wrote, "He repeats the punchline 'Ithu eppadi irukku?'(How's that?) with lecherous glee to the delight of his fans. Repeated punchlines, merrily lapped up by the increasing multitude of his fans, became a part of Rajni's acting style and the trend continues to this day". Behindwoods too made mention of it, "How often is the one liner delivered by a villain remembered and repeated for years? Rarely, if ever and it took one of Rajini’s finest performances to make this happen".

Awards

National Film Awards

National Film Award for Best Female Playback Singer - S. Janaki

Filmfare Awards South

Filmfare Award for Best Actor – Tamil - Kamal Haasan

Tamil Nadu State Film Awards

Best Director – Bharathiraja
Best Actor – Kamal Haasan
Best Female Playback Singer – S. Janaki
Best Music Director – Ilaiyaraaja

Sigappu Rojakkal (English: Red Roses) is a 1978 Tamil thriller film starring Kamal Haasan and Sridevi. Directed by P. Bharathiraja, music by Ilaiyaraaja and cinematography by P. S. Nivas
In an era of over-dramatised acting in Tamil films, Sigappu Rojakkal was one of the notable and the best exceptions. The film was a blockbuster and completed a 175-day run at the box office. The film won two Filmfare Awards in the Best Actor and Best Director categories. This film was also remade in Hindi as Red Rose, Japanese as Red Roses, in Russian as Krasnyye Rozy, and in Telugu as Erra Gulabilu.

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2 Cast
3 Soundtrack
4 Remakes
5 References
6 External links

Plot

Dileep (Kamal Haasan) is a successful businessman with a dark side. He preys on nubile girls; tortures and kills them. These proceedings are video-recorded and watched by his adoptive father and mentor (Major Sundararajan), another deranged woman-hater who, as with Dileep, had a disillusioning experience with the female sex in his past. The old man stays holed up in a far corner of Dileep's mansion watching his son carry out what he is too infirm to do. The murdered girls are buried in Dileep's garden and a rosebush is grown above.
Dileep chances upon an undergarments salesgirl, Sarada (Sridevi), and develops an attraction for her. Sarada, a conservative woman, insists that Dileep must marry her if he wants to have his way with her. The romance proceeds, and appears to be Dileep's salvation before things begin to collapse for him. On his marriage day, Sarada stumbles upon a diary containing details of his deranged life and, and names of the girls he had killed scribbled on the walls of one of the rooms in his large house.
Sarada, meanwhile stumbles upon Dileep's father, whom Dileep had told her was retarded and was not to be disturbed, and gets the shock of her life. She somehow manages to shut him in and tries to run out but as she prepares to leave, Dileep returns. As Sarada tries to act normal while planning to escape, Dileep finds that his father has been locked in and when he saves his father, he realizes that Sarada knows the truth about his deeds. A tense chase ensues, which ends in a graveyard in the dead of night, with Dileep stumbling and falling on a cross which pierces him. In the ensuing chase, Dileep is caught by the police.
He is subsequently jailed but gets mentally retarded and loses his bloodthirsty ways. He keeps repeating Sarada's name, as it is his only coherent thought, and all other memories have been erased from his mind.

Cast

Kamal Haasan
Sridevi

G. Sreenivasan
Vadivukkarasi
K. Bhagyaraj

Soundtrack

The music composed by Ilaiyaraaja.

No.	Song	Singers	Lyrics	Length (m:ss)
1	Indha Minminikku	Malaysia Vasudevan, S. Janaki	Kannadasan	4:28
2	Ninaivo Oru Paaravai	Kamal Haasan, S. Janaki	Vaali	4:45

Remakes

Sigappu Rojakkal was remade in Japanese as Red Roses (1979), in Hindi as Red Rose (1980), in Russian as Krasnyye Rozy (1980), and in Telugu as Erra Gulabilu (1979).
The film's official remake has been announced by Manoj Bharathiraja with several lead actors being approached to play the lead role, including Ajith Kumar, Arya, Dhanush, Silambarasan, Jeeva, Githan Ramesh, Jeevan, Sakthi and Adharvaa.

Varumaiyin Niram Sivappu (The Colour of Poverty is Red) is a 1980 Tamil-language Indian feature film directed by K. Balachander, starring Kamal Haasan and Sridevi in the lead roles. The film was remade in Telugu as Aakali Rajyam (1981) with Kamal Haasan and Sridevi in lead roles directed by K. Balachander. The film was also remade in Hindi as Zara Si Zindagi with Kamal Haasan and Anita Raj in 1983, directed by K. Balachander himself.

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3 Soundtrack
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5 References
6 External links

Synopsis

The film depicts the struggles of youth and their disillusionment with a socialist Indian society in general. Centering around three educated but unemployed youth trying to earn a living, the story touches several aspects of Indian social norms of the period.
Rangan and his friend are two unemployed men staying together in Delhi. Thambu subsequently joins them for the same purpose of searching for a job. Rangan is a straightforward person who does not tolerate anything which involves impersonation and deceit. Hence he cannot secure any job which tests his attitude and patience. He even fails at getting a job of drawing 'No Vacancy' boards. The three share everything they get to eat and suffer from poverty and hunger on most days. Rangan once offers to carry the luggage of a woman till the railway station. On reaching the place she pays him to which Rangan replies that he has no change. She rebukes him in Tamil assuming he does not speak the language that he is trying to cheat her. Rangan is angered by her words and leaves angrily.
Rangan once chases a man to his house to get back the money which he looted by lying to him. The man enters a house and Rangan chases him there and stumbles upon the same woman (Devi) whom he met at the railway station. The man is Devi's father who lost all his money in Horse race and now cheating the people around him to get money for horse racing. He did so to Rangan by saying that his daughter has died and need money to perform last rites. Devi returns the money to Rangan and also she pays him for carrying her luggage on that day. Rangan and Devi get to know each other as an unemployed guy straight forward guy and as small time stage actress in one of the theatres respectively. Devi goes to Rangan's house to introduce him to her stage play director to replace an ill-actor so that he could earn some money. She suggests to finish his lunch before going there leaving Rangan embarrassed as there is no food to eat. However he and his friends pretend to eat a sumptuous meal inside the kitchen. But Devi finds out that Rangan and his friends hardly eat for real. Hence she spends her own money to provide food for them. When they are about to eat, Devi's grandmother dies and they cannot eat the food.
Rangan's friend somehow earns some money which he did so by the advice of a friend Dileep. Thambu is very eager to know Dileep and way to earn money by his way. He runs away from home in search of Dileep. Devi introduces Rangan to her director Prathap who is an arrogant and short tempered. Rangan cannot act as his direction as the scenes seem to be logically incorrect. He apologizes to Devi for letting her down. Rangan explains that his attitude is inherited from his father, carnatic vocalist Sundaram Pillai who always scolds him for his inability to find a job on his own. Rangan once sells his father's Thambura to buy train ticket for Delhi which angers his father. Rangan decides to leave the home for a while so that the problem between him and his father might subside. Rangan once attacks a dumb road side drawing artist for watching him and Devi secretly. Actually he did so to draw a portrait of them. Rangan apologizes him (Barani) and both Devi and Rangan become his friends. Prathap is in madly in love with Devi and he cannot tolerate her intimation with Rangan. Devi once expresses to Barani that she loves Rangan but is scared to express as he might go mad on her. Rangan hears this and he expresses his intentions in the form of a song that he too love her.Prathap tries to strangle Devi on the stage for a stage play instead of acting. Off-stage he tells her that he loves her madly and immediately wanted to marry her. Devi quits from the stage acting and starts to live at Rangan's house taking up a new job of baby sitting. Devi loses the baby while shopping toy for the chld and eventually lose her job. But the baby was actually kidnapped by Rangan's friend to demand money from its parents. Rangan slams him and asks for Dileep to which he says that it is fake and there is no one as Dileep. Rangan tells him get out of the house and not to come again.
Rangan loses all of the jobs due to his straightforwardness and subsequently suffers from poverty but he is not ready to back-off from his attitude for the sake of hunger. Hence he tells Devi to chose a better life as he lost all his confidence of making a decent living with her. Prathap threatens to commit suicide if Devi does not marry him. Hence Devi decides to accept his propsal on the condition that Prathap must recommend a job for Rangan to his father to which Prathap accepts unwillingly. But Rangan gets angry on seeing Devi with Prathap and goes away. Barani dies in a road-accident while finding Rangan. Devi finds Rangan and tells to him that he is the one who she loves and she will not leave him forever which angers Prathap and he goes away. Rangan's father comes to Delhi to find his son and meets him as a barber. Rangan explains that he feels satisfied with the job as he does not have to cheat,impersonate or fake his life for anything. The story ends with Rangan and Devi started a fresh life and Sundaram Pillai accepted his son's decision. Rangan's friend is now a husband of a rich widowed woman who is elder than him and Thambu turns a mad beggar in search of Dileep who does not exist.

Cast

Kamal Haasan
Sridevi
S. Ve. Shekher
Dilip
Poornam Viswanathan
Pratap Pothan
Thengai Srinivasan

Soundtrack

Varumaiyin Niram Sivappu
Soundtrack album by M.S. Viswanathan
Released	1980
Language	Tamil

The music composed by M.S. Viswanathan and lyrics written by Kannadasan.

"Chippi Irukkuthu" (S. P. Balasubramaniam, S. Janaki)
"Theerthakkarayinile" (S. P. Balasubramaniam)
"Ranga Rangiah" (P. Susheela)
"Nallathor Veenai" (S. P. Balasubramaniam)
"Paattu Onnu Paadu Thambi" (S. P. Balasubramaniam)
"Tu Hai Raja" (Lyrics: P. B. Srinivas; Singer: S. Janaki)

Remakes

Year	Film	Language	Cast	Director	Box Office
1981	Aakali Rajyam	Telugu	Kamal Haasan, Sridevi, Prathap K. Pothan	K. Balachander
1983	Zara Si Zindagi	Hindi	Kamal Haasan, Anita Raj, Mazhar Khan	K. Balachander

Raja Paarvai (Royal Vision) (1981) is a Tamil language feature film directed by Telugu film director Singeetham Srinivasa Rao. The story was written by Kamal Haasan, for whom the film was also his 100th starrer and first production. The score and soundtrack was composed by Ilaiyaraaja. The film is also known as Amavasya Chandrudu in Telugu. Kamal Haasan got the basic idea of the storyline from "Butterflies are free"((1972), an Oscar winning actress " Goldie Hawn").

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2 Songs
3 Reception
4 References
5 External links

Plot

This drama tells the tale of a blind violinist, Ragu (Kamal Haasan), and a young lady, Nancy (Madhavi) who is keen on chronicling Ragu's inspiring life as a visually impaired but independently living person. Their relationship blossoms into a romance that is supported by Nancy's lighthearted and comical grandfather (L.V. Prasad).

Songs

The music composed by Ilaiyaraaja.

No.	Song	Singers	Lyrics	Length (m:ss)
1	Andhi Mazhai Pozhikirathu	S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, S. Janaki	Vairamuthu	4:35
2	Azhagae Azhagu	K. J. Yesudas	Kannadasan	4:28
3	Vizhiyorathu Kanavum	Kamal Haasan, Uma Ramanan	Gangai Amaran	3:39
4	Theme Music	Instrumental		3:52

Reception

The film was a box office moderate success, but is widely considered a cult film. Kamal Hassan's performance earned him a Filmfare Award. Haasan had to work seven to eight years to compensate for the losses he faced through this film.

Moondram Pirai (English (lit.): Crescent) is a 1982 Indian Tamil film written and directed by Balu Mahendra, starring Kamal Haasan and Sridevi. Ilaiyaraaja composed the music. Kamal Haasan won the National Film Award for Best Actor for his role as Srinivas. Balu Mahendra did the cinematography as well for which he won the National Film Award for Best Cinematography. It was a blockbuster and completed 329-day run at the box office.
The film was dubbed in Telugu under the title Vasantha Kokila and was released on the same day (19 February 1982). The film was remade the following year as the Hindi film Sadma, with much of the cast and crew from the original reprising their roles.

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2 Cast
3 Production
4 Soundtrack
5 Release
6 Reception
7 Awards and nominations
8 References
9 External links

Plot

Lakshmi (Sridevi) a modern young girl, meets with an accident while returning from a party in a car and is hospitalised with severe head injuries. When she recovers, she is diagnosed with amnesia and she fails to recognise her own parents. She mentally regresses to the state of a child. While she is undergoing treatment, she is kidnapped and sold to the madam (Gandhimathi) of a whorehouse through devious methods. Srinivasan alias Cheenu (Kamal Haasan), comes to Chennai to meet his old friend (Y. G. Mahendran) and together, they visit a brothel to relax. The mistress sends Lakshmi, renamed as Vijaya to his room. Cheenu realises that the call girl is still a child at heart and pities her. He understands that she is from a cultured family, was kidnapped and forced into prostitution.
He returns the next day and after paying a huge sum to the mistress, takes her out in the pretext of a pleasure trip, then takes her away to Ooty, where he is working as a school teacher. He takes her to his residence, where he protects her and also pampers her like a child. Viji, as she is called by Cheenu, has completely forgotten her past and becomes very close to him. Their relation however takes a turn when Viji accidentally spills ink over Cheenu' documents, angering him, but both eventually reconcile. Later, a local woodcutter lusts for Viji and nearly molests her, later she is saved. The sub-plot of the film follows the wife (Silk Smitha) of Cheenu' boss who is attracted to Cheenu, though Cheenu does not reciprocate her feelings.
Viji's father Vedachalam (Veeraraghavan), who was searching her through the police, releases a newspaper advertisement about his lost daughter. A co-passenger who had travelled with Cheenu and Viji from Chennai to Ooty by train gives them a lead. Cheenu takes Viji to an Ayurvedic medical practitioner (Ramanamurthy) and leaves her there for treatment for a day. In his absence, the police come to his house searching for Lakshmi which he later learns from his sympathetic neighbour. Finally, the police learn that Lakshmi is getting treated at the doctor's place and reach there. Cheenu is unable to come as he is afraid of police action. The treatment goes through successfully, Lakshmi regains her memory, becomes normal and completely forgets about the period between her accident and recovery. Vedachalam and his wife are happy and decide to leave. From the doctor, Vedachalam learns that the person who had brought her there had been taking good care of their daughter; hence he withdraws his police complaint and they begin their journey to Chennai with Lakshmi.
After the police leave, Cheenu comes running after the car in which Viji (Lakshmi) is travelling. He follows them to the railway station and tries to gain the attention of Viji, but she is unable to recognise him. Cheenu plays all her favourite pranks, but Viji (Lakshmi), unable to comprehend, thinks that he is mentally challenged and begging for food. Cheenu continues his fruitless attempts to gain her attention. Finally the train leaves with Viji not recognising him. Cheenu, who was hurt while chasing her car and trying to gain her attention, is left alone and limps away heartbroken.

Cast

Kamal Haasan – Srinivas / Seenu
Sridevi – Bhagyalaksmi / Vijaya / Viji
Silk Smitha – school owner's Wife
Poornam Vishwanathan – school owner
Y. Gee. Mahendra – Srinivas's friend
Veeraraghavan as Vedachalam

Production

In an interview to Anu Haasan in the talk show Koffee with Anu, Balu Mahendra stated that Moondram Pirai's theme – a temporary relationship between a childlike woman and a matured man, with their relationship abruptly ending – was based on his relationship with actress Shobha who died in 1980, shortly after their marriage. The climax of the film is a clear metaphor for how Shobha left Mahendra without even saying goodbye.

Soundtrack

The film's original soundtrack was composed by Ilayaraja. The number Kannae Kalaimanae was written by Kannadasan, and was written in "about two minutes" time. Coincidentally, it was the last song which he wrote, before his death in 1981. The song Ponmeni Uruguthe that was picturised on Kamal Haasan and Silk Smitha developed cult status, in 2003 however Balu Mahendra revealed that he considered the song as "not needed at all".

No.	Song	Singers	Lyrics	Length (m:ss)
1	Kannae Kalai	K. J. Yesudas	Kannadasan	04:13
2	Kanne Kalai (Sad)	K. J. Yesudas	Kannadasan	01:09
3	Nari Kathai	Kamal Haasan, Sridevi	Vairamuthu	04:05
4	Ponmeni Uruguthe	S. Janaki	Gangai Amaran	04:35
5	Poongatre	K. J. Yesudas	Kannadasan	04:22
6	Vaanengum Thanga	S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, S. Janaki	Vairamuthu	04:34

Release

Prior to release, Moondram Pirai was given an "A" certificate by the Indian Censor Board.

Reception

Reviews were mostly positive. In December 2012, IndiaGlitz said "Balu Mahendra's best direction till date casts Kamal and Sridevi excelling in their roles. How a simple storyline can influence the hearts of millions is the beauty of this movie." In February 2013, entertainment magazine Galatta Cinema said, "Balumahendra’s Moondram Pirai is a tragedy nevertheless, and that too one that had most of us bawling our eyes out." The critic further wrote, "The love that binds them [Kamal Haasan and Sridevi] is so beautifully presented through events and songs, that when the end draws near, you just know it's too good to end well. She gets back her memory but forgets her love..." and concluded that "Sridevi and Kamal just outdid themselves in this one..." S. Saraswathi of Rediff included Moondram Pirai in her list of the "10 best Films of Kamal Haasan".

