பிரார்த்தனைக்காக முன்வரும் இரண்டு கைகளை விடவும், உதவுவதற்காக முன்வரும் ஒரு கை மிகவும் மதிப்பு வாய்ந்தது- கமல்ஹாசர்

Sunday, December 5, 2010

Nayagan

Nayagan
Nayakudu (Telugu)

Official Tamil DVD Cover
Directed by Mani Ratnam
Produced by Mani Ratnam
G. Venkateswaran
Written by Mani Ratnam
Starring Kamal Haasan
Saranya
Janagaraj
Tinnu Anand
Delhi Ganesh
Nizhalgal Ravi
Karthika
Nasser
Neena
Music by Ilaiyaraaja
Cinematography P. C. Sriram
Distributed by Sujatha Films
Release date(s) 31 July 1987
Running time 145 min
Language Tamil
Gross revenue US$3 million






Nayagan (Tamil: நாயகன், a.k.a. Nayakan; English: Leader) is a 1987 Tamil film, written and directed by Mani Ratnam. Upon release, the movie got rave reviews across India. Kamal Hassan's performance in this film earned him a Best Actor award. Maniratnam earned accolades from all over India and became popular overnight. The film also earned National Award for Best Cinematography and Best Art Direction.
Nayagan (which means 'Hero' or 'Leader') is based on the real-life Bombay underworld don Varada or Varadarajan Mudaliar, and sympathetically depicts the struggle of South Indians living in Bombay (now Mumbai). The lead character is played by Kamal Haasan, and the film also stars Saranya, Karthika, Nassar, Delhi Ganesh and Janagaraj. The soundtrack of the film was composed by Ilaiyaraaja.
The film was nominated by India as its entry for the Best Foreign Language Film for the Academy Awards in 1987. In 2005, Time Magazine included Nayagan in its "All-Time 100 Best Films" list.[1]
The film was remade in Hindi as Dayavan in 1988, with Vinod Khanna playing the part of Saktivelu and with Feroz Khan and Madhuri Dixit playing the roles of Selvam and Neela. A dubbed version of the film was released as Velu Nayakan in 1999.

 Plot

Sakthivelu Nayakar (Kamal Hassan), the protagonist, is born to an anti-government union leader. The child, Velu, is tricked by the police into locating his father, and then witnesses his father's death in a police shootout. Then after doing the final rites for his father, he kills the person who was the cause for his father's death. Orphaned, he 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 sprawling 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 Inspector Kelkar arrests the fisherman on smuggling charges, and is later murdered. Velu Naiker, now a young man who has come into his own, goes in search of the officer and bludgeons him to death.
kamal hassan in NAYAGAN

Kamal Hassan in a scene from the movie
With this act, he is seen at once a saviour and a man to be feared amongst the slum residents. As their godfather and protector, he flourishes by resuming his dead foster-father's local smuggling activities. He marries a destitute school-girl-turned-prostitute (Saranya) and has two children. Conflicts and power struggles occur in the competitive web of the smuggling world, in which Velu's wife becomes a casualty. Velu's kids are sent away to Chennai as a result and return years later to their father's home, as young adults.
The 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. To this he replies Ellariyum yetha sol, aprom naan yethran. The death of her brother was the last straw for her and she cuts off her relationship with her father and leaves him.
A newly appointed Assistant Police Commissioner (Nassar) starts afresh the hunt to bring Velu Nayakar to justice over his alleged activities and manages to secure an arrest warrant. This Commissioner is unknowingly Velu's son-in-law, as his daughter had secretly married him. After continued pursuit resulting in the beatings 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 for his alleged nefarious activities. A supportive and emotional crowd gathers at the courthouse, awaiting Velu's release. Velu emerges to greet the tumultuous crowd but unexpectedly gets shot by Inspector Kelkar's retarded son, whom Velu had adopted, after he learns that Velu had killed his father long ago.

Cast

  • Kamal Haasan, Manikandan (child role) as Shaktivelu / Velu Naiker
  • Saranya Ponvannan as Neela
  • Janagaraj as Selvam
  • Tinnu Anand as Ajith Kelkar
  • Delhi Ganesh as Aiyyer
  • Nizhalgal Ravi as Surya
  • Karthika as Charumati / Charu
  • Nasser as Assistant Commissioner / Charu's husband
  • Kitty as Shaktivelu's father
  • M. V. Vasudeva Rao as Hussain Bai
  • Tara as Shyla
  • Vijayan

Awards

The film was nominated as India's official entry for the 1988 Academy Awards. However, it was not among the five films shortlisted for the award.
The film won the following awards:
1988 National Film Awards (India)
  • Best Actor - Kamal Haasan
  • Best Cinematography - P. C. Sriram
  • Best Art Direction - Thotta Tharani

