Originally Posted by
irir123
Idhula i know for sure the grand successes of
1. 'Moonram pirai' (remember seeing it in Salem as a kid with family, some 120 days after release and it was a houseful evening show !!),
2. Thoongadhey TT (had to get tickets through 'influence' at Sapna in Salem again! and i still recall the sea of crowds outside the hall, matched only by the crowds for 'mundhanai mudichu' and 'moondru mugam'),
3. Aboorva Sago (watched it first time in Tirunelveli - theatre was 3/4th full for a friday morning show! by the time we came back to chennai, it was a patti thotti hit! later on when we moved to hyderabad, i came to know that the telugu version ran for six months and over in the hyd-sec'bad twin cities alone!! later on, in bangalore, I learnt that it ran for a year in a hall located between Bangalore and Hosur, and each time it was re-released it was running to packed houses for weeks together in Bangalore as well as AP!)
4.SKV - no two ways abt it - a garam masala film that elders winced to look at - it ran, ran, ran and ran for months together!
5.Kuruthipunal - traffic jam near Devi complex first week of its release !! managed to see it only after it completed 70 days!
6.Thevar magan - saw the trailer during ROJA screening and thought 'what the heck ? is kamal going the bharatiraja way ? i hope there are no white saree clad dancers in the background while kamal dances' - it picked up through sheer WOM and a big success in one of the largest halls in South India, DEVI cinema, Chennai
7. Nayagan - thiruttu video available within a week of its release! entire family shocked to watch the film - but, first 20 days, theatres la 'ee, kaakkaa' illai! adhukkaappuram, WOM, plus anantha vikatan/kumudham reviews sent the film's BO sky-rocketing! most interestingly, it was re-released in 1988 at Nagesh theatre (near Pondy bazaar) and ran for a month!!
8. am surprised there is no mention of 'sigappu rojakkal' which am told was a cult classic hit in 1978 when it was released ! 16 years later in 1994, it was re-released in Pilot theatre, Chennai, and run for 3 weeks!
as for the other films, i think some digital silmisham has been done to make them look like they were hits! GUNA was a total washout in AP running for exactly 3 days in hyderabad! MAHANADHI 'mukki mukki' 100 days odichhu!
almost everyone of Kamal's 'masala' films were blockbusters! and his offbeat attempts juxtaposed between masala films were average hits
