Quote Originally Posted by Avadi to America View Post
From gentleman, Shankar is THE PROMISING DIRECTOR for commercial movies in tamil and telugu cinema.... Kadhalan had greatest hype among youth and songs were rage at the time. the combination of shankar, ARR with K T kunjamoon was deadly and lethal in BO. .... IF shankar was not promising enough, k T kunjamoon would have not invested 5C for kadhalan..... it was one of the (probably THE) costliest movie at the time.....Sujatha insisted kamal to act in Indian movie since the script was rock solid... the need of improvisation is almost nil. K T kunjamoon marketed both gentleman and kadhalan like big star movies and both the movies lived up to the hype. A M Ratnam was releasing every shankar movie in telugu at the time.
We all know how big kamal is in BO but you should not through everyone under the bus.
At that point of time "Indian" helped Shankar to become more popular and achieve a bigger status.. But Kamal's dependency on Shankar is minimal..