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