Some­times trivia hap­pens.. some­times it is made.. That’s the free­dom of the viewer to inter­pret things in his own way.

Nal­la­si­vam [ Kamal’s name in Anbe Sivam ]

- Can you iden­tify which ear­lier script of Kamal, had the names Nal­la­si­vam and Anbarasan, apart from ‘Anbe Sivam’ ? .. Answer at the end of this trivia collection.

- The Shiva paint­ing was based on Sal­vador Dali’s paint­ing “Galatea of Spheres” and Diego rivera’s “Men at cross roads” ..Rock­e­feller cen­tre. which had Lenin’s face.[ it’s sep­a­rate con­tro­versy by its own but it’s also cap­i­tal­ism & com­mu­nism issue based !! ].

- The photo of Sal­vador Dali was used in Michael Mad­hana Kama Rajan. Great artists and their dif­fer­ent mous­taches shown in back­ground when fire­man raju takes his mous­tache off. [ Dei.. Set property-i kooda vida maateengaladaa :) ]

- Ini­tially, the film was sup­posed to be directed by Priyadar­shan. Heard once the dance mas­ter told that he was just smok­ing with Sun­darC while the song ‘ele machi machi’ was chore­o­graphed. Sun­darC got a jack­pot in his career — it will be his name in the direc­tion[?!] for the next gen­er­a­tion who hap­pens to watch the DVD. :)

- I like the song ‘Yaar yaar sivam’ — an aptly penned song for the movie. Among all the petty char­ac­ters, I like the mother supe­rior [ Yaarunga avanga ?!]. Kamal’s grate­ful looks on her increases the value of that character.

It’s always easy to say that a film is based on x or y.. how­ever, it is extremely tough to change it accord­ing to our format.

Answer : Remem­ber Aboorva sagod­harar­gall vil­lain group :) .. Dhar­maraj, Lawyer Satya­murthy, Nal­la­si­vam, Fran­cis Anbarasan. Ha..Ha..

Krish­naswamy [ Kamal’s name in Mahanadhi ]

- The story mostly hap­pens in the river banks..Cauvery, Coovam (jail) , hooghly.. jour­ney returns back and ends in a well.

- The script/dialogues were penned by Kamal and Ra.Ki.Rangarajan.. Ra.Ki. hes­i­tated first.. but kamal gifted him some books on movie scripting..

- I like the con­trasts & smaller details shown.. with funk hair­style to get the impact of close cut hair in jail sequences.

- Kamal’s wife was Jaya­sudha.. an apt BW mar­riage photo was used from an old Kamal movie. [ Remem­ber Jayasudha’s sis­ter Gay­athri — Aasayai kaathula thoodhu vittu :) ]

- MS Prabhu was the cam­era­man [ debut film ] — school of PCSri­ram.. To my knowl­edge, it was the first film shot inside chen­nai cen­tral prison’s actual cell.

- Kamal’s scripts Mahanadhi and hey Ram came were trans­lated as a book in Malay­alam as ‘Kamal­has­sante randu thirakkadhagall’.

- The cli­max was a cin­e­matic one — Kamal had an alter­nate cli­max which he couldn’t use for com­mer­cial rea­sons [ it is applic­a­ble for all his good movies ].

Kamal is an unavoid­able per­son­al­ity in my movie expe­ri­ences. “Hey Ram” ப‌த்தி விலாவ‌ரியா அல‌ச‌லாம்.. Open­ing shot-la.. ஹ‌லோ.. பாஸ்.. ஓடாதீங்க‌.. நில்லுங்க‌..

:)

Toto.

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