They trick Velu into believing them as his well-wishers and release him. The film was remade in Hindi as Dayavan (1988).Īn anti-government union leader's only son Sakthivel "Velu" is arrested by the police to find his whereabouts. It was included in TIME 's "All-Time 100 Best Films", and CNN-News18's "100 greatest Indian films of all time". The film was India's official submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1988 at the 60th Academy Awards however, it was not shortlisted among the final nominees. Sreeram) and Best Art Direction ( Thota Tharani). The film also earned the National Awards for Best Cinematography ( P. Haasan's performance earned him the National Film Award for Best Actor. The became a critical and commercial success, running for over 175 days in theatres. Nayakan was released on 21 October 1987, Diwali day. Filming began in late 1986, taking place primarily in Madras and to a lesser extent, Bombay. He instead suggested two other stories, one of which impressed Haasan and became Nayakan. Ratnam was initially approached to remake the Hindi film Pagla Kahin Ka (1970) for Srinivasan and Haasan, but refused. Nayakan is loosely based on the life of the Bombay underworld don Varadarajan Mudaliar and the American film The Godfather (1972). It revolves around the transformation of an ordinary slum dweller named Velu into a feared don through various stages of his life. Vasudeva Rao, Delhi Ganesh, Nizhalgal Ravi, Nassar and Tara in supporting roles. Produced by Muktha Srinivasan, the film stars Kamal Haasan, Saranya (in her feature debut) and Karthika, with Janagaraj, Vijayan, M. Hero) is a 1987 Indian Tamil-language epic crime film written and directed by Mani Ratnam. These days, the (sensible) audience needs much more to chew on, than just acknowledging that our hero can romance, dance and beat goons up.Nayakan ( Tamil pronunciation: transl. The idea of the director seems solely to make the audience leave the cinema hall in a jolly good mood (by ticking off all boxes in the list of 'harmless entertainer' requisites). The second half though, fares marginally better than the first as the number of laughs are slightly on the higher side and there's a song that goes 'Tappu Tippu' - a wacky number where thugs chase Thambidurai through narrow slums (the film needed a lot more quirkiness along these lines). Phoenix Raj) and a sheikh (Anandaraj) who's looking for a kidney - stuff that sounds hilarious on paper but do not manage to stand out on screen because of faulty execution.
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There are subplots involving a group of thugs trying to impress their gangster-boss, a case of the mistaken diagnosis in a hospital (which reminds you of the 1990 movie 'Short Time' - featuring a funny cameo from a rather chubby-looking Vijay Sethupathi who plays the philosophical Dr. This is the kind of movie where the mom (Saranya Ponvannan) proudly tells the neighbor (who insulted her son earlier) how much dowry they're paying for their daughter's wedding, followed by a slo-mo walk scene (Achievement unlocked!). We have the intro song-cum-romantic number, the bar song, the sad song and during the climax, some imaginative howling (in the name of singing) of popular Tamil tracks by Mottai Rajendran which makes you let out a chuckle initially but is overcooked and spoilt by the time the scene is done and dusted. Songs pop up at the most predictable of instances and however good a composer Sean Roldan actually is, his choice of films ensures that his compositions won't remain the least bit memorable. At first, Thambidurai is shown to be scared of dogs and struggles to even cross a busy street in the city that he lives in. Movies like this revive the utterly lame trends of guy-stalking-girl to get her attention and the protagonist going lengths to pay the hefty dowry demands made by his sister's to-be in laws. Together, their scenes are a bore (and not the laugh riots they're supposed to be).
Soori plays Annadurai, the childhood bestie of Thambidurai. 'Kathanayagan' which translates to lead hero, is about a coward Thambidurai who at a given situation has to both, get his sister married as well as create a positive impression in front of his girlfriend Kanmani's dad (who's seen him run away from his manly duties earlier). There's barely any freshness in the storyline, which basically is an excuse to hop from one running-gag to another (even the supposed humor is of subpar quality). The movie, for good part, fits into the seen-it- all- before category. It's a bunch of comedy skits knit together clumsily. Films like 'Kathanayagan' (directed by Muruganandham and starring Vishnu Vishal as Thambidurai & Catherine Tresa as Kanmani) are bound to jog our memories of that terrible phase in Tamil cinema where majority of the scenes looked like mere filler.
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