Vetri Vizha வெற்றி விழா

Vetri Vizha

DVD cover of Vetri Vizha
Directed by Pratap Pothan
Produced by Sivaji Productions
Written by K.Rajeshwar, Shanmugapriyan
Narrated by Pratap Pothan
Starring Kamal Haasan
Prabhu Ganesan
Amala
Kushboo
Sasikala
Music by Ilayaraaja
Cinematography Ashok Kumar
Release date(s) November 7 1989
Country India
Language Tamil
Preceded by Apoorva Sagothargal
Followed by Indhirudu Chandirudu
வெற்றி விழா is a 1989 Tamil language film starring Kamal Haasan in the lead role of the protagonist. Prabhu Ganesan, Amala, Sasikala and Kushboo played supporting roles. The story was of an amnesiac who struggles to find his past after memory loss.
The Movie opens with a Man (Kamal Hasan) being chased by heavily armed men. He takes out a couple of them with his superior skills but is shot down from a hanging ladder in the helicopter trying to rescue him. He washes up on the shore of Goa unconscious and is rescued by (Sasikala) who brings him to her doctor aunt (Sowcar Janaki).
When he wakes up, he realizes that he is suffering from Amnesia and has a few flashes of a sculptures, karate class etc. but doesn’t recognize them. Meanwhile, the local rowdy has been harassing the doctor and her niece. Kamal and Sasikala are again harassed by the rowdy but kamal manages to thwart the attack easily which makes him believe that he might be trained in martial arts. Since kamal has enraged the rowdy, the doctor pleads with him to marry her niece for her own protection. He does so and thwarts another attack from the rowdy during their wedding.
Right after, he decides to leave for Chennai to find his identity with his new wife in tow. Soon they find out that the earlier flashes he had are of the sculptures in Connemara Hotel and he used to be a regular there. After getting the bank account number he has used previously in the Hotel, he visits the bank and is once again surprised to find out that he was a regular to the bank too and has a locker with a large amount of money, multiple passports of him and a hand gun.
While leaving the bank, he is attacked by an unknown assailant in the elevator but he once again successfully maims the assailant and escapes but leaves a shocked witness. His bank locker contents along with his martial arts skills make him believe that he might have been involved in gangs before and decides to surrender to police but is talked out it by his wife.
We are then introduced to Vijay (Prabhu Ganesan) and Khushboo who are part of a wedding band. Kamal decides to uncover another one of his image flashes and tries to locate the karate class. In One such class, the instructor recognizes him but guides him towards a singer Disco Shanti and tells his that he might be in danger. Another group of assailants attack him and Vijay and his wife are caught in the chaos. Believing Vijay to be helping Kamal, they kidnap his wife and demand the surrender of Kamal but Vijay and Kamal team up to rescue Vijay’s wife which makes Vijay pledge to help Kamal in his quest.
Kamal, then goes to talk to the singer but is soon recognized and is shot at. Shanti helps him escape and gives him a phone number to contact but is fatally wounded. He contacts the number and barely escapes another attempt on his life but manages to meet the person Shanti referred who happens to be the Police commissioner.
He finally learns of his true identity. His name is Vetri and that he was a happily married, to Lalitha (Amala), Police officer who teamed up with the commissioner to bring down a notorious hitman Zinda (Salim Ghouse).Unable to find any information about Zinda’s whereabouts, they device a plan to make Vetri go undercover and make him a bigger and more dangerous hitman than Zinda, hoping Zinda would get in touch with his fiercest competitor. The plan works and soon Zinda and Vetri become friends. But soon, Zinda learns about an undercover police officer in his gang thro’ a spy and kidnap Lalitha to oust the spy. Vetri breaks his cover to protect Lalitha but she is shot and killed in the shooting that ensues and Vetri is chased (this is the opening in the movie) but escapes barely.
Vetri put the pieces back together and uncovers a plot by Zinda to assassinate a very popular priest, when he went to visit the singer. Vijay and Vetri thwart the plot but Zinda still manages to escape. In order to avenge this Zinda kidnaps both Vijays and Vetris wives and send them a photographic evidence of the kidnap. But Vetri and Vijay soon find the location with the background signboard in the photo and rescue their wives and arrest Zinda.
Awaiting Zindas presence in the courtroom for his trial, they are surprised to see an unknown man being presented in the trial as Zinda. This makes them think that the commissioner may be the spy who swapped Zinda out and rushes to his house to confront him but finds him murdered in the arms of his crying wife. Suspicions still exist and Vetri and Vijay finds that the real spy is the commissioners wife and confront her. She shows them a lot of cash and asks them to let her go. Vijay, sees this and shoots and kill Vetri for the money and asks her to give his the money and leave. She, believing that Vetri is finally dead rushes back to Zinda. But Vetri is alive and this was a plan to make her lead them to Zindas location. Vetri and Vijay follow her to a Ship docked on the port and goes in to arrest Zinda. Zinda and his men are soon overpowered by the 2 man fighting machine but before he dies he arms a bomb in the ship. Vetri and Vijay collaborate once again to disarm the bomb.

Related

1. This film is later dubbed into Telugu as Vijethalu. The film is heavily inspired by The Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum, though the story deviates from Ludlum's plot in the second half of the movie.
2. The film completed 100th day in 1990.
3. Many artistes made cameos in the film :
  • Sowcar Janaki(Extended cameo, in the beginning of the film)
  • Amala (Extended cameo, plus a song sequence)
  • Disco Shanti (Extended cameo, plus a song sequence)
  • V.K Ramasamy (Cameo)
  • Palaivana Solai Thyagu (Cameo)
  • S.S Santhiran (Extended Cameo)
  • Janakaraj (Extended Cameo),
  • Vikram Dharma (Elevator Fight Sequence)
  • Chinni Jayanth (Cameo)
  • Mayilsamy (Cameo)and
  • Ponnampalam (Cameo)
4. Hindi actor Salim Ghouse debuted as villain Jindha and dubbed his own voice. He later became famous through Vijaykanth's Cinna Gounder
5. Vetri Vizha is first of 2 Tamil film made in 70mm format, the other was Amaran (1992).
6. The climax fight sequence in which Vetrivel (Kamal) Kills Jindha (Salim) is exact copy of Arnold Schwarzenegger's 1985 film Commando's climax scene.
7. Kamal Haasan wore a false moustache throughout the film since he was filming Indhiruddu Chandiruddu (Telugu) and Chanakyan (Malayalam) at the same time, in which both film required non-moustached roles
  • Story - K.Rajeshwar and Shanmugapriyan
  • Direction and screen play - Pratap Pothan
  • Music - Illayaraja
  • Cinematography - Ashok Kumar
  • Choreography - Master Sundaram. Both Raju Sundaram and Prabu Deva served as uncredited dance assistants for the film

Saagar

Saagar

Official DVD Cover
Directed by Ramesh Sippy
Produced by G.P. Sippy
Written by Javed Akhtar
Starring Rishi Kapoor
Kamal Hassan
Dimple Kapadia
Nadira
Saeed Jaffrey
Satish Kaushik
Music by R.D. Burman
Cinematography S.M. Anwar
Editing by M.S. Shinde
Distributed by Sippy Films
Release date(s) 9 August 1985
Running time 187 mins
Country India
Language Hindi
Saagar (Hindi: सागर, Urdu: ساگر) is a 1985 Bollywood film directed by Ramesh Sippy. The film starred Rishi Kapoor and Dimple Kapadia, (who were both first seen together in the hit film Bobby) along with Kamal Hassan.
Saagar was a comeback film for Kapadia, and contained a fleeting topless shot of Dimple. Also, Saagar was the Indian entry to Oscar for the year 1985 under the Best Foreign Film Category.
This movie is a triangular love story. Mona (Dimple Kapadia) runs a small restaurant in Goa, Raja (Kamal Hassan) lives close by and is a good friend. Raja is in love with her but is unable to admit his feelings.
Meanwhile Ravi (Rishi Kapoor) is from a rich industrialist family and moves to Goa from the US. Mona and Ravi fall in love. But Raja doesn't know about it. Ravi's grandmother is opposed to their love because of class differences.

Cast

  • Rishi Kapoor as Ravi
  • Kamal Haasan as Raja
  • Dimple Kapadia as Mona D'Silva
  • Nadira as Miss Joseph
  • Saeed Jaffrey as Mr. D'Silva
  • Madhur Jaffrey as Kamladevi
  • A.K. Hangal as Baba
  • Shafi Inamdar as Vikram
  • Satish Kaushik as Batuk Laal
  • Kiran Vairale as Maria
  • Lilliput as Cheena
  • Goga Kapoor as Thekedaar..

