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Prabhu Deva - Renaissance Man
Yes. I said it. I called Prabhudeva a renaissance man.
This is not going to be an objective post. A glowing hagiography is more like it.
He may be the most talented person working in Indian movies today (hyperbole never hurt anyone). But he is wonly a dancer you say. No.
Item Dancer, Choreographer, Actor, Star, Director, Writer.
Writer/Director? Yes. That too of hit movies.
He was the original male item number. Nowadays a lot is made of Shah rukh, Abhishek or Hrithik dancing in some film they are not acting in. But he was there first. Many may not have seen this song of his. It was from a Rajni movie that bombed but this song was a hit.
How awesome was that?
His first appearance on the screen was as a backup dancer at age 17 in Mani Rathnam’s Agni Nakshathiram.
He is the dude on the right in a white shirt.
He did many item numbers in tamizh movies until ofcourse, he had the one to top all item numbers. Chiku Buku Rayile from Shankar’s debut Gentleman which had music by ARRehman (i think it was his 3rd movie).
The movie went onto be a smash hit, and had school and college kids crazy about the song. Shankar, ever the shrewd businessman with a finger on the audience’s pulse and an eye on their money had a eureka moment. A moment of inspiration that can only be called genius. Something so simple, he must have wondered why no one else had thought of it.
Audiences in T.Nadu and Telugudom were all familiar with Prabhudeva and the demographic that makes a movie a hit in these lands are the high school and college boys who bunk class to watch movies about lou.
Shankar decided to make a movie to end all item songs. A movie comprised entirely of Prabhdeva’s item songs and dancing choreographed to Rehman’s music. Ofcourse, no one would have thought of casting him as a hero.
This is what the producer must have told Shankar, and Shankar’s rebuttal.
Producer: He has a beard.
Shankar: So did T.Rajendar, and he went on to be a mass hero and one stop film shop. Besides, if Prabhudeva shaves, we will have to credit him as Master Prabhudeva.
Producer: He can’t act.
Shankar: As if the others can. People go to see Kamal Haasan for acting, they will come to see Prabhudeva for the dancing.
Producer: He is not good looking.
Shankar: In the land of Vijakant and T.Rajendar, how can you even think that?
Producer: But will people pay to watch him dance for a full movie?
Shankar: Our movies are like idli with sambhar-chutney. Nobody cares how bad the idli tastes, so long as the sambhar (songs) and chutney (dance) are good. I’ll get rahman to do the music.
Seriyaana badhil (correct answer). Full marks to JK Tyres.
Producer: What about heroine?
Shankar: We will find an out of work “healthy” actress from Naarth. Makkal la ussupu yethuvon (In audience horny feelings incite).
The rest is history. Kadhalan was a smash, songs were superhit, and Prabhudeva became a star. The movie was dubbed in Telugu and Hindi, and gave Anu Malik a hit (when he ripped off the Muqabla song) when he needed it most. Here is the song that did it all.
And this.
And ofcourse, this.
The music is retro synthesizer beatbox circa 1984, but Rahman beautifully ends it with kuthu. Yeva ava!
There is a simple barometer in Indian movies to see if someone is a star. In Hollywood it’s all about the opening weekend, paparrazi interest etc. In India, you are not a star unless you act in a double role. The logic behind this is to see if audiences will pay to watch you twice in the same movie. Prabhudeva came up trumps on this front as well with Mr.Romeo. This movie had perhaps the best and underrated A.R.Rahman soundtrack (I lean towards catchy tunes that are danceable). Here is the sooper saang Romeo aatam.
Prabhudeva went on to star in many movies quite a few of which did well, but audiences were getting tired of his dance. Too high energy. Romba fast dance. I get exhausted just watching him, let alone trying to match his steps (I do alright).
In came Rajiv Menon’s Minsara Kanavu (Sapnay) as a breath of fresh air, and exposed a vulnerable side of Prabhudeva, subtle acting and also a very different dancing style.
Very broadway.
By the late 90s and early 00s, his movies started tanking. I think it had something to do with the irrational exuberance on wall street. When in doubt, blame it on el nino or the dotcom bust. It works for nearly every situation.
Prabhudeva did something that is baffling when viewed through the inflated egos of movie stars but actually very logical. He stopped starring in movies, and went back to his first love. Choreography.
