Nadigar Thilagam Sivaji Ganesan

Some of the nuances I have appreciated in NT's films are:

Paava Mannippu: The way NT writhes in pain when the acid is thrown at his face by MR Radha

Puthiya Paravai: NT bites his hand after realising he has killed his wife Sowcar Janaki with a heavy blow

Uthama Puthiran: The stylish manner he has essayed the villain role. Rajinikanth just followed him. An outstanding performance for the different shades of facial expressions with which he differentiates between the good son and the rogue one.

Baagappirivinai: When younger brother M N Nambiar comes back home from city and gives more attention to M R Radha and his sister M N Rajam, NT confronts him near the house well and gently chides him that he's ignoring his brother.

Vietnam Veedu: Can anyone forget his roles of Prestige Padmanabhan, a Palghat Iyer role, which he's donned to perfection.
One of his very best roles.

Ethiroli: A classic role of an upright man who succumbs to a moment's greed and is troubled endlessly afterwards for having taken T S Baliah's suitcase from the train compartment despite knowing the suitcases have been exchanged because of the train's movement, his suitcase going to Baliah.

Devar Magan: All the scenes involving NT and Kamal.

Paasa Malar: The scene where Gemini confronts him over workers' rights and the one where he overhears Savitri and Gemini in conversation and then wipes the tears with the pistol's barrel.

These are just a few scenes which I care to mention. There are
several such moments which we all cherish. Like someone has mentioned in this thread, my fav NT movies are also mostly bw ones.

You may be surprised that i omitted some classic moives of NT :
1) Veerapandiya Kataboman
2) Kapalotiya Tamizan
3) Parashakthi
4) Manohara
5) Palum Pazamum, etc.

Above movies also my favourite, but I liked 15 movies which I mentioned in my previous mail. In fact Thirisoolam also one of my favourite. Since I have seen Kannada and Hindi Version of thirsoolam (Dr.Rajkumar's Shankar Guru and in Hindi Amitab)When compare with Kannada, actingwise our NT is far away from Raj and Amitab. Techically , Kannada is superb.

Recently, after Dr.Raj death, I seen Avanthan Manithan's Kannada Version. Dr. Raj is noway near to our NT. Dr. Raj has his own way of style and acting. He is mix of both our NT and MGR.

one more film, Annan Oru Kovil is also remake of Kannada. In Kannada, it is total flop. In Tamil, as you all aware of Annan Oru Kovil.

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Originally Posted by abkhlabhi

one more film, Annan Oru Kovil is also remake of Kannada. In Kannada, it is total flop. In Tamil, as you all aware of Annan Oru Kovil.

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If you compare AOK with Pasamalar, this pales into insignificance :cry:

NT's earlier movies became a benchmark for his future movies to get compared and criticised.

I have also seen AOK. It was not an extrordinary performance WHICH WAS NORMALLY EXPECTED FROM NT .

When we talk of NT's high quality movies / standards he had set, this AOK , I dont think will be considered

I am not comparing Pasamalar with AOK. These two films are completely different. I compare it with Kannada version.

From: Nakeeran on Tue Jun 27 8:57:55 2006. [Full View]


Wonder why this thread is idle ! Mr. Murali Srinivas, request you flood this thread also with your informative posts

MGR is another legend . I admire him a lot


Mr.Nakeeran raised a point.

There is no doubt MGR is a legend. Mass appeal and he tasted success in politics also. Once I was a Greatr fan of MGR.

To my opinion, NT fans never change over to others camp. MGR / Kamal/Rajini etc fans are only shifted to NT after seeing his movies/acting. That's why this NT is thread is going strong every day . In MGR thead, apart from Mass appeal and Politics and his films songs no other mattes to discuss. This is my personal opinion. I was a great fan of MGR, then shifted to NT, continue to be NT fan now and forever.

I was just surfing through and found this pic. Not sure whether this is posted here before. This is the statue of NT to be placed in Marina Beach..

