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A comedy of errors with identical quadruplets, separated at birth, coming together as adults.A comedy of errors with identical quadruplets, separated at birth, coming together as adults.A comedy of errors with identical quadruplets, separated at birth, coming together as adults.
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Komal Mahuvakar
- Chakku Bai
- (as Rupini)
S.N. Lakshmi
- Tiruppurasundari's grandmother
- (as Sennalkudi Lakshmi)
Aachi Manorama
- Ganga Bai (Chakku Bai's mother)
- (as Manorama)
Venniradai Moorthy
- Sivaram
- (as Vennira Aadai Murthy)
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First of all I am not even Tamil but I really enjoyed the movie. This movie has got to be one of the best comedies ever.
I don't understand Tamil and the movie I watched did not even have subtitles. However, it did not stop me from enjoying the movie. I found it really funny. Kamal Hassan was just awesome in this movie. I think Kamal is one of the best actors in cinema history. I wish he had done some Hollywood movies too.
I am of Indian origin. So, I do watch a lot of Hindi movies too. I have seen a couple of Hindi movies of Kamal's and he was really good in them as well.
I am trying to get my hands on his other movies like Nayagan, Kurudhipunal, Guna, Mahanadhi and Anbe Sivam. Michael Madana Kama Rajan has definitely got to be one of the best performances of Kamal Hassan's in his long career.
Right now, I am waiting for his Vettiyaidu Vilaiayadu. Is it going to be released in the UK, I wonder. I hear it's coming out on Tamil new year but it's so hard to find any information about the UK release dates or whether it's going to be released here or not. If anybody can shed any light on this I'd be grateful...
I don't understand Tamil and the movie I watched did not even have subtitles. However, it did not stop me from enjoying the movie. I found it really funny. Kamal Hassan was just awesome in this movie. I think Kamal is one of the best actors in cinema history. I wish he had done some Hollywood movies too.
I am of Indian origin. So, I do watch a lot of Hindi movies too. I have seen a couple of Hindi movies of Kamal's and he was really good in them as well.
I am trying to get my hands on his other movies like Nayagan, Kurudhipunal, Guna, Mahanadhi and Anbe Sivam. Michael Madana Kama Rajan has definitely got to be one of the best performances of Kamal Hassan's in his long career.
Right now, I am waiting for his Vettiyaidu Vilaiayadu. Is it going to be released in the UK, I wonder. I hear it's coming out on Tamil new year but it's so hard to find any information about the UK release dates or whether it's going to be released here or not. If anybody can shed any light on this I'd be grateful...
I agree with one of the previous posters!! Undoubtedly one of the best comedies ever made in any language!
I have seen some of the great comedies like "Some Like it Hot":AFI's #1, "The Producers", "Annie Hall", etc. but this movie will just hold its own, if only audiences can understand the language/ethnicity, if only...
Yes, it is completely unknown outside of South India/Tamilnadu and unfortunately, no amount of sub-titles will ever convey the comic timing of its script.
The screenplay and the script is just too good! I have lost count on the number of times I have seen it but this is one movie I can never get tired of!
Unless & otherwise you were actually born & brought up in that area (urban TamilNadu) it would also be an exercise in futility to explain to an outsider, some of the characterizations in the movie (obviously "Kameshwaran" the cook).
It is a pity that this movie can be cherished only by an esoteric group. That group knows what I am talking about.
I have seen some of the great comedies like "Some Like it Hot":AFI's #1, "The Producers", "Annie Hall", etc. but this movie will just hold its own, if only audiences can understand the language/ethnicity, if only...
Yes, it is completely unknown outside of South India/Tamilnadu and unfortunately, no amount of sub-titles will ever convey the comic timing of its script.
The screenplay and the script is just too good! I have lost count on the number of times I have seen it but this is one movie I can never get tired of!
Unless & otherwise you were actually born & brought up in that area (urban TamilNadu) it would also be an exercise in futility to explain to an outsider, some of the characterizations in the movie (obviously "Kameshwaran" the cook).
It is a pity that this movie can be cherished only by an esoteric group. That group knows what I am talking about.
This was a movie that made a certain style of story extraordinarily popular.
It starts out cliched enough with the background of a happy couple separated, the wife being pregnant, by the evil bro of the rich husband. Wife gives birth to 4 babies. Bad guy who is going to kill her takes all four. She escapes.
One baby is left in a temple and picked up by a Palakkattu cook. Another is left in a car, which by coincidence gets picked up by its own father. One is left in an orphanage, and the bad guy adopts the last one.
The story, then picks up, and follows various twists and turns.
It is a very good movie, and is really funny. Great acting all around.
It starts out cliched enough with the background of a happy couple separated, the wife being pregnant, by the evil bro of the rich husband. Wife gives birth to 4 babies. Bad guy who is going to kill her takes all four. She escapes.
One baby is left in a temple and picked up by a Palakkattu cook. Another is left in a car, which by coincidence gets picked up by its own father. One is left in an orphanage, and the bad guy adopts the last one.
The story, then picks up, and follows various twists and turns.
It is a very good movie, and is really funny. Great acting all around.
Should be among the greatest comedy movies in any language, from anywhere in the world. Immaculate dialogues, brilliant acting from Kamal Hassan (I feel he does his best in comedy roles), good music score, and around three hours of wholesome entertainment.
The story is about a woman giving birth to identical quadruplets who are separated at birth. Later in life each of them tries to play another for monetary benefits. All this with confused lovers singing duets with the wrong people!
I am not sure if the movie would have as much effect with subtitles (not so much of a slapstick), but a must watch for anyone interested in Tamil movies.
The story is about a woman giving birth to identical quadruplets who are separated at birth. Later in life each of them tries to play another for monetary benefits. All this with confused lovers singing duets with the wrong people!
I am not sure if the movie would have as much effect with subtitles (not so much of a slapstick), but a must watch for anyone interested in Tamil movies.
Spectacular performance by Kamal.
awesome songs
Watched many times, still it is not boring.
Did you know
- TriviaAccording to writer Crazy Mohan writing Aboorva Sagodharagal was a rehearsal for Michael Madana Kamarajan because with this film, he used fine tune the scenes like crazy, his initial script had only a few dots and crosses.
- ConnectionsFeatures Pluto chanteur de charme (1947)
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