Soundtrack

  • Jaane Do Naa Asha Bhosle, Shailendra Singh
  • O Maria Asha Bhosle, S. P. Balasubramaniam
  • Saagar Jaisi Aankhonwali Kishore Kumar
  • Saagar Kinare (duet) Kishore Kumar, Lata Mangeshkar
  • Saagar Kinare (female) Lata Mangeshkar
  • Sach Mere Yaar Hai S. P. Balasubramaniam
  • Yoon Hi Gaate Raho S. P. Balasubramaniam, Kishore Kumar

Awards

The film has won the following awards since its release:
1986 Filmfare Awards (India)
  • Won - Filmfare Award - Best Actor - Kamal Hassan
  • Won - Filmfare Award - Best Actress - Dimple Kapadia
  • Won - Filmfare Award - Best Cinematography - S.M. Anwar
  • Won - Filmfare Award - Best Male Playback Singer - Kishore Kumar (for 'Saagar Kinare')

Thoongadhey Thambi Thoongadhey

Thoongadhey Thambi Thoongadhey
Directed by S.P.Muthuraman
Produced by AVM Productions
Written by Panju Arunachalam
Starring Kamal Haasan
Radha
Suloachana
Jamuna
V.K.Ramasaamy
Vinuchakravarthy
Goundamani
Senthamarai
Janagaraj
Bindhukos
Dilip
Music by Ilayaraaja
Release date(s) 1983
Country India
Language Tamil
Gross revenue $3 million
 Thoongadhey Thambi Thoongadhey is a Tamil language film starring Kamal Haasan in the lead role of the protagonist. In this film Kamal Haasan has done a "dual" role. One as an unemployed guy from a middle class society and other as a guy of a rich society return from abroad after his father's death. In order to get the total property of the Kamal Haasan (rich-one), Vinuchakravarthy with his mob guys assaults him and makes him to undergo as a drug addict by repeated injections of some harmful sedative. Radha's father V.K. Ramasmy who is a family friend of the rich-one's father with Radha who is also a lover of the another Kamal comes as an excursion. Due to her curiousness she sees the rich-one and finds out that he is in a very dangerous state of his health due to the drug addiction. With the help of the house's servant Radha replaces the other Kamal to this house and saves him and his properties from the bad guys Vinuchakravarthy and Senthamarai.
- The highlight of the movie is the grand climax scenes which is cross edited carefully from a Hindi film by editor Vittas. - Stunt Director Judo Rathnam repeated the tea stall fight in 1985 Hindi film Geraftaar, also starring Kamal Haasan.

Cast

  • Kamal Haasan
  • Radha
  • Suloachana
  • Jamuna
  • V.K.Ramasaamy
  • Vinuchakravarthy
  • Goundamani
  • Senthamarai
  • Janagaraj
  • Bindhukos
  • Dilip

Box office

  • The film grossed $3 million at the box office and was graded as one of the All-Time Blockbuster of Kamal Haasan's career.
  • The film created huge Mass hysteria and lived upto its hype doing sensational business all over South India.
  • The film was dubbed into malayalam as Vasantholsavam
  • The film has the Evergreen song " Naanaka Naanillai Thaayae.. Nalvaazhvu Thanthayae Neeyae..."

Moondram Pirai

Moondram Pirai

Official DVD Box Cover
Directed by Balu Mahendra
Produced by G. Thyagarajan
Written by Balu Mahendra(screenplay)
Starring Kamal Haasan
Sridevi Kapoor
Silk Smitha
Poornam Vishwanathan
Music by Ilaiyaraaja
Cinematography Balu Mahendra
Editing by D. Vasu
Release date(s) India 19 February 1982
Running time 139 min
Country India
Language Tamil
 Moondram Pirai (Tamil: மூன்றாம் பிறை) is a 1982 Indian Tamil language film starring Sridevi, Kamal Haasan, Poornam Vishwanathan and Silk Smitha.
The film was dubbed in Telugu language and was released on the same day (19 February 1982) with the title "Vasantha Kokila"The film was remade the following year as Sadma, with much of the cast and crew from the original reprising their roles.
 The movie begins with a young girl Bhagyalakshmi (Sridevi) who meets with an accident thus succumbing to amnesia. This condition makes her lose her memory of her entire teenage and adulthood leaving her as a physically grown up woman but with the memory and intelligence of a seven year old. Circumstances cheat her into Prostitution, where in the brothel, she meets Srinivas (Kamal Haasan) who understands that she has been tricked into the trade. He rescues her to take her to his home in Ooty and begins to lead life with her taking care of her like his own. Bhagyalakshmi, who is now being called as Viji, which was the pseudonym given for her at the brothel, also reciprocates to Srinivas's care as they spend several months together sharing an amazing and innocent relationship that thrives on the tender line between affection and love. The sub plot of the film follows a series of parallel romances between the wife of Srinivas' boss and Srinivas. Although Srinivas doesn't reciprocate her feelings, it depicts how the outside world succumbs to human emotions of lust and desire which are totally devoid in the life led between Srinivas and Viji. However, their happiness is short lived as Srinivas takes Viji to a village medical practitioner who cures her of her mental illness and brings her back to sanity as she recovers her memory up to the point of her accident a few months back. But when Srinivas comes to meet Viji later that day, she is now not able to identify him or remember him. Despite all his efforts to make her understand that he was the one who had taken care of her for several months, she is indifferent to him and leaves Ooty to go back to her hometown, thus abandoning Srinivas and the life and relationship that she once had with him.

Cast

  • Kamal Haasan - Srinivas
  • Sridevi - Bhagyalaksmi/Viji
  • Silk Smitha - Headmaster's Wife
  • Poornam Vishwanathan - Headmaster
  • Y.G.Mahendran - Srinivas's friend

Awards and nominations

National Film Awards

Winners:
  • Silver Lotus Award - Best Actor - Kamal Haasan
  • Silver Lotus Award - Best Cinematography - Balu Mahendra

Ek Duje Ke Liye

Ek Duuje Ke Liye

Video CD Cover
Directed by K. Balachander
Produced by L.V. Prasad
Written by K. Balachander
Starring Kamal Haasan,
Rati Agnihotri,
Madhavi
Music by Laxmikant Pyarelal
Release date(s) 5 June 1981
Running time 163 min.
Language Hindi

Ek Duuje Ke Liye (1981) is a Hindi movie directed by K. Balachander, starring Kamal Haasan, Rati Agnihotri. It was a remake of the Telugu movie Maro Charithra. The film was a "blockbuster" at the box office in 1981, earning a total of Indian rupee10 crore (US$ 2.27 million) in box office receipts.
The movie is about the love between a Tamil man, Vasu (Kamal Haasan) and a North-Indian woman, Sapna (Rati Agnihotri), who are neighbours in (Goa). They come from totally different backgrounds and can hardly speak each other's language. Their parents despise each other and there are regular skirmishes for various reasons. When Vasu and Sapna admit their love there is chaos in their homes and their parents totally reject the idea.
As a ploy to separate the lovers, their parents impose a condition that Vasu and Sapna should stay away from each other for a year, and after such a period if they still want to get together they can get married. Also, during the period there should be no contact between them whatsoever. Vasu and Sapna agree to the condition and decide to separate.
Vasu moves to Hyderabad, and they both initially suffer a lot being unable to tolerate the separation. Vasu then meets Sandhya (Madhavi), a widow who teaches him Hindi. Meanwhile, Sapna's mother brings a family friend's son, Chakram (Rakesh Bedi) to Goa to distract Sapna from her devotion to Vasu, but she is not impressed. At a chance meeting in Mangalore, Chakram lies to Vasu that Sapna has agreed to marry him. Vasu gets upset and decides to marry Sandhya on the rebound. However, Sandhya comes to know of Vasu's real love and goes to Goa to clear the misunderstanding between the lovers.
Vasu then returns to Goa and impresses Sapna's parents with his Hindi skills. When Vasu goes to meet Sapna he is attacked by an assassin hired by Sandhya's brother (Raza Murad). Meanwhile, Sapna gets raped at a temple and is left to die. The movie ends tragically when they both commit suicide by jumping off a cliff.

