Originally Posted by
irir123
SKV and others - my take on this: Kamal's inputs prior to 1987 were mostly in the form making a director's job totally easy, by giving far more than what they wanted from him as an actor
He evolved gradually until 1987 and rapidly after Nayagan, with his inputs technically, script-wise increasing manifold times thereafter - thats why his films with Singeetham or SB took a different light thereafter - Singeetham made 'Aditya 369' in 1991-92 in telugu - a fantasy film, which was nowhere near any of the films he did with Kamal! Kamal did make a huge difference!
Kamal simply meruketrufied / enhances the natural abilities of Singeetham or SB, post 1987 - the same goes for Suresh Krishna (Sathya, Indran Chandran, Abhay - all of which had kamal penning either the screenplay, or, giving inputs in other departments such as music etc) - there was one more guy GB Vijay who directed 'Kalaignan' - obvious it was kamal's film all the way with GBV doing maybe some 'edubidi' work!
i think in case of SB, or, SK, or, Singeetham, or Bharathan - Kamal's scripting plus Kamal either directing them to direct - "listen, this is how i want it to be; how can we add to the aesthetic of the final product ? i leave it to you to handle that - just make sure that it meets my vision" - and persuading them to get what he wanted