He had always choreographed his songs, but now he did it for other stars. Raj Kumar Santoshi in an inspired bit, got Prabhudeva and Madhuri Dixit (best female dancer in Bollywood) together for Pukar in the ke sera sera song.
You can see how he modifies his style to suit Madhuri, and slows it all down just a notch. Madhuri shines. The only thing that ruins this song for me are the cutaways/reaction shots of Anil Kapoor’s moustache.
Farhan Akhtar must have taken his inspiration from Santoshi, because he did the exact same thing. For Lakshya, he paired Hrithik (best dancer in Bollywood) with Prabhudeva for this
Again, you can see Prabhudeva’s versatility and ability to choreograph to his stars strengths, while still pushing the envelope and challenging them. Anyone that can make it look like Rajni is dancing, and dancing well, has got to have some serious talent. Watch this.
I lou this saang. Someone please give me a basket of moonlight for V-day.
What I would like to see is Prabhdeva choreographing Kamal Haasan, Govinda and Aishwarya. And Sunny Paaji.
Ever the restless soul, he decides to try his hand at directing. I think choreographers in India make very good directors of Indian movies, because dance is all about expression. If you can get someone to do moves that belong in the Kamasutra Hall of Fame while looking at the camera and smiling, you can make them act. It’s the same reason Farah Khan makes a good director.
His 2005 directorial debut Nuvvostanante Nenoddantana starring Siddharth and Trisha became a smash hit in Andhra. A thoroughly entertaining film.
He followed this up with Writing and Directing his next movie Paurnami. I don’t know how the movie did, and if it was any good. I am guessing it sucked, because he stopped writing and now only directs.
His current project is the upcoming Salman Khan film Wanted Dead and Alive which is the remake of the Telugu hit Pokiri.
Back in 1995, there was an interview of Prabhudeva on Star. I was a judgemental snot back then, always deriding people for their taste in music, and their spoken and written English skills. Fortunately for me, I grew out of it rather quickly. Now I only judge people on their looks and weight.
Anyway, in the interview Prabhudeva in his broken English said, “I feel very haaappy when I am dancing.”
Thanks Prabhu. I feel very happy too.
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he’s an awesome actor. theres this hindi film with jacke shroff and raveena tandon, in which he plays a ghost. he’s awesome in it.
agni varsha that’s the film.
Dude Nice article. Prabhu Deva’s first Choreography is for Kamal Hassan for the movie called Vetri Vizha (@ 1992- 1993) which was the indian version of Bourne Identity. The song was “thathom thalangu..”…And how can u forget Prabhu deva and Kamal acting together in kadhala Kadhala http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66j-6V31J6E
Have you seen Prabhu deva’s choreography on Rajinikant on Maniratnam’s Dalapati?…”Rakkama kaiyya thattu”….One of the best dances of Rajini.
Anyways good to see an article about a talent house which was never knocked at the proper time!!
His first song, for which he was noticed , was from a 1991 sarat kumar film called sooriyan . The song was called “lalakku dol dappi ma”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-wCd6rOlSA
Wasn’t he in agni varsha for just one song?
not as far as i can remember.
agni varsha didnt have songs. it was like y.a sanskrit pla
Anand,
Thanks for the info on thalapathi and vetri.
Rajni’s best is in muthu. That thillana song. Do you know who choreographed it?
His first major appearance in a solo item number was for 1990 Murali film “Idhayam” that had wonderful music from Ilaiyaraja.
The movie had two dance item numbers:
1- April Mayile pasumaye illai - had Prabhu Deva.
2- Oh party nalla party dhaan - had his brother Raju Sundaram.
Another trivia - their father is Dance aster sundaram and no wonder dance is in his blood.
Originally from Mysore, he has a younger brother nagendra prasad and he danced in “humma humma” Bombay number.
All the three brothers acted in a Kannada/Thamizh movie”1-2-3″ where they play as “deaf-mute-blind” guys trying to woo the same girl played by Jyothika.
One more correction - Prabhudeva’s first film as hero is not Kadhalan - it is the maligned “Indu” by Pavithran.It had Kushboo doing an item number (a first for her) in the song “Metro channel”.
He is also the director of the remke of Telugu hit Pokkiri (original done by Puri Jagannath and had Mahesh Babu) with Vijay.
His Brother Raju Sundaram is also a director now (looks like an easy job isn’t it?) for the Ajith starrer “Aegan”, yet to be released/comopleted.