Cast
Character's name Played by
Vasudev Kamal Haasan
Sapna Rati Agnihotri
Sandhya Madhavi
Chakram Rakesh Bedi
Sapna's mother Shuba Khote
Release 1981 (1981)
Language Hindi
The music was composed by Laxmikant Pyarelal and the lyrics were written by Anand Bakshi.
  • "Tere Mere Beech Mein" - Lata Mangeshkar, S. P. Balasubrahmanyam
  • "Hum Tum Dono Jab Mil Jayen" - Lata Mangeshkar, S. P. Balasubrahmanyam
  • "Mere Jeevan Saathi" - S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, Anuradha Paudwal
  • "Hum Bane Tum Bane" - Lata Mangeshkar, S. P. Balasubrahmanyam
  • "Tere Mere Beech Mein (Sad)" - S. P. Balasubrahmanyam
  • "Solah Baras Ki Bali Umar" - by Lata Mangeshkar, Anup Jalota

Awards and nominations

  • National Film Award for Best Male Playback Singer - S.P. Balasubramaniam
  • Filmfare Best Editing Award - K.R. Kitoo
  • Filmfare Best Lyricist Award - Anand Bakshi for the song "Tere Mere Beech"
  • Filmfare Nomination for Best Film
  • Filmfare Nomination for Best Director-K. Balachander
  • Filmfare Nomination for Best Actor - Kamal Haasan
  • Filmfare Nomination for Best Actress - Rati Agnihotri
  • Filmfare Nomination for Best Supporting Actress - Madhavi
  • Filmfare Nomination for Best Performance in a Comic Role - Asrani
  • Filmfare Nomination for Best Story - K. Balachander
  • Filmfare Nomination for Best Lyricist - Anand Bakshi for the song "Solah Baras Ki Bali Umar"
  • Filmfare Nomination for Best Male Playback Singer - S.P. Balasubramaniam for the song "Tere Mere Beech"

Trivia

  • Balachander was advised to change the ending, but he stuck to his original story.
  • Ek Duuje Ke Liye marked the debut of two stars from South India in Hindi films: Leading lady Rati Agnihotri and playback singer S.P. Balasubramaniam. Both received Filmfare nominations becoming top stars in Hindi films later.
  • The only person that was missing in the Hindi remake that was present in the original Telugu hit Maro Charithra (1979) was leading lady Saritha, as her role was now played by Rati Agnihotri. Director K. Balachander, Kamal Haasan, Madhavi, and S.P. Balasubramaniam all repeated their artistry in the Hindi hit.
  • Kamal Hassan and Rati Agnihotri were paired together again in a Hindi film titled Dekha Pyar Tumhara (1985), but the film wasn't a hit, and they were never paired together again.

Sigappu Rojakkal

Sigappu Rojakkal

Directed by                      Bharathi Raja
Cinemotography =            P.S.Nivas
Produced by                      K.R.G. Productions
Written by                        Bharathi Raja
                                         Bhagyaraj
Starring                            Kamal Haasan
                                         Sridevi
                                         Bhagyaraj
Music by                          Ilayaraja
Release date(s) India         1978
Language                         Tamil
sigappu Rojakkal (Tamil: சிகப்பு ரோஜாக்கள்) (English: Red Roses) is a 1978 Tamil movie starring Kamal Haasan and Sridevi. In an era of over-dramatised acting in Tamil films, Sigappu Rojakkal was one of the notable exceptions. With an anti-hero who is a psychopathic, sexual killer in the lead, the movie was seen as controversial by traditional and orthodox moviegoers in Tamil Nadu. ileep (Kamal Haasan) is a successful businessman with a dark side. He preys on nubile girls and rapes and kills them. These proceedings are video-recorded and watched by his adoptive father and mentor, 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 Dileep returns before she gets a chance to leave the house. Sarada puts on an agonising mask of normalcy and bides her time to escape. Dileep gets called away on business that night and she packs up her luggage and leaves the house, but is dramatically intercepted by Dileep who gets word of her flight through his watchman. 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. Sarada immediately becomes aware of the possible trouble she would be in and attempts to leave Dileep's house. As she prepares to leave, her husband returns after killing a club waiter (Bhagyaraj), who was a witness and would have identified him as the culprit in the murder of a woman. 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.

Remake

Sigappu Rojakkal was remade in Japanese as Red Roses, in Hindi as Red Rose and in Telugu as Erra gulabilu.

16 Vayathinile

Directed by                  Bharathiraja
Produced by                 S.A.Rajkannu
Starring                        Kamal Haasan
                                     Rajinikanth
                                     Sridevi
                                     Kantimathi
Music by                      Ilaiyaraaja
Cinematography           [P.S.Nivas]
writer                           Bharathiraja
Distributed 
by released                  15 September 1977
Running time                139 mins
Language                      Tamil

16 Vayathinile (pronounced as Pathinaru Vayathinile) (At the Age of Sixteen) is a 1977 Tamil feature film directed by Bharathiraja. The film stars Kamal Haasan, Rajinikanth and Sridevi. The film's score and soundtrack are composed by Ilaiyaraaja. The film marked Bharathiraja's debut as a filmmaker/screenwriter and it met with a strong critical reception upon release. It was also Rajinikanth's first color film. This is the first film which changed the melodrama of Tamil films shooting inside the studios and sets. The film was completely shot in outdoor locations and marked a new era in Tamil cinema. 
This film involves a young, beautiful 16-year-old girl, Mayil, filled with ambitions of becoming a teacher. She is an attractive, intelligent woman living in the small society and experiences ripe love when sees the new vet 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 deep in love, sacrifices her opportunity to study in the teaching college course to spend time with him. Little does she know, that he has not yet revealed his true colors.
Sri Devi's distant cousin Chapani is mentally retarded, and because he is lame, he is taken advantage of and isolated by the society. He is secretly in love with Mayil, and when he sees her in love with the vet, he is jealous and upset. Another important character is the big rowdy Parattai who is also impressed by Mayil. Mayil is impacted by all these men in her life. 
Box office  
The film grossed $1 million at the box office. The film played for 240 days in Cinepriya and 100 days in five other screens. The remake rights for the film was bought for $12,000 by Rajalaxmi Art Films to remake it in Telugu as Padaharella Vayasu.Awards
S. Janaki won the Silver Lotus Award for Best Playback Singer (Female) for her work in the film.