Awards and nominations

Filmfare Awards South

Filmfare Award for Best Tamil Director – Balu Mahendra

National Film Awards

Best Actor – Kamal Haasan
Best Cinematography (colour) – Balu Mahendra

Tamil Nadu State Film Awards

Best Actor – Kamal Haasan
Best Actress – Sridevi
Best Male Playback – K.J. Yesudas

Nayakan (English: The Hero), also known as Nayagan, is a 1987 Indian Tamil crime film written and directed by Mani Ratnam and starring Kamal Haasan. It is based on the real-life Bombay underworld don Varada aka Varadarajan Mudaliar, and sympathetically depicts the struggle of South Indians living in Bombay. The film also stars Saranya Ponvannan in her silver screen debut, Karthika, Nassar, Janagaraj, Delhi Ganesh and Tinnu Anand. The soundtrack of the film was composed by Ilaiyaraaja and met with a successful response after release.
The film was released on 21 October 1987 on Diwali day and received critical acclaim worldwide. Kamal Haasan's performance as Velu Naicker earned him a National Film Award for Best Actor. The film also earned the National Award for Best Cinematography (P. C. Sriram) and Best Art Direction (Thotta Tharani). The film was sent by India for the Best Foreign Language Film category at the 60th Academy Awards. In 2005, the Time Magazine included Nayagan in its list of "All-Time 100 Best Films". This has also been included in The Moving Arts Film Journal greatest films of all time. Nayagan was also included as one of 20 greatest Indian films of all time. This list emerged from the 'T20 of Indian Cinema' poll in which 20 experts from around the country - 10 young filmmakers and 10 seasoned critics and scholars participated. CNN-IBN included the film in its list of "100 greatest Indian films of all time".
The film was dubbed in Telugu under the title Nayakudu. It was also remade in Hindi as Dayavan in 1988. A Hindi dub of the film was released in 1999 as Velu Nayakan.

1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Production
4 Soundtrack
5 Reception
6 Awards
7 Legacy
8 Notes
9 References
10 External links

Plot

Sakthivelu "Velu" Nayakan is born to an anti-government union leader (Kitty). The child, Velu, is tricked by the police into locating his father, and then witnesses his father's death in a police shootout. After doing the final death rites of his father, he kills the person who was the cause for his father's death and escapes to Bombay.
Stranded and homeless in the big city, he is rescued by a kind-hearted Muslim fisherman who takes him into his home in the suburban slums of Dharavi. His foster-father is also a small-time smuggler known for his generosity in the slum. Upon his running afoul of a senior crime lord, the corrupt local police officer named Kelkar, arrests the fisherman on smuggling charges and subsequently murders him. Velu Nayakan, now a young man (Kamal Haasan) who has come into his own, goes in search of the officer and bludgeons him to death for as revenge. As an act of remorse over his guilt, he decides to adopt Kelkar's mentally-challenged son Ajith, and raise him as his own.
With this act, he is seen as a saviour and a man to be feared amongst the slum residents. As their godfather and protector, he flourishes by resuming his late foster-father's local smuggling activities. He marries a destitute school-girl-turned-prostitute Neela (Saranya Ponvannan) and has two children. Conflicts and power struggles occur in the smuggling world, in which Neela becomes a casualty. Velu's children are sent away to Chennai as a result and return some years later to their father's home, as young adults.
Velu's son Surya (Nizhalgal Ravi) is eager to join his father in his activities, despite his father's reluctance. For his first real test, he is required to eliminate a potential witness against his father; he does this by hiring outside thugs. They succeed in eliminating the witness, but their failure to cover their tracks leads police to him at a petrol bunk and an accident costs him his life. Velu is heartbroken. Velu's daughter (Karthika) is at odds with her father over his form of justice and killings, but Velu refuses to end his activities. As a last straw, she disowns him and leaves the house.
Several years later, the newly appointed assistant police commissioner (Nassar) starts afresh to bring Velu Nayakan to justice over his alleged activities and manages to secure an arrest warrant. This commissioner is, unbeknownst to both, Velu's son-in-law. After continued pursuit resulting in the thrashings by police and self-immolation of slum dwellers, Velu surrenders to the police to spare the lives of the residents of his slum. He is tried in court but is released due to the lack of adequate evidence. A supportive and emotional crowd gathers at the courthouse, awaiting his release. Velu is greeted by an excited crowd but their joy turns to sorrow when he is shot dead by a grown-up Ajith (Tinnu Anand), who eventually learned the truth behind his biological father's murder.

Cast

Kamal Haasan as Velu Nayakar
Saranya Ponvannan as Neela
Karthika as Charumati
Nasser as the assistant commissioner / Charu's husband
Janagaraj as Selvam
Delhi Ganesh as Aiyyer
Nizhalgal Ravi as Surya
Tinnu Anand as Ajith Kelkar
Kitty as Shaktivelu's father
M. V. Vasudeva Rao as Hussain Bai
R. N. Sudarshan as Reddy brothers
R. N. Jayagopal as Reddy brothers
Tara as Shyla in extended cameo
Vijayan as Thurai
Neena as young Charumathi
Kuyili as Cameo in song

Production

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The original producer Muktha V. Srinivasan had narrated the story to Sivaji Ganesan who agreed to act in the film. Amala was roped in as heroine and paid advance and her dates confirmed. However Ananthu, then an associate of Kamal Haasan, felt that it would be a Sivaji-focused film and not a Kamal Haasan movie. The project was dropped. Kamal later told Srinivasan about a young upcoming director Mani Ratnam. Mani initially planned to complete the shooting in 60 days and 70 rolls of film. The salary for Kamal Haasan was

17.5 lakh and the initial budget for the film was

60 lakh. But soon, time and cost over-run had nearly doubled the budget. Nevertheless, shooting commenced in November 1986 and the first schedule lasted 10 days. All the scenes that were shot were scrapped and the screenplay had to be rewritten. Shooting was postponed. A new heroine character (the wife of Velu Nayakan) was created and Saranya was introduced. Using photographs of the Dharavi slum, art director Thota Tharani created a set at Venus Studios in Chennai, which turned out three times more expensive than planned.Thousands of junior artists were hired to create that atmosphere. The remaining portion was shot at Bombay.
After the completion of shooting, a press meet was convened where it was revealed that the movie was based on a don Varadaraja Mudaliar’s life. So, the censor board at Chennai initially refused to permit the release of the movie, since it was based on a living person. When the film was completed and the first print was ready, it ran for 3 hours. G. Venkateswaran bought negative rights of the film after Mukhtha Srinivasan sold all the areas to distributors.

Soundtrack

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The soundtrack was composed by Ilaiyaraaja, with lyrics by Pulamaipithan. It has the distinction of being Ilayaraja's 400th film soundtrack. The song "Nee Oru Kaadhal Sangeetham" is featured on both sides of the LP record.

Tamil tracklisting

Side One
No.	Title	Lyrics	Singer(s)	Length
1.	"Naan Sirithal Deepawali"	Pulamaipithan	K. Jamuna Rani, M. S. Rajeswari and chorus
2.	"Nee Oru Kaadhal Sangeetham"	Pulamaipithan	Mano and K. S. Chitra
3.	"Andhi Mazhai Megam"	Pulamaipithan	T. L. Maharajan, P. Susheela and chorus

Side Two
No.	Title	Lyrics	Singer(s)	Length
1.	"Nila Adhu Vaanathumele"	Ilaiyaraaja	Ilaiyaraaja
2.	"Nee Oru Kaadhal Sangeetham"	Pulamaipithan	Mano and K. S. Chitra
3.	"Thenpaandi Cheemayile"	Pulamaipithan	Ilaiyaraaja and Kamal Haasan

Hindi

For the Hindi dub, composers Deepak-Santosh were approached to restore 2 numbers.

Title	Singer(s)	Notes
•"Chaha Humne Tujhe"	Kumar Sanu & Alka Yagnik	Replacement track for "Nee Oru Kaadhal"
"Haiya Ho Haiya Ho"	Leonara Issac & Sudesh Bhosle	"Nila Adhu Vaanathumele" dubbed
"Hazir Hai Dilber Mere Kadmon"	Anupama Deshpande & Mitali Chowdhury	"Naan Sirital Deepawali" dubbed
"Jeevan Ka Sangeet Ho Tum"	Suresh Wadekar & Anupama Deshpande	"Nee Oru Kadhal" dubbed. Not in film.
"Mastiyo Mein Dooba"	Udit Narayan & Sadhana Sargam	"Andhi Mazhai Megham" dubbed
•"Sitam Ki Andhi Se"	Hariharan	Replacement track for "Thenpaandi Cheemayile"

• indicates tracks composed by Deepak-Santosh.

Reception

Among contemporary critics, Ananda Vikatan said, "After a long time we have seen such an intense film in Tamil Cinema... Congratulations Mani Ratnam. Kamal underplayed his role beautifully and demonstrated his histrionics as a godfather in the film well... The film stands out for its sets, taking, colour, richness and international quality camera work".
However, the film was criticized by reviewer Dennis Schwartz of Ozus' World Movie Reviews, who gave it a "C+" rating and called it a "less than compelling Bollywood crime drama, that comes with a sharp moral twist, colorful location shots and plenty of bouncy modern pop songs of India." He further describes it as an "outrageous award-winning pic."

Awards

The film was sent as India's official entry for the 1988 Academy Awards. However, it was not among the five nominees for the award.
It won the following awards: 1988 National Film Awards

Best Actor - Kamal Haasan
Best Cinematography - P. C. Sriram
Best Art Direction - Thotta Tharani

In 2005, Time Magazine included Nayagan in its "All-Time 100 Best Films" list.

Legacy

The film has been inspired from the influential and iconic American film The Godfather. Post-release, it was considered as a "landmark" film in Indian cinema and attained an iconic status. As a part of its legacy, the film has been acclaimed for being a box-office success whilst containing the critic elements of art. After the film was selected by the TIME magazine as one of the best, insiders of the magazine spoke about Ratnam's work in the film, saying "Ratnam has no such difficulty blending melodrama and music, violence and comedy, realism and delirium, into a two-and-a-half-hour demonstration that, when a gangster's miseries are mounting, the most natural solution is to sing in the rain." The tagline given to the film by TIME was "A terrific gangster epic in the Godfather style."

Apoorva Sagodharargal (Translation: Wonder Brothers) is a 1989 Tamil dramedy film directed by Singeetham Srinivasa Rao. It starred Kamal Hassan in three roles, as a mechanic, a circus clown who is a dwarf and a police officer, along with Gouthami, Srividya, Manorama, Nagesh, Jaishankar, Nassar and Delhi Ganesh in main roles. The film was a blockbuster and completed 600-day run at the box office. About 20 million tickets were reportedly sold. This was significant as Tamil Nadu population was 55 million then. It was the first Tamil film to beat the record of Thirisoolam set a decade earlier. This new record remained unbeaten for six years until the release of Baashha. It was dubbed into Telugu as Vichithra Sodarulu and into Hindi as Appu Raja in 1990.

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2 Trivia
3 Cast
4 Track listing
5 References
6 External links

Plot

Sethupathy (Kamal Hassan) is an honest and upright police officer. When he arrests four bigwigs Dharmaraj (Nagesh), Francis Anbarasu (Delhi Ganesh), Nallasivam (Nasser) and Satyamoorthy (Jaishankar), they escape justice easily and return to take revenge. They kill him and poison his wife (Srividya). She escapes and gives birth to twins with the help of another woman Muniyamma (Manorama) but the babies are separated and each woman believes that the other is dead because of the events happening next to birth. One of the twins, Raja (Kamal Hassan) grows up as a mechanic with Muniyamma, while the other twin, Appu (Kamal Hassan), a dwarf, grows up in the circus with his mother.
Appu falls in love with the daughter (Rupini) of the circus owner mistakenly thinking that she was asking him to elope with her. But she actually had asked him to be witness to her marriage with her fiancé, which was not approved by her father. Heartbroken over this and insecurity over his height, he tries to commit suicide but is prevented by his mother, who then reveals the reason that his dwarfism might have been because of the poison force-fed to her when she was pregnant with the twins. This leads Appu to learn about his father’s murder and he decides to avenge by killing the four murderers.
Meanwhile, Raja falls in love with Janaki (Gouthami) who happens to be Satyamoorthy's daughter. As Raja resembles Sethupathy, Sathyamoorthy and his 3 friends gain interest in Raja.
Francis is fishing in a lake. Appu uses one of his well trained circus Pomeranian puppy to lure Francis Anbarasu to an abandoned building and reveals his identity to him. Francis Anbarasu smirks when he sees that Appu is a dwarf and cannot hurt him due to his bigger size. But Appu uses a Rube Goldbergian contraption to kill him and the dead body falls in a lorry covered with hay. Raja and Janaki have car trouble and hitchhike a ride in the same lorry but are oblivious to the dead body. The lorry driver (Kavithalaya Krishnan) discovers the body when he reaches his destination and calls the police. The inspector (Janakaraj) in charge of the case, suspects Raja by tracing the car number given by the lorry driver.
Appu kills Nallasivam in a golf course using a tiger from his circus but Nallasivam's caddy sees Appu’s face and the tigers tail from afar. This leads the inspector to Raja again who, coincidentally is wearing a tiger costume while performing a song at a festival in his street. Janaki becomes enraged when she learns that Raja has killed his father’s friends and breaks up with him.
Raja is released from custody as the postmortem examination has revealed real tiger wounds that could not be inflicted by Raja’s costume. He goes over to Janaki’s house to smooth things over with the inspector following him covertly. When he is talking to her, Appu tricks Sathyamoorthy into killing himself with a circus hand gun that shoots backwards. Appu escapes but Raja and Janaki enter Sathyamoorthy's room hearing the gunshot a few moments before the inspector arrives. Janaki faints when she sees her dad dead and the inspector now believes that Raja had shot Sathyamoorthy. Raja too escapes and is on the run while the police had released a sketch of his face to the public. An exhausted Raja is spotted by some people in a market and they try to catch him. Raja, in an attempt to evade capture threatens to kill the nearest woman he gets hold of. When the crowd back down, he releases the woman and escapes. The woman, who incidentally happens to be Srividya, realizes that Raja is the other twin and seeks out Muniyamma. They both realize that the murders are committed by Appu and Raja is mistaken as Appu, who overhears this. Dharmaraj believes that it is Raja avenging his father’s death and that he is the next target, and decides to seek out Raja’s mother and is shocked to see Srividhya, whom he believed to be dead, also present there. Nonetheless, he kidnaps both women and threatens to kill them unless Raja surrenders to him. Appu escapes and helps Raja evade the police and tells him everything. They both collaborate and go to the circus where their mothers are held captive. With the help of well trained circus animals, Appu and Raja overpower the goons. Ignoring his mothers call to stop, Appu shoots Dharmaraj,he falls down and eaten by circus lions. Appu surrenders to the police and Raja is set free.

Trivia

Actress Gandhimadhi was originally cast in Manorama's role. Due to changes in the script, she was replaced.
In 2013 Aamir Khan took his inspirations for the role of a circus clown from APPU character in his movie Dhoom 3.

Cast

Kamal Hassan: Sedhupathy (Raghupathy in Hindi version), Appu, Raja
Srividya: Mother of Appu & Raja
Gouthami: Janaki
Janakaraj: The Inspector
Rupini: Appu's girlfriend
Manorama: Muniamma
Nagesh: Dharmaraj
Delhi Ganesh: Francis Anbarasu
Nassar: Nallasivam
Jaishankar: Satyamoorthy
Singeetham Srinivasa Rao: special appearance as Marriage registrar

Track listing

The music was composed by Ilayaraja and lyrics written by Vaali. The songs are very catchy and remain popular even today. The sad theme music in the movie was highly acclaimed and remains popular to this day.

Apoorva Sahodharargal /Appu Raja
Studio album by Ilaiyaraaja
Released	May 04,1989 (Tamil) June 05,1990 (Hindi)
Recorded	Raajkamal Film International
Genre	Feature film soundtrack
Label	Raajkamal Film International

Tracklist - Tamil
No.	Title	Singer(s)	Length
1.	"Raja Kaiya Vachchaa"	Kamal Hassan	04:55
2.	"Puthu Maappillaikku"	S. P. Balasubramaniam, S. P. Sailaja	04:34
3.	"Onna Nenachche Paattu"	S. P. Balasubramaniam	04:38
4.	"Vaalibaththin Kaathalukku Jey"	S. P. Balasubramaniam, S. Janaki	04:40
5.	"Annaaththe Aaduraar"	S. P. Balasubramaniam	04:39

Tracklist - Hindi
No.	Title	Singer(s)	Length
1.	"Raja Naam Mera"	Kamal Hassan
2.	"Woh To Bana Apna"	S. P. Balasubramaniam, Asha Bhosle
3.	"Tune Saathi Paya Apna Jag Mein"	S. P. Balasubramaniam
4.	"Matwale Yaar Teri Jai"	S. P. Balasubramaniam, Asha Bhosle
5.	"Aaya Hai Raja"	S. P. Balasubramaniam

Michael Madhana Kama Rajan is a 1990 Tamil comedy film directed by Singeetam Srinivasa Rao and written by Kamal Haasan, with Crazy Mohan penning the dialogues.
The film also feature large ensemble cast alongside Kamal Haasan, Kushboo, Urvashi, Rupini played the female leads, while Manorama, Delhi Ganesh, Nassar, Venniradai Moorthy, SN Lakshmi, Jayabharathi, R. N. Jayagopal, Nagesh, Praveen Kumar and Santhana Bharathi playing other significant role. The film was a blockbuster and completed 175-day run at the box office.
The film tells a story of quadruplets, Michael, Madhanagopal, Kameshwaran, and Raju, all played by Kamal Haasan. Kamal had distinguished each of those characters with his body language and language lingo. Michael has a husky voice, Madan has an English accent, Kameshwaran speaks Palakkad Tamil and Raju speaks Madras Tamil in keeping with their diverse upbringing as per the plot. The film's climax scene is said to be inspired from the Charlie Chaplin movie, The Gold Rush.