He choreographed and appeared in a scene inRajini’s Baba and the song is “Baba kichu kichu tha” a song that was mellowed and reused in Swades as “Dekho na”.
Thillana was also not so good…..maaya maaya in BABA was good (choreographed by Lawrence)..but thillana was not prabhu deva….may be it was Brindha/kala sisters or chinni prakash
april mayile was a good song but there was little dancing in it.
as you mention oh party nalla party featured raju sundaram.
Dabba: yeh scandalous past hide kar ke rakha thaa? He doesn’t seem to have much currency now in Hindi movies, does he? Must be the sub-prime crisis.
@ jai
Thanks for the correcti
@subbu
He had his brief moment in the Sun in hindi around 94. He does not have much truck with the south audience either any More. Hence the move to choreography and directi
@dabba
someone already pointed it out. ‘kaasumele’ with kamal was more than worthy of a mention mate
@jaiganesh..
kadhalan was his first movie man. Indu (gaaaaaaawd i still have spasms thinking about the experience) was his second.
almost felt like those interviews on Telugu TV channels which have to be interspersed with movie clips to sell it or the more recent case of Rajeev
Masand’s interviews on CNN IBN which have “performances” :):d No offence meant Dabba, enjoyed it thoroughly!
Prabhu Deva’s connect with the “youth” or the “masses” in mid to almost late 90s is reflected in Rajeev Menon’s choice in Minsaara Kanavu; a contrast to the oh-so-refined and polished Swamy!
*offense
The First v
Subrat
The rise of s
DPac, Indu got released late, but that was the first one to get launched.
Thillana Thillana was choreographed by Tharun Kumar. He choreographed most of the K.S.Ravikumar movies of early days. He also acted as the villain in Prabhu starrer “Parambarai”.
@ ADR
Sorry missed ur comment. Yes, he comes across as genuine. As someone that Used to dance i find great joy in it. Unfortubately for me people started getting impressed by it and girls started rewarding me.
That killed it for me. Now i can only dance when there’s a carrot at the end.
My loss entirely.
@ santosh
None taken. It’s hard to describe dancing without a v
Awesome tribute to an awesome person/dancer/actor/choreographer/one day probably an awesome director.
@ dpac,
Yes kaasumele deserves a menti
@ 18,dabba.. the first video is from Indhu , which i think was his first solo release. This song is famous for being then numero uno khushboo’s ( yes, the one for whom some people started building a temple in the early 90s) first item number .
@22,dabba .. Minsara kanavu ( sapnay ka tamil) was a box office success. The unique casting of arvind swamy and prabhu deva with Kajol ( her only tamil movie)along with Rahman s music and AVM s marketing had enough going for the movie to be hit. Also Prabhu deva s best acting performance imo is in this movie. the scene right after the vennilave song where he explains that he is just a barber was just brilliant i thought
@24, superdabba.. kadhala kadhala is yet another crazy mohan- kamal comedy riot. The one where you just sit back and laugh away ignoring the absurdity of the plot or the situations.
though his later movies bombed, PD somehow was lucky with the songs in them. Many of them were chartbusters with music by a variety of music directors right from ilayaraja to karthik raja to yuvan shankar raja to deva to vidyasagar/ Just check the number of hits he ( now also known as benny lava in youtube world )gets for his videos on youtube.
Thanks for this, dabba. this post was so un-dabba but still so much fun. still to read and revisit all the clips. but thought I ll drop in and confess The Renaissance Man is the stuff of school ’salad days’ for me :)
thanks anoop for the info.
tushar, don’t understand the term ’salad days’
sweet innocent nostalgia…think ‘raising arizona’
prabhu deva never worked with rajinikanth( pbuh) did he?
also, dabba is ‘renisscence man” a compliment?
salad days is days of youth… similar salad thoughts shared here too :) what a ride on those puerile lyrics of Kaadhalan and Indu!
Metro channel beautiful beautiful
Michael Jackson wonderful wonderful
Pepsi cola…
^:)^
@ cdrakenc -
how is renaissance man anyting but a compliment? prabhudeva wrked with rajni in thalapathi, baba, and sivaji. see comments above.
cdrakenc
You can’t bitch about other people’s “anglais” & then say something like this….