Oru Oodhappu Kan Simittugiradhu

Oru Oodhappu Kan Simittugiradhu
Directed by           S.P. Muthuraman
Produced by          S.Sankaram
                              Ramya Cine Arts
Starring                  Kamal Haasan,
                              Vijayakumar,
                              Sujatha,
                              Vijaya geetha,
                              T.K.veerasami,
                              Vijayalakshmi
Music by               V. Dakshinamoorthy
Editing by             R.Vittal
Release                 4 June 1976
Country                 India
Language              Tamil
Oru Oodhappu Kan Simittugiradhu is a Tamil language film starring Kamal Haasan in the lead role of the protagonist. This movie is based on a novel by the same name written by Pushpa Thangadorai. This Film Revolves around the protagonist Ravi (Kamal hassan).Ravi is getting back to his house after 6 years spent in the jail for killing his best friend sasi for trying to rape Ravi's lover Radha (Sujatha). Ravi's father dejects his son and tells him to leave the house, heartbroken ravi meets Swapna and she becomes his soulmate. suddenly one Ravi finds Radha and goes to her but she tells him not to disturb her anymore,the reason being radha is already married to a person who loves her dearly. Ravi gets a job with the help of swapna and helps sasi's sister but is unable to forget radha while swapna loves ravi secretly but ravi doesn't reciprocate. what happens then? why doesn't ravi reciprocate towards swapna? why did radha get married to another person? whose hand will ravi catch is the climax?
he lyrics for the songs are written by Kannadasan, Kumaradevan, P.Palani Samy

Manmadha Leelai

Manmadha Leelai
Directed by         K. Balachander
Produced by        P.R. Govindarajan and J. Duraiswamy
                            K. Balachander
Starring               Kamal Haasan
                           Y. Vijaya
                           Y. G. Mahendran
Music by             M.S. Viswanathan
Cinematography  B.S. Loganath
Release date(s)   25 February 1976
Country                India
Language            Tamil

Manmadha Leelai is a Tamil-language film starring Kamal Haasan in the lead role, Madhu. The film directed by Kailasam Balachander aka K. Balachander also has Aalam as Madhu's wife Rekha. A number of women actors debuted through this film, including Jeyapradha as Kannagi, Y. Vijaya as Miss. Wrong Number, among others.

The film explores the life journey of a womaniser (Kamalhassan) and his affairs with various women, including those who are married, and tells finally that nothing will last forever except one's own wife's love and others are passing clouds. Balachander's directorial finesse shows in most of the scenes in the film. Even though it stirred up controversies, when it was released, later it became a cult classic. Controversies arose during the release, only because of the reason that Balachander was at least 10 years ahead of the film-makers who were making movies during those periods and tended to say whatever he wanted to say through his movies in a bold and straight-forward manner.

Maro Charithra

Maro Charithra
Directed by               K. Balachander
Produced by              Rama Ayangannal
Written by                 Ganesh Patro
                                  K. Balachander
Starring                     Kamal Haasan
                                  Saritha
                                  Madhavi
                                  Sarath Babu
title                            J.V.Ramana Murthi
                                  P. L. Narayana
                                  J aya Vijaya
                                  S.K.Misro
Music by                   M. S. Viswanathan
Cinematography        B.S.Lokanathan
Running time             169 minutes
Country                      India
Language                   Telugu



Maro Charithra (Telugu: మరో చరిత్ర) is a Telugu film starring Kamal Haasan in the lead role of the protagonist and Saritha as female lead role. It was one among the biggest hits at the box office. Released in 1978, it is a conventional love story later remade in Hindi as "Ek Duuje Ke Liye" in 1981.

The story revolves around a simple "Telugu - Tamil" neighboring girl and boy falling in love and later their family interfere and ask them to remain separate for the whole year which makes the story end in tragedy.

The story talks a lot about neighboring Brahmin- Non-Brahmin wordy quarrels, father and son disagreements between Ramana Murthy and Kamal Hassan, prejudged conditions to break-up the love affair. The entire story names only two places, Vizag and Hyderabad.

* Bhale Bhale Mogadivoi Bangaru Naa Saamivoi (Lyrics: Aathreya)
* Kalisi Unte Kaladhu Sukamu Kalisi Vacchina Adrustamu
* Padaharellaku Neelo Nalo Aa Prayam Chese Chilipi Panulaku Kotidandalu (Lyrics: Aathreya)
* Vidhi Cheyu Vinthalanni MatilEni Chetalenani Virahana Vegipoyi Vilapinche (Lyrics: Aathreya)
* Ye Theega Poovuno Ye Komma Chetino - 1
* Ye Theega Poovuno Ye Komma Chetino - 2

Maro Charitra was pictured completely in Visakhapatnam and showed the beauty of Vizag beach, Bheemlipatnam, Gajuvaka and surroundings.
Released in tamil first and later in Tamil Nadu without dubbing (in Telugu).
In 1981 Maro Charitra was remade in Hindi titling "Ek Duje Ke Liye" produced by L.V. Prasad with Kamal Hassan (debut movie in Hindi) and Rati Agnihotri created box office waves all over India.
Both Telugu and Hindi versions had S.P.B in all songs and he did his best. he received National Award for Hindi version.
The songs "Kalisi Vunte Kaladhu" and Hindi "Mere Jeevan sathi" were done in an elevator.
Kamal Hassan dubbed his voice in Hindi and Telugu.
Both Telugu and Hindi versions ran for 365 days in Hyderabad and Madras.

Raja Paarvai

Directed by     Singeetham Srinivasa Rao
Produced by    Haazan Brothers
Written by       Kamal Haasan
Starring           Kamal Haasan
                         Madhavi
                         Y.G. Mahendra
                         L.V. Prasad
                         KPAC Lalitha
Release            1981
Running time  144 min
Language        Tamil Telugu
music =            Ilaiyaraaja

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. This film was loosely based on Butterflies are Free and The Graduate.

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).
Andhi Mazhai Pozhikirathu (S.P.Balasubramaniam)
Azhagae Azhagu
Violin Piece

Sollathaan Ninaikkiren

Sollathaan Ninaikkiren
Directed by K.Balachander
Starring Sivakumar
Jayachitra
Srividya
Kamal Haasan
Jayasudha
Music by M.S.Viswanathan
Country India
Language Tamil

Sollathaan Ninaikkiren is a 1973 Tamil language film scripted and directed by K.Balachander starring Sivakumar, Jayachitra, Srividya and Jayasudha in the lead roles. Kamal Haasan plays a supporting role as a carefree youngster.

