Chevalier Dr. Kamal Haasanin Mayyam - Part 9

[Adox]

"If Ulaga Nayagan wears Kakki Uniform, film will be BB, is proved again"
Kakki Sattai, VetriVizha, Oru Kaidhiyin dairy, Vettaiadu-ViLLaiyadu (did I leave out anything ?) all blockbusters/superhits ....

[Arvind Srinivasan]

"If Ulaga Nayagan wears Kakki Uniform, film will be BB, is proved again"
Kakki Sattai, VetriVizha, Oru Kaidhiyin dairy, Vettaiadu-ViLLaiyadu (did I leave out anything ?) all blockbusters/superhits ....

Soora Samhaaaram, Sattam and the best of the lot, Kurudhipunal. Not sure if the first and the last were hits

[Adox]

Soora Samhaaaram, Sattam and the best of the lot, Kurudhipunal. Not sure if the first and the last were hits

how could I leave kurudhipunal out ???!! Not sure if Soora Samhaaram and Sattam were BB's or SHs ...

[hattori_hanzo]

how could I leave kurudhipunal out ???!! Not sure if Soora Samhaaram and Sattam were BB's or SHs ...

Soora Samharam and Sattam were both flops. They were both really bad movies. SS at least had a nice first half. Till the scene were Kamal gets drugged and sent back home, the movie was quite different. From there, it turned worse. Especially "Vedhaalam Vandhu nikkudhu" song.
Sattam was Mattam(Comment in Ananda Vikadan review) from beginning to end.


Kurudhippunal was/is/will be a classic forever. Yet another example of "Kombinil paal konjam surandhaal Adhu dhaan saadhanai"

Drohkaal directed by Govind Nihalani was Ashish Vidyarthi's first movie. Om Puri played Kamal's role, Naseeruddin Shah played Arjun's and Ashish did the villain's role which was done by Nazar in Tamil. It was critically acclaimed but did very poor business. With a star cast like this it was dissed an art movie. Kamal apparently was interested in the script and bought the rights from Govind Nihalani to make it in Tamil. He was sure of making a successful movie without any songs, comedy track or duets, debut MD, many unknown faces, Telugu lip-sync(It was made in Telugu and Tamil). It was released along with Muthu on Diwali 2006. Muthu directed by K.S.Ravikumar(fresh after the success of Naattaamai) had Rajinikanth in two roles, Meena who was the top heroine of those days, A.R.Rahman whose songs were already chartbusters, several supporting actors including Raghuvaran, Radharavi, Ponnambalam, Vadivelu, Senthil and others - a complete masala movie.

Still Kuruthippunal gave a tough fight & managed to open very well in all centers. It ran for more than 100 days in many theatres. I watched it on the 3rd day in AVM by paying Rs.150 for a Rs.25 ticket. In a suburban theatre like Tambaram (not sure if it was Vetri or Rakesh; Muthu ran in Vidhya), KP ran for 80 days. For the first three weeks, it shared the No.1 spot with Muthu in Sun TV's Top 10. In the fourth week, it went to No.2 and slowly came down. Muthu was in No.1 for few more weeks & obviously had a better run. But KP which probably was made in less than 1/2 of Muthu's budget was a Super-hit. KP's Telugu version Drohi was an even bigger hit.

[Adox]

Soora Samharam and Sattam were both flops. They were both really bad movies. SS at least had a nice first half. Till the scene were Kamal gets drugged and sent back home, the movie was quite different. From there, it turned worse. Especially "Vedhaalam Vandhu nikkudhu" song.
Sattam was Mattam(Comment in Ananda Vikadan review) from beginning to end.


Kurudhippunal was/is/will be a classic forever. Yet another example of "Kombinil paal konjam surandhaal Adhu dhaan saadhanai"

Drohkaal directed by Govind Nihalani was Ashish Vidyarthi's first movie. Om Puri played Kamal's role, Naseeruddin Shah played Arjun's and Ashish did the villain's role which was done by Nazar in Tamil. It was critically acclaimed but did very poor business. With a star cast like this it was dissed an art movie. Kamal apparently was interested in the script and bought the rights from Govind Nihalani to make it in Tamil. He was sure of making a successful movie without any songs, comedy track or duets, debut MD, many unknown faces, Telugu lip-sync(It was made in Telugu and Tamil). It was released along with Muthu on Diwali 2006. Muthu directed by K.S.Ravikumar(fresh after the success of Naattaamai) had Rajinikanth in two roles, Meena who was the top heroine of those days, A.R.Rahman whose songs were already chartbusters, several supporting actors including Raghuvaran, Radharavi, Ponnambalam, Vadivelu, Senthil and others - a complete masala movie.