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3 Soundtrack
4 Reception
5 References
6 External links

Plot

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The movie opens with a ballad sung by travelling singer singing a tale. The tale of a rich industrialist is secretly married to a woman, who is expecting their child. His brother, wishing to eliminate any potential rivals to the family property, sets her up to be killed by hired goons, who are also ordered to kill the babies. The leader of the goons, (Santhana Bharathi), having no desire to kill the identical quadruplets, takes one with him (Michael), drops one in an orphanage (Raju), one in a temple (Kameshwaran) who is picked by Palakkad Mani Iyer (Delhi Ganesh), and one in a car (Madhan) that belongs to the babies' father.
Years roll by and the lives of all the four kids grow up and even though all of them physically look alike, they have completely different mannerism and personalities. The father of the quadruplet, raises Madhan and treats him as his own son, unknown to the fact that Madhan is, in fact, his son. On the eve of Madhan’s Arrival after graduating London Business School, the father’s brother and nephew (Nassar) collude and kill him before Madhan is named as the owner of the father’s company publicly. But unknown to them, the will has already named Madhan as the owner. Madhan comes back to Bangalore from abroad to take care of his father's company, much to the annoyance of his uncle and his cousin, Nasser. There he meets Avinashi (Nagesh), his father’s assistant, who misappropriated a huge sum of money. Avinashi pleads that he knows nothing about the funds and has the burden of marrying off his eight daughters. Madhan refuses to agree and asks Avinashi to own up to his mistakes owing to which he will be forgiven but failing which he'll be forced to call the police. Once, while printing counterfeit currency, Michael and his father, Santhana bharathi escapes from the police in a car which crashes into the electricity unit in a convention centre where Shalini's (Kushboo) paintings are being displayed for exhibition. The building catches fire and along comes Raju, a firefighter, and saves Shalini and her paintings. The two become friends and Raju falls in love with her. Raju had taken a loan from a Pathan (Afghani money-lender) to stage a play when he was young and the Pathan comes to Raju's house to demand the loan plus interest. Raju tries to pacify the Pathan by giving him some biscuits and dried fish but the Pathan throws it out in the street and it falls on Kameshwaran.
Kameshwaran, assuming the fish to be vegetables, shouts at the Pathan and reaches the wedding hall where his father is doing the catering service for the wedding. He accidentally drops the fish (which had fallen in his shirt pocket) in the sambar and a hilarious sequence follows. In the wedding hall he meets Thiripurasundari (Urvashi), whom he thinks is a thief. But apparently her grandmother (S. N. Lakshmi) is a kleptomaniac who happens to steal everything from tumblers to an old man's artificial teeth to Delhi Ganesh's chella petti, and Urvashi goes behind her replacing everything her grandmother stole. Kameshwaran holds Urvashi's hand, brings her to the main hall and tries to bring it to everyone's attention that her grandmother is a thief, but intelligently Lakshmi changes the scene and claims that Kameshwaran had tried to misbehave with Urvashi. As the days go on, Lakshmi buys all the groceries in Kameshwaran's account and when he goes to their house, a series of rib-tickling dialogues follow. Finally Urvashi reveals her bitter fate about tackling her grandmother's kleptomania. Kameshwaran pities her and falls for her. Eventually they get engaged. Madhan gets a phone call from a lady in Chennai saying that his dad's death wasn't an accident, but that it was planned. The caller also gives him an address in Santhome, Chennai asking him to meet her at a specific time. Avinashi, who hears this conversation from another line, conveys the conversation to Nasser and his father in hopes of getting some money. But they act nonchalant in front of Avinashi, not to arouse suspicion but send their thugs to take care of the situation.
Madhan comes to Chennai and when in hotel, he gets another call asking him to meet her at a different address. Madhan goes there to meet Chakkubai (Roopini) and Gangabai (Manorama). Chakkubai is a mentally retarded blind girl pinned to a wheelchair that imagines untrue things about the deaths reported in newspapers, tracks the deceased's relatives and creates confusion by saying the death is not natural. Madhan pities her and comes back to the hotel. While watching TV, he sees Chakkubai dance in a TV programme and she looks perfectly sane with good eyesight. Madhan finds them in a stage drama programme and they confess that they were asked to act that way and were given money for it. Madhan then realises that the first call he received in Bangalore was true and goes to Santhome. There he meets Sushila Jayabharathi who is about to tell him about his father. But a car comes to kill them and they escape with the help of Madhan's assistant Bheem. Sushila runs off in the chaos. Bheem is overpowered and the goons set off after Madhan. Madhan, along with Chakkubhai and Gangabhai, are on the run and hide in a restroom. The goons mistake Raju, who happens to be in the same restroom, for Madhan and try to kill him. But Raju easily overpowers them. Madhan sees this and picks up Raju’s wallet which had fallen earlier during the fight. Madhan gives a guesthouse address to Chakkubhai and Gangabhai and asks them to stay there. Madhan gets Raju's address from the wallet and goes to his house. Madhan meet’s Raju and he agree to repay Raju's debt, but in turn ask Raju to impersonate him and go to Bangalore while he stays in Chennai. Having failed earlier, Nasser and his father hire a thug to kill Madhan before Madhan reaches Bangalore. The thug turns out to be the middleman to hire Michael.
Raju, while leaving his hotel, meets Shalini and her dad (Venniradai Moorthy) whose flight to Bangalore has been delayed. Raju offers to take them along with him in his car. In the meantime, Michael pulls off the brake wire. Sushila, who had come to the hotel in search of Madhan, sees this but before she could warn Raju, they drive off. She follows them in a taxi. Michael is astonished to find that Madhan/Raju looks just like him sans his beard and is upset that he has killed the goose that lays the golden eggs. But the real Madhan, after seeing off Raju to Bangalore, walks past Michael. Thinking that Madhan was not in the car that drove away, follow him after paying up the middleman and forcing him to leave. Madhan goes and stays in the same guesthouse that Chakkubhai and Gangabhai are holed up in. In the car, the brake fails to work but Raju climbs out of the speeding car and makes the break work. This causes the car to get into a minor accident but none of them are injured. Sushila catches up to them and wants to talk to Madhan. Raju gives her the address of the guesthouse Madhan is staying at and tells her that "he, Madhan" will be there. Although confused, she still goes to the guesthouse. Raju, Bheem boy, shalini and her father arrive at Madhan’s house in Bangalore and Raju insist that Shalini and her father stay at the house for a few days. Avinashi, heeding to the earlier warning about his misappropriation of funds, admits that he had taken the money and all he has left is the 600,000 Rupees cash that he shows to Raju and asks to be forgiven. Raju, takes the cash and asks Bheem boy to put it in the safe and tells Avinashi that he has changed his mind.
In the guesthouse, Gangabhai encourages Chakkubhai to flirt with Madhan. As she does, both she and Madhan get intimate. But Sushila arrives and asks Madhan to leave with her. They are followed by Michael and his dad, who are followed by the middleman who used to work for them, who is followed by two of Nasser’s goons. Sushila takes Madhan to her home and Madhan is surprised to see his father alive. Although the father appears to "talk funny" he still tells Madhan about attempt on his life by his brother and Nasser but coincidentally he meets Sushila, who was his long lost wife from years prior and escapes with her help. Michael and Santhana bharathi arrive at the scene. Sushila recognizes Santhana bharathi as the goon who had taken her quadruplets and realizes that Michael and Madhan are her sons as they look alike and Michael calling Santhana bharathi as his dad. But before she could say anything, Michael and his father beat all of them unconscious and kidnap Madhan. The middleman arrive moments later, promises to help Sushila and Madhan’s father in return for a large sum of cash and follows Michael in a car. Nasser’s goons, who had followed the middleman, now learn that Madhan’s father is still alive and they again follow the middleman. Avinashi, who was to give the 600,000 Rupees as a dowry for one of his daughter’s wedding, chances upon Madhan’s look alike Kameshwaran. He pay’s Thirupu’s grandmother and asks Kameshwaran to impersonate Madhan for a few minutes. The grandmother, in her greed, tricks Kameshwaran that his father too thinks it’s ok to act as Madhan. Avinashi brings Kameshwaran, Thirpu and her grandmother to Bangalore. Michael takes Madhan to a cabin at an edge of a cliff in Bangalore and shaves of his beard to look like Madhan. He soon finds Sushila, her husband and the middleman spying on the cabin having followed him, knocks them cold and ties them up in the cabin. He and his father then go to Madhan’s big house to loot it. Nasser’s goons, who have seen this, inform Nasser.
Raju and Shalini plan to meet each other without the knowledge of her father. Avinashi, drugs Raju’s soup but in his haste to meet Shalini, he asks Bheem boy to eat the soup. Raju and Shalini meet and profess their love for one another. Michael and his father reach the house and find a safe but Bheem boy who has eaten the drugged soup, startles them but fall unconscious near the safe. Michael see’s Raju, mistakes him for Madhan and thinks that Madhan has escaped from the Cabin. He goes to kidnap Madhan again before he could call the police. Michael hits Raju in the head and leaves him unconscious. Avinashi sees the unconscious Raju and brings Kameshwaran into the house to get his money from the safe. A drunken Santhana bharathi accidentally hits Michael in the head and knocks him unconscious and takes the unconscious Raju back to the cabin. Kameshwaran is mistaken for Raju/Madhan by Shalini who tries to get intimate with him. Thirupu and her grandmother want’s none of that and drag Kameshwaran away. But Shalini witnesses Kameshwaran hugging Thiupu. This enrages her as she thinks that Raju lied to her. Chakkubhai and Gangabhai also arrive at the house in search of Madhan and Chakkubhai introduces herself to everyone as Madhan’s fiancé. This causes Shalini to take a decorative hunting rifle and hold everyone to gunpoint. Avinashi and the rest try to tell her that kameshwaran is not Madhan/Raju but she doesn’t believe them. Michael wakes up, goes to the safe. Bheem boy too wakes up and helps Michael to get the cash from the Safe. As he is leaving, everyone sees Michael and shouts for him. Meanwhile, the real Madhan has escaped the cabin with his mother and dad and comes to the house. In the confusion, Michael escapes in the same car in which Sushila and her husband are in and goes to the cabin. The rest of the crew all follows them back to the cabin.
Nasser has arrived earlier to the cabin and holds everyone at gunpoint as they arrive one by one. All the brothers finally are in the same room and Sushila tells them that they are her quadruplets. The arrival of Bheem boy and the presence of all the people in the small cabin causes the cabin to lose it’s base and start to tilt over the cliff edge. The bad guys are knocked out and the four brothers work together to safely get everyone out of the cabin. Everyone is happy as they are finally together. As the credits roll, the travelling singer is shown as moving on to his next spot.

Cast

Kamal Hassan as Michael (small time crook), Madhana Gopal (Madhan) (a wealthy and brooding heir), Kameshwaran (Kamu) (naive cook) and Subramaniam Raju (Raju) (a happy-go-lucky, street smart firefighter).
Kushboo as Shalini Shivaraman. Shalini is a painter who falls in love with Raju.
Urvashi as Thiripurasundari . Thiripurasundari marries Kameshwaran.
Rupini as ChakkuBai, dancer, and stage artist. She plays Madhan's romantic interest.
Manorama as GangaBai, ChakkuBai's mother
Delhi Ganesh as Palakkad Mani Iyer, a cook, Kameshwaran's foster father
Nassar as RamGopal, Madhan's cousin
Venniradai Moorthy as Shivaraman. Shalini's father.
SN Lakshmi as Thiripurasundari's grandmother
Jayabharathi as Suseela. Mother of the four boys.
R. N. Krishna Prasad as Venugopal, Father of the four boys.
R. N. Jayagopal as Nandagopal, Madhan's uncle.
Nagesh as Avinashi, Madhan's manager
Praveen Kumar as Bheem, Madhan's bodyguard
Santhana Bharathi as Michael's foster father

Soundtrack

The soundtrack consist of five memorable songs composed by Ilayaraja. The Sundari neeyum song was sung by Kamal Hassan. This song is particularly striking for the Malayalam lyrics thrown in for good measure. This was the first song in Indian Cinema to run in slow-motion full length. Rum bum bum is yet another fast melody and is a huge hit in college setting till date.

Michael Madhana Kamarajan
Studio album by Ilayaraja
Released	30 June 1990
Genre	Feature film soundtrack
Label	Ayngaran International
Producer	Ilaiyaraaja

No.	Song	Singers	Lyrics	Notes	Characters Featured
1	Kadha Kelu Kadha Kelu	Ilaiyaraaja	Panju Arunachalam		Narrator (Singeetam Srinivasa Rao)
2	Rum Bum Bum Arambum	S.P.Balasubrahmanyam, K.S. Chithra	Vaali		Raju and Shalini
3	Siva Rathiri	K.S. Chithra, Mano	Vaali		Madhan and ChakkuBai
4	Sundhari Neeyum Sundharan Njanum	Kamal Hassan, S. Janaki	Panju Arunachalam	This was shot by playing the song at twice the original speed.	Kameshwaran and Thiripurasundari
5	Vechalum vekkama ponnalum	Malaysia Vasudevan, S. Janaki	Vaali		Raju and Shalini

Reception

IndiaGlitz said, "The Mother of all comedy flicks is what this movie is. Featuring a large ensemble cast, this picture portrays Kamal in four contrasting roles separated by birth and reunion in later part of their life. If you want to go down laughing on 21st December, then this is the movie you should be watching." Singer Mahathi said, "I have always loved the ‘Crazy’ Mohan and Kamal Hassan combination. Especially in Michael Madana Kamarajan where Kamal brings out so much from every character, playing it so differently from the other."
Kamal Haasan's performance as all four quadruplets is top class and he showcases his versatility in a single movie. He has four different types of body language and four different slang terms for the roles. It also won Kamal Haasan many accolades and recognition for his versatile acting and comic timing.

Guna is a 1991 Tamil drama film starring Kamal Haasan, Roshini, Rekha, S. P. Balasubramaniam, Girish Karnad, Ajay Rathnam, Janagaraj, and Sharat Saxena. It was dubbed into Telugu upon release.

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3 Box office
4 References
5 External links

Plot

Guna (Kamal Haasan) is a mentally affected person and receives treatment in a mental asylum in Hyderabad. He does not like his father and his mother is a moll in the house that they live. He assumes a fictitious character named Abirami (also, the name of an Indian goddess) and registers in his mind that she is an angel who is going to marry him on a full-moon day. After coming out of the asylum, he believes the story to be true and believes that his Abirami is somewhere around. Meanwhile, a bunch of hooligans led by Janakaraj force the mentally unstable Guna to rob a temple of Abirami, an Indian goddess. He happens to see a rich girl (Roshini) in that temple, by sheer coincidence. He decides to take her with him to a lonely, damaged house situated at the top of a hill resort called Kodaikanal. Initially, the girl hates him for his weird nature. However, eventually she understands Guna's condition, his deep love and is attracted to him. She accepts his love and marries him, in spite of her terrible physical pain (caused by a broken leg and extreme fever). Meanwhile, the cops and the girl's uncle Sharat Saxena start their search for the missing girl. What ensues is a gut wrenching climax. The film is widely known for its wonderful song, "Kanmani Anbodu" sung by Kamal Haasan and S. Janaki. A line in that song, stands out, striking a chord to the ensuing climax - "Manithar unarndhu kolla ithu manitha kaathal alla athayum thandi punithamanathu" (translates to : "For mere mortals cannot understand this divine love").

Soundtrack

The music composed by Ilaiyaraaja while written by Vaali.

"Kanmani Anbodu" - Kamal Hassan, S. Janaki
"Appan Endrum" - Ilaiyaraaja
"Paartha Vizhi" - K. J. Yesudas
"Unnai Naan" - Kamal Hassan, S. Janaki
"Unnai Naan (Bit)" - S. Varalakshmi

Box office

It was an average performer during its theatrical run, but became a cult film over the years.

Thevar Magan (English: Son of the Thevar) is a 1992 Indian Tamil film produced by, written by and starring Kamal Hassan in the title role. It was directed by Bharathan and also stars Sivaji Ganesan, Nassar, Revathi and Gouthami in pivotal roles. The film score and soundtrack are composed by Ilaiyaraaja. The film was a blockbuster among 1992 Deepavali releases and completed 175-days run at the box office.
India chose this film as its entry for the Best Foreign Language Film for the 65th Academy Awards. The film was screened at the Toronto Film Festival in 1994.
The film won five National Film Awards, including the Best Tamil Film Award, Best Supporting Actress Award (Revathi), and a Special Jury Award (Sivaji Ganesan).
The film was dubbed into Telugu under the title Kshatriya Putrudu. While S. P. Balasubrahmanyam provided dubbing for Kamal Hassan, Kongara Jaggayya provided voice for Sivaji Ganesan. It was later remade into the Hindi film Virasat (1997) by Priyadarshan and in Kannada as Tandege Takka Maga (2006) by S. Mahendar.