Do not dissapoint us from your High Standards.
sorry about the order of “words” (this was the Hindi version if I am not wrong)
the effect remains the same :d
thanks tushar, santosh -
no salad days for me though.
i have a habit of blocking out memories from adolescence and childhood. as much as i like these videos above, they almost exist in some sort of vacuum in my mind.
balling nee podamma paarvaigal aalay
boundary nan adippen tendulkar polay
such sweet poetry.
here’s more -
isai ilay madonna
nadai ilay diana
something else ilay steffi graf
yeddukava photograph
samantha fox thanga chi ya?
haiyo haiyo haiyo haiyo
Dabba - Thanks for belling the cat!
Mainak - As we have been noticing for the past few days, the entire oeuvre of the you know who is nothing but flap and doodle, rumble and bumble, balder and dash, diddly and squat!
Admins - I hope this doesn’t count as a troll.
Rang Rang Rangeela Re…
Yaayi re yaayi re,
Zor lagake maarare
:d :d
Hope the site remains “clean” for a long time to come [-o<
Dabba
more than the movie’s success, Menon’s success was in sobering down Prabhu Deva phenomenon right down to his wardrobe, fits, colors and setting him in an upper class milieu making Kajol fall for the underdog! All this while retaining the rawness in his emotions something which any commercial/smart/sensible filmmaker would do. You can’t have an airforce movie without a RayBan somewhere in the frame :w; Incidentally the two January 1997 releases were box office duds only to be hailed “ahead of their times” albeit to different levels. tch!
the other one?
Iruvar
wait, so the movie tanked as in ahead of the times or was it a hit? i’m confused.
prabhudeva toned down was a breath of fresh air, and credit menon for that.
tanked! called too “cosmetic”, “ad film like”, “no nativity” the burden of which he has had to carry probably till Kanukondein Kandukondein (2000) when again incidentally Alaipayuthey was a hit where the craftsmen went to more “familiar” territories.
yes, it was missing a gaana song. that’s where menon went wrong.
@31 dabba,
I meant as an actor/dancer on screen with rajinikanth(PBUH) the way he appeared with ksamal in kadhala kadhala
@31 & 32
“Renisscence man” is a compliment the same way “mule” is a compliment.
European enlightenment has been discredited a couple of decades now.
As far as speekee anglais goes, I never go to france(which I did) and ask people to speekee anglais. but if one is posting on an english (languaage)website,it doesnt take a renisscence man to expect people speak lucid english .
@rangeela and santosh kumar,
this is a tough neighborhood.
the hoods that have the run of this place need to be talked to in a language they respect, or people just dont listen.
if you want clean pray that there are no more hans blixes.
you’ll get my brand of high standards whenever you deserve it.
@37-40
minsara kanavu demonstrated the disconnect between urban and mofussil india.
it was the kind of film I might have made if I went fresh from film school to making films.It was full of that kind of idealism. the same idealism maniratnam showed in mouna ragam or in pallavi anupallavi.
The same naivite shyam benegal showed when he made nishant..
its not a bad thing to be idealistic like that. the problem is that you need to go back to the same guy that made your film to make your next film, and if there is no good word of mouth,you’ll not get your next film made….
@ cdrakenc
don’t know what PBUH stands for. as far as i know he has not shared screen space with rajni in a major role.
The age of enlightenment has long fallen out of favor to be replaced by postmodernism, and in our current era of uberspecialization where people get PhDs on redheads.
But you should also know, that language does not change as quickly as public shifts of opinion and the prevailing philosophy of the day. several words and phrases we use today are outdated in their orgins buit mean something else now. For example, sinister, whose etymology traces it to someone lefthanded in Latin. Clearly, we don’t consider lefthanded people sinister any more do we?
In that regard, Renaissance Man (coined in early 20th century, well after enlightenment was discredited and replaced with other philosophies of liberalism, socialism etc) is still widely used as someone that is talented in many fields, and is most certainly a compliment. a mule was never a compliment as far as i know.
but, you already knew in what capacity and context I used it, because if the title was not clear, the content of my post, which was nothing but a glowing tribute to him should have clarified things.
so, that makes me question your intentions here.
a) Did you have a genuine misunderstanding (i don’t think so)
b) Are you trying to show me that you are well versed in what schools of thought are considered contemporary and what has been debunked? (Perhaps)
c) If b, then why? You can not and will not impress me. the only way you or anyone else can impress me is by making a good film or writing a good story.