Arangetram

Arangetram
Directed by K Balachander
Written by K Balachander
Starring Prameela
Sivakumar
Kamal Hassan
Jayachitra
Jayasudha
Music by V. Kumar
Country India
Language Tamil

Arangetram is a 1973 Indian Tamil language Drama film directed by K. Balachander starring Prameela. Yet another product from Balachandar's factory that carried hard hitting messages and very bold scenes. The movie dealt with the issue of Poverty. The movie won the National Award For Best Film (Regional Language - Tamil).
With Balachandar's trade mark dialogues and screenplay, this movie made a huge mark with the public. It hit home the need for a planned family. This movie also featured Kamal Haasan as the brother of the heroine who aspires to become a doctor. The film also features Sivakumar, Senthamarai, SV Subbiah, MN Rajam, Jayachitra and Jayasudha. This was the first film of Jayasudha.
Balachander remade this film in Hindi as Aaina with Mumtaz (actress), Rajesh Khanna, and Kamal Hassan.
The lead character of the movie is the eldest daughter of a pious and conservative Brahmin family. She has eight siblings and poverty rules reign. She decides to take up the family mantle and goes to work. Due to family needs and ill fate, she ends up as a prostitute but manages to settle all her brothers and sisters. Her family ditches her when they come to know about her dark side. Sivakumar marries her in the end.

Annai Velankanni

Annai Velankanni is an Indian drama film in Tamil, made in 1971. The film starred Gemini Ganesan, Jayalalitha, Padmini, K.R Vijaya and Kamal Hassan and was directed by K. Thankappan. It comprises three stories which teach Christian beliefs. Velankanni, where the film is set, is a real village in India, and has a large temple dedicated to the Virgin Mary and Jesus.

Kalathur Kannamma 1960

 Directed by             A. Bhimsingh
                                T. Prakash Rao (not credited)
Produced by            AVM Productions
Written by               N. Sitharaman
Starring                   Gemini Ganesan
                                Kamal Haasan
                                Savitri
Music by                 R Sudarshanam
Country                   India
Language                Tamil

Kalathur Kannamma is a 1960 Tamil language film directed by A. Bhimsingh. This was the first movie that starred iconic Indian actor Kamal Haasan. Kamal Haasan entered the film world at the age of four and this movie won him the President’s Gold Medal. The film's cast includes Gemini Ganesan and Savitri, among others.
40-year-old Gemini Ganesan played the father of 5-year-old Kamal Hassan in this movie.

Awards

Kamal Haasan's performance in the movie fetched him the National Film Award for Best Child Artist in 1961, and he received the award from the second president of India, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan.

Avvai Shanmughi அவ்வை சண்முகி

vvai Shanmugi (Tamil: அவ்வை சண்முகி) is a 1996 Tamil comedy film directed by K. S. Ravikumar. The film stars Kamal Haasan in dual roles opposite Meena Durairaj, with supporting roles played by Gemini Ganesan, Delhi Ganesh, Nagesh, Heera Rajgopal, Manivannan, and Nassar. The film's score and soundtrack were composed by Deva. The film was an Indian adaptation of the American comedy film, Mrs. Doubtfire. It was released on Diwali, 1996. A year later, Kamal remade the film in Hindi as Chachi 420.
Avvai Shanmugi
Directed by K. S. Ravikumar
Produced by R. K. Hari
Written by Crazy Mohan
Starring Kamal Haasan
Meena Durairaj
Nagesh
Gemini Ganesan
Manivannan
Nassar
S. P. Balasubrahmanyam
Heera Rajgopal
Ramesh Khanna
Ramesh Aravind
Delhi Ganesh
Music by Deva
Release date(s) 1996
Language Tamil








  • Kamal Haasan as Pandiyan and Avvai Shanmughi
  • Meena Durairaj as Janaki
  • Nassar as Bhai
  • Nagesh as Joseph
  • Manivannan as Mudaliyar
  • Gemini Ganesan as Vishwanathan Iyer
  • S. P. Balasubrahmanyam as Doctor
  • Heera Rajgopal as Ratna
  • Delhi Ganesh as Sethurama Iyer
The film starts off with a courtroom sequence where Meena is fighting for divorce from Kamal. She offers various flimsy reasons for wanting divorce which is granted. She married Kamal against her father's (Gemini Ganesan) wishes but being rich and spoilt, she wasn't able to come to terms with living in a small house with no amenities. Kamal is an assistant dance director and so he is not able to spend much time with the family too. All this accumulates and she decides she's had it and gets the divorce. The court orders that Kamal can meet his daughter once a week and this is the only solace. His daughter however loves him a lot and doesn't like the arrangement.
Nasser is a Muslim friend who works in a hotel as a chef. He advises Kamal to somehow get the child from her mom and Kamal goes about trying to do the same. In doing so he is discovered and now he cannot meet her at all. Then Kamal finds out that Gemini has advertised for a lady to look after his granddaughter. Nagesh is a makeup man and in conversation with him, Kamal gets the idea of playing an old lady so that he can be with his child and Meena without them knowing. Nagesh agrees to this plan and the transformation is done from Pandian to Avvai Shanmugi.
Heera plays the girl who is in love with Pandian but is constantly rebuffed. Nasser plays the role of a dumb Iyer cook and is admitted into Gemini's house on the recommendation of Avvai Shanmugi but is caught later while doing his Namaz, thereby shattering both lies, the dumb part and the Iyer part. Hilarious instances follow and slowly Avvai Shanmugi manages to convince the household of "her" sincerity.So much so that Gemini Ganesan begins to develop a liking for "her" and in fact proposes to "her" too! Manivannan is the houseowner of the place where Kamal (Pandian) lives. Once, he happens to bump into Avvai Shanmugi who was hurrying up the stairs. This bumping happens many times and he too begins to develop a liking for "her".
Meanwhile Avvai Shanmugi slowly begins to learn that Meena hasn't totally forgotten her husband. "She" also rebuffs Gemini's proposals by saying that her husband is alive. Adding to the confusion "she" says Nagesh is her husband while Pandian tells Delhi Ganesh (Gemini Ganeshan's PA in the movie) that Manivannan is Avvai's husband. Confusion follows and it is all cleared finally. Avvai Shanmugi hints to Gemini that Meena's rightful place is by her husband and Gemini realises this. While he goes off to talk to Pandian (who is still as Avvai Shanmugi in Meena's house), Avvai Shanmugi reveals herself as Pandian to Nassar in a disturbing way, and leaves Meena to think "her" wrongly. She leaves to Pandian's house to reclaim him, but upon seeing Heera and Avvai Shjanmugi's clothes in the house, thinks Pandian the same way as Avvai Shanmugi. Meena leaves and attempts suicide, but Avvai Shanmugi stops her and reveals "her" identity as Pandian. Meena and Pandian reconcile.

