Kamal's-cinema-part-2

Movie:Indian
Director:Shankar

Kamal got a National Award for this movie-his third as a best actor the most by an actor in India

• Senapathy { Indian Thatha } tells manisha koirala that he sacrificed his Mustache for the sake of his baby boy Chandru as it used to hurt him while kissing.In the last scene, after killing Chandru, Senapathy calls up the Police from some unknown foreign location. Here, he is dressed in full suite and very interestingly, he is seen to sport a mustache- hats off to Shankar
• In the flashback scene where Chandru Kamal fights with Senapathy and leaves the house, carefully read what is written on his T shirt " NOBODY HAS THE RIGHT TO TELL ME WHAT IS RIGHT"
• In the scene where the doctor Nizhalgal Ravi, Police inspector, Village administrative officer ask for bribe from Senapathy to treat Kasturi, Nizhalgal Ravi is reading "INDIA TODAY" book
• Senapathy being a freedom fighter names his kids as Chandra Bose and Kasturi, in respect of Netaji Subash and Kasturi Bai Gandhi.
• Old Kamal is the guy who is using 500 rupees note for paper boats to please his daughter, does not spend a single 500 rupees to save her life in spite of the fact that that is a crunch period.

Movie: Anbe Sivam
Director: Sundar C

• Ever wondered how KAMAL managed to wear such a big and thick glass the power of the specs was +10 it seems, Kamal  wore a -10 contact lens and then wore this +10 glass...Madavan told this in one interview
• Kamal would tell Madhavan that he doens't have one leg...in the next scene he lies down on the floor (in the hotel room) and if you notice carefully the length of his two legs would be different....all these requires minute attention but still he does it
• In the climax kamal says to nasser naan oru tool..ayutham..kathir aruthavudanae aruvaala keela vachuranum..aani adichavidanae suthiyaiyum atha thaan cheiyanum both are the symbols of communism-sickle and hammer
• In this movie during the bus accident scene a dog would be targeted by the locals and would get hurt in his ears and will start bleeding (you can notice while it runs)....once Kamal recovers and goes back to the same place the dog would have a bandage in the ear
• Madavan's Name Is ANBU-Arasu Kamal's Name Is NallaSIVAM
• Near the climax,(KAMAL’s lettar for madhavan, he written that lettar by left hand)so kiran not recognise his signature.importantly first half of the lettar read loudly by kiran in her s voice.then suddenly madhvan pick that lettar from kiran and read himself silently in voice of Kamal

Movie: Kuruthipunal

Director:P C Sreeram

1. Of the 2 spies sent by Arjun and Kamal, the first commits suicide. Kamal and Arjun see his dead body in the mortuary. The doctor says " Heavy dose of cyanide poisoning". Arjun places his left hand near the dead man's face and starts feeling sad because both the spies were very close to Arjun.Kamal brings his hand close to Arjun's hand and everyone expects that he will say some consoling words to Arjun. But, Kamal sees the watch on Arjun's hand and immediately asks " Trichy train ethana manikku ? " .{ As per the spy's info, some important terrorist would be boarding that particular train
2. When Kamal comes back home in the middle of the night after not being able to trace Nasser's hide out , he comes and takes a shower bath.We can notice that he is covered with dirt and filth from head to toe. That is an indirect portrayal that he has betrayed his Nation and a true friend Arjun for his personal reasons.So, he washes the dirt , becomes clean and the very next day , sets out fearlessly to kill Nasser and company
3. After Arjun's death kamal goes to record theatre to meet one of nasser's men .The Guy would be coming to meet his fiance .As the fiance watches the movie awaiting the guy , song in the background goes like "Odi vaa vennailave "The guy spots his fiancee with a torchlight