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2 Awards and honours
3 Soundtrack
4 Footnotes
5 References
6 External links

Plot

Saktivelu (Kamal Haasan) returns home to his father, Periya Thevar’s (Sivaji Ganesan) village in Tamil Nadu, after completing his education in London. Much to his father’s annoyance, he brings his westernized girlfriend (Gautami) with him to meet his family. Periya Thevar is deeply offended since it is tradition that the family elders choose the youngster's spouses. To make things worse, Saktivelu reveals his plans on opening a chain of restaurants in Chennai which saddens Periya Thevar as he wanted his son to help the villagers improve their lifestyle with his level of education.
Periya Thevar is a well respected village chief. His younger half-brother (Kaka Radhakrishnan) and nephew Mayan Thevar (Nassar) hold a huge grudge against him over a falling out. The entire village suffers from a spillover of this longstanding family feud as most of the village and its surrounding areas that fall within its jurisdiction is divided between the brothers. Since Maya Thevar always tries to one up Periya Thevar, it puts them at loggerheads with each other.
Saktivelu spends time in the village with his girlfriend by re-visiting his childhood memories. They come across an old temple which has been closed off on Maya Thevar’s instructions. He insists on entering and his friend and servant Esaki (Vadivelu) breaks open the lock for them to look around. Maya Thevar hears of this and a brutal riot is started among the two village factions. Periya Thevar, in order to quell the situation, contemplates on apologizing to his opponents. Sakthivelu feels it should be him or Esaki who should apologize. When Saktivelu asks for Esaki, he learns that Maya Thevar has amputated Esaki’s hand for opening the temple. In order to prevent further escalation of the situation Saktivelu, with permission from his father, enlists the help of his friends in the government and opens the temple for all legally. Slighted by this, Maya Thevar hires goons to break a dam protecting a part of the village faction that supports Periya Thevar. Although one of the villagers spots one of the goons near the dam, he does not think much of it.
The dam is damaged by explosives used by the goons which results in flooding of half the village. This results in numerous deaths including infants which deeply saddens Saktivelu. He spots the goon who placed the explosives again in the village and gives chase. After capturing, he hands the goon over to the police but the goon does not speak of Maya Thevar's involvement due to fear for his own family's safety.
Later Maya Thevar closes a portion of his land, preventing the public from reaching the main road easily. Sakthivelu and his father invite them for talks at village Panchayat to resolve the standoff due the riots and flooding. In the village panchayat, accusations fly from both sides. With no evidence backing up the truth, Maya Thevar accuses Periya Thevar for orchestrating various attacks on his brother's family. Disrespected and broken, Periya Thevar returns to his home and passes away shortly. Saktivelu takes over his father’s duties as the head of the village.
As time passes, this incident dies down. The villagers express concern to Saktivelu about going around the piece of land belonging to Maya Thevar’s side of the village everyday to work in their farm which causes a much longer travelling time. Saktivelu reasons with the owner of the land to open it up for all villagers to pass so that their long commute is shortened. Although understanding and willing, the land owner is afraid of Maya Thevar’s backlash especially since he has a daughter (Revathi). Saktivelu assuages his fear by arranging marriage between a well-to-do person from his village to the land owner's daughter. Everybody involved happily agrees and the land owner opens up the land for everyone.
On the day of the wedding, the groom runs away, fearing Maya Thevar. The landowner and his daughter are distraught over this claiming that it is a huge disrespect to his family. He opines that even if someone marries his daughter, they have to live in constant fear. Saktivelu then gets permission from the landowner and weds his daughter. Although Saktivelu still has feelings for his girlfriend and his new bride is very shy, they overcome their awkwardness and move on. Soon, his girlfriend returns and learns the truth. Although saddened by the turn of events, she understands the situation and leaves. Saktivelu, too, closes the chapter about his girlfriend and starts his new life with his wife.
Maya Thevar, agitated by the opening of the land, plants a bomb during the village festival. This results in deaths on both sides of the village. Both factions of the village, wanting revenge, go after Maya Thevar and his family. Saktivelu protects the innocent family and helps them get away from the villagers. Appreciative of Saktivelu's efforts to protect them, they give away Maya Thevar's hiding location.
Saktivelu goes to meet Maya Thevar and asks him to surrender to the police before the villagers kill him. Maya Thevar’s rabid hatred for Saktivelu makes him reject his offer of help. Maya Thevar, blaming Saktivelu for all his problems, tries to kill him. In the struggle that follows, Saktivelu accidentally chops off Maya Thevar's head, killing him. Although other villagers are willing to take the blame for Maya Thevar's murder, Saktivelu gives himself up to the police.

Awards and honours

1993 National Film Awards (India)

Award	Category	Recipient(s)	Result
Silver Lotus Award	Best Regional Film (Tamil)	Kamal Hassan as a producer	Won
Silver Lotus Award	Best Supporting Actress	Revathi	Won
Silver Lotus Award	Best Playback Singer (Female)	S. Janaki	Won
Silver Lotus Award	Best Audiography	N. Pandu Rangan	Won
Silver Lotus Award	Special Jury Award – Actor	Sivaji Ganesan	Won

Filmfare Awards South

Filmfare Award for Best Actor – Tamil – Kamal Hassan
Filmfare Award for Best Actress – Tamil – Revathi

Soundtrack

The soundtrack features 9 songs composed by Ilaiyaraaja to lyrics written by Vaali. The song Inji Idupazhaka was inspired from Yeh Dil Deewana Hai, composed by S. D. Burman for the film Ishq Par Zor Nahin. Ilaiyaraaja was a strong contender for the National Film Award for Best Music Direction, which he eventually lost to A. R. Rahman.

Tracklist
No.	Title	Singer(s)	Length
1.	"Potri Paadadi Penne"	Ilaiyaraaja, Mano
2.	"Sandhu Pottu"	S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, Kamal Hassan	5:05
3.	"Potri Paadadi Penne"	Sivaji Ganesan, Shruti Haasan	1:26
4.	"Vaanam Thottu Pona"	S. P. Balasubrahmanyam
5.	"Ada Puthiyathu Piranthadhu"	Malaysia Vasudevan
6.	"Inji Idupazhaga"	S. Janaki
7.	"Inji Idupazhagi"	S. Janaki, Kamal Hassan, Minmini
8.	"Manamagale Manamagale"	Swarnalatha, Minmini & Sindhuja	2:13
9.	"Masaru Ponnae Varuga"	Minmini, Swarnalatha	3:07

Footnotes

The award was tied between Ilaiyaraaja and Rahman with 8 votes each before the chairman of the jury Balu Mahendra, a close friend of Ilaiyaraaja decided to vote in favour of Rahman

Kuruthipunal (A Stream of Blood) is a 1995 Tamil action thriller film directed by veteran cinematographer P. C. Sreeram. The film stars Kamal Haasan in the lead role, with Arjun and Nassar in supporting roles. The film featured no songs and the background score was composed by Mahesh Mahadevan. Produced by Kamal Hassan, the story is a remake of Govind Nihalani's Hindi film Drohkaal, The film, one among 1995 Deepavali releases was a blockbuster and completed 175-days run at the box office and it was the first Kamal film to beat the record set by Apoorva Sagodharargal six years earlier. The film met with critical reception upon release and became a trendsetter for action films during that period of time.

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4 Release
5 Box Office
6 References
7 External links

Plot

Kuruthipunal is a stylish cop thriller revolves around a police officer with familial obligations and a strong desire to curb terrorism in the country.

Summary

Two honest and bold police officers Adhi Narayanan (Kamal Hassan) and Abbas (Arjun) device a master plan to bring in control the Terrorist Groups and send two secret vigilance officers, named Anand and Shiva on an operation called Operation "Dhanush". The objective is to infiltrate a terror group headed by a man named Badri, and send information back to Abbas. A leak from inside the police camp leads the terrorist to oust Anand as a spy but before they could torture him and get the information of the second spy, he commits suicide.
Through Shiva, Adhi and Abbas learn of the arrival of an RPG expert shooter into the city to assassinate a minister who is to arrive soon. Adhi and Abbas manage to corner the RPG shooter in a railway station but he manages to escape the police in an intense shoot out. The police duo captures the driver (Nasser) of the car that had come to pick up the shooter.
Thus starts the mind game between Adhi and the Driver. Adhi tortures the driver for information on the terrorist head Badri and the spy inside the police camp but the driver maintains his innocence. Adhi, convinced that the driver holds a mid-level position in the terrorist camp, refuse to believe him.
Meanwhile, Adhi and Abbas change the route of the minister who was to be assassinated at the last minute. But the terrorist knew about this plan and the RPG shooter kills the minister but is then captured by the police. The shooter identifies Srinivasan, a senior police officer who was Adhi’s mentor, as the spy who had alerted the terrorists of the change of plan. Before he can be arrested, Srinivasan commits suicide, after confessing to Adhi that he was threatened by the terrorist group that they would kill his family if he didn’t act as a spy. This enrages Adhi and he beats up the driver even more.
The driver then used one of his men inside the prison he is kept in to pass instructions to kill Adhi’s pet to show Adhi that he can kill Adhi’s family just as easily. The Driver reveals himself as Badri, the head of the terrorist group and threatens to kill Adhi’s family if he is not let go. Adhi, manages to let Badri escape. Adhi acts as the new spy for the terrorist group. Abbas gets a little suspicious and follows Adhi when he goes to meet Badri. Abbas is caught, tortured and killed.
Overcome with sadness, Abbas’s wife Geetha and their teenage daughter come to live with Adhi, his wife, Sumitra (Gautami) and their son. Badri, again threatens Adhi to let a couple of terrorists come and live with him to keep a closer eye on Adhi. Overcome with guilt and grief over Abbas’s death and his betrayal of his duty, he realizes that he is travelling down the same path Srinivasan had done and decides to end the arrangement.
Adhi manages to find the safe house the terrorists reside in. Meanwhile, the terrorist staying at Adhi’s house tries to rape Abbas’s teenage daughter. Gautami, intervenes and offers herself to him instead. While he gets a bit too excited, she gets the gun off him and kills him.
As Adhi approaches the safe house, he is captured and the roles are reversed as Badri tortures Adhi to reveal the information of the second spy in the terrorist’s camp. When only Adhi, Badri and Badri’s second in command, Shiva is left in the room, Badri reveals to Adhi that the group has even found the radio used by the spy and that Danush (the codename of the spy) can no longer contact the police. This surprises Adhi and he looks at Shiva, who is the spy, for confirmation. Badri notices this and realizes that Shiva is Dhanush. Adhi breaks free and tussle with Badri when Badri tries to kill Shiva. This leads to a tussle in which Adhi kills Badri.
Adhi, who believes that the mission to bring down all the terrorist organizations is more important than his life, insists Shiva to shoot him so that Shiva could continue being the spy. Shiva shoots and kills Adhi just as the other terrorist members enter the room hearing the commotion inside. Shiva convinces the others that Badri was killed by Adhi and he killed Adhi. He proclaims that as Badri is dead, he, the second in command, will take over the reins of the group.
The story shows its ending as the beginning of a new era with the sons of Adhi and Narasimha confronting each other.

Cast

Kamal Haasan as Adhi Naarayanan
Arjun as Abbas
Nassar as Badri
Gouthami as Sumitra
Geetha as Zeenath
Nizhalgal Ravi
K. Viswanath as Srinivasan/Chinnaswamiji
Subhalekha Sudhakar as Suri
Ajay Rathnam as RPG expert shooter
John Edathattil as Narasimham
Arvind Krishna as Dhanush
Vikram - voice over for the terror lead

Release

The film won the Cinema Express Award for Best Film – Tamil, while Kamal Haasan won Filmfare Award for Best Actor – Tamil for his portrayal of Adhi Naarayanan. The film was featured as part of a retrospective to Kamal Haasan under the category "Director in Focus" at the International Film Festival Rotterdam. The film was India's official entry for the 68th Academy Awards Best Foreign Language Film category.

Box Office

The movie was mega hit and completed 175-day run at the box office. This was the first Tamil film to use Dolby Digital audio compression technology just three years after Batman Returns.
Actor Vikram (who was not successful at that time) rendered his voice to the Asst. commander of the Terrorist group. Actress Rohini rendered her voice to Gouthami.

Indian is a 1996 Tamil vigilante film directed by Shankar and produced by A. M. Rathnam. The film stars Kamal Haasan in dual roles with Manisha Koirala, Urmila Matondkar, Sukanya and Goundamani appearing in other pivotal roles. The film's score and soundtrack are composed by A. R. Rahman, while cinematography was handled by Jeeva. The film tells the story of corruption in India, with a former soldier becoming a vigilante to stamp the problem out.
The film opened to positive reviews from critics on the way to becoming a commercial blockbuster in the Tamil film industry. Indian was nominated by India as its entry for the Best Foreign Language Film for the Academy Awards in 1996. The film also went on to win three National Film Awards including that of Best Actor for Kamal Haasan's portrayal, while his performance also saw him win at the Filmfare Awards and the Tamil Nadu State Film Awards. The film was dubbed and released in Hindi as Hindustani with a few scenes reshot and also in Telugu as Bharatheeyudu.

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2 Cast
3 Production
4 Release
5 Soundtrack
6 References
7 External links

Plot

The story runs on two tracks. One is that of Chandra Bose alias Chandru (Kamal Haasan), a small-time broker outside the RTO (Regional Transport Office) who gets people to high positions by accepting bribes. He is supported in this work by Subbiah (Goundamani). Paneerselvam (Senthil) plays an officer in the RTO who has conflicts with Subbiah. Aishwarya (Manisha Koirala) and Chandru are in love with each other. Sapna (Urmila Matondkar) is the daughter of Gandhikrishna, an officer in RTO. Her father promises to get Chandru a job of being a brake inspector in the RTO, if he runs errands for them. He agrees to work for them, and soon he becomes a brake inspector.
The other track is of Senapathy alias Indian (Kamal Haasan), a 70-year-old man who kills top government officials (like Commissioners of Corporation etc.) in an extreme attempt to weed out corruption from Indian soil. Senapathy is also Chandru's father. Krishnaswamy (Nedumudi Venu) is an intelligence IPS officer out to nab the Indian. He manages to somehow trace his way to Senapathy's house and finds Senapathy, posing as an ex-freedom fighter. Archived newspaper reports say that Senapathy was a soldier in the Indian National Army who was an extremist. Senapathis wife Amirthavalli (Sukanya) is asked what Senapathy did to deserve a freedom fighter tag, and at this point, we are taken to the 1940s. Rebellions against the British, atrocities etc. are shown, culminating in Senapathy marrying Sukanya but leaving for Singapore to join Subhas Chandra Bose as part of the INA. He returns after independence. Krishnaswamy tries to arrest Senapathy, but his attempt is foiled, and Senapathy escapes with his expertise in the art of hitting varmam or pressure points.
Senapathy then goes on to commit a murder in front of television audiences by killing a corrupt doctor(Nizhalgal Ravi) who refused to attend immediately to Senapathy's daughter (Kasthuri), who was suffering from third degree burns because he insisted on a bribe, which Senapathy refused. Chandru parts ways with his father because of his excessive insistence on honesty etc. and considers these values to be dead and worthless. How Senapathi evades the police and escapes arrest forms a major portion of the remaining part of the story. Public support is very high for the Indian because he exposes so many corrupt people. Senapathy does not do his son any favours either. Chandru had earlier taken a bribe and given a safety certificate to a bus with faulty brakes. The bus has an accident, killing school children it was carrying and thus Chandru is held responsible. Senapathy is bent on giving Chandru the same punishment as he gives others, i.e.death. After a few chase sequences, in the climax sequence in an airport Senapathy kills Chandru and apparently dies in an explosion. Krishnaswamy discovers through a video that Senapathi escaped moments before the jeep he killed his son in, exploded.
The epilogue shows Senapathy calling Krishnaswamy from a foreign land (Hong Kong), indicating that he will be back should the need for him arise.