Kuruthipunal

Directed by                   P.C. Sriram
Produced by                  Kamal Haasan, Charuhasan
Written by                     Govind Nihalani (story)
 Starring                        Kamal Haasan
                                     Arjun Sarja
                                      Nasser
                                     Gouthami
                                     K. Viswanath
                                     Subhalekha Sudhakar
                                     Geetha
Music by                       Mahesh Mahadevan
Cinematography             P.C. Sriram
Distributed by              Rajkamal International
Release date(s)            1995
Running time                137 mins
Language                      Tamil
The film starts with two sincere police officers Adhi Narayanan (Kamal Hassan) and Abbas (Arjun) sending two secret vigilance officers, named Anand and Shiva on an operation called Operation Dhanush, to mingle with a terror group headed by a man named Badri, with the task of acting as a spy and providing updates about the movements of the group, then later sending it back to Abbas. A leak from inside the police camp leads the terrorist to oust Anand as a spy but before they could torture Anand 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. But 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 torture the driver for information on the terrorist head Badri and the spy among 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 names Srinivasan, a senior police officer who was Adhi’s mentor, as the spy who had alerted the terrorists of the change of plan. Before Srinivasan gets arrested, he confesses to Adhi that he was being blackmailed by the terrorist group who had threatened to kill his family if he didn’t act as a spy and commits suicide. 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 was to meet Badri. Abbas is caught, tortured and killed.
Overcome with sadness, Abbas’s wife, Geetha and their teenage daughter comes to live with Adhi and his wife, Sumitra (Gautami) and son. Badri, again threatens Adhi to let a couple of terrorist 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. Meanwhile, the amorous terrorist staying at Adhi’s house, overcome with lust and 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 approach the safehouse, he gets 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, realizing 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.
Kuruthipunal (Tamil: குருதிப்புனல்) is a 1995 Tamil drama and action film directed by veteran cinematographer P. C. Sriram. The film stars Kamal Haasan and Arjun Sarja in the lead roles. Upon release, the film met with a strong critical reception, and is recognized by some to have set high benchmarks for other action films in that period. The film featured no songs throughout the film, however the background score was composed by Mahesh Mahadevan. Produced by Kamal Hassan, the story is a remake of the 1994 Hindi film Drohkaal.
The plot revolves around a police officer with familial obligations and a strong desire to curb terrorism in the country. 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.

The film grossed US$ 3 million at the box office

Punnagai Mannan

Punnagai Mannan
Directed by K.Balachander
Produced by Kavithalaya
Starring Kamal Haasan,
Revathi
Rekha
Srividya
Music by Ilayaraaja
Cinematography Ragunatha Reddy
Release date(s) 1986
Country India
Language Tamil


The plot opens with Sethu and Ranjani arriving at a cliff where they plan to commit suicide due to the pressure put up by Ranjani's parents against their marriage. Sethu who is the son of an ordinary drunkard cook and is also a dancer is not accepted as groom for Ranjani by her parents. The parents threaten Ranjani that either they would kill Sethu or commit suicide. While jumping from the cliff Sethu accidentally gets trapped in a tree and escapes but Ranjani dies. Despite the attempts made by Ranjani's father to jail Sethu by framing a fault case that Sethu killed Ranjani, no strong evidence was there to prove it. He is jailed for the offence of attempted suicide for one year.

After a year, he is released from jail. Padmini who owns a dance school provides him a job of dance master as he is the former student. Sethu visits regularly the cliff as a remembrance of his love. On his way he sees a girl who attempts suicide for silly reason of failure in examination and he stops her from it. He again meets the girl in a gallery. The girl introduces herself to him as Malini but he ignores her. Malini again meets Sethu at a tourist spot where she clicks photos without his knowledge but Sethu who found it damages her camera. Malini chases him to his dance school as his student. Sethu repeatedly insults her but Malini develops a love for Sethu. Malini once meets Chaplin Chellapa (Kamal Hasan), uncle of Sethu who dressed himself like Charlie Chaplin and makes people laugh. She comes to know about Sethu's failed love from him, which increases her affection towards Sethu. Chaplin Chellapa helps her to win Sethu's heart. Malini is actually a Sinhale girl because of which she faces trouble from her class mate many times and everytime rescued by Sethu. Sethu though humiliates her all the time develops a softcorner in his mind. Sethu could realise that he had started to love her but gets confused what to do as he is a failed one. Sethu's repeated attempts to prevent himself loving Malini fails and he takes a sign of blessing for his new love from Ranjani at the cliff side. He finally confesses his love for her and proposes her.

Malini continues to spend time with Chaplin Chellapa as she enjoys his sense of humour. This makes Sethu jealous, so he attempts to mimic Chaplin Chellapa's mannerisms - but ends up having an accident. Sethu finds that Chaplin Chellapa is a failed lover, who to forget his past has worn a mask of Charlie Chaplin. Sethu and Malini unite Chelapa and Padmini who is a spinster. Sethu again faces pressure from Malini's father as Malini is of Sinhalese origin and Sethu is a Tamilian. Both of them struggle hard to win in their love. Malini goes to the extent of escaping from Sri Lanka to TamilNadu to join with Sethu. After understanding the tight bond of Malini with Sethu, Malini's father approves their marriage. Ranjani's father who hears about Sethu's marriage wants to take revenge for his daughter's death. On the day of Sethu's engagement, he gives a basket full of apples which has time bomb in it to Sethu's father pretending to be his gift for his son. Sethu's father who does not know about the bomb keeps the basket in Chaplin Chellapa's car. Sethu and Malini starts to visit Sethu's love cliff in Chellapa's car which has the bomb. Chellapa who comes to know about this, chases them to stop but in vain. Tha bomb explodes at the same place where Sethu-Ranjani attempted suicide and Sethu-Malini die in the explosion. The plot ends with Chellapa showering flowers in the place where the three of them died.
Box office

The film was an blockbuster grossing 4 million $ & ran over 300 days

Japanil Kalyanaraman

Japanil Kalyanaraman
Directed by S.P.Muthuramam
Starring Kamal Haasan
Radha,
Sathyaraj
Music by Ilayaraaja
Release date(s) 1985
Country India
Language Tamil
Japanil Kalyanaraman is a Tamil language film starring Kamal Haasan in the lead role of the protagonist. This is the first Tamil movie where the concept of Sequel is used. The film was a Blockbuster and considered as one of Kamal's evergreen entertainers.
[edit] Plot

Kalyanaram(Kamal Haasan), a rich simpleton was murdered for his money and his brother, also played by Kamal Haasan, avenges his death. His brother also marries the girl on who Kalyanaraman had a crush on(Sridevi).

By the begin of "Japanil Kalyanaraman", Sridevi had died after giving birth to a son. The boy is 5 years old and wants his dad to remarry. So does Kalayanaraman's spirit. The movie is a comedy where they both try to convince Kamal to marry Radha.
[edit] Reception

The film evoked tremendous hype as it was the sequel of Successful Kalyanaraman. The film done extra-ordinary business in all Southern States. The action sequences of Kamal Haasan was well appreciated. The film was a visual treat as well, due to the coverage on expo-85, which attracted children a lot. Once again Sathyaraj won appreciation for his Villain act.

