including mumbai express?
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I read in twitter, there is a guy SenthilCP who will be the 1st to post review! He said the movie is like mumbai express!
See his review last para http://www.adrasaka.com/2013/05/blog-post_9552.html
Guna plot adopted and made as Kathal Konden and became a Hit! now Mumbai express Plot taken for சூது கவ்வும் and becomes a Hit! :D
anumaar pudikkappoyi korangaa poyiruchu...
Guna was not a commercially flop film though it was not a Hit. Mumbai Express is being liked by kamal fans, likes of P_R, Grouch/Bala etc. We cannot expect the same quality in the adapted versions.
Here you shud not see it as kamal couldn't succeed in same plot etc. May be Kamal's quality was high and ppl expected a much diluted versions. Kamal will never compromise to reduce the intense. Not only that, Only the Plot is same but treatment and mainly the reason for success is different. And lets not forget that ppl are more ready for off beat themes now than the time when Guna released.
Kamal made RajaPaarvai and due to its loss he sold one of his House. But now, directors like Bala makes movies like Paradesi and its reported that he brought a new house in Poes garden, by selling his movie. The point is, Kamal was and is a motivator for almost all directors to make an offbeat experimental film. A Topmost comercially viable hero, who is quoted as one of the Superstars of South, attempting an experimental subject needs more courage and dare to take risk. Kamal is almost the only example for that, for all directors today.
Coming back to the point of discussion, even the plots kamal took didn't succeed to the expected level, those directors using the same plots again itself is an indirect success for kamal.
And yes Kadhal konden and சூது கவ்வும் became hits but we have to wait and see it they become timeless classics/lighthouse examples like Guna and Mumbai express(for its genre).
And while we are talking about [kamal's plot based]movies which succeeded, there are many other kamal movies which were huge success for kamal but remade or adapted versions failed badly, like Devar Magan Viraasat etc. Its not easy to remake / plot-reuse a kamal film, too!
And who knows, kathal konden's commercial success may be kind of equal to Guna itself, there is huge diff in the commercial outcome of a topmost actor and a new debutant!