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Director: Kamal Haasan One of the most powerful star performers in all of Indian cinema, actor-producer-director Kamal Haasan, is famous both for his habit of inflicting drastic physical transformations upon himself, and for pursuing daring and often violent reformist social themes in populist narrative formats. His latest home-production, in which he also stars, is a melodramatic crime drama with a passionate anti-death penalty message. The film harks back to the rural blood feuds and vendettas in one of Kamal's best earlier productions, THEVAR MAGAN (Thevar's Son, 1992): Here, he plays a blood-spattered village bully sentenced to death after a lethal encounter with a local power broker. Despite its serious themes the movies contains an astonishing 12 songs by long-time Tamil cinema favorite Ilaya Raja, five of which feature lead vocal performances by Haasan himself. The man is nothing if not versatile!-David Chute Tamil with English subtitles Print Source: |
