Khan Saheb Kamal Haasan's Jamaat/Jeba Koottam/Devasthaanam - Part 8

[sakaLAKALAKAlaa Vallavar]

There is no wrong meaning! Even I saw mahaanadhi 3 times(2.5 times actually) in theater. I am meaning to say there would have been atleast some audience who saw the film even at aroung 80th day.. Wherecome the meaning comes that he stretched the run?

Perusaa eduthukka koodaathu means, though there were audience, it could have been thin...

[Anban]

Rejected

[HonestRaj]

Enakku therinji according to a reliable source (one of my Anni who was a newlywed, so poi solla maattaanga ) Guna ran much better in Pondy.

Also met a great person at VV50thday@KasiTHeatre who saw Guna for 25+ times.

is he a fellow hubber..

kamal padam releasukku correct'ah aajar aavaru... ippo varradhillai..

Amarshiva...... hub is missing u..

[cinema]

For me the unique record of Kamal is not only he directly acted in five languages (Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu, Kannada and Hindi) but also gave silver jubilee hits in those languages and also won filmfare award on all those languages for the best actor. This is what we call it as true nationwide acceptance. This particular record of Kamal may never be broken.

[irir123]

Idhula i know for sure the grand successes of

1. 'Moonram pirai' (remember seeing it in Salem as a kid with family, some 120 days after release and it was a houseful evening show !!),

2. Thoongadhey TT (had to get tickets through 'influence' at Sapna in Salem again! and i still recall the sea of crowds outside the hall, matched only by the crowds for 'mundhanai mudichu' and 'moondru mugam'),

3. Aboorva Sago (watched it first time in Tirunelveli - theatre was 3/4th full for a friday morning show! by the time we came back to chennai, it was a patti thotti hit! later on when we moved to hyderabad, i came to know that the telugu version ran for six months and over in the hyd-sec'bad twin cities alone!! later on, in bangalore, I learnt that it ran for a year in a hall located between Bangalore and Hosur, and each time it was re-released it was running to packed houses for weeks together in Bangalore as well as AP!)

4.SKV - no two ways abt it - a garam masala film that elders winced to look at - it ran, ran, ran and ran for months together!

5.Kuruthipunal - traffic jam near Devi complex first week of its release !! managed to see it only after it completed 70 days!

6.Thevar magan - saw the trailer during ROJA screening and thought 'what the heck ? is kamal going the bharatiraja way ? i hope there are no white saree clad dancers in the background while kamal dances' - it picked up through sheer WOM and a big success in one of the largest halls in South India, DEVI cinema, Chennai

7. Nayagan - thiruttu video available within a week of its release! entire family shocked to watch the film - but, first 20 days, theatres la 'ee, kaakkaa' illai! adhukkaappuram, WOM, plus anantha vikatan/kumudham reviews sent the film's BO sky-rocketing! most interestingly, it was re-released in 1988 at Nagesh theatre (near Pondy bazaar) and ran for a month!!

8. am surprised there is no mention of 'sigappu rojakkal' which am told was a cult classic hit in 1978 when it was released ! 16 years later in 1994, it was re-released in Pilot theatre, Chennai, and run for 3 weeks!

as for the other films, i think some digital silmisham has been done to make them look like they were hits! GUNA was a total washout in AP running for exactly 3 days in hyderabad! MAHANADHI 'mukki mukki' 100 days odichhu!

almost everyone of Kamal's 'masala' films were blockbusters! and his offbeat attempts juxtaposed between masala films were average hits

[HonestRaj]

MAHANADHI 'mukki mukki' 100 days odichhu!

i always said in hub.. Mahanadhi ran 150+ days in Kovai.. & the link has that poster..

ps: theater'la kootam irundhadha illaya'nu enakku theriyadhu

[tamizharasan]

Idhula i know for sure the grand successes of

1. 'Moonram pirai' (remember seeing it in Salem as a kid with family, some 120 days after release and it was a houseful evening show !!),

2. Thoongadhey TT (had to get tickets through 'influence' at Sapna in Salem again! and i still recall the sea of crowds outside the hall, matched only by the crowds for 'mundhanai mudichu' and 'moondru mugam'),

3. Aboorva Sago (watched it first time in Tirunelveli - theatre was 3/4th full for a friday morning show! by the time we came back to chennai, it was a patti thotti hit! later on when we moved to hyderabad, i came to know that the telugu version ran for six months and over in the hyd-sec'bad twin cities alone!! later on, in bangalore, I learnt that it ran for a year in a hall located between Bangalore and Hosur, and each time it was re-released it was running to packed houses for weeks together in Bangalore as well as AP!)

4.SKV - no two ways abt it - a garam masala film that elders winced to look at - it ran, ran, ran and ran for months together!

5.Kuruthipunal - traffic jam near Devi complex first week of its release !! managed to see it only after it completed 70 days!

6.Thevar magan - saw the trailer during ROJA screening and thought 'what the heck ? is kamal going the bharatiraja way ? i hope there are no white saree clad dancers in the background while kamal dances' - it picked up through sheer WOM and a big success in one of the largest halls in South India, DEVI cinema, Chennai

7. Nayagan - thiruttu video available within a week of its release! entire family shocked to watch the film - but, first 20 days, theatres la 'ee, kaakkaa' illai! adhukkaappuram, WOM, plus anantha vikatan/kumudham reviews sent the film's BO sky-rocketing! most interestingly, it was re-released in 1988 at Nagesh theatre (near Pondy bazaar) and ran for a month!!

8. am surprised there is no mention of 'sigappu rojakkal' which am told was a cult classic hit in 1978 when it was released ! 16 years later in 1994, it was re-released in Pilot theatre, Chennai, and run for 3 weeks!

as for the other films, i think some digital silmisham has been done to make them look like they were hits! GUNA was a total washout in AP running for exactly 3 days in hyderabad! MAHANADHI 'mukki mukki' 100 days odichhu!

almost everyone of Kamal's 'masala' films were blockbusters! and his offbeat attempts juxtaposed between masala films were average hits

Nayagan producer released original vcd within week of release. BTW nayagan had a great opening and it did not have to wait for 20 days because all Rajini Kamal movies had grand opening because of fan base irrespective of the end result.

[San_K]

And kamal's offbeat Virumaandi is hit to super hit in BO

[SoftSword]

// irir, from salem? nice to meet!

[irir123]

SoftSword - am not from salem - am from everywhere (originally from madurai area, but given the places I have travelled, am not even sure what I should say abt my roots!) - just happened to live in salem for around 2 years and movies were the only means of entertainment there, besides Yercaud, of course !