Cast

Kamal Haasan as Senapathy and Chandra Bose
Manisha Koirala as Aishwarya (voice dubbed by Rohini)
Urmila Matondkar as Sapna (voice dubbed by Bhanupriya)
Suganya as Amrithavalli
Goundamani as Subbaiya
Senthil as Panneerselvam
Nedumudi Venu as Krishnaswamy (voice dubbed by Nassar)
Kasturi as Kasthuri
Crazy Mohan as Parthasarathy
Omakuchi Narasimhan as Lorry Driver
Manorama
Aruna Irani (Hindi version only)
Nizhalgal Ravi
Bala Singh
Ponnambalam

Production

In June 1995, producer A. M. Rathnam signed on Shankar, who had directed two blockbusters in Gentleman (1993) and Kaadhalan (1994), to make a new venture featuring leading actor Kamal Haasan in the lead role. The film was reported to be loosely based on the life of prominent Indian freedom fighter, Subhas Chandra Bose. Shankar tried to rope in Aishwarya Rai to make her debut and portray the leading female role but her commitment to her advertisement agency until October 1995 meant that she was ineligible to sign the film. Subsequently Manisha Koirala, who appeared in the critically acclaimed 1995 Mani Ratnam film Bombay was selected as the lead heroine. The producers signed on Raadhika to play the pair of the older Kamal Haasan in the film, but her television commitments meant that she was unable to fulfil her contract. Urvashi subsequently replaced her, only for Shankar to throw her out for missing a day's schedule to attend her sister's wedding. The role was finally handed to Sukanya, who had previously appeared alongside Kamal Haasan in Mahanadhi. Hindi actress Urmila Matondkar was signed on to play a role in the film after the producers were impressed with her performance and the success of her 1995 Hindi film, Rangeela. The producers roped in Hollywood make-up artistes Michael Westmore and Michael Jones to work on the designs for the senior Kamal Haasan's and Sukanya's look in the film.
For production work, Shankar visited Las Vegas to learn about new technology and purchased cameras for the production. Furthermore the director visited Australia alongside cinematographer Jeeva and music director A. R. Rahman to location hunt and to compose tunes. The film's unit were given strict order to maintain privacy, with Hindi actor Jackie Shroff being notably turned away from visiting the shooting spot. A song for the film was shot at Prasad Studios featuring Kamal Haasan and Urmila Matondkar alongside 70 Bombay models. This led to a protest from the Cine Dancers Union who argued that Tamil dancers should have been utilised instead, with Shankar opting to pay them off to avoid further hassle. Another duet between Kamal Haasan and Manisha Koirala was shot near the Sydney Opera House in Sydney and Canberra for fifteen days. A flashback song was canned with four hundred dancers and a thousand extras at Gingee with Kamal Haasan and Sukanya, while another song featured shooting in Jodhpur, Rajasthan. Graphic designer Venky noted that Indian was his most difficult project to date (in 1997) with a scene constructed to feature Kamal Haasan's character alongside freedom fighter, Subhas Chandra Bose. Venky had to remove blemishes on the film reel of Bose provided by the Film Division's archive before merging Kamal Haasan on to the shot to make it appear that the pair were marching in tandem.

Release

The film opened in May 1996 to predominantly positive reviews from critics and went on to become a blockbuster at the South Indian box office. The film ran packed houses for several months in Tamil Nadu and was dubbed and released in Telugu as ''Bharatheeyudu. Prior to the release of the film, the team also planned a Hindi version of the film, with a few re-shot scenes including Aruna Irani in place of Manorama. The Hindi version also fared well after it's release in June 1996.
A critic from India Today praised Shankar's script, noting that "with the right mix of pop patriotism, anti-establishment diatribes and other commercial cinema ingredients, Shankar's latest creation has south India applauding" before adding that "the real triumph of the film is the effective make-over that believably transforms the actors". Another film critic, wrote that "Indian represents Shankar's best effort to date both in terms of the effectiveness of the message he conveys and the entertainment value of the movie as a whole", adding that "the movie features a hardhitting message as well as a great performance from Kamal as an old freedom fighter with a new agenda, impressive special effects and extravagant song sequences." The film went on to win three National Film Awards including Best Actor for Kamal Haasan's portrayal, Best Art Direction for Thotta Tharani's pre-independence sets and Best Special Effects for Venky's graphics work. It also achieved regional success, winning Best Film and Best Actor awards at both the Filmfare Awards and from the Tamil Nadu State. It also became the Indian submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1997, though eventually did not make the short list.
In 2011, producer A. M. Rathnam discussed the idea of a sequel to this project as anti-corruption leaders like Anna Hazare were becoming active. Shankar's press relations team dismissed reports of a sequel in 2013, after news emerged that he was considering a follow up featuring Kamal Haasan and Suriya.

Awards

1997 National Film Awards (India)

Won – Silver Lotus Award for Best Actor – Kamal Haasan
Won – Silver Lotus Award for Best Art Direction – Thotta Tharani
Won – Silver Lotus Award for Best Special Effects – Venky

1997 Filmfare Awards South (India)

Won – Best Actor Award (Tamil) – Kamal Haasan
Won – Filmfare Award for Best Film – Tamil – A. M. Rathnam

Tamil Nadu State Film Awards

Won – Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Film (First prize) – A. M. Rathnam
Won – Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Actor – Kamal Haasan

1997 Academy Awards (United States)

Indian submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

Soundtrack

Main article: Indian (soundtrack)

Indian

Soundtrack album by A. R. Rahman

Released

1996

Recorded

Panchathan Record Inn

Genre

Feature film soundtrack

Length

30:05

Label

Pyramid

Producer

A. R. Rahman

A. R. Rahman chronology

Love Birds
(1996)

Indian
(1996)

Kadhal Desam
(1996)

The soundtrack album includes five tracks composed by A. R. Rahman and was released on 1996 by Pyramid. The soundtrack proved hugely popular upon release and was also released in Hindi as Hindustani by TIPS and in Telugu as Bharateeyudu by T-Series. The lyrics were written by Vaali and Vairamuthu for the original version, P. K. Mishra for Hindustani and Bhuvanachandra for Bharateeyudu.
The soundtrack was also magnificent in sales and sold about 6 lakh records within days of release.

Track listing
No.	Title	Singer(s)	Length
1.	"Akadanu Naanga"	Swarnalatha	5:52
2.	"Maya Machindra"	S. P. Balasubramaniam, Swarnalatha	5:37
3.	"Pachai Kiligal" (Lyrics: Vairamuthu)	K. J. Yesudas	5:50
4.	"Telephone Manipol"	Hariharan, Harini	6:15
5.	"Kappaleri Poyaachu"	S. P. Balasubramaniam, P. Susheela	6:28

Hey Ram (translation: Oh Ram! or Oh God!) is a 2000 Indian crime drama film simultaneously made in Tamil and Hindi language. The film was written, directed and produced by Kamal Haasan and he also starred as the protagonist in the film. A period drama told in flashback, the semi-fictional plot centres around India's Partition and the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi by the Hindu activist Nathuram Godse. Hey Ram was a box office failure in India, but was successful worldwide.
The film was chosen as India's official entry to the Oscars to be considered for nomination in the Best Foreign Film category for the year 2000.

1 Synopsis
2 Plot
3 Cast
4 Soundtrack
5 Production
6 Release
7 See also
8 References
9 External links

Synopsis

The film is about a protagonist's journey from religious hatred to love with the theme of the partition of Bengal in the background. Its relevance in the present Indian environment clouded by religious extremism was widely unrecognized. This is the story of Saket Ram, as narrated by his grandson. The film takes place as Ram, a retired archeologist, lies on the deathbed, on 6 December 1999, the 7th anniversary of the destruction of Babri Mosque in Ayodhya.

Plot

The movie begins at present day with Saket Ram (Kamal Haasan), an 89-year-old Hindu man at his death bed. The scene reverts to the past as Saket remembers the 1940s, when he and his good friend, Amjad Ali Khan (Shah Rukh Khan) are archaeologists working together under their boss, Mortimer Wheeler, in Mohenjo-daro (Indus Valley Civilization) in the then North-West India. Relations are pleasant between the Indians and the English, and Saket and Amjad do not approve of Partition and the creation of Pakistan. Aparna Ram (Rani Mukerji), Saket's simple Bengali wife, is a school teacher. She lives in Calcutta in the midst of riots and chaos over the issue of the formation of Pakistan and the call by Mohammad Ali Jinnah for "Direct Action". Saket goes to Calcutta and is swept into the madness. In one instance, Saket saves an innocent Sikh girl from the hands of a barbaric Muslim gang. When he returns to his house, he finds a group of Muslims entering his house. They brutally rape and murder Aparna. Saket, unable to cope with his tragic loss, kills the Muslims who raped and killed his wife in a fit of rage.
Outside his house, he runs into Sriram Abhyankar (Atul Kulkarni), who is part of a Hindu group determined to fight the Muslims' malice with similar brute force, and assassinate Gandhi for what they perceive to be his treachery towards Hindu dominated India (Gandhi wanted Hindus and Muslims to co-exist peacefully with hope of winning over the hearts of the rioters through sheer self-pity). However, Abhyankar and his fellow extremists had lost patience at what they deemed Mahatma Gandhi's unreasonable stand to appease Pakistan, who had already invaded Kashmir by that time. Gandhi was pressuring the newly founded Indian state to pay Rs. 62 Crore to Pakistan and some territorial concessions as well.
Urged by family to remarry, Saket weds Mythili (Vasundhara Das). However, on a trip to Maharashtra, he reunites with Abhyankar and becomes a part of his militant organisation that plots to do away with Gandhi. Due to an horse-riding accident, Abhyankar is left a quadriplegic and has Ram swear that he will carry on his work, that of killing the Mahatma.
Saket comes to the belief that Mahatma Gandhi (Naseeruddin Shah) is solely responsible for the division of India and of the two religions and also of having supported whom they viewed as the enemy. Hindu fundamentalists, including Saket, are furious and plot to murder Gandhi. However, Saket, after several incidents surrounding and leading to Amjad's death (with whom he reunites briefly in a congested Delhi area), changes his mind about Gandhi. He decides against assassinating the leader, and attempts to beg for forgiveness. Soon afterwards, Gandhi is killed by another assassin, Nathuram Godse. Ironically, Gandhi dies without his famous last words: "Hey Ram!" as popularly believed, and as in Richard Attenborough's film Gandhi (film).
Then on, Saket Ram lives by Gandhian principles. As the 89-year-old Saket Ram is being taken to the hospital, he is told of bomb blasts in the city due to Hindu-Muslim communal riots. He asks "Innuma (even now)?". They are forced by the police to be taken into an underground shelter for their security, but Saket Ram dies there. In his funeral, Gandhiji's grandson comes and sees Saket's private room which is full of historical photos. Saket's grandson hands over Gandhi's footwear and spectacle which Saket had previously collected from the place of shootout and had treasured it all the while.

Cast

Kamal Haasan as Saket Ram
Shah Rukh Khan as Amjad Ali Khan
Rani Mukerji as Aparna
Hema Malini as Ambujam Iyengar
Atul Kulkarni as Shriram Abhayankar
Vasundhara Das as Mythili Iyengar
Girish Karnad as Uppilli Iyengar
Saurabh Shukla as Lalwani
Kavignar Vaali as Bhashyam Iyengar
Naseeruddin Shah as Mahatma Gandhi
Farida Jalal as Kasturba Gandhi
Vikram Gokhale as Maharaja
Chandrahasan as Mohan Gandhiraman
Shadaab Khan as AltafTailor
Gautam Kanthadai as Saket Ram Jr.
Abbas as Munavar
Delhi Ganesh as Mr.Chari
Shruti Haasan as Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel's daughter
Y. G. Mahendran
Om Puri as Goel
Manoj Pahwa as Jalal
Showkar Janaki as Mythili's Grandmother
Delhi Ganesh as Chari
Gollapudi Maruti Rao as Govardhan
Vaiyapuri as Vedha
Arun Bali as Shahid Gahravarthi
Sharath Founkshe as Nathuram Godse
Baby Taj as Blindgirl
Arun Patekar as Sardar Vallabhai Patel
Raj Bhadra as Jawaharlal Nehru
Aravind Akash as Sankar Kishthaya
AC Murali as Parthasarathy
Tushar Gandhi as himself

Written and Directed by: Kamal Haasan
Produced by: N.Chandrahasan, Kamal Haasan
Music: Ilaiyaraaja
Executive Producer: D.N.Subramaniyan
Cinematography: Tirru
Edited by: Renu Saluja
Art Director: Sabu Cyril

Soundtrack

Tamil version

Song	Singer(s)	Lyrics
"Isaiyil Thodanguthamma"	Ajoy Chakrabarty	Ilayaraja
"Nee Partha"	Asha Bhosle, Hariharan, Rani Mukerji	Jibanananda Das, Kamal Haasan
"Pollatha Madhana Paanam"	Anupama, Mahalakshmi Iyer	Vaali
"Ram Ram"	Kamal Haasan, Shruti Haasan	Kamal Haasan
"Ramaranalum"	Jolly Mukherjee, Kamal Haasan, Hariharan	Vaali
"Sanyaas Mantra"	Kamal Haasan
"Vaaranam Aayiram Vaishnava Janatho"	Vibha Sharma, Asha Bhosle	Aandal, D. K. Pattammal

Hindi version

Song	Singer(s)	Lyrics
"Har Koi Samjhe"	Ajoy Chakraborty	Sameer
"Janmon Ki Jwala"	Asha Bhosle, Hariharan, Rani Mukherjee	Sameer (Poem by Jibanananda Das)
"Asa Ga Madan Ban Ghusla Kasa"	Anupama, Preeti Uttam	Sameer / Jagdish Khebudkar
"Hey! Ram"	Kamal Haasan, Shruti Haasan	Sameer
"Chahe Pandit Ho"	Jolly Mukherjee, Kamal Haasan, Hariharan	Sameer
"Sanyaas Mantra"	Kamal Haasan
"Vaishnav Jana To"	Vibha Sharma

Production

The shooting was started in Parthasarathy Temple Originally violinist L. Subramaniam was selected as composer for the film but for whatever reasons he opted out of the film instead Ilayaraaja was selected as a composer. Apparently, Shah Rukh Khan did not ask for any remuneration from Kamal Haasan as he considered it an honor and privilege to work with one of his mentors.

Release

The film has won the following awards since its release: 2000 National Film Awards

Won - Silver Lotus Award - Best Supporting Actor - Atul Kulkarni
Won - Silver Lotus Award - Best Costume Design - Sarika
Won - Silver Lotus Award - Best Special Effects - Manthra

There were protests and press releases by political parties in select centres against perceived negative depiction of Gandhi. In India the film was given an 'A' certificate by the Central Board of Film certification. In Malaysia, it was rated as Universal.

Plot

The film begins with ad filmmaker Anbarasu (R. Madhavan), who prefers the much-abbreviated A. Aras rather than his full name, arriving at the Bhubaneswar Airport in Odisha, India. He is about to board a flight back to Chennai for his wedding. However, he learns at the airport that his flight has been cancelled. While waiting for further announcements, Aras watches the television news about a terrorist threat at an airport in Mumbai. Remarking to himself that the country is going to the dogs, he looks around and sees a bespectacled man with scars taking out something rolled up in a newspaper from his bag. Pictures of a pipe bomb shown among the items seized by the Mumbai police flash through his mind. He informs the authorities, only to learn that the man was simply taking out a cucumber.
The man, who is physically challenged, is Nallasivam (Kamal Haasan). Nalla introduces himself to Aras, and they get to know each other. However, Aras underestimates Nalla, ignoring his sage advice and friendly overtures, resulting in some comical events in the airport. Then, announcements are made that all flights have been canceled due to the inclement weather and Aras realizes he needs a room in a nearby hotel for the night. He is informed, much to his consternation, that the five-star hotel where he was staying before is now fully booked, leaving him optionless. Nallasivam helps him find a place in a two-star hotel nearby, where Nalla and Aras are forced to share the same room. Aras' resentment of Nalla makes him act selfishly in trying to get rid of Nalla; at every juncture, Nalla does him a favor which leaves Aras with a guilt-ridden heart. The next morning, Aras takes a taxi without waking Nalla to find his own way to Chennai. Aras realizes that the floods have blocked most of the roads and even the train station is flooded. He gets mugged by a man at the station who offers to help him with his luggage but instead steals all his money. Nalla comes to the station and helps Aras regain the wallet, sans the money. It is then revealed that Nalla is a trade unionist and is traveling with a cheque worth Rs. 3 million to be delivered to some people after fighting a court case for union workers. The comical situations continue as the pair make it to another railway station in a bus. While awaiting their train, Nalla begins to tell Aras his story, but a tired Aras falls asleep and later walks away halfway through the story.
The film then flashes back to a few years in the past when a perfectly good-looking Nalla performs in street theatres protesting against the industrialization process which is marginalizing the labor force. He often gets into trouble due to this. Nalla is also a very talented painter. He is fighting mainly against the town's biggest business tycoon, the manipulative Kandasamy Padayachi (Nassar), whom he satirically imitates in many of his shows. However, an interesting turn of events sees Nalla and Kandasamy's daughter Bala (Kiran Rathod) fall in love with each other. Realizing Kandasamy's power would be too much to bear if they want to get together, Nalla and Bala decide to elope. While Nalla is on a bus on his way to meet Bala, the bus is in a terrible accident on a hillside which leaves him badly injured. Despite surgery, he is left partially paralyzed and badly scarred. Kandasamy informs his daughter Bala that Nalla is dead. It is also at this time that Nalla becomes a firm believer in kindness and love and, while suffering from an inferiority complex due to his scarred and paralyzed body, nevertheless engages with renewed fervour in performing community service and social work while continuing to fight for union causes.
The film then returns to the present, as Aras and Nalla prepare to board the train they have been waiting for. But as the train arrives, they get into an argument about communism, Karl Marx, and so on. Nalla accuses Aras of being an agent for the West and of being manipulated, while Aras defends himself and criticises communism as a whole, concluding that the Soviet Union doesn't exist anymore. Nalla argues that the idea of communism wouldn't die because the Soviet Union has broken up, just as people wouldn't stop loving if the Taj Mahal got destroyed. The argument turns heated, causing a short-tempered Aras to punch Nalla. After initially looking calm, Nalla punches Aras back even harder, causing Aras to bleed. Pretending to cool down and make up, Aras deceives Nalla into getting some bottled water for him and locks the train door, leaving Nalla stranded as the train leaves without him.
On the train, Aras meets a well-dressed corporate-type individual, Uthaman (Yugi Sethu), who seems to share the same interests as Aras. Uthaman asks Aras to throw away a pack of biscuits Nalla gave to Aras due to the risk of it being doctored and offers him whiskey. When Aras wakes up the next day, he learns from the conductor that he has been conned and that his fellow passenger man was a thief who stole all of his belongings. The train comes to a halt because a previous train has had an accident and it has to be cleared up first. There, Aras witnesses a slew of dead bodies and suffering people, causing him to suffer emotionally. To his surprise, he meets Nalla again at the treatment camp nearby. He apologizes to Nalla, who forgives him. Nalla proposes that he donate blood to a dying boy in need of AB blood, while Aras mentions that he is bloodsick. Nalla convinces him, and Aras donates. Aras also retrieves his belongings as he finds that the thief is around the camp. Nalla proposes that Aras travel with him in an ambulance which will be carrying the injured boy on its way to Chennai.
While on the journey the boy passes away causing Aras to cry. He calls God 'unjust' for giving the boy hope in the form of Aras' blood and then taking away his life. Nalla, who is an atheist, tells Aras that Aras himself is God, that the sadness he feels and the tears he sheds for the boy makes him God. Aras comes to terms with using his full name Anbarasu, a name he previously despised because he apparently doesn't like 'anbu' (love). On reaching Chennai, they go their separate ways, but Aras realizes that Nalla's union cheque is still with him and returns to the address Nalla had given him.
He realizes that Nalla had lied to him previously when he said that he had a wife and a son named 'Sangu'. The address is a place where injured labourers from Odisha camp while waiting for their legal funds (the money fought for and being brought to them by Nalla) and that 'Sangu' is the name of Nalla's dog, which incidentally had caused Nalla's accident. After giving the cheque to the office, he goes to the nearby shop to meet Nalla and scolds him for not telling him the truth. He asks Nalla to come with him for his marriage, but Nalla says he will 'come later'. In an emotional moment, Aras recounts the story of how his brother died from a freak accident when he was young (a story he had told Nalla before). He says that Nalla is his new-found brother and should stay with him as long as life permits. A clearly emotional Nalla accepts the invitation.
At the marriage, Nalla realizes that the girl Aras is about to marry is Bala. He takes this opportunity to appear in front of Kandasamy and threaten that he will stay on and make Bala realize what a cheat her father is unless Kandasamy signs all related documents for pay increment and bonuses for his company's labourers. Sacrificing himself for the workers, Nalla leaves after Kandasamy signs, leaving behind a letter for his 'brother' that he has missions to complete in this world, and that he'd rather travel as a free bird than be caged and tied to one place. He thanks Aras for the love and affection he has shown. Kandasamy meanwhile orders his assistant (Santhana Bharathi) to kill Nalla. As Nalla walks away, the assistant approaches him from behind. Hearing Sangu bark, Nalla turns around and sees his would-be assailant with a sickle in his hand. Requesting him not to hurt Sangu, who is barking and growling, he tells the assistant that he cannot fight like he used to and is ready to accept death. The assistant drops his weapon, weeps, and apologizes to Nalla. He tells Nalla that because he did all the dirty work for his boss, God has punished him by taking away his beloved daughter. He tells Nalla that he has read Nalla's letter to Aras. He also states that he has sinned much and doesn't want to commit any more sins on behalf of his boss. He asks Nalla to leave and that God will protect Nalla. Nalla refutes, saying that the assistant himself is God. He says that there is no greater God than the person who comes with the intent to kill but instead apologizes to the person he aimed to kill.
The film ends with Nalla walking away in the monsoon rains with his dog, Sangu.

