Captain's Different Role!

Me writing for the first time about Tamil Cinema. South India's most popular and much followed filmdom and the place where screen presence makes demi-gods does not need my comments as more interesting blogs are always aplenty. But this one I mention because I was surprised to see a star of Vijaykanth's stature (Our Own Captain of Tamil Cinema and TamilNadu as a whole) do such a role where the hero does not hype with the usual do gooder role!!

The movie is "Naane Raja Naane Manthiri" and this is for people who wonders if the Captain has done any roles that doesn't defy the laws of physics. He is neither a Police nor a Politician and there are no dialogues for the audience about justice,truth,poor man's saviour,political punch dialogues,etc.Vijaykanth does the role of an arrogant,uneducated villager to perfection equally supported by Radhika. The sequence of the movie fits well in a moving way and Goundamani and Senthil has been included in the sequence fittingly!!The plus point is that Captain himself is involved in the comedy role with proper dialogues. Radhika who falls in love with the hero and Jeevitha who the hero likes to marry gives a love triangle but the climax is unexpected and a bit dragging, thinking who were the leading actors at that time. Music by Ilayaraja is as usual more than the movie itself and Jayachandran-P.Susheela team's "Mayanginen Solla Thayanginen" is a nice song. I think they made Jayachandran sing for Vijaykanth after the success of "Raasathi Unnai" for a while in the 80's.

Directed by Balunandh and a good screen play and dialogue makes this a different movie of those times.