KamalHassan's post 90's-Comedies

[equanimus]

Shalini: ....most of the contemporary paintings are abstracts....yeah Marble Fountain is also there.
Raju: (stares at the phone )

MMKR ellAm "nOkkariya nOkkE, nuNukkariya nuNNuNarvE..." nAn ennaththa defend paNRadhu...

[P_R]

Yeah exactly. aLLa aLLa kuRaiyAdha selvam.

nijamAvE idhellAm appidiyE varradhu dhaan...no way that movie could have been planned and executed with the kind of finesse it managed to achieve. It has become the standard. Many times funny moments elsewhere remind me of MMKR.

When I hear Mirchi Siva's "Sir you want goyyAkkA ?" in Saroja I can't help but think of it as funny in itself but pale in comparison to Raju's offer of "Milku-bikki"

[Vivasaayi]

Yeah exactly. aLLa aLLa kuRaiyAdha selvam.

nijamAvE idhellAm appidiyE varradhu dhaan...no way that movie could have been planned and executed with the kind of finesse it managed to achieve. It has become the standard. Many times funny moments elsewhere remind me of MMKR.

When I hear Mirchi Siva's "Sir you want goyyAkkA ?" in Saroja I can't help but think of it as funny in itself but pale in comparison to Raju's offer of "Milku-bikki"

vOnAvA

Raju is the best in the movie..I really dont underatnd how kameshwaran managed to outscore him among the audience

[crajkumar_be]

Talking about MMKR, Kameshwaran is the 'popular' choice but i think Raju is grossly underrated

P.S: Viv, timing paaru (ippo dhaan un post-a pakkaren)

[Vivasaayi]

Talking about MMKR, Kameshwaran is the 'popular' choice but i think Raju is grossly underrated

P.S: Viv, timing paaru (ippo dhaan un post-a pakkaren)

[groucho070]

More Raju moments (was and is my fav character) Again, not exact words, but just for reminiscence:


His expression when Madhan insist on shaving off the tache and the sideburns.

R: Nevair (the veerappu look).


On having to shave, conversation with Shalini.

R:...kiruthava kooda edutitaangga.
Shaving no transport to Bangalore) Ippo enna pannurathu
R: Athu paravalaiynga, utta valarnthidum

After the car runs into the river, Shalini walks out, wet and complains about it.

R: Haiya (very happy - again his innocent, but lustful appreciation).

[P_R]

Daddy Sivaram: ayyayyE inge guest roomE kidayAdhA ?
Raju: guest room...irukkaNumE....irukkA ?
AvinAsi: enna sir irukkAnnu kEkkureenga
Raju: irukkAnna...irukkudhA...freeyA irukkudhA-nnu arthamya....Daddy one nimit (takes Avinasi to the side)
(VAM also walks up to them and then walks away)
Raju: ippo vandhuttu pOnArE adhu guest-appA...kooda vandhirukkaradhu guest-ammA...gum-nu irukkudhulla....thaNNila nenchi pAkkaNumE.... varra vazhili-la journey-la kaanjidchi

[P_R]

Raju is the best in the movie..I really dont underatnd how kameshwaran managed to outscore him among the audience

The novelty of the accent was a big thing.

Kamal himself has done madras-bAshai in several movies. KamEswaran's PalakkAd bAshai was a first of sorts. And of course KamEshwaran and Thiruppu share that rapid fire scene in the film that is stuff of legend.

(Thiruppu rummaging through dabbAs fore eli pAshANam)
T: oNNu therinjikkongO....aambaLai kettA verum adhyAyam dhaan...pomBaLai kettA pusthakamE pOttuduvA
K: Hey......enna idhu...keduththuttEnnu aabaasamA ellAm pEsiNdirukkAi.. adhu gaali

[crajkumar_be]

(Thiruppu rummaging through dabbAs fore eli pAshANam)
T: oNNu therinjikkongO....aambaLai kettA verum adhyAyam dhaan...pomBaLai kettA pusthakamE pOttuduvA
K: Hey......enna idhu...keduththuttEnnu aabaasamA ellAm pEsiNdirukkAi.. adhu gaali

Be it Sakthivel Kaunder or Kameshwaran, andha accent parichayamanavangalukku koodudhal appreciation/inbam etc...

[Plum]

PR, I was going to quote Thannila nananju paarkanume.
To add to thalaivar Equanimus' theory on the subtle, subversive non-family-humour agenda of MMKR:
* Thannila Nananju Paarkanume
* The whole Kameshwaran First Night Scene(credit:equa)
* Michael and his father voyeuring on Madan's exploits with Rupini(credit:equa)

But I remembered another moment, which can be called the mother of all such subversive moments, so hilariously, irreverently family-indigestible that it could only have been improvised. I have quoted it elsewhere without expanding on this theme:
Basically, Shalini alibi-ing the Pillows-and-Sheets contraption for herself while she is out gallivanting with Raju. VAM sniffs a fish sometime during hte middle of the song, and comes to check out on Shalini. He observes the contraption meticulously put together, gets his doubts, and in an act of checking out his doubts, and that it is not really Shalini, pokes the 2 pillows strategically placed on top. I bet it almost never strikes the average 'family' viewer that he is supposed to be Shalini's father, and it is almost like incest is being touched upon here . Kamal sure got away with a lot here. Or, maybe, as I said, it was an improvisation by VAM. Nevertheless, inspite of me recognising this, I still find it funny, regardless of the fact that I still find it distasteful.