Cast

Kamal Haasan as Nalla Sivam
R. Madhavan as Anbarasu
Kiran Rathod as Balasaraswathi
Nassar as Kandasamy Padayachi
Santhana Bharathi as Kandasamy's assistant
Seema
Yugi Sethu as Uthaman
K. Viswanath
Uma Riyaz Khan

Production

After finishing a script, Kamal Haasan approached Priyadarshan to direct the film in early 2002. The pair had been looking out for a storyline to work together since the late 1990s and Priyadarshan felt that Kamal Haasan's script had great value to be an 'emotional love story'. R. Madhavan was added to the cast in January 2002 and revealed his elation at working with the pair, while noting that a human drama film like Anbe Sivam was important for his career as an actor as it came after a successful masala film, Run. Cartoonist Madhan wrote the film's dialogues as Kamal Haasan continued writing the script, revealing that it would be a road film between two polar opposite characters. Kamal Haasan went to Los Angeles to test and select prosthetic make up for the film and was notably detained at a Toronto airport security centre in April 2002. Pre-production work commenced soon after but a difference of opinion between the director and the actor mean that Priyadarshan opted out of the project in June 2002. The director had wanted to work with Kamal Haasan in a bigger project than the current venture and instead began preliminary work on another film with Kamal Haasan on the caste system in India. Following this sudden setback which led to the whole crew being put off their schedule, the producers selected Sundar C. to direct the venture and filming started in July 2002. Kiran Rathod was selected to portray the leading female role, while Uma Riyaz Khan was also signed on to play a role and described the film as her "magnum opus".
The first scene the team shot was at a railway station in Pollachi with actor R. S. Shivaji, portraying a station master, joining the lead actors. Kamal Haasan and Madhavan interacted closely during the initial stages of the shoot in order to ensure that the on-screen chemistry between the pair was apparent. The film was shot on a restricted budget, with only the train disaster scenes involving the use of extensive art direction. The team also shot in relatively empty locations meaning that the time allotted for shooting was flexible, with one day being cancelled due to dialogues not being ready. Further schedules were held in Chennai, Visakhapatnam and on the Tamil Nadu-Karnataka border. Post-filming, Kamal Haasan revealed that he was impressed with Madhavan's enthusiasm and concentration during the making of the film and thus subsequently signed him on to appear in his production venture, Nala Damayanthi (2003).

Release

The film was released on 14 January 2003 coinciding with the Thai Pongal festival and opened alongside five other films at the box office, including the Vikram-starrer Dhool and the Vijay-starrer Vaseegara. Anbe Sivam won primarily positive reviews from reviewers. The Hindu praised the film, noting that "well-defined characters, a strong storyline and intelligent screenplay are the other vital ingredients of Anbe Sivam". The critic revealed "Kamal Haasan's diligence that has gone into the chiselling of the story and screenplay is only too evident", while calling the film a "milestone" A reviewer from Bizhat.com noted "with a perfect script, screenplay, direction and music, 'Anbe Sivam' is sure to take its viewers for a roller coaster ride of all ages". Another critic also added "the wonderfully acted movie manages to be both touching and entertaining, while conveying a strong social message", adding it is a "movie that is difficult to pigeonhole into a genre". A reviewer from Sify.com, in comparison, labelled the film as "average" and noted that "despite the good performances the outcome is still stressful on the nerves." Similarly a reviewer from Rediff.com praised the film's lead performances but wrote the film "suffers from the disease of excess" and "tries to do too much".
The Telugu dubbed version of the film, Satyame Sivam, was released on 28 February 2003 to positive reviews, with a critic claiming "this film is strictly for the elite audience who does not mind having a look at the philosophical films" adding that the "story of the film is just wonderful". The producers of the film sold the Hindi dubbing rights at a low price and the film was released as Shivam in Hindi in 2005, much to irking of the lead actors.
The film did not perform well commercially and lost the producers significant investment. An estimated Rs 6.5-crore loss was made through the film by Lakshmi Movie Makers, effectively stopping the production house from investing in other ventures during the period. Director Sundar C also revealed that the failure of the film meant that he went unpaid for his work, and producers were unwilling to fund his other ventures. It was later screened at the 2003 International Film Festival of India.

Legacy

Post-release the film has garnered critical acclaim from belated critics and television audiences and is considered as one of the "cult classics" of Tamil cinema. The film's DVD also sold well and was made widely available in North India, earning the film more critical acclaim. Film critic Baradwaj Rangan wrote that the film "was leagues ahead of the average Tamil and Indian film", though felt that "the masses were unwilling to accept the experimental nature of the film", while talking about the film's box office failure. During his acceptance speech after winning the Vijay Award for Best Director in 2010 for Naan Kadavul (2009), director Bala revealed that a scene in Anbe Sivam had inspired him to make his film, referring to a scene where Kamal Haasan states to Madhavan that "when we love others unconditionally without any expectation, we become Gods".
In September 2013, producer V. Swaminathan announced his plans of digitally converting the film and re-releasing it to cash in on the post-release cult classic status.

Soundtrack

The music for the film was composed by Vidyasagar, while lyrics were written by Vairamuthu. The titular song was initially written to be sung in a third person tone and thus Kamal Haasan was reluctant to do perform the track to avoid his character being reflected in the song. Subsequently after being convinced by Vidyasagar, he agreed to render the version.

Anbe Sivam

Soundtrack album to Anbe Sivam by Vidyasagar

Released

2002

Genre

Feature film soundtrack

Language

Tamil

Producer

Vidyasagar

Vidyasagar chronology

Karmegham
(2002)

Anbe Sivam
(2003)

Anbu
(2003)

No.	Title	Singer(s)	Length
1.	"Anbe Sivam "	Kamal Haasan, Karthik	4:18
2.	"Ela Machi"	Kamal Haasan, Udit Narayan,	4:35
3.	"Mouname"	S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, Chandrayee	4:36
4.	"Naatukkoru Seithi"	Kamal Haasan, Chandran	8:08
5.	"Poo Vaasam"	Vijay Prakash, Sadhana Sargam	4:27
6.	"Poo Vaasam - 2"	Sriram Parthasarathy, Sadhana Sargam	4:27

Vettaiyaadu Vilaiyaadu (English: Hunt and Play) is a 2006 Tamil crime-thriller film written and directed by Gautham Menon. Starring Kamal Haasan, Jyothika, Kamalinee Mukherjee, Prakash Raj and Daniel Balaji in prominent roles, the film features music composed by Harris Jayaraj. It was one of the first Indian films to make use of Super 35mm technology.
The film was dubbed in Telugu as Raghavan and released on 17 August 2007 to positive reviews. In 2012, reports stated that Menon would direct the film's Bollywood remake, but these were later dismissed. It was dubbed in Hindi as The Smart Hunt.

1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Production
4 Soundtrack
5 Release
6 References
7 External links

Plot

The film starts with a girl named Rani, the daughter of former high ranking Chennai police officer Arokyaraj (Prakash Raj), talking to her father over the phone saying that she will back home in 20 minutes. As she leaves the telephone booth, she is approached by someone who starts a conversation with her. The screen then cuts to black and we find out that Rani does not come home. The following morning Arokyaraj finds a finger hanging at his door. Police reports confirm that it is his daughter Rani's finger. He calls Raghavan (Kamal Hassan), his old friend, for investigation. Raghavan handles the case and they eventually find the body of Rani in a forest in the city outskirts. The doctor's report states that Rani's body was bisected by the killer with a surgical knife, proving that the murderer has a strong medical background. Following the trauma of losing their only daughter, Arokyaraj and his wife move to New York.
After a week Raghavan finds out that Mr. & Mrs. Arokyaraj have been murdered in New York. This creates a link between the Chennai police and the New York Police Department. Raghavan leaves for New York to represent the Indian police. On the flight, he thinks about his dead wife Kayalvizhi (Kamalini Mukherjee) who was murdered by the mob because he stood in their way. Raghavan still cannot forgive himself for his wife's death. He reaches New York and starts his investigation with NYPD detective Anderson (Lev Gorn).
Raghavan stays in a hotel in downtown New York where he constantly keeps his superiors in Chennai updated on the New York investigation. Staying next to his room is Aradhana (Jyothika). He immediately notices that she is going through a rough time in her life. One night, he gets suspicious on what she is up to and breaks into her room, only to find her attempting suicide by chocking herself. Raghavan saves her life and the two strike a friendship. Aradhana reveals that her violent husband is filing for divorce after cheating on her.
Raghavan and Anderson start the investigation. They find a connection between the murder of the Arokyaraj's and an Indian-American girl, Chandana, whose finger was also was found hung in her boyfriend's car. With much difficulty, they find the body of Chandana and three more American girls. They suspect two Indian medical students studying in New York - Amudhan (Daniel Balaji) and Ilamaaran (Salim Baigg). Raghavan and Anderson try to get into their room where Ilamaaran shoots Anderson. Amudhan tells Raghavan that he misbehaved with Rani and Rani told that to her father Arokyaraj. Arokyaraj had kept him in the police station for a night and tortured him and so he wanted to kill her whole family. Then they both escape from there.
Raghavan is admitted in the hospital. Aradhana takes care of him. Raghavan and Aradhana return to India. There Raghavan tells Aradhana that he has fallen in love with her, but she is not ready for another life and she has to take care of her 11-month old daughter Maya.
The rest of the film goes with how they kill Amudhan and Illamaran, who have evaded Mumbai police at Chhatrapathi Shivaji International Airport and have entered India. Raghavan announces in the media that they are wanted and a cash reward. They enter chennai from kozhikode via air and see Aradhana with Raghavan. Ilamaran wants aradhana, no matter what and Amudhan kidnaps her that same night while Ilamaran tries to get into Raghavan's house and flees. he is chased and caught by Raghavan. At the climax Raghavan kills both and Aradhana accepts his love and they both marry and decide to have Maya as their only daughter.

Cast

Kamal Haasan as DCP Raghavan
Jyothika as Aradhana
Prakash Raj as Arokiya Raj
Rajashree as Arokiya Raj's wife
Bidushi Dash Barde as Rani Arokiya Raj
Kamalinee Mukherjee as Kayalvizhi Raghavan
Daniel Balaji as Amudhan
Salim Baig as Ilamaran
Lev Gorn as Anderson
Yog Japee as Arun
Ahuti Prasad as Commissioner
Janaki Sabesh as Aradhana's mother
VTV Ganesh as Dharma
Mumaith Khan (item number in Neruppe Sikki Mukki Song)

Production

Gautham Menon was signed on to direct a venture starring Kamal Haasan and produced by Kaja Mohideen, and initially suggested a one-line story which went on to become Pachaikili Muthucharam for the collaboration. Kamal Haasan wanted a different story and thus the investigative thriller film, Vettaiyaadu Vilaiyaadu, was written with Jyothika, Kamalinee Mukerji, Prakash Raj, Daniel Balaji and Saleem Baig added to the cast. As per Menon's usual method for picking a title, he asked his associates for suggestions, which included the title of Thadayaara Thaaka, which was later used for another film. The film told another episode from a police officer's life, with an Indian cop moved to America to investigate the case of psychotic serial killers before returning to pursue the chase in India. During the shooting, the unit ran into problems after the producer had attempted suicide and as a result, Kamal Haasan wanted to quit the project. Menon subsequently convinced him to stay on as they had taken advance payments. He has since revealed that unlike Kamal Haasan's other films, he did not take particular control of the script or production of the film. The film however had gone through change from the original script with less emphasis on the antagonists than Menon had hoped and he also revealed that scenes for songs were forced him and shot without him. Actresses Rohini and Andrea Jeremiah dubbed for the voices of female leads Jyothika and Kamalinee Mukherjee respectively.

Soundtrack

Vettaiyaadu Vilaiyaadu

Original CD cover

Soundtrack album by Harris Jayaraj

Released

5 March 2006

Language

Tamil

Producer

Harris Jayaraj

Harris Jayaraj chronology

Ghajini
(2005)

Vettaiyaadu Vilaiyaadu
(2006)

Sainikudu
(2006)

The soundtrack of the film consists of 5 songs composed by Harris Jayaraj, and written by Thamarai.

Tamil

Tracklist
No.	Title	Singer(s)	Length
1.	"Karka Karka"	Devan Ekambaram, Tippu, Nakul , Andrea Jeremiah	4:54
2.	"Partha Mudhal"	Bombay Jayashree, Unni Menon	6:06
3.	"Manjal Veyil"	Hariharan, Vijay, Nakul	5:54
4.	"Uyirile"	Mahalakshmi Iyer, Srinivas	5:13
5.	"Neruppe"	Franko, Solar Sai, Sowmya Raoh	4:50
Total length:			26:57

Telugu Tracklist

The film was dubbed in Telugu as Raghavan. All Lyrics are penned by Veturi Sundararama Murthy.

Tracklist
No.	Title	Singer(s)	Length
1.	"Katthi Doosthe"	Devan Ekambaram, Tippu, Nakul , Andrea Jeremiah	4:54
2.	"Banam"	Bombay Jayashree, Harish Raghavendra	6:06
3.	"Paccha Velugu"	Karthik, Krish, Nakul	5:54
4.	"Hrudayame"	Mahalakshmi Iyer, Srinivas	5:13
5.	"Merupe"	Franko, Solar Sai, Sowmya Raoh	4:50
Total length:			26:57

Critical response

Behindwoods wrote a positive review, stating: "The album has not let down expectations. It is the usual mix by Harris. However, Bombay Jeyashree’s contribution and the beautiful lyrics by poetess Thamarai are the greatest assets to the album. Harris once again proves his mastery in orchestration and the audio will surely be a hit like Minnale or Kaakha Kaakha." Rediff said, "The most disappointing part is the music. Mr Harris Jayaraj, what has happened to you? The music, which could have taken the movie to a different level, is so loud that it seriously hinders the story flow."