Movie: Aboorva Sagathorargal
Director:Singeetham Srinivasa Rao

• Before the murder of Jayashankar....Raja kamal will be trying to enter in the same manner as what Appu Kamal did.He will pull out the rope which is tied to a big wood block at the other end.Janakaraj and Shivaji comes to that place,they will start laughing and say to Kamal "Hands Up".Kamal leaves the rope and the wooden block hits both Janakaraj and Shivaji...and Kamal enters in.After this there will be two scenes where Janakaraj says to Kamal "Hands up"...one inside Jaishankar's house at the stair case,one where Appu Kamal rescues Raja from police...if you notice in both the scenes after saying "Hands Up" Janakaraj immediately looks up..Just to ensure that there is no wooden block that will fall on them    
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• Sethupathy {kamal} and Srividya argue about the name to be given to their kid.Kamal says APPADURAI {his dad's name }Srividya says Muthukkaruppan {Her dad's name}Shortly after this , Kamal is killed . Srividya escapes with one baby.And after 25 years, the movie comes to the present time , we are introduced to dwarf Kamal and not surprisingly, Srividya has fulfilled her dead husband's wish by naming her son as APPADURAI. Beautiful                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Many of his other movies have hidden gems which need to be uncovered understood and enjoyed, as mentioned in the last post, stone in the ocean attempt to unravel this genius..........                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    V N Balaji                                                                                                             

Kamal Hassan's Cinema

This post is an attempt to enlighten myself and fellow kamalians about the brilliance hidden in movies of Kamal Hassan.Most of the information has been taken from UHKH orkut community and after reading a few posts of it, I could not stop marveling at this genius.There are thousands of hidden and subtle information that I failed to notice in the first attempt or many attempts there after.Hard-core members have dissected and analyzed every frame of his movies and generated massive information about his movies and meanings.

Of course directors and screenplay writers who collaborated with him deserve equal credit but most of his gem movies where he helmed the screenplay and some of them direction as well, equal kudos to the illustrious directors who have directed his movies.

Directorial ventures of Kamal have yielded the maximum amount of information and Hey Ram is a masterpiece in that regard, there is a 81 page analysis of this masterpiece movie by a ardent movie buff in the following link:

http://theseventhart.info/2008/06/20/hey-ram-an-analysis-part-120/ 

I could not stop being amazed at the movie or the the person who penned this blog-masterpiece both.

Movie:Micheal Madana Kama Rajan

Director:Singeetham Srinivasa Rao

Just , recollect the names of the 4 villians - Nagesh , Jaishanker , Nasser , Delhi ganesh and see what each name means:

DHARMARAJ ---- The King of Dharma , {shown as a crooked , wicked politician}
SATYAMOORTHY - -- The figure of truthfulness { shown as a corrupt liar lawyer}
NALLASIVAM --- A good ascetic { shown as a wicked murderer}
ANBARASU --- One who is a king in showering affection and love { shown as an arrogant rich wrong doer }

Fireman Raju Roomla oru scene:

Raju va Madhan a nadika soletuu avroda glass a Raju ukku koduparu
Now comes the excellence
Kannadi ellama tea glass olunga vaika mataru madhan he will struggle to keep the tea glass correctly as if he was struggling without his specs.

Movie:Panchathanthiram

Director:K S Ravikumar

• Kamal as Tamilian,
• Jayaram as Mallu,
• Yugi sethu as tamilian,
• Ramesh aravind as kannadiga,
• Sreeman as telugite.

Interesting thing is both in real life and movie their language identity is preserved.

When they all meet at a function... where suddenly simran enters... and he gossips separately with simran and ramya...when he's back ... oorvasi will ask him... " En Unga vai konala irukku "..
For that kamal will reply ... " Sariya shave pannale...OPTICAL ILLUSION "..
But if u watch clearly...Kamal's French Beard will not be perfect in that scene..

Thenali:

Thenali -ku elam baiyam thaan..:)

It goes on this way,Kamal enters Jairam's family and He happens to use Jairam's shirt and pant.
He constantly adjusts the pant..

(Try watching the song Aiyo da)

Movie:Guna

 

Kamal's name is Guna in the movie 'Guna' and the interesting thing is, 'Gunaseelam' is a temple famous for curing mentally ill people, it was initially named as "Mathikettan Solai" but Ilayaraja found Guna to be good.

 

 The movie guna starts with pournami and as the movie progresses, moon was also shown at each quarters like waning crescent, new moon, waxing crescent etc and the climax ends on a pournami.

