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that movie was made 27 years ago. unimaginable even today. hats off KH
Recollecting Satya. Kamal super looks ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsYMFyVZrw8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4W0qdavDEI0
After Nayagan, Kamal's brilliant acting in Sathya..
Sathya was one of the most violent movies during those days when it got released.
Ravi,
A scene in movie where he excels in dialogue delivery .. pularips !!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0vJvFcfFJE
super movie with terrific fight scenes. BO report pl.
Satya was a very good movie but not a big hit I think...
Ran reasonably well. Ran well in B&C theaters also.
2015ல் கமல் ஆதிக்கம்! கால் நூற்றாண்டுக்கு பிறகு கமலின் 3 படங்கள் ஒரே வருடத்தில் ரிலீஸ்
சுமார் இருபத்தைந்து ஆண்டுகளுக்கு பிறகு உலக நாயகன் கமல்ஹாசன் நடித்த 3 படங்கள் ஒரே ஆண்டில் ரிலீசாக உள்ளன. அந்த வகையில் அடுத்த ஆண்டு கமல் ரசிகர்களுக்கும், கலை ரசிகர்களுக்கும் தித்திக்கும் ஆண்டாக அமையப்போகிறது. கமல்ஹாசன் இந்தாண்டு முழுவதுமே மூன்று படங்களில் நடிப்பதில் மிகவும் பிசியாக இருந்தார். உத்தமவில்லன், பாபநாசம், விஸ்வரூபம்-2 ஆகிய மூன்று படங்களுக்காக ஆண்டு முழுவதையுமே அவர் செலவிட்டார். ரமேஷ் அரவிந்த் இயக்கத்தில் உருவாகும், உத்தமவில்லன் இந்த மாதம் ரிலீசாகும் என எதிர்பார்க்கப்பட்டது. ஆனால் படப்பிடிப்புக்கு பிந்தைய வேலைகள் நிலுவையிலுள்ளதால், அடுத்த ஆண்டு தொடக்கத்தில் உத்தம வில்லன் ரிலீஸ் ஆகும் என தெரிகிறது. அதையடுத்து பாபநாசமும், மூன்றாவதாக விஸ்வரூபம்-2 ஆகிய படங்களும் அடுத்தடுத்து ரிலீசாகி கமல் ரசிகர்களை உற்சாகத்தில் ஆழ்த்தப்போகின்றது.
ஓராண்டில், கமலின் மூன்று படங்கள் வெளியாகி சுமார் இருபத்தைந்து ஆண்டுகளாவது இருக்கும் என்கிறார், திரைப்பட எழுத்தாளர் தனஞ்சயன் கோவிந்த். அந்த வகையில் இரு கால் நூற்றாண்டு சாதனையாகும். உத்தமவில்லன் படத்துக்கான சவுண்ட் மிக்சிங் பணிகளுக்காக, கமல்ஹாசன் விரைவிலேயே அமெரிக்காவின் லாஸ் ஏஞ்சல்ஸ் செல்ல உள்ளார். அதே ஸ்டூடியோவில் விஸ்வரூபம்-2 படத்தின் சவுண்ட் மிக்சிங்கையும் முடித்துவிடப்போகிறார் கமல். மூன்று படங்களுக்குமான சூட்டிங் முடிந்துவிட்ட நிலையில், பிந்தைய பணிகள் மட்டுமே பாக்கியுள்ளது குறிப்பிடத்தக்கது.
http://tamil.filmibeat.com/news/kama...15-031505.html
"If Ulaga Nayagan wears Kakki Uniform, film will be BB, is proved again"
Kakki Sattai, VetriVizha, Oru Kaidhiyin dairy, Vettaiadu-ViLLaiyadu (did I leave out anything ?) all blockbusters/superhits ....
^ There could be some more that we may have left.
VetriVizha - 2nd day - 3rd time viewing - I forcefully took one of my friends who hardly watch Tamil movies.
This movie - dances and fights - made him a big fan of Nammavar.
Ran 28 days at my place. Watched 7 times or so from theatre. Mappilai which released along with this ran 21 days.
Those days.. Wow...
Soora Samharam and Sattam were both flops. They were both really bad movies. SS at least had a nice first half. Till the scene were Kamal gets drugged and sent back home, the movie was quite different. From there, it turned worse. Especially "Vedhaalam Vandhu nikkudhu" song.
Sattam was Mattam(Comment in Ananda Vikadan review) from beginning to end.
:banghead:
Kurudhippunal was/is/will be a classic forever. Yet another example of "Kombinil paal konjam surandhaal Adhu dhaan saadhanai"
Drohkaal directed by Govind Nihalani was Ashish Vidyarthi's first movie. Om Puri played Kamal's role, Naseeruddin Shah played Arjun's and Ashish did the villain's role which was done by Nazar in Tamil. It was critically acclaimed but did very poor business. With a star cast like this it was dissed an art movie. Kamal apparently was interested in the script and bought the rights from Govind Nihalani to make it in Tamil. He was sure of making a successful movie without any songs, comedy track or duets, debut MD, many unknown faces, Telugu lip-sync(It was made in Telugu and Tamil). It was released along with Muthu on Diwali 2006. Muthu directed by K.S.Ravikumar(fresh after the success of Naattaamai) had Rajinikanth in two roles, Meena who was the top heroine of those days, A.R.Rahman whose songs were already chartbusters, several supporting actors including Raghuvaran, Radharavi, Ponnambalam, Vadivelu, Senthil and others - a complete masala movie.