d) are you trying to bait me, because you are getting tired of your old flame wars here?
e) you have nothing better to do than nitpick.
f) slow day at the salt mines?
g) your workplace has blocked all other sites, tied you up and forces you read to every word on PFC and comment on everything. If it works, they should pass on the recommendation to Gitmo.
dabba,
as i didnt know where you were coming from, and indeed what contrext you used renisscence man in, I think the question was a legitimate question.
people normally are more severe on you than you are on yourself(you and I ) so my asking you if the nom de plume was a compliment is a legitimate question, hardly warranting this multiple choice objective test. but since you took the trouble of asking,
my answer is a,b,d ,e f to varying degrees, and the answer to c is, if you send me your picture (and xray) it’s not too late..I may take you to satyagraha (glass) which opens at the met on 11 apr.
PBUH=peace be unto himness.
you
Santosh - You forgot ksamal.
your point being? my misspelling?
if there were no idealism shown in Mouna Raagam, there would have been no mini renaissance in Tamil cinema, and Southern cinema in the bigger picture (no hyperbole that). If there were no idealism in its treatment, production design, cinematography, dialogue (”behavioral sciences/management la thesis”), character design,underplay and simple adherence to a simple tale, no Naayagans or Anjalis would have been streamrolled.
or may be it is my naivete at display! If Shyam Benegal cannot be spared who am I?
aaah.. january 97
and the rahman spell… with 2 classic albums
Ah! the spell… imagine if an Andhrite like me could freak out on Unni Krishnan/ Bombay Jayasree “Narumugaye”, Harini Rajagopal “Hello Mr.Edhirkatchi” and take in the movie as a whole what the native guys would have felt! What makes it all the more enriching is the fact it was January “1997″, a period which is best left untouched with respect to the movies being made elsewhere in the country.
We should have an Iruvar special with different perspectives from the Tamil speaking populace who apart from enjoying the experience would have no obvious language handicap in throwing interesting bits :)
Even remember the fonts of the title cards of MK, and Iruvar when they came first. Every time I returned from school I would waste no time in moving to ETV to have a glimpse of the AVM signature.
Dabba, nice post. Thought you were the serious literary kinds who writes great stories and screenplays, this one took me by susprise. Didn
Dpac, santosh
Someone should do
@ rajveer,
Thanks. How serious or literary can someone with the name dabba be?
He was good in the aids movie. Looking forward to the menon hindi film.
@dabba,
i hope that idiot Tushar will do it dabba… (the RAHMAN’s best year or something to that account)
I am a bit handicapped to say anything ‘periodic’ about the movie to say the least.. will try later
Prabhu Deva was earnest in the Santosh Sivan AIDS short movie, I felt.[but my pick was Vishal Bhardwaj's Blood Brothers :)] It was nice to see him speak Kannada and back to his roots.
His handicap with the language never came in way of his recognition by filmmakers who were smart sensible to tap his talent (something I cannot think of the mainstream conventional bollywood guys doing)and Rajkumar Santoshi, Farhan Akhtar deserve points for that. Cannot comment on Arjun Sajnani as I haven’t seen his work.
i don’t think it is a handicap at all. if one is making movies in hindi, tamizh, telugu, or any other indian language for that matter, how does it matter how good one’s english is? if you know enough to communicate with people that you don’t share a common language with, that should suffice.
this is a false value system that is perpetuated in india, and i was a culprit as well when i was young and insecure.
far too much cultural capital is placed on english skills. And that is not good.
when states impose language restrictions to combat this, that is just plain moronic. There needs to be a shift in perception when it is cool to be well versed in your vernacular, and have a passable knowledge of English.
in the corporate world, obviously this is not going to change as english is the international language of business. But the sales guys will die if they don’t have a good command of the local language. And without the sales guys, you don’t have revenues. I hope companies in India know this. maybe the sunrise industries are exempt, but it applies to all other sectors.
The arts and sports don’t need to fall prey to this. If someone can rock a camera and mesmerize with urdu, that should be good enough.
rant over.
santosh,
the above rant was not directed at you.
huh? was that at me dabba?
no DPac. just a general rant.
at my 14 yr old self.
cuz what i meant was (even though i can understand bit of colloquial tamizh) the Iruvar dialect is of the more pure variety.
(on a diff note, what happened recently for these specific rants?)
nothing happened. just a little reflection, and i’m happy to have come a long way.