Mahanadhi:

KRISHNASWAMY { kamal }
Narmada --- first wife
Yamuna ------- Sukanya
Godavari ----- SN lakshmi { mother in law}
Kaveri ---- daughter
Barani ------------ son
Punjabakesan ---- Poornam viswanathan { Punjab = 5 rivers}

all characters have the names of rivers:)

Nala Damayanti

Kamal comes in the climax in this movie. He speaks in Palakkad Tamil. Then Madhavan says "Saar Palakkad thaan" to Geetu Mohandas. Kamal then says "Pa" varakkum correct thaan.
The reason is he is actually from Paramakudi. 

Unaipol Oruvan-Chakri Toleti

When Mohanlal says about the bullet proof jackets to his subbordinates...if u have noticed, he would say, this is the new bullet proof jackets, thanks to Late Mr.Karkare ....Mr.Hemant Karkare was the ATS chief who died in 26 / 11 terror attack in Mumbai....there was a big debate in the parliment on the quality of bullet proof jacket he was using..

Vasool Raja MBBS-Saran

Hostel scene in room number 7:

Kamal would say GOPINATH for that he would say his name is swaminathan say like naan onnu sonna adhukku edhir pesakoodaadhu,.. can i call my dad as saambunathan,,, frm th nxt scene onwards, Kamal would say "Sambu Mavane"

There are hundreds of movies more with thousands of subtle/hidden and revealing gems, just a stone in the ocean attempt to uncover the same.

                                                                                                                     V N Balaji

கவுண்டமணி

                                                              

Tamil Cinema has seen many comedians since NSK days starting from NSK,Balayya,Chandrababu,Nagesh, famous duo of goundar and senthil,Janakaraj,Vadivelu,Vivek, and now Santhanam. Everyone had their own trademark styles from slapstick comedy to funny jibe at others to reformist dialogues to friendly banter.Each one followed their own style and held command for many years in filmdom with that.But our subject has been exceptional atleast to me and many of his hard-core fanatics.

Goundamani-He was born in Valagundapuram, a village near Udumalaipettai in Tamil Nadu, India. His father was Karupaiah and mother was Annam. He started as a theater artist and then switched over to cinema easily, says Wikipedia.One of the very few actors in the industry to have come from theatre background.People who have come from this area have only excelled in industry and shone more brighter than others and he has been no exception to that.Tamil people need not fret over the fact that we missed the famous comedy duo of Laurel and Hardy for we had our own Goundamani and Senthil.They had their own dialogue writer in the name of A. Veerappan who collaborated with them for over a hundred movies and they together hold a record of around 450 movies till date.

As Santhanam holds forte in most of the tamil movies now, Goundamani duo acted in every released tamil movie during their career peak.They had a sidetrack or track close to the hero of the film.His combinations with Sathyaraj are legendary and they brought the best in their abilities.Rumors were that he demanded astronomical salary and conditions of a single song and a fight sequence in the movies he acted and accordingly there were movies he did all of that with the famous being "Velvetta Velvetta" song in Mettukudi.He had an amazing run of movies with all of the top heroes from Kamal,Rajini,Sarathkumar,Sathyaraj,Karthik,Prabhu,Vijaykanth who ruled the roost during their prime period.Amazing combination of him with Kamal can be seen in Singaravelan and Indian.

In the movie Baba or for the fact any of the Rajini movie he was the only one actor to have made fun of Rajini, he had started that way back from 16 vayadinile days to the prime comedy being in "Mannan" movie.Hailing from theatre background he could do performance oriented character roles as well which he did with amazing talent in many movies.He is one of the very few artistes to not give any interviews to magazines, keep his family away from movie limelight and also not adorn any make up to film functions.It was told many in the film industry dint even know that he had two daughters until he conducted marriage for them, such was his secrecy about his family life in his cine industry.

There were strong rumors of his death in media circles for some time before it died out and now he is hale and healthy though it has been said that he had a kidney transplant.His last movie was Jaggubhai with Sarathkumar.KS Ravikumar has been a director who has leveraged Goundamani to his best in many of his movies.Shankar has used him to the most in his movies like Gentleman and Indian.