Still Kuruthippunal gave a tough fight & managed to open very well in all centers. It ran for more than 100 days in many theatres. I watched it on the 3rd day in AVM by paying Rs.150 for a Rs.25 ticket. In a suburban theatre like Tambaram (not sure if it was Vetri or Rakesh; Muthu ran in Vidhya), KP ran for 80 days. For the first three weeks, it shared the No.1 spot with Muthu in Sun TV's Top 10. In the fourth week, it went to No.2 and slowly came down. Muthu was in No.1 for few more weeks & obviously had a better run. But KP which probably was made in less than 1/2 of Muthu's budget was a Super-hit. KP's Telugu version Drohi was an even bigger hit.

Its good to know Kurudhipunal ran well .... I was not sure how much of a hit it was considering that it did not have the ingredients of regular hit movie (songs/romance/action etc.). As we know, Kamal fans applauding or appreciating a movie whole hardheartedly vs. box office success are two different things .. Many such movies have fallen on the wayside. Ofcourse a few years later, public will say 'pa adhu arumaiyana padam' like what they talk about Anbe Sivam today .. but the movie flopped then! For Kurudhipunal to achieve a decent run is pretty impressive considering the challenges it had esp. from SS.

[hattori_hanzo]

Exactly. For the younger generation, if a movie's songs are not too popular then its a flop. Since KP was without songs, people don't see it often in TV and many even wouldn't have heard of it.

Between '94 and '96 Raj Kamal International had three consecutive hits - Sathi Leelavathi(released with Baasha), Magalir Mattum and Kuruthippunal. Kamal held a function to celebrate the hat-trick hits. Indhian and Avvai Shanmughi released during the same period but they weren't produced by Kamal.

[rsubras]

Soora Samharam and Sattam were both flops. They were both really bad movies. SS at least had a nice first half. Till the scene were Kamal gets drugged and sent back home, the movie was quite different. From there, it turned worse. Especially "Vedhaalam Vandhu nikkudhu" song.
Sattam was Mattam(Comment in Ananda Vikadan review) from beginning to end.


Kurudhippunal was/is/will be a classic forever. Yet another example of "Kombinil paal konjam surandhaal Adhu dhaan saadhanai"

Drohkaal directed by Govind Nihalani was Ashish Vidyarthi's first movie. Om Puri played Kamal's role, Naseeruddin Shah played Arjun's and Ashish did the villain's role which was done by Nazar in Tamil. It was critically acclaimed but did very poor business. With a star cast like this it was dissed an art movie. Kamal apparently was interested in the script and bought the rights from Govind Nihalani to make it in Tamil. He was sure of making a successful movie without any songs, comedy track or duets, debut MD, many unknown faces, Telugu lip-sync(It was made in Telugu and Tamil). It was released along with Muthu on Diwali 2006. Muthu directed by K.S.Ravikumar(fresh after the success of Naattaamai) had Rajinikanth in two roles, Meena who was the top heroine of those days, A.R.Rahman whose songs were already chartbusters, several supporting actors including Raghuvaran, Radharavi, Ponnambalam, Vadivelu, Senthil and others - a complete masala movie.

Still Kuruthippunal gave a tough fight & managed to open very well in all centers. It ran for more than 100 days in many theatres. I watched it on the 3rd day in AVM by paying Rs.150 for a Rs.25 ticket. In a suburban theatre like Tambaram (not sure if it was Vetri or Rakesh; Muthu ran in Vidhya), KP ran for 80 days. For the first three weeks, it shared the No.1 spot with Muthu in Sun TV's Top 10. In the fourth week, it went to No.2 and slowly came down. Muthu was in No.1 for few more weeks & obviously had a better run. But KP which probably was made in less than 1/2 of Muthu's budget was a Super-hit. KP's Telugu version Drohi was an even bigger hit.

good analysis regarding Muthu vs Kuruthipunal ...you forget to tell about the enormous buzz at that time.......... Rajini's popularity was at an all time high for his political stand and even a kuselan or kochadaiyaan kind of movie from him at that time would have been a blockbuster

[HonestRaj]

good analysis regarding Muthu vs Kuruthipunal ...you forget to tell about the enormous buzz at that time.......... Rajini's popularity was at an all time high for his political stand and even a kuselan or kochadaiyaan kind of movie from him at that time would have been a blockbuster

i remember Ananda vikatan issued 3 books for that diwali & one had cover of Rajini - kuluvalile song
oruvan oruvan, thillana thillana songs were massive hit

[HonestRaj]

Sattam was Mattam(Comment in Ananda Vikadan review) from beginning to end.

is sattam a hindi remake? Balaji usually does that with Rajini

sometimes i confuse sattam with savaal..
savaal is another mokkai.. but when i saw some 20 yrs ago in Doordharsan.. i enjoyed manorama's burma pappa climax fight

[hattori_hanzo]

is sattam a hindi remake? Balaji usually does that with Rajini

sometimes i confuse sattam with savaal..
savaal is another mokkai.. but when i saw some 20 yrs ago in Doordharsan.. i enjoyed manorama's burma pappa climax fight

Yeah me too probably because both were remakes, produced by K.Balaji. Hero and heroine had the names Raja and Radha in all his movies. But Savaal was a hit.