Release

Reception

The film garnered largely positive reviews from critics. National Award winning crtic Baradwaj Rangan summarised it in his review: "The story of a police investigation is detailed in a smart, grown-up movie that gets most things right." He praised the film for "giving us a sense of a day in the life of a cop, as if an invisible crew followed him around as he went about his job." He lavished heavy praise on Gautham Menon for mature handling of the relationship between the lead pair, saying, "Gautham continues to dream up for Jyotika parts that no one's imagined her in before, and she contributes to the kind of mature romantic angle we’ve rarely seen before. It’s not just about boy meeting girl and falling in love; it's about boy with baggage meeting girl with bigger baggage and tentatively exploring the practicality of a new relationship after their respective old ones have faded away." Behindwoods said, "It is definitely a triumph of sorts for Gautham and Manickam Narayanan, who have gone through innumerable hitches in getting the movie released. Enjoy!!" Rediff gave it 3.5/5, saying "In his best performance in recent times, Kamal portrays the character with believable honesty and charm." Sify stated that "what gives you goose flesh is the finely calibrated performance of Kamal as DCP Raghavan. You just can’t take your eyes off him as he laces his portrayal with dignity, grace and dry wit."

Box office

Vettaiyaadu Vilaiyaadu, made on a budget of

240 million (US$4.0 million), collected totally

500 million (US$8.4 million) worldwide. Behindwoods declared the film a "blockbuster". This was the first Tamil film to be released in 16 theatres in Chennai city alone and changed the trend of film release.

Dasavathaaram is a 2008 Tamil science fiction disaster film, co-written and directed by K. S. Ravikumar. It stars Kamal Haasan, who wrote the screenplay and story of the film, in ten distinct roles. Asin appears in a dual role and Mallika Sherawat plays a subsidiary role. The film, which had been under production for nearly three years, was produced and primarily distributed by Venu Ravichandran. Primary filming locations included the USA and the state of Tamil Nadu in India. The soundtrack to the film was composed by Himesh Reshammiya and the background score by Devi Sri Prasad. The film completed a 175-day run at the box office. About 20 million tickets were sold worldwide. It was also the first Tamil film to beat the record set by Sivaji a year earlier. However, this new record was beaten two years later by Enthiran.
The plot of the film revolves around bringing together the lives of several individuals beginning with the 12th century and ending with the 21st century; the main person being a research scientist who develops a bio-weapon and makes sure that it is not acquired by a group of terrorists. Several other people also get involved in the process and all their stories connect after the striking of a tsunami, thus bringing in philosophical views into the picture.
After delays in post-production, the film was released worldwide on 13 June 2008 with 1000 prints in Tamil as well as a dubbed version in Telugu. The aspects of the visual effects and the performance of the cast were appreciated while the music was unanimously criticised. Prior to and after release, the film had its share of controversies with regard to plagiarism, the portrayal of Hindus and Sherawat's attire at the audio launch. A Hindi dubbed version, Dashavatar was released almost a year later.

1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Production
4 Soundtrack
5 Release
6 Box office
7 References
8 External links

Plot

Govindarajan Ramaswamy (Haasan), a bio-scientist speaks from the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium about the Chaos theory and the Butterfly effect. He begins by reciting events from the 12th century in Chidambaram, when king Kulothunga Chola II (Napoleon), a Saivite, persecutes Vaishnavites and intends to destroy an idol of Govindaraja. Rangarajan Nambi (Haasan), a Vaishnavite, protects it and offends the king. The king orders Rangarajan to be executed by being submerged into the sea with the idol.
On 20 December 2004, a bio-technology lab in the USA designs a virus (combination of Marburg and Ebola) intended as a bio-weapon. After understanding its potential, Dr. Govind (Haasan), one of the scientists involved, refuses to give the vial (containing the virus) away due to fear of misuse. However, his boss, Dr. Sethu, has other plans and tries to sell it to a terrorist group when Govind flees with it. Christian Fletcher (Haasan), an ex-CIA, follows him and attempts to seize the vial, when it is air couriered to India by accident. Govind sneaks into the aircraft carrying the virus and changes its location. After arriving in India, he is questioned by Balram Naidu (Haasan) (Pranab Kundu in Hindi version), a RAW operative. Govind unsuccessfully tries to explain the series of incidents.
In the meantime, Fletcher, who has married Jasmine (Mallika Sherawat), and arrived in India, using her as a translator, threatens Govind and takes him away in a jeep with a police officer. After exiting the city, Govind escapes from Fletcher and reaches Chidambaram. Fletcher follows him, after getting a cab, along with Jasmine. After Govind attempts to persuade the receivers of the package carrying the virus, it finds itself inside an idol of Govindaraja. In the chaos, Jasmine is killed . Govind and Andal (Asin), who is the granddaughter of Krishnaveni (Haasan), an old woman for whom the package was sent, try to run away from Fletcher, and arrive in a ground where illegal sand miners are working. They try to rape Andal, but in the ensuing fight, Govind defeats the sand miners and they sneak out after the interference of Vincent Boovaragan (Haasan), a radical Christian, and save the family of Khalifulla (Haasan) from a car-crash in the process. One of them, a lady, faints suddenly and is taken to a hospital, where Govind procures a cooling box to store the weapon, as it is unstable and its temperature needs to be maintained. He meets Avatar Singh (Haasan), a pop singer, who is also there for treatment of his throat cancer. His prescription drugs are in a similar-looking box and before leaving the hospital, he unknowingly switches it with Govind's box.
Fletcher follows them and takes Andal and the Muslim family hostage in their house, from where Govind is blackmailed to bring back the box he is carrying. Unable to do anything, he reaches the place, only to find out that Avatar Singh must have the weapon. The police surround the house, forcing Fletcher, Govind and Andal to flee in a jeep. Shinghen Narahsi (Haasan), a Japanese martial arts expert, whose sister had been killed by Fletcher, follows them. Avatar Singh finishes his last performance and discovers the blunder, only to get shot by Fletcher after having a row.
Govind and Andal flee to reach a construction site, where Govind takes out the weapon before giving the idol to Fletcher. The sun dawns on 26 December 2004. Govind gets an idea from some drainage workers to immerse the virus in a large quantity of salt to destroy it. He goes to the sea, only to be stopped by Fletcher. Shinghen Narahasi arrives and fights with Fletcher. Both Narahasi and a motivated Govind fight Fletcher together and defeat him. Fletcherh opens and swallows the virus. Suddenly, a tsunami strikes, washing away Fletcher, and causing great destruction along the coast. Poovaragan's house is struck and he dies in a car after saving a child. Andal, Govind and Narahasi get into a boat. Krishnaveni arrives and begins to cry after perceiving Poovaragan as her long-lost son. After relief measures are taken, Andal argues that god had sent forth the tsunami to get rid of the weapon. Govind responds by asking if god would destroy hundreds of lives to save millions.Then the shot zooms back where it is shown that they were talking in front of the idol submerged in the twelfth century. The scene shifts to the stadium, where Avatar Singh, who had his cancerous growth taken away by the shot he received, along with several others, listening to the speech by Govind, followed by former president George Bush (Haasan) as the credits roll.

Cast

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Kamal Haasan as Govindarajan Ramaswamy, Rangaraja Nambi, George W. Bush, Avtaar Singh, Balram Naidu (Pranab Kundu in Hindi version), Christian Fletcher, Shinghen Narahasi, Krishnaveni, Vincent Poovaragavan and Kalifullah Mukhtaar
Asin Thottumkal as Kodhai Radha and Andaal
Mallika Sherawat as Jasmine
Jayaprada as Ranjitha Singh
Napoleon as Kulothunga Chola II
P. Vasu as J. Ragavendra (Jaa Raa)
Raghuram as Appa Rao
Chakri Toleti as Sairam
Shammu as assistant biotechnologist
M. S. Bhaskar as Broadway Kumar
Vaiyapuri as Prabhu
Chitti Babu as Ekambaram
Santhana Bharathi as J. Ragavendra's brother-in-law
Rekha as Meenakshi Ragavendra
R. Sundarrajan as the Member of Legislative Assembly
Nagesh as Sheikh Mukhtaar
K. R. Vijaya as Megha Mukhtaar
Ramesh Khanna as the doctor

Production

Development

Kamal Haasan came up with an original storyline and approached a number of directors, to direct it, when K. S. Ravikumar accepted the offer. It began soon after the announcement of Sivaji: The Boss starring Rajinikanth. K. S. Ravikumar and Kamal Haasan came together for the fourth time following their three previous successful ventures, Avvai Shanmughi, Thenali and Panchathantiram. Kamal was set to play ten different roles in the film, making it the first time that an actor has appeared in so many roles in world cinema. Venu Ravichandran signed up to produce the venture securing distribution rights in the process. Pyramid Film Fund had an exposure of 50 percent in the project.
Following nearly a year of pre-production, deciding the cast and the locations, the film began its first schedule on 11 September 2006.
Ashmith Kunder was signed up to edit the film, despite early indications that A. Sreekar Prasad would have landed the offer. The director, K. S. Ravikumar also wrote the script for the film following negotiations with Sujatha Rangarajan, who died before the release of the film, and Crazy Mohan. Jeeva was initially announced as the cinematographer of the film, and he had taken over the role for a day of the shooting. However, the shots taken by him did not appear in the film and Ravi Varman became the director of photography.

Casting

Between the announcement of the project and prior to the launch a year later, several actress were signed up, who then either opted out or were removed from the project. Vidya Balan was first signed up and set to make her debut in Tamil films, however due to the long inactivity of the film, Balan opted out citing date clashes with her Bollywood project. Following the removal of Balan, it was reported that each of the ten characters portrayed by Kamal Haasan in the film, would have a female lead opposite them. Actresses who were considered but failed to make the final shortlist were: Mumtaj, Kiran Rathod, Meena, Nadhiya, Kamalinee Mukerji, Nithya Das, Meera Jasmine, and Vasundhara Das. Moreover, actresses Balan, Trisha Krishnan and Nayantara opted out due to date clashes. Furthermore, Shriya Saran was forced to opt out of the project by the producers of her other film Sivaji: The Boss, a film built up as the rival to Dasavathaaram at the box-office.
Finally, the major female lead role was given to Asin Thottumkal, who was later assigned two distinct roles in the project. The second lead female role in the film went to Mallika Sherawat, for whom Dasavathaaram was her first Tamil language film. Over the course, of the production more supporting actors were added to the film, the first being Napoleon, who was signed up to portray a king in the film. Other veteran actors, Jayaprada, Nagesh, P. Vasu, K. R. Vijaya and M. S. Baskar as well as a bevy of American supporting actors were roped into essay other small roles in the film. Actors, Jayaram and Vadivelu opted out of the film during the production of the project, citing date problems.

Filming

Picture of the film set depicting the Vishnu image used in the film

A preliminary schedule took place before the start of the film, which featured no filming, but only the make-up tests, lasting for 25 days in the USA. The make-up used for Kamal's characters proved to create difficulties. It took nine hours to implement the make-up and it failed to stay for a long period of time. To compensate that, he had to rest and take fluids using a straw and at the same time, refrain from making movement in the facial muscles to make sure that it was not disturbed. The technology of motion control was employed for the cinematography in the film. The filming of Dasavathaaram began on 3 August 2006 at Mahabalipuram in Chennai, where the intro song was picturised on a set created by art director Sameer Chandra. The set resembled the Airavatesvara Temple at Darasuram in Kumbakonam and scenes with Kamal Haasan in an Iyengar get-up, accompanied by over 750 extras, were recorded. Though it was initially planned to be shot in the temple itself, permission could not be obtained as the structure was a heritage site and the shooting was believed to interfere with the activities of the temple. Further plans to use a hundred elephants were shelved after the transport and accommodation for the animals was deemed impossible. However, in September 2006, Sameer Chanda was sacked from the project due to his tendency to employ only workers from Mumbai and not Tamilians, prompting Haasan and Ravikumar to remove him from the project, with his role being entrusted to Prabhakar of Virumaandi fame.
Another team member was sacked in Chengelpet, when a stunt sequence was being captured by the camera; stunt master Kanal Kannan was reported to have used unparliamentarily and corporation words at the workers and that took over the public address system. Angered and humiliated by such remarks, the workers walked out of the sets refusing to work anymore and resumed duty only after the elimination of Kanal Kannan. A new stunt master, Thyagarajan was given the opportunity to take over following the controversy caused by Kannan, who had a similar problem while shooting for Sivaji.
Major portions of the films were shot extensively in overseas locations which included the US, Tokyo, Malaysia and Thailand. A role of a foreigner, played by Haasan, was shot for in casinos in and around Las Vegas and Orlando. A song involving Kamal Haasan and Mallika Sherawat that was to be shot in US was moved to Malaysia due to problems with Sherawat's visa. The crew instead decided to shift to another destination in Malaysia and the song was shot in posh night clubs; furthermore scenes were shot at a lobby of a prominent Malaysian airport.
A Replica of the White House was erected at the Taramani Film City in India, with Haasan's makeup for the role lasting six whole hours to obtain the desired outcome. For the climax, another scene was shot dramatically above the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium with the permission of the chief minister, M. Karunanidhi. A tsunami effect was created in Mahabalipuram and shot at a 50,000-square-foot (4,600 m²) area of land in which a 100-foot (30 m) wall was created near Muttukadu. Six machines, which generated 20-foot (6.1 m) high waves, were imported from the US, for a total cost of

35 million (US$580,000). The film's final shoot occurred on 8 October 2007 at Uthandi, a coastal village.

Soundtrack

Dasavathaaram

Studio album
Released	25 April 2008
Genre	Feature film soundtrack
Length	44:58
Label	Sony BMG

The film was originally announced with A. R. Rahman as the music director of the film. However he opted out of the project owing schedule clashes. Kamal, who quickly wanted the tunes, roped in Himesh Reshammiya, for whom Dasavathaaram became his Tamil film debut. The background score was composed by Devi Sri Prasad. As the film demanded a "stylish and western" quality of music, two reels of music were initially composed and tested. A two-and-a-half-minute theme song was later composed for the promos. The background music in the second half consisted of extensive usage of violins and chorus and the entire score for the film was recorded over a period of one month, in Chennai.
The soundtrack was released on 25 April 2008 at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in Chennai, which became the largest audio launch for a south Indian film. Prominent film personalities across the world attended the event, with Jackie Chan, in his first such appearance, being Hollywood's ambassador for the function. Other prominent regional Indian artistes such as Amitabh Bachchan, Mammooty, Vijay and Madhavan attended the launch. Then Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, M. Karunanidhi attended the event. The event hosted by Shobana, was attended by all the artistes of the film apart from producer Venu Ravichandran, who avoids to attend public events. The soundtrack album was acquired by Sony BMG, purchasing their first Tamil film, for a record of

20 million (US$330,000). The music was released in four languages: Tamil, Hindi, Telugu and Malayalam.

No.	Song	Singers	Length (m:ss)	Lyrics
1.	"Ulaga Nayagan"	Vinit Singh	5:34	Vairamuthu
2.	"Kallai Mattum"	Hariharan, Chorus	5:28	Vaali
3.	"Oh...Ho...Sanam"	Kamal Haasan, Mahalakshmi Iyer	5:31	Vairamuthu
4.	"Mukundha Mukundha"	Kamal Haasan, Sadhana Sargam	6:32	Vaali
5.	"Kaa...Karuppanukkum"	Shalini Singh	5:06	Vairamuthu
6.	"Oh...Ho...Sanam" (Re-Mix)	Himesh Reshammiya, Mahalakshmi Iyer	3:47	Vairamuthu

Release

The satellite rights of the film were bought by Kalaignar. The film was given a "U" certificate by the Indian Censor Board. Two days prior to the release, the film was shown to film personalities of Indian cinema at Four Films Cinema in Chennai, with the film receiving praise. Distribution rights of the film worldwide, was sold for

510 million to various companies with producer Venu Ravichandran distributing the film around South India. Sony India distributed the film in North India, whilst Ayngaran International sold the film to cinema halls in the United Kingdom, Singapore and the Gulf. Canadian rights for the film were bought by Walt Disney, becoming the first distributional venture of an Indian film by the production house. Narmadha Travels acquired the rights from Aascar Films to distribute the film in the United States of America.

Controversies

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Assistant director Senthil Kumar filed a case against the film at the Madras High Court. He claimed to have created the story of Dasavathaaram, in a script titled, Ardhanari alias Clones, and that Kamal Haasan and Venu Ravichandran had "stolen" the script and left him out of the credits, violating the copyright act. On the basis of this complaint, the Chennai police queried the actor and later accepted his explanation with the high court sending notices to Kamal Haasan and the producer of the film, Venu Ravichandran announcing an interim stay on the release of the film. The film was allowed to continue with its schedules, but the case was delayed till later in 2007. However in September 2007, the Court dismissed the petition of Senthil Kumar against Kamal Haasan in the case, clearing the legal hurdles for the film.
Following the audio launch on 25 April 2008, Mallika Sherawat received a police complaint against the issue of improper attire at a film function. Hindu Makkal Katchi, a splinter group of the Hindu Munnani, lodged a complaint with the police, saying that Sherawat's attire at the function to release audio-CDs of Dasavathaaram, in which Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi had been present, had "hurt the sentiments of Hindus". The actress was accused of wearing a mini-skirt and exposing her back in front of the chief minister.
In May 2008, the film was criticised by the Vishwa Hindu Parishad, which claimed that the film has portrayed the clash between Saivism and Vaishnavism which prevailed in the 12th century in the film in an objectionable manner. However, following the accusations, Venu Ravichandran announced that the film contains no controversial scenes and added that the film, based around the Hindu religion, will convert atheists to theists. The charges were cleared on 29 May 2008 insisting that Dasavathaaram did not portray Hindu culture in bad light.

