The 10 Most Influential People In Tamil Cinema

**Sanjeevi** · 27th July 2008, 08:19 PM

Originally Posted by Shakthiprabha

avlo thana?
nalla parunga, yaaranum vitrukka poreenga

Thanks, I missed MSV

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**Shakthiprabha.** · 27th July 2008, 08:21 PM

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**prasana84** · 27th July 2008, 08:26 PM

Originally Posted by NOV

Originally Posted by advani

10. Prabu Deva

Nov bro he is definitely a legend made a new trend of dance in tamil cinema. so nothing wrong in including his name

**NOV** · 28th July 2008, 05:56 AM

prasana

but there are many more worthy candidates. also if dance form is to be celebrated, there has always been someone who had provided novelty in the past - anand babu comes to mind, altho he never saw the success PD did.

**NOV** · 28th July 2008, 06:03 AM

coming to most influential ppl in tamil cinema, I think our focus should be on the present and then the list would be limited. Legends like MGR, Sivaji, KB, MSV, Kannadhasan, IR, TMS all need to prove nothing anymore.

so, looking at tamil cinema today, who would be the influential ppl?

1. M. Karunanidhi - with a stroke of genius he changed the stupid titling of movies from nonsense, english and hindi titles to sensible tamil titles for tamil movies.

2. AR Rahman - still looked upon as a trendsetter, with each new album looked forward on what it has new.

3. Is Kamal influential? If so, how? He has raised the benchmark on good movies - barring a few lapses here and there

- but more importantly has it changed the trend of tamil cinema? dada movies and masala movies are being churned out continuosly.

4. Shankar (selva

) not so much for his directed movies, but more for his produced movies. New talents have risen and have provided alternative cinema.

I cant think of anyone else, although there are a few candidates for not-so-positive influence, but we shan't get into that.

**hattori_hanzo** · 28th July 2008, 12:06 PM

Originally Posted by NOV

coming to most influential ppl in tamil cinema, I think our focus should be on the present and then the list would be limited. Legends like MGR, Sivaji, KB, MSV, Kannadhasan, IR, TMS all need to prove nothing anymore.

so, looking at tamil cinema today, who would be the influential ppl?

1. M. Karunanidhi - with a stroke of genius he changed the stupid titling of movies from nonsense, english and hindi titles to sensible tamil titles for tamil movies.

2. AR Rahman - still looked upon as a trendsetter, with each new album looked forward on what it has new.

3. Is Kamal influential? If so, how? He has raised the benchmark on good movies - barring a few lapses here and there - but more importantly has it changed the trend of tamil cinema? dada movies and masala movies are being churned out continuosly.

4. Shankar (selva

) not so much for his directed movies, but more for his produced movies. New talents have risen and have provided alternative cinema.

I cant think of anyone else, although there are a few candidates for not-so-positive influence, but we shan't get into that.

Yenna ippidi kettutteenga? Kamal has always been one of the most influential of Tamil actors. Actinga vidunga, even the hairstyle he sports in every movie is copied by many of his fans. Most of the facial expressions of our TV serial actors are just copy+paste from Kamal movies.
He has always been a trend setter. After the release & success of Thevar magan, there were at least a dozen movies which had a caste name in them or ended with a 'magan' or 'magal'. Even the dada movies you are referring to were spawned by the classic Nayakan. Hasnt he influenced the younger generation of actors/directors who made movies like Kadhal Konden, Manmadhan?

**joe** · 28th July 2008, 12:18 PM

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Kamal Hassan
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**selvakumar** · 28th July 2008, 12:20 PM

Originally Posted by NOV

3. Is Kamal influential? If so, how? He has raised the benchmark on good movies - barring a few lapses here and there

- but more importantly has it changed the trend of tamil cinema? dada movies and masala movies are being churned out continuosly.

4. Shankar (selva

) not so much for his directed movies, but more for his produced movies. New talents have risen and have provided alternative cinema.

**NOV** · 28th July 2008, 12:23 PM

hatori, if you say so.

but if truly Kamal was that influential, we would see more class movies/actors than mass movies/actors. every single actor now wants to go on the mass platform.

selva, I know you want to say something, spit it out. :P