Subha Sankalpam

Subha Sankalpam
Directed by K. Viswanath
Produced by S. P. Balasubrahmanyam Kamal Haasan
Written by Gollapudi Maruthi Rao
Starring Kamal Hasan, Aamani, Priya Raman
Music by M.M. Keeravani
Cinematography P.C. Sreeram
Release date(s) 1995
Language Telugu
Subha Sankalpam is a Telugu film in 1995, directed by K. Vishwanath. It was produced by noted singer, S. P. Balasubrahmanyam (Balu). This movie brings back the golden combination of Kamal Haasan and Vishwanath after 9 long years and Kamal has excelled yet again. The film was among the biggest Telugu hits of 1995.

Vishwanath appears on screen for the first time and his performance was awesome. The relationship which is established between Kamal and Vishwanath makes the movie what it is. Aamani's performance is laudable (no wonder she has won the AP State Govt. award (Nandi) for the Best Actress).

Music by M M Keeravani is excellent and maintains the tempo of the movie. All the songs add to the storyline as the 4 lyricists employed have done a superb performance by not letting the songs hamper the flow of the movie. S. P. Pallavi daughter of S.P. Bala Subramanyam shared her voice for the first time in this movies.

* Vaishnavi
Aamani won the Nandi Award for Best Actress from Government of Andhra Pradesh.

Varumayin Niram Sivappu

Varumayin Niram Sigappu
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Directed by K. Balachander
Produced by R.venkatraman
Written by K. Balachandar
Starring Kamal Haasan
Sridevi
S. Ve. Shekher
Dhilip
Poornam Viswanathan
pratap Pothan
Thengai Srinivasan
Music by M.S. Viswanathan
Release date(s) 1980
Country India
Language Tamil






varumayin Niram Sigappu (The Colour of Poverty is Red) (1980) is a Tamil language film starring Kamal Haasan and Sridevi in the lead roles. The movie is an epitome of socialist India and the struggles of youth and their disillusionment with society in general. Centering around three educated but unemployed youth trying to make it, the story touches several aspects of Indian social norms of the period.

Moondru Mudichu

Directed by K. Balachander
Produced by R.Venkataraman
Written by K. Balachander, Kannadasan(Lyrics)
Starring Rajnikanth
Kamal Hassan
Sridevi
Calcutta viswanathan
Rajamani
anupama
Baby Indira
Kalavathi
Y.Vijaya[1]
Music by MS Viswanathan
Cinematography B.S.Loknath
Editing by N.R.kittu
Release date(s) 22 October 1976
Language Tamil


Moondru Mudichu (The Three Knots) is a Tamil film that was directed by K. Balachander. The movie stars Kamal Hassan, Rajnikanth and Sridevi. It is hailed as the movie that made Rajnikanth a big "villain" star. The movie revolves around 3 people - a college going girl(Sridevi) and 2 men who fall in love with her (Kamal Hassan and Rajnikanth). Sridevi was 13 at the time when she performed her character which was 10 years older than her. Rajinikanth played as an anti-hero who appeared as a womaniser whilst Kamal Hassan did a small role for his mentor K. Balachander.
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Rajnikanth and Kamal Hassan are room-mates in a city. Kamal Hassan falls in love with Sridevi who lives in the same apartment complex. Rajnikanth, who has his eyes on Sridevi, pretends to back Kamal Hassan's love while secretly hoping to create a divide between them. Sridevi realizes Rajni's evil intentions when she finds out that he has seduced an innocent girl living in the same apartment complex. However, she is unable to convince Kamal Hassan, who hero-worships Rajni.

Things come to a head when Kamal and Sridevi go for a picnic by the lake and Kamal decides to invite Rajni along. As the three of them head to the middle of the lake on a boat, Kamal topples over by mistake. Rajni refuses to jump in and save Kamal, on the pretext that he does not know swimming. A devastated Sridevi returns home to another shock - her sister (Y. Vijaya), who plays small time roles in the movies, has suffered from a fire accident which has left her face permanently charred. Overnight, Sridevi's life undergoes a drastic change.

After that Rajnikanth becomes kind towards Sridevi and she comes to his house and lives as a maid. Rajnikanth lives with his father (Calcutta Viswanathan) and his small siblings. His father wants Sridevi to marry Rajni. In an attempt to salvage her life, Sridevi decides to marry Rajni's father in the absence of Rajnikanth. Sridevi goes ahead with the marriage despite this. After her marriage, she decides to use her 'mother' status to exact revenge on Rajnikanth and gives him a shock while he returns.
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Rajnikanth and Sridevi's acting crossed expectations. Both of them were excellent.
There is a scene where Rajini tries to convince Sridevi to marry him, during which Sridevi tries to run away from Rajni and accidentally he tries to stop her and mistakenly tears her jacket, during which Sridevi cries and remains helpless and Rajni behaves gently and says ,'Sorry!! I never touch any woman without her permission' and leaves. This particular scene was picturised in a fantastic manner, a typical K.B's masterpiece.
The movie changed the entire image of Rajni and he showcased his excellent acting skills.
The movie ends with the following lines in Tamil


விதைக்கின்ற வேளையிலே விளங்காத மனசாட்சி...

விளைவுக்குப் பின்னாலே விரைந்து வரும் மனசாட்சி...
தனக்காக தன்னுடனே போராடும் மனசாட்சி...
தவறுபவன் கண்களுக்குப் பைத்தியந்தான் மனசாட்சி!

"When it is time for a seed to sprout, if the conscience cannot emphathise; and only after the incident, is the conscience present! When conscience grapples with oneself for selfish ends; in the evildoer's eyes, his madness will be his conscience!"

Kanyakumari (1974)

Kanyakumari (film)
Directed by K. S. Sethumadhavan
Written by M.T. Vasudevan Nair
Starring Kamal Haasan
Rita Bhaduri
Music by Shyam
Release date(s) 1974
Country India
Language Malayalam

Apoorva Raagangal

Directed by K. Balachander
Written by K. Balachander
Starring Kamal Hassan
Rajinikanth
Srividya
Major Sundarrajan
Jayasudha
Nagesh
Kaviarasar Kannadasan
Music by M.S. Viswanathan
Release date(s) August 18, 1975
Running time 144 minutes
Country India
Language Tamil

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 gap, 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 girl Ranjini (Jayasudha). But we soon find out that Ranjini is actually Bhairavi's daughter. Both relationships arrive at a dilemma with the revelation of an unexpected twist.

The story, though regarded as original has close similarities to a Vikram-Vetaal fable . The last of the vikram-vetaal fable has an identical storyline.

This was the first time Shivaji Rao Gaekwad (Rajinikanth) came in front of camera. He got a very small role in the film, though a very important role. Srividya played the role of his wife and Jayasudha played the role of his daughter. Later these two actresses played as a heroine in many Rajinikanth and Kamal Hassan films.

Michael Madana Kama Rajan

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) which 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 (Nasser) 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 (SNLakshmi) 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 a 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.