Nadigar Thilagam Sivaji Ganesan - Part 7

[groucho070]

Kalthun benefits from seniors, and totally let down by the younger actors. NT as usual is the rock pillar of the movie Oh, MSV pinni pedaleduthirupparu. Just listen to Valartha Keda song, your blood will boil, your eyes will tear.

[Mahesh_K]

I too felt that 'younger' actors of better caliber (like Vijayakumar & Sarathbabu of Theerpu) would have done more justice to the roles in Kalthun. Same is the case with Nallathoru kudumbam & Rishimoolam.

[Plum]

Grouch, what about KRV?

Rishimoolam - koodai thalaiyan Chakravarthy
kalthooN - this is the guy who then carried around the adaimozhi kalthUn for the rest of his career right? What's his name?

[goldstar]

I too felt that 'younger' actors of better caliber (like Vijayakumar & Sarathbabu of Theerpu) would have done more justice to the roles in Kalthun. Same is the case with Nallathoru kudumbam & Rishimoolam.

Agreed Mr. Mahesh. This guy performance is very bad and his facial expression is very bad as well. I believe Vijayakumar would have done better....

Mahesh sir, how was the initial few days in Chennai on release time?

Cheers,
Sathish

[HARISH2619]

DEAR PAMMAL SIR,
Photos of PP sunday gala are super,thankyou.
murali sir,
had you been to star on sunday?

please somebody guide me to type in tamil

[parthasarathy]

Grouch, what about KRV?

Rishimoolam - koodai thalaiyan Chakravarthy
kalthooN - this is the guy who then carried around the adaimozhi kalthUn for the rest of his career right? What's his name?

I couldn't control my laughter when I read koodai thalaiyan Chakravarthy.

The original drama by (late) Seshadri, penned by Director Mahendran, was a big hit those days and used to be aired through AIR. Most of the family members in a home, would sit and listen to most of the dramas between 9.15 p.m. and 9.30 p.m. every day, leaving aside all their jobs and plan accordingly to listen to the dramas without fail. As for "Rishimoolam", like Chithi, Kolangal TV serials, people were listening to this Amateur Drama through radio, like mad. In the Drama, the son's character was a big hit - I don't remember who played it in Drama. The central characters in the Drama were that of Mother and Son and the Father role was played by NT in the Movie. With his usual humility, NT played the role which has lesser significance and as usual, came up trumps! The spoiler is of course that Chakravarthy (again unable to control my laughter).

The name of the other gentleman is Thilak, later known to be called as Kalthoon Thilak, as if he performed excellently, to get that tag. He was one of the lead artistes in Major Sundararajan's dramas and obviously given a chance, to repeat the role he essayed in the original Stage Drama because it's Major's Drama, which was also directed by him - first directorial venture, of course. As usual, this person also spoilt the role, the major reason being - INABILITY TO ADAPT TO CHANGE IN REQUIREMENT BETWEEN DRAMA & CINEMA. And that is the chief reason for Nadigar Thilagam's enduring success - even today - that he was able to adapt himself to the change in the environment, continuously, scrupulously!

Casting is very important for a film. Rishimoolam along with Kalthoon proved that wrong casting came in the way of making them big hits. However, due to outstanding performance and shoudering the entire movie on his shoulders, NT made them successful 100 day movies, if not Silver Jubilee Hits. Many other films can also be quoted in this regard.

Regards,

R. Parthasarathy

[Plum]

Mahesh, thanks for the tidbits. Ah yes kalthUN Thilakji(dont forget the surreptious, respectful -ji he added as a postscript to his name!)

The man gives me the creeps even when I catch him in passing in afternoon TV serials

[groucho070]

Grouch, what about KRV?

Athu naama taniyaa vera threadla pesikuvoom

[groucho070]

Mahesh, namma Ilaya Tilagam threadla update illaya?

[mr_karthik]

ரிஷிமூலம் படத்தில் நடிகர்திலகம் அறிமுகத்தைவிட, அவர் மகன் அறிமுகத்தை பெரிய பில்டப் கொடுத்து எடுத்திருப்பார்கள். பலவருடங்களுக்குப்பிறகு மகனைக் காண ஆவலோடு கே.ஆர்.விஜயா காத்திருக்க, திடீர்னு வந்து தரிசனம் தரும் சக்கரவர்த்தியைப் பார்த்ததும் நமக்கு என்னவோ போலிருக்கும். ஏன் அந்த நேரத்தில் வேறு ஆள் கிடைக்கவில்லையா?.

அப்புறம் சக்கரவர்த்தி வேறு எந்தப்படத்திலாவது மெயின் ரோலில் நடித்திருக்கிறாரா?. உதயகீதம் படத்தில் சிறைக்கைதியாக 'இத்துனூண்டு' ரோலில் நடித்தது தெரியும். அதுபோல 6லிருந்து 60வரை படத்திலுமும் பார்த்த ஞாபகம்.

'மழை வருவது மயிலுக்கு தெரியும்' பாடலை தன் பங்குக்கு கெடுத்து வைத்திருப்பார் இயக்குனர் எஸ்.பி.முத்துராமன்.