Screenings

The film's trailer was released publicly on 23 April 2008, a day after it was shown to special guests, which included M. Karunanidhi at a screen. The first exclusive screening of the film, prior to release, was held on the morning of the audio launch on 25 April 2008, to visiting guests Jackie Chan, Mammooty and Amitabh Bachchan, all of whom were full of praise for the film.
The film was shown subsequently to the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, M. Karunanidhi by the request of the producer on 8 June 2008.

Critical reception

Rediff praised the film as "spectacular" and a "super human effort", rating it with 4 out of 5 stars. The reviewer concluded that the film will "go down in the history of Indian cinema as a unique experiment in the commercial circuit". In comparison, Sify called the film "average", stating that it "fell short of the huge expectation and hype it had generated. The reviewer also criticized the make-up, lamenting that "Kamal's prosthetic makeup, especially as George Bush, Fletcher and Khan, is a bit of a dampener" but claimed that Brian Jennings's special effects, "mainly of the climax Tsunami scene, are top class by Indian standards". The reviewer praised cinematographer Ravi Varman, noting: "[He] may take a bow, as his camerawork is glossy and superb". Behindwoods rated the film 3.5 out of 5 and said, "In short, with unexpected twists and turns missing in the film, Dasavatharam is a make-up magic show that disappoints as drama and satisfies as a technical showpiece." but concluded, "Watch for Kamal!" IndiaGlitz said, "This is a movie that has highlighted a highly talented and passionate actor in his entire splendor. At the end of the film one tends to ask....has Kamal Haasan been so spectacular that he has overshadowed the script and story this time?"
T S Sudhir of NDTV wrote, "Dasavathaaram, unfortunately, remains just a film with its USP of 10 Kamals. This Kamal does not blossom the way he did in Indian or Nayakan, Appu Raja, Mahanadi, Avvai Shanmughi or in Thevar Magan" and further stated, "One of the best in the business falters with the film's story and screenplay." Nikhat Kazmi of The Times of India rated the film 2.5 out of 5 and said, "EXPERIMENTS aren't always successful. Like Dasavatharam , Kamal Haasan's ambitious venture which sees him playing ten roles which include a take on George Bush too. Daring, we'd like to insist; only the make-up and the fake appearance borders more on the comic." The Deccan Herald said, "The ten roles are awfully disparate: they are more like pantomime characters. Kamal appears too flabby and jaded. Sorry, Appu Raja (or shall we say Michael, Madana, Kamarajan) it’s time you start being your age. From start to finish there is a severe decibel assault aided and abetted by Himesh Reshammiya." OneIndia said, "After watching Dasavatharam- the so called magnum opus of the year- an ardent fan of Kamal Hassan will ask why indeed it is called a magnum opus in the first place. Why was all the hype, tension, cases, expectations and unnecessary expenses wasted on this average film. Once again, Kamal fails to attract Tamil audiences with his own script." and gave the verdict, "Not up to expectations!" Malathi Rangarajan of The Hindu said, "The film would have worked even better had the narrative been tauter and more purposive post-interval" but concluded, "All in all, Dasavathaaram shows that Kamal Haasan has once again taken great pains to make his cinematic projects convincing. The effort has paid off."

Awards

Dasavathaaram received the Best Film Award and Kamal Haasan received the Best Actor Award at the Tamil Nadu State Film Awards.

Box office

Domestic

Dasavathaaram was claimed to be a success and a very good grosser. The Indian box office tally reached

1 billion in three weeks. The film completed 50-day run in 750 screens worldwide. Dasavathaaram completed a 100-day run on 20 September 2008.
Upon release, Dasavathaaram was dubbed and released in Telugu on the same date, with later release dates set for the Hindi, Malayalam, Bengali and Bhojpuri versions. The Indian censor board certified the film on 24 April 2008, giving it a "U" (universal) rating, after 9 cuts were made and letting the film run for 166 minutes. Dasavathaaram released worldwide with 1,300 prints in all the respective languages. Tamil Nadu had 275 prints, Kerala 85 prints and Karnataka 80 prints, with 190 prints released overseas. The Hindi version Dashavtar had about 410 prints in North India. The Telugu version had 260 prints in Andhra Pradesh including 45 prints in Nizam region. The film opened in 25 screens in Hyderabad. The film grossed

9.6 million from 17 screens in Chennai in the opening weekend. The Chennai Corporation had given the producer special permission to hold five shows daily, which helped the film to garner the extraordinary opening. The second highest collecting film did not have even 10% of its collection. In the second weekend too, the film registered at least 95% at multiplexes and 80 percent in single screens. The film grossed

9.2 million in a fortnight in Mayajaal multiplex. The film stayed at No.1 in Chennai box office for five consecutive weeks. In Sathyam Cinemas multiplex, the film grossed

9 million in a fortnight. The film grossed

3 crore in Chennai,

21 crore in Tamil Nadu and

500 million worldwide in the first week. In Chennai, the film grossed

6.35 crore in three weeks,

7.53 crore in four weeks,

8.55 crore in five weeks,

9.44 crore in six weeks and

100.8 million in seven weeks. The film grossed

25 million in seven weeks from 3 screens in Trichy. It also grossed

79.4 million in Coimbatore in six weeks.
The Hindi version Dashavatar opened to a poor 5–10% response. The Hindi version Dasavatar netted

1.93 crore in six weeks in North India. The film grossed

2 crore in Kerala in the first week. The film, also released in other parts of India, grossed

6 million from outside Tamil Nadu. In a fortnight, the Telugu version grossed

3.5 crore in Nizam,

1.6 crore in Ceded,

1 crore in Vizag,

95 lakh in East and West Godavari,

75 lakh in Guntur and

7 million in Krishna. The film grossed

250 million in Andhra Pradesh in its lifetime.
The film grossed

2.5 billion (US$42 million) worldwide in its lifetime.

Overseas

The film grossed an overall $16,356,962 overseas in its lifetime.
Dasavathaaram grossed US$4,632,719 and was ranked No.7 in the opening week, becoming the first Tamil film to reach the Top 10 at the International box office. In Malaysia, the film opened in second place, having collected $601,000 from 58 screens on the opening weekend and $1,720,780 in nine weeks.
Dasavathaaram was released in USA with 42 prints, an unprecedented record in US movie history for a South Indian film. With print sharing facility, it was screened in 50 cities across the country. The collection on the opening weekend in the USA was $500,000. The film grossed $750,000 in the USA as lifetime business.
In the UK box office, it collected £126,747 from 19 screens on its opening weekend, debuting at number 12, the third highest position ever for a Tamil film. By its second weekend, Dasavathaaram grossed £216,000 at the UK box office.
In Canada, it was distributed by Walt Disney Pictures, the first Tamil film do so. In the UAE, the film grossed

6.3 crore in four weeks including

2.5 crore in Dubai,

2.4 crore in Abu Dhabi and

13 million in Sharjah.

Other media

The satellite rights of the film were sold to Kalaignar TV for

45 million.

Unnaipol Oruvan (English: Someone Like You) is a 2009 Tamil drama-thriller film directed by debutante Chakri Toleti. It stars Kamal Haasan and Mohanlal in the lead roles. The film was simultaneously made in Telugu as Eeenadu with Venkatesh playing Mohanlal's role, both remakes of the Hindi film A Wednesday! (2008). The film tells the story of a police commissioner who gets an anonymous call. The caller demands that he release militants in exchange for information about many bombs planted across Chennai. The caller is serious as the police find a bomb planted very close to their headquarters. The commissioner is later cornered between releasing militants who had been responsible for killing innocent people and stopping bomb blasts around the city. Whatever he chooses forms the rest of the plot. Unnaipol Oruvan received positive reviews from the critics and was a commercial success.

1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Production
4 Release
5 Critical reception
6 Soundtrack
7 References
8 External links

Plot

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In the opening frame, the recently dismissed police commissioner of Chennai, I.G. Raghavan Maraar (Mohanlal), standing at the seashore, describes in a voice-over about his termination due to a common man who walked into his life and turned everything topsy-turvy. This scene leads into the flashback. An unnamed man (Kamal Haasan) is shown strategically placing a travel bag in a train in the Chennai Central railway station and in a shopping mall. He proceeds to place another bag, under the false pretense of lodging an FIR, in the toilet of a police station in Anna Salai, Chennai. He then arrives on the rooftop of a building under construction and sets up his base of operations, equipped with modern technology gadgets and instruments. He calls up Maraar and informs him that five bombs have been placed in locations throughout Chennai, which are programmed to explode simultaneously within four hours. The common man demands that he would like to negotiate with a senior government official. Maraar seeks the services of the chief secretary (Lakshmi) to act as the negotiator. Maraar also alerts his team involved in intelligence research and surveillance, tapping all the available resources in gathering preliminary information and tracing the location of the caller. Meanwhile, the caller tips off television news reporter Natasha Rajkumar (Anuja Iyer), telling her to reach Anna Salai police station immediately as it is going to be "the most important day of her life".
Maraar initially suspects the anonymous caller to be bluffing, but his doubts are dispelled as the caller, to prove his seriousness and the police force's helplessness, reveals that a bomb has been planted in the Anna Salai police station. When the bomb disposal squad find the bomb, there is only three minutes left. The common man calls Maraar and tells him the instructions to deactivate the bomb. Based on these, the bomb is defused. Natasha reaches the scene on the caller's instructions and reports about the situation. There is intense debate between Maraar and the chief secretary on who would act as the negotiator with the common man. The chief minister does not want to get into this; the chief secretary does not want to take upon the responsibility. Hence, Maraar himself takes on the role of the negotiator with the common man. The common man demands the release of four terrorists — Abdullah, Inayadullah, Ahamadullah and Karamchand Lala — who have been involved in and arrested for many of the major terrorist attacks and activities that have happened in the country during the previous decade.
Maraar cleverly uses Natasha to fake a report on live television that four terrorists are being relocated to an undisclosed common site, turning the caller's tool back onto him. Maraar's men find out that the caller is using advanced software to automatically switch the numbers and locations of his mobile phone SIM card every minute, rendering their manpower and the obsolete equipment useless and prompting them to employ the services of a young hacker, who turns out to be an IIT dropout. In the meantime, Maraar is able to obtain a facial composite of the caller with help of the police officer to whom the caller had approached to lodge the fake FIR, but much of the time passes without any concrete results on the identity or the location of the caller. Ultimately, Maraar agrees with the caller's demand and puts two of his best men, Arif Khan (Ganesh Venkatraman) and Sethuraman (Bharath Reddy), in charge of handing over the four terrorists at the Sozhavaram airstrip. Once there, the caller confirms the identity of the four men via a conference call with Arif and Maraar. He then asks Arif and Sethu to unlock their handcuffs and leave them alone at a particular spot. Sethu orders his men to do as told but, at the last moment, Arif decides not to hand over Abdullah to ensure all the information regarding the locations of the bombs can be forced out from the caller. Sethu argues with Arif and demands he do as ordered, but Arif forcefully grabs the terrorist and starts walking away.
As they leave behind the remaining three, the caller, unaware of the ongoing fiasco, uses a cell phone placed in a rigged jeep at the spot to detonate an explosion in which all the three terrorists perish. Arif relays this information to Maraar, which is confirmed by the anonymous caller as he reveals that he is just a "stupid common man", not belonging to any terrorist outfit, and his plan was not to free the terrorists but to kill them, avenging all the terrorist attacks they had helped carry out in Coimbatore and other major cities of India, thus "cleaning the roach-infested house". Maraar tries to reason with him and tries to find out his religion, the justification for this action, any personal incidents that prompted him to take such an action etc. The common man narrates an incident of how a Muslim woman was being tortured and molested by communal people. The common man also says that he can take actions for the sufferings meted out to people from other communities too. The caller threatens to blow up the remaining bombs across the city unless Arif and Sethu kill Abdullah. The Chief Secretary (Lakshmi) tells Maraar that the Chief Minister has to know about the Current Situation but Maraar disagrees and tells her that he'll face the consequences, and orders Arif to kill the terrorist. As Natasha reports the scene on television, the young hacker traces the caller's location but refuses to reveal it saying that the caller was actually "brainy", and compared to him, the hacker was only one among the billions. But Maraar looks in the hacker's computer, discovers the location and leaves abruptly towards the site.
The caller calls up Maraar, as he is on the way, for a final time to further reveal that he had not planted any other bomb in the city. At this point, Maraar surprisingly declares he already knew there were no more bombs which makes it clear that his decision to kill the last terrorist wasn't taken in fear but in confidence. Maraar reaches the caller's location just as the latter is leaving the place, having destroyed all his gadgets and equipments, leaving behind no evidence. The two meet briefly when Maraar, identifying the anonymous caller on the basis of the face sketch, offers the man a ride home and introduces himself. Both shake hands, when Maraar's voice-over cuts back as he says the man told him his real name but his name doesn't have any significance. The film ends on an idealistic note, with Maraar admitting that they all knew the common man was disturbed because of the insecure environment and the incompetence of the governing authorities but he never imagined him to go to such lengths and have the guts to do something like that. He also repeats that the facts of this incident cannot be found in any written record but only in the memories of those who actually witnessed it, and acknowledges that although the incidence has ambiguous moral significance, he personally feels that whatever happened, happened for the best.

Cast

Kamal Haasan as the unnamed caller / common-man
Mohanlal as I. G. Raghava Maraar
Lakshmi as Chief Secretary of Tamil Nadu
Ganesh Venkatraman as Arif Khan
Bharath Reddy as Sethuraman
Anuja Iyer as Natasha Rajkumar
Poonam Kaur as Anu Sethuraman
Santhana Bharathi as Karamchand Lala
Sriman as Arvind Adhavar
Anand Krishnamoorthi as Arun the Hacker

Production

Casting

While Kamal Haasan was cast in the lead role; confirmation of Mohanlal's presence in the film followed. Ganesh Venkatraman, who debuted in the 2008 film Abhiyum Naanum, was later confirmed for a supporting role. Bharath Reddy, who played a cop in the Telugu film Siddam, is playing another supporting cop role.
UTV Motion Pictures distributed the film along with Rajkamal International, Haasan's home production company, which produced it. Unnaipol Oruvan was directed by Chakri, a US-based filmmaker and a close friend of Haasan. Chakri had previously played the role of Govind's friend, Sai Ram, in Dasavathaaram, and the role of a child who takes still photographs of Kamal in the 1983 Telugu film Saagara Sangamam. Neeraj Pandey wrote the film's dialogue and screenplay. The music was composed by Kamal Haasan's daughter, Shruthi Haasan.
The title was changed from Thalaivan Irukkiran to Unnaipol Oruvan in early April 2009. Recent news in 2012 confirms that Thalaivan Irukkiran is a different film altogether, that is touted to be a multistarrer.

Filming

Unnaipol Oruvan started its first filming schedule on 6 February 2009. It completed shooting in 65 days. It was initially set to release on August 12, 2009, since the date coincided with the release of Kamal Haasan’s first film Kalathur Kannamma and his entry into Tamil cinema in 1959, marking 2009 as Haasan's 50th year in cinema. However, owing to technical and administrative difficulties, the release was postponed to September 18. The film was given a U/A (Parental Guidance) rating from the Central Board of Film Certification, mainly because of its theme — terrorism.

Release

The satellite rights of the film were bagged by Kalaignar TV. The film was given a "U/A" certificate by the Indian Censor Board.

Critical reception

Unnaipol Oruvan received positive reviews from the critics. Sify said that technically the film was picture-perfect and that both Kamalahassan and Mohanlal coming together is worth the ticket money. It mentioned that unlike in the Hindi version where Naseeruddin Shah had an edge over Anupam Kher, here the best dialogues were almost equally given to Mohanlal as well.
Behindwoods rated that overall it was a brilliant work which will be appreciated by every socially responsible citizen of India. Indiaglitz commented that Unnaipol Oruvan deserves to be watched to see how Kamal & Mohanlal pit against Nasser & Kher. Kollywood Today praised that the movie was stupendously awesome and was a must-watch. Pavithra Srinivasan of rediff.com provided 4 stars and also had the same comments.

Soundtrack

Unnai Pol Oruvan
Soundtrack album by Shruti Haasan
Released	6 September 2009
Recorded	2009
Genre	Soundtrack
Label	Think Music

The music was composed by Shruti Haasan, daughter of Kamal Haasan. The album contains four songs and a remix. The songs are featured throughout the film. Kamal Haasan, singer Blaaze, and Manyusha Puthran contributed the lyrics. The audio launch was held on 6 September 2009 at Sathyam Cinemas.

No.	Song	Singers	Length (m:ss)	Lyrics
1	"Unnaipol Oruvan"	Shruthi Haasan, Akshara Haasan, Subbalakshmi, Satish, Leo, Krishnan Swaminathan, Bala, Mira, Tara, Aiden	3:43	Kamal Haasan
2	"Nilai Varumaa"	Bombay Jayashree, Kamal Haasan	4:44	Kamal Haasan
3	"Vaanam Ellai...Illai"	Shruti Haasan, Blaaze	3:15	Kamal Haasan, Blaaze (Rap bit)
4	"Allah Jaane"	Kamal Haasan	5:10	Manushyaputhiran
5	"Allah Jaane (Part 2)"	Shruti Haasan	4:34	Remix by Vinayaka

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