While Roger Ebert chooses to throw the world's attention on a movie like Taal, which simply reinforces(and not too well either!) the world's impression of Indian movies, I'm extremely happy that Time has been able to sniff out Naayagan, a regional movie, for this attention. I have cheered Kamal's comeback to the policeman sympathised with Saranya's innocence-laden reply to Kamal laughed at Kamal's son's impertinent question at the lineup smiled at Nizhalgal Ravi's gesture of respect to his father choked up at the old woman's supreme sacrifice to save Naicker from the clutches of the police and nodded my head in understanding at Kamal's answer to his grandson's question "Neenga Nallavaraa, Kettavaraa?"ĭirection, acting, screenplay, music, cinematography - this is one of those rare instances where every aspect of cinema came together to create a true classic.
I have seen the film probably a dozen times since I watched it in Udhayam theater back in 1987 and have been irresistably hooked every single time. The movie proved that Manirathnam, whose previous film was Mouna Raagam, was here to stay and drew from Kamalhassan his best performance yet.
Naayagan, is without doubt, my favorite Tamil movie of all time. Ratnam has no such difficulty blending melodrama and music, violence and comedy, realism and delirium, into a two-and-a-half-hour demonstration that, when a gangster's miseries are mounting, the most natural solution is to go singin' in the rain." Time magazine's movie critics Richard Corliss and Richard Schikel have selected their all-time best 100 movies and our own Naayagan finds a place on the list(other Indian films selected are Satyajit Ray's The Apu Trilogy and Guru Dutt's Pyaasa).
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