Films/Documentary that made you post here

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Vel - pora pokkula kaathula vizhunthathu Suryar's darraaana vachanams..... Hari directed 11 films so far

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Prabhu Deva-kum konjam kaathula pottu vaingha thaanga mudiyala

[kid-glove]

I saw Kalaignan in Prathna drive-in. Car parking full.

[Cinemarasigan]

CR, romba uNarchivasapadaRInga

NeengaLum paatthA uNarchivasappaduveenga...

[hattori_hanzo]

I saw Kalaignan in Prathna drive-in. Car parking full.

I saw it in Koyambedu Rohini Complex. AFAIK, It was one of the early movies to release there & there were just 3 theaters at that time- Rohini, Ragini and Rupini. The hall was filled with marana mass, as it was the first week of release. Though, in Kalaignan, there was no scope for Kamal to perform, we were'nt disappointed. As a kid, I used to get thrilled watching Kamal perform those different stunts - 'tea kadai bench' fight in TTT, 'Sakkadai fight' in SKV and even the open gymnasium fight sequence in 'Andha Oru Nimidam' . Thats why that knife-swinging scene is still fresh in my memory. Kamal must have worked really hard for this scene. The climax fight was good but way too long. Oru mozhumozhu villain - btw, is he a Kannada actor? As the story was set in Bangalore, there were many Kannada actors/dialogues. The one who played the role of the bad tempered cop is also a Kannadiga, I guess.

Illaiyaraja's opening credits BGM - the water drop effect was If Sivaji Productions had given this movie to a better director instead of G.B.Vijay, we would have had a neat suspense thriller like Sigappu Rojakkal or Nooravadhu Naal. Too many loose ends. Just to confuse the audience, Kamal was portrayed as someone with a dark past which was never really shown.

There was this Hindi move of Kamal called Sanam Teri Kasam released in mid 80's. After Kalaignan's release, this was dubbed to Tamil as 'Paadagan' & the stills they used to promote it were all from Kalaignan. It ran in Udayam complex for a couple of weeks.

[groucho070]

The film could have been awesome if after all the fight, we find out that Kamal himself was indeed the killer.

[kid-glove]

Mother of all twists, he's a patient in a psycho-ward & it's all his schizoid dream. The other guy is his imagination. But the girls are real. And he's just imagining up a scenario where he's not the killer, but in real-life, he's the one who killed 'em & was the reason he was put into the psycho ward. Anga dhaan twist-u

[groucho070]

Remake pannunggapA!

[kid-glove]

Dr. Caligari's 91 years anniversary vera, 'innum ivainga thirundha mattainga'-range'la pseudo-psychology contrivances lam add pannikanum.

[groucho070]

Had to look it up, sariyA-than varuthu. Kamal must be well-versed with German Expressionist films. Will be inevitably compared to Sigappu Rojakkal instead.