Oh! I never did hint at the lack of knowledge of any language as a minus. All I meant was it was nice that some of the directors up north did recognize his talent instead of just branding yet him yet another madraasi wallah! His being on Boogie Woogie was a nice testimonial enough.. you know what I am saying?! the industry treatment to “outsiders” and those who are not apparently “brash” and “brazen” is well known. Prabhu Deva at least comes off as a soft spoken and an apparently humble guy from his interviews.
Dabba your rant could take the form of a bigger post and may be on a slightly different platform. Couldn’t agree with you more.
nothing happened? hmmm
somehow that has a false ring to it..:-w
:)
santosh,
i have to take exception to #64. while what you state may have been the case some time back or superficially, i don’t think that is the case.
right from the 80s you have tamizh and telugu directors directing hindi films (bhagyaraj, raghavendar rao, balachander etc). a good 60% of cinematographers of big banner movies are south indians and originally worked in the south.
the fact that madhavan starred in a hindi remake of his tamizh hit film, while saif ali khan played second fiddle to him should be testimony enough. of course, this was pre-dil chahta hai and saif’s star was on the wane, but still…
when was the last time a hindi hero acted in a south indian film in a non-villain capacity?
same with playback singers like SPB/Yesudas, who had such thick south indian accents in their hindi but continued to sing for dharmendar, and salman khan in their hit films.
there are a lot of things wrong with bollywood, but regionalism is not one of them. it was only natural that at some point people would bring in prabhudeva to choreograph the best dancers in town.
when was the last time a south indian film brought in farah khan to choreograph a song? the only exception in the south, that tickles my funnies, is when kumar sanu and adnan sami sing in telugu.
^right from the 80s you have tamizh and telugu directors directing hindi films (bhagyaraj, raghavendar rao, balachander etc).^
totally! k.bapaiah was the *baap* of all these guys, directing every second tamil/telugu remake starring jeetu/prabhuji
^ when was the last time a hindi hero acted in a south indian film in a non-villain capacity? ^
anil kapoor in the 80’s - vamsavruksham; pallavi anupallavi
akshay kumar in the 90’s - vishnu vijaya
jaggu dada, sanju acted in a couple of Telugu movies in the 90’s; the names elude me now.
this is news to me. didn’t know akshay kumar, sanju and jaggu had acted in telugu.
@67 (WB Sir), I think “Vishnu Vijaya” was the dubbed Kannanda version of it hindi original. Since it had Vishnu Vardhan in it, they might have dubbed it. About Sanju in south, I’ve no idea. Jackie Shroff & Saurabh Shukla last year acted in Kannada movie “C/O Footpath”, directed by an 11 year old kid Master Kishan.
kannada movie and dubbed? :o
ee vishaya (nanna tappu) nanage tilisidakke dhanyavadagalu vivek avare.
honestly, i did not watch the movie but i do remember seeing the poster, for a long period, on the wall which was facing the pan-ki-dukaan i used to patronize in my previous life.
WB Sir avare, naanu kooda ee movie nodilla (even I haven’t watched this movie). Though, I remember it for Mamta Kulkarni and Akshay Kumar’s song (coz’,I found pretty it hot and I was in high school). Don’t remember anything else but this. :d
finally read the post. no mention of his AIDS short? I believe that had some good acting by him.
You forgot to mention his most significant contributions to telugu cinema. Long before Gentleman, he was composing for Chiranjeevi’s blockbusters like Gang leader (1991) and Gharana Mogudu (1992) both with some scintillating dance numbers that were a rage of that time.
check out
http://youtube.com/watch?v=3Y7jGGeG48U
http://youtube.com/watch?v=MIxPgSJ_0J8
Infact, Prabhu Deva and chiru’s collaboration goes a long way back and rocked Andhra with some awesome numbers.
Saw Kadhalan last night. quite a revisit of sorts. shankar and prabhu deva created a ruckus on screen with all their heart back in 94. and it’s all the more surprising to now see the stuff they did in the film back then. while I couldn’t watch few sequences, the others were riveting even today. an important phase in indian cinema for sure. i salute those guys and their imagination.
[...] as PrabhuDeva (Benny Lava to the international denizens of youtube) would say, “Where is the dance?”, [...]
yes jaggu sanju and anil kapoor acted in telugu films. jaggu is still acting in telugu films recently 2of this moive relased.