Still Kuruthippunal gave a tough fight & managed to open very well in all centers. It ran for more than 100 days in many theatres. I watched it on the 3rd day in AVM by paying Rs.150 for a Rs.25 ticket. In a suburban theatre like Tambaram (not sure if it was Vetri or Rakesh; Muthu ran in Vidhya), KP ran for 80 days. For the first three weeks, it shared the No.1 spot with Muthu in Sun TV's Top 10. In the fourth week, it went to No.2 and slowly came down. Muthu was in No.1 for few more weeks & obviously had a better run. But KP which probably was made in less than 1/2 of Muthu's budget was a Super-hit. KP's Telugu version Drohi was an even bigger hit.
Its good to know Kurudhipunal ran well .... I was not sure how much of a hit it was considering that it did not have the ingredients of regular hit movie (songs/romance/action etc.). As we know, Kamal fans applauding or appreciating a movie whole hardheartedly vs. box office success are two different things .. Many such movies have fallen on the wayside. Ofcourse a few years later, public will say 'pa adhu arumaiyana padam' like what they talk about Anbe Sivam today .. but the movie flopped then! For Kurudhipunal to achieve a decent run is pretty impressive considering the challenges it had esp. from SS.
Exactly. For the younger generation, if a movie's songs are not too popular then its a flop. Since KP was without songs, people don't see it often in TV and many even wouldn't have heard of it.
Between '94 and '96 Raj Kamal International had three consecutive hits - Sathi Leelavathi(released with Baasha), Magalir Mattum and Kuruthippunal. Kamal held a function to celebrate the hat-trick hits. Indhian and Avvai Shanmughi released during the same period but they weren't produced by Kamal.
Soora Samharam
- Directed by Journalist-turned-PRO-turned-Director-turned-Supporting Actor. Now known as Mongoose Mandaiyan - Chithra Lakshmanan
- Kamal is called Pandian in some scenes, AdhiVeeraPandian in some scenes, AdhiVeeraRamaPandian in one scene.
- In some scenes he appears with orginal murukku meesai. Ottumeesai in most of the 2nd half. The scene where his face is shown on the TV, he looks awesome.
- Two excellent songs - Naan Enbadhu and Neela Kuyile both sung by Arun Mozhi and one by Mano - Vedhaalam.
- Nirosha, the heroine is introduced as Mythili in the titles. Not sure if this was before or after Agni Natchathiram.
- Somehow KH's chemistry isn't all that good with Nirosha, though there are some romantic scenes, steamy enough to keep family audiences away.
- Kitty(aka Raja Krishnamurthy, Ex-Vice President, Polaris Software) who did remarkably well as a smooth-talking corrupt minister in Sathya plays a hardcore villain. Not too impressive. 10 minutes into the movie, the villain's identity is revealed.
- Madhuri as his sister doesn't suit the role and Janakaraj is wasted.
- There are some really good stunt scenes. In one such scene, KH uses the 'T' word for the 2nd time(First time was in Vikram). I think the one in the receiving end was Ponnambalam.
- The first 15-20 mins & the scene where KH is drugged, beaten and the consequences are good. Till then the movie moves quite fast with an engaging screenplay but slips badly post-interval.
He is there in the cast of UV
We might be treated to the same experience in Papanasam
After Agni.
Radhika's sister, can't imagine looking at her now.
Another wasted effort like Kalaignan.
soorsamharam is the kind of self-abuse Kamal ought to have avoided.
btw, even vetri vizha et al were mediocre.
- post Nayagan, the creative bubble featuring pesum padam, chanakyan, aboorva sago, mmkr, indiran chandiran, should all have been persisted with and Hey Ram should have happened right after Indian
Hmm yeah. He did that quite often in 80s when the movie going public didn't care about it much. I hope it isn't too obvious in Papanaasam.
And about KH's cop roles, he has a pretty good success rate - OKD, Ab.Sago, VV1, VV2, Khakhi Chattai,KP, Vikram(good business in B&C). One more average grosser which comes to my mind is Andha Oru Nimidam. I thought it did not do well till I saw the director/producer/villain Major Sundarrajan's interview in Jaya TV about ten years back.
Mottai Bosskey : Andha Oru Nimidam'nu oru padam pannineengale, adhu Andha Oru Nimidam aavadhu odicha?
Major: 100 days odhichu. Sumaarana laabam vandhudhu.
OTOH for Rajini, except Moondru Mugam and Anbukku Naan Adimai(not sure about its success) none of the movies ran well.
Kodi Parakkudhu, Naattukku Oru Nallavan, Pandian and some movies in Bollywood failed. Pandian was the last movie in which he played a cop.
According to me Kurudhi Punal stands out as a cop movie.. - Very intense as well
Vettaiyadu Vilaiyadu comes next - neat and suited Kamal very much.
good analysis regarding Muthu vs Kuruthipunal ...you forget to tell about the enormous buzz at that time.......... Rajini's popularity was at an all time high for his political stand and even a kuselan or kochadaiyaan kind of movie from him at that time would have been a blockbuster
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJ9yBFLUYN0
A nice interview with Write Balakumaran.
He talked about his cinema profession too. (Watch from 26.30 to 33.43 specifically - he talked about Kamal and Rajini)
i feel vetri vizha is his best cop movie because it is sleek, his costumes were excellent, songs fabulous, seat-edge story (borne identity) and above all it is a feel good movie. after kuridhipunal climax, the next word from mouths of all us friends was "has it really happened"? couldnt sleep that night.
vikram-police agent not in uniform