There was a brief lull in his career when he along with Sathyaraj were without movies after which both of them came with a bang.His close friend in cinema has been Sathyaraj which is evident in chemistry between them in cine functions.He has given some of the amazing funny dialogues till date ranging from:

• MURGASEIKU IPA MOINER 200RUPPEES MOI ELUTHUVAR
• nthennamo social matter panneeralam... aana divorce case ellam varuthuppa.. naan enna courta judga...
• maappile, konjam vanthu ennoda southindian dianava konjam paaruppa... 
• ethu yena da jilepi konda entha mari kondaiya nan parthathe elaya pa...
• Lady: Enakku kushpu madhri thekkanum..
  Gounder: Kushpu kittaye edhachum palaya patta irundha vaangi pottukko po..
  Lady: Enakku Ulaga Alagi Aiswarya madhri thekkanum..
  Gounder: Cheiiii.. Modhal modhalla oru ponnu olaga alagi nu per vaangi irukku.. adhellam ungalukku porukkadhe.. indha moonjiku veveveeeee veeveeeeveee nu thekanumaam..
• Senthil: Ennanga maganey panrathu namba onu nenacha aandavan onnu ninaikiran
  Goundamani: Dai Naaye Annadavan ninikirathu irukanumda Nee yenda nenacha...    
• ADADA, NAATLA INDHA THOZHILADHIBARGAL THOLLAI THAANGA MUDIYALAI PAA, PUNNAAKKU VIKARAVAN....KUNDOOSI VIKARAVAN ELLAM THOZHILADHIBARAAM

In his daughter marriage:

  

 Thanks for all our rollicking comedies, your all movies and dialogues would keep us entertained for decades to come.......................................

                                                                                                                 உங்கள் ரசிகன்

Cheers................................

                                                CHEERS........................................

• A company which has 100% monopoly in a product in an entire state.
• Whose consumers increase every day and quantity consumed per person also increases.
• Highly addictive product-consumers only leave then they die of/for/by it.
• Growth % has been always in double digits year on year with no marketing budget.strategy
• Customer experiences have always been below par for many do not realize what they are served leave alone how?

Yup, no points for guessing it from clue 1: Yes the one and only TASM**


TN State Marketing Corporation in short TASM**

There are 10 distilleries catering to it, No.1 MC Dowell Medium Brandy is the no:1 in state,Haywards 5000 Super Strong Beer in beer category.There are brand wise, depot wise stock details like that of essential ammunition of an army.Starting from a modest 2000 crore sales in 2002, now it has grown to over 17,000 crores per year.What a changeover mama.:)

•   There are "raw" kudiyans who dont mix water packet at all either due to their experience or due to their poverty divide it so exactly between them,that weighing machines would be put to shame
•   Auto drivers who come with their uniform not sure if they would do in auto but come in uniform and discuss from Obama to Osama
•   IT guys who come in,not for bar experience but to take it to their rooms chilled which sometimes is not possible
•   Marketing guys who come at any point of day to drown a little and carry on with their work
•   Irony is that no staff or bar guys drinks, height of professionalism
•   Lots of pushing is done for chalna, sundal,packet for they are tough to push in normal shop    
•  Some do not even buy water packet or plastic glass but mix/divide in the leftover bottles-make sure they do in the same brand or there would be dilution      
• Vomiting is charged at 50rs, but rarely do people give money they only give vomit  
• If you are in your inebriated state, chances of pickpocketing zooms high    
• Get involved in drunken brawls, you do not get hurt at all for you do not feel at all until next day    
• Discussions corner on political equations to roadside anitha's and vanitha's soup to guys     
• 1 bad word per sentence increases to 1 good word after drinking      
• Many buy 2 bottles,one to drown here and one at home-normally kept safe in their own trousers in pockets,safe and secure      
• Decent dressed guys would be pushed costly side dishes and snacks as hard core and professional never exceed their side dish quota or buy new/costly ones     
• Environment at most stinks to the core:reason many dont feel it is drowned and downed

 Popular Side-Dishes:

• Channa masala
• Boiled egg
• Half boil
• Raw Mango
• Boatie(goat liver)-30rs
• Veg salad
• Fruit salad
• Thala kari
• Eeral
• Chicken fry
• 5rs 3rs chips
• Pickles