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Sivaji = Gambeeram

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Good news. At last, TN govt headed by MuKa is going to fulfil the dream of NT fans.

Murali: I know about that NT Mandram. You are right that I shared and enjoyed my part of NT's festivity when Alankar theater re-released many of his old movies such as VPKattabomman, Andavan Kattalai (fans whistled for devika in a big way as much as they enjoyed NT introduction in the movie) and others. I am sure you have plenty of memories of watching NT movies with fans. What is your best experience?

I would like to know, in 1960s, how did NT fans enjoy watching his movies in the opening show? Because 1960s are supposed to be NT's golden period.

This post is regarding Karnan movie. According to my view, Karnan is quite a successful movie, but it is not a blockbuster as, say Thiruvilaiyadal. Here, I am comparing Karnan with Thiruvilayadal, because both are "purana" type movies. Both movies are outstanding, with great performances from everyone involved in the movie. Karnan's production cost should have been more than Thiruvilaiyadal's cost considering Karnan has got a bigger star cast: NT, NTR, Ashokan, Savitri and Devika.

In spite of bigger budget, good story and performance, why wasn't Karnan as successful as ThiruVilayadal? When I saw Karnan, I was simply blown over by NT's performance. NTR was great in the movie as Lord Krishna and Ashokan was equally good. But, I felt the movie lacked something, may be comedy. One more aspect I did not like in the movie: NTR occupies too much time slot in the movie, his part is as lengthy as NT's part. I do not know whether NT's fans accepted this aspect and this might be one of the reasons why Karnan run was less than expected. Anyone who knows the fact can shed some light here. Or if you got any other analysis, you can post it here.

On the other hand, Thiruvilayadal was simply great; it has got all the ingradients to be a great movie. Comedy track with Nagesh was awesome and it created a history in tamil cinema. Second episode, NT fighting with Savitri was great. Next episode, as a fisherman was good (though i was not impressed with this episode, compared to the rest). Last episode, with TR Mahalingam and Balaiah was simply mind blowing; especially, Pattum Nane song. TMS just lived thru this song and watch out for NT's multiple appearance during this song. A wonderful song!! KB Sunderambal was great as Avvaiyar.

As i said above, though a great movie, Karnan lacked something. What do you think?

More later

Kalainjar with new NT statue

http://www.dinakaran.com/epaper/2006/jun/30/3_6.jpg

Dear Alavanthan,

Thanks. Though I have seen it in today's paper, your post gives it that Gambeeram that was lacking in today's Dina Malar print edition.

Dear Joe,

When I saw the photo of the NT statue, I thought of putting up that link here but then I realised it is your domain and as expected you have put up the same.

Dear tac,

Regarding Karnan, even the NT fans of that period (as I told you, I was 3-4 yrs old at that time) when asked about this could not give a satisfactory reply. They only asserted that it was a hit (remember it was a 100 day movie at Thangam). But my Father used to say that till that time Karnan was depicted as a villian because he was in the company of Gowravas. So when Banthalu showed Karnan in a different light , there was hesitancy on the part of the public to accept him as a Hero. Moreover my Father used to add, in order to project Karnan, Banthalu did a mis-casting of Pandavas, especially Bheema and Dharmar. Even Muthuraman was so so as Arjunan, he used to tell. I am not sure whether that was the reason but it was one school of thought. If you look at NT's own comment (remember,I talked about a book that contained NT's comments on his films, starting from Parasakthi to Raman Ethanai Ramanadi) he would have said " Brimmandamana Tayarippu; Anal Ethaiyo Kottai Vittu Vittom".

There is another misconception that Vettaikaran released along with Karnan (1964 Pongal) was a bigger hit than Karnan. According to old timers it is wrong. Even hardcore MGR fans when asked to list hits of MGR do not include Vettaikaran.

As for as opening show, I didn't have the opportunity to see opening show of any NT movies of 60s'. My first opening show was Raja and that was on 26th Jan, 1972. I will write about it later.

Regards