Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Agni Nakshatram

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Jul 23, 2012, 7:09:44 PM (12 years ago)

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Trupti

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Agni Nakshatram

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+'''Agni Nakshatram'''
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+
+1988 146’ col Tamil
+d/s Mani Rathnam pc Sujatha Prod.
+p G. Venkateshwaran lyr Vali c P.C. Sriram
+m Ilaiyaraja
+lp Karthik, Prabhu, Amala, Nirosha,
+G. Umapathi, Janakaraj, V.K. Ramaswamy,
+Jayachitra, Sumitra, Vijayakumar, Tara
+
+
+Rathnam’s hit follow-up to Nayakan (1987) is
+a music video-type fantasy with rapid cutting,
+hazy images and flared lights. It also boasts
+one of the most sexually explicit song
+picturisations to date: the camera slithers
+along, peeking at a woman autoerotically
+engaged in an indoor swimming pool. The
+plot involves two half-brothers, one a cop
+(Prabhu) and the other a streetwise hood
+(Karthik), the two mothers (Jayachitra,
+Sumitra), and the shared father (Vijaykumar)
+who runs separate family establishments for
+them. The end, adapted from the Godfather
+(1972) hospital sequence, has the two
+brothers uniting to reinforce, literally, the law
+of the father (who is a Judge). After the
+unsatisfactory conflict between the brothers,
+one realises, in the critic K. Hariharan’s words,
+‘that the real hero of the film is actually
+behind the camera [p]ulling out every
+gimmick available in the ad-man’s repertoire’.
+
+[[Film]]