        

 Important Formula:

Quarter(1/4) = 180ml = 3 large ( because 1 large = 60ml)

Small = 30ml

Cutting = large+small ==>60+30=90ml

Half(1/2) = 360ml

Full(1) = 720ml 

Classification of Characters:

Professional: One who knows what he wants,his limit and never crosses it whatever be the reason(good/bad) and rarely comes with others,orders without fuss,
mixes correctly,knows his favorite side dishes and does not do impulse buying and never goes for beer takes time more than normal,contemplates,completes and goes off,Creation of fuss neutral,comes in with professional attire,indication that he is drunk is almost nil.Never picks up fights/quarrels and completes his mission and escapes.

Free Guy: These are people who rely purely on others,get their daily share either knowingly or unknowingly.Have a ready made sorry face mask going around asking people
for drinks,water packet,plastic cup,side dish.Will have some money to show off that he is not asking for alms but has only little money and only needs extra money.Never goes for beer
for its costly,and loiters around till he gets his share,would settle in for anything around.Hits jackpot with "professionals" as they are too busy with their own and
want nil disturbance.Knows his trade and never asks deep drunkards.Be there till his daily share and goes off after its done.Would be a victim of fights as these are the
floating population in the place

Steady Guys: These are the deep drunkards who drink raw without mixing thus making the shop cash counter dry.Never goes for mixing for it hampers their ego,
comes in two or max three persons and shares 49.99999% proportion among two.This sharing is done mutually and lots of care is taken to make it exactly half.Does not buy water
packet nor plastic cup and uses leftover bottle of the same brand for proportionality.Buys 2 bottles one for here and another carry home.Knows to keep a glass bottle laden with
liquid in his trouser beneath as easy as a Messi goal and goes home.Also does not buy any side dish as well much to the ire of "sundal" guy in the shop.The guys who drink the
maximum but does not look inebriated for their quantity due to the work experience put up over the years.Have no problems of chewing gum/mint to freshen up their mouth for
all their families know about them.Free Guy rarely touch bases with Steady guys.Know their trade and plays well.Most strongest and influential of all classes of characters

Hard core: These are the characters who cause maximum gain and pain to the shop.Come in for either happy or sad reason.Mostly sad reasons and drown up their sorrows with one bottle after another.Come in alone like professional.Have more than enough cash to buy more than daily limit of alcohol.Know for sure that they would cross
their limit that day but seem least cared about that.Vomits occasionally but gulps down a bottle after that.Free guy have their hunt focused on such ones for these hardcore
either give liquor knowingly/unknowingly.Highest contributor of blabbering and incessant jokes that plague talks and movie scenes come from these experts.Goes in austerity drive
for some days after this episode.Promises to quit drinking the moment he reaches instability but comes back in a few days.Increase their alcohol levels
steadily over the  years to become addicts to the core.Buys more,vomits more,talks more,fights more,drinks more.Light in 15mins,Steady in 30mins,Professional in an hour and
evolution to hard core happens in less than 2 hours.Normally to be accompanied to home or to platform.

Light guys: these are the people who are white collared ones who come in as a social drink.Come on a friday night or maximum take home delivery to their rooms.Mostly go for
beer pretending and proclaiming that they are not alcohol addicts but beer as it contains only 5% alcohol(they proclaim)go for branded ones even if that means paying up more.
Order costly side dishes and does the mixing with soft drinks and not water packets.Mostly go for a/c bars attached to the shop and know their limits.Come in as groups
and either one or two blabbers after crossing their individual limits.Adds the maximum revenue to the shop as they buy beer which is costly and more in quantities.Does not mingle
with any of the other characters and gets out of the shop sneakingly as they can.

Miscellaneous: Northies who come in to buy home delivery start and stop with only the shop.take home un chilled ones as well as they have the luxury to keep these bottles
boldly enough in their fridges much to ire of southies.Elderly women who buy for themselves or take for their husbands are also common.

No offense intended to any person living or dead due to drinking

 

P.S: I am a 100% teetotaler

                                                      V N Balaji