Roles that you wish Sivaji Ganesan had taken up...

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Originally Posted by sivank

I heard NT refused to lend his voice for role of Mufasa in Lion King as it was dubbed in Tamil. I heard he was really angry as some one approached him to lend his voice to equal James Earl Jones voice.

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The first thought that came to my mind when I read Plum's first post was how it would be to use his voice for an animated film as in the west :-)

Then here comes your post stating that people really attempted to do that!

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Originally Posted by sivank

I heard NT refused to lend his voice for role of Mufasa in Lion King as it was dubbed in Tamil. I heard he was really angry as some one approached him to lend his voice to equal James Earl Jones voice.

I would have loved to see NT playing the role of Anakin Skywalker/ Darthvader without the usual Tamil Film Sentiments. In my opinion he would have made a very good Darthvader

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That's news and what news! Lion King, indeed. hmmm...namma koduthu vechadhu avLO dhaan.

I think it would have been great to watch NT playing Don Carleone, if God Father would have been produced in Tamil sans normal tamil film gimmicks. Kamal would have suited the role of Al Pacino and pehaps Rajini for James caan as Sonny Carleone

sivank, that sounds explosive. I'll let groucho detail that fantasy!

I also would have seen NT as the aging king Raja Raja who is sick of wars and his only ambition is to build the Peruvudaiyaar temple, while his able middle aged son Rajendra is taking care of the kingdom.

In my opinion, NT with white beard playing the frail but majestic Raja Raja and Kaml again playing Rajendra

In my opinion NT would have been great in the role of Thakur saab in Sholay. Particularly when he has to play thakur sans hands

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Originally Posted by sivank

I think it would have been great to watch NT playing Don Carleone, if God Father would have been produced in Tamil sans normal tamil film gimmicks. Kamal would have suited the role of Al Pacino and pehaps Rajini for James caan as Sonny Carleone

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Too bad, we saw this in a split way. We saw Sonny Corleone in form of the moody, tempered Rajini in Talabathi. The Don and son Michael part was beautifully re rendered albeit in a culturally rooted story in Devar Magan (as Godfather too was very culturally inclined). But my question is, if there was, let's say, Devar Magan 2...and they also used Godfather 2 template. Who would have played the young NT? :lol: Yosinngga, nalla yoosingga.

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Originally Posted by Plum

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Originally Posted by groucho070

It's about infidelty, with NT taking on the role of a naughty husband. But then it was naughty, as far as I can remember, not notorious like Chakravarthy.

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Ok, this is what I meant when I said "sure there are some movies touching upon grey shades but nothin full blown". This is very apposite groucho. He should really have done Chakravarthy :-(

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Puriyuthu, birathar. Shades of grey arambittile irunthuchu. Like Koondu Kili, a role that was pretty risque for its time. But yeah, if he had born in the 50s, instead of debuting in that decade, we could have witnessed additional layers in the performance, as much as the censorship and the audiences' taste of the day can permit. Ithuvum remba mukkiyamaana criteria-thaney.

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Originally Posted by sivank

I also would have seen NT as the aging king Raja Raja who is sick of wars and his only ambition is to build the Peruvudaiyaar temple, while his able middle aged son Rajendra is taking care of the kingdom.

In my opinion, NT with white beard playing the frail but majestic Raja Raja and Kaml again playing Rajendra

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A missed opportunity in Rajaraja Cholan (1973). Pretty tame film with very youthful NT in the king's role, and an inept Siva Kumar doing Rajendra.

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Originally Posted by sivank

I think it would have been great to watch NT playing Don Carleone, if God Father would have been produced in Tamil sans normal tamil film gimmicks. Kamal would have suited the role of Al Pacino and pehaps Rajini for James caan as Sonny Carleone

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That seems great..... If it had happened it definitely wud have rocked.. apt people for the characters...Groucho, y are you terming this as bad? i cant understand..:roll:

GodFather 2?? who wud have played young NT? If NT is not there then I think it shd be played by Kamal only..