Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Kurudhippunal

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Jul 5, 2012, 8:04:32 PM (12 years ago)

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Trupti

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+'''Kurudhippunal'''
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+1995 156’ col/scope Tamil
+d/s P.C. Sriram pc Rajkamal Films
+p Charuhasan/Kamalahasan st Govind
+Nihalani sc/dial Kamalahasan m Mahesh
+lp Kamalahasan, Arjun, Nassar, Gauthami,
+Geetha, Ravi, K. Vishwanath
+
+
+Kamalahasan’s Tamil remake of Nihalani’s
+Drohkaal (1994). The original story, featuring
+the conflict between a cop and a terrorist, is
+reformulated with allusions to CPI(ML) rebels
+in Tamil Nadu. The relocation involves an even
+more sensational melodrama, exemplified by
+blowing up a bus full of school children
+singing Sare jahan se achha (a hymn
+valorizing the Indian nation), as well as
+Kamalahasan’s own further psychologisation of
+the Om Puri role. Arjun plays the
+Naseeruddin Shah character and Nasser the
+dreaded terrorist Bhadra (Ashish Vidyarthi in
+the original). In remaking a familiar and
+extensively distributed Hindi film,
+Kurudhippunal reverses the trend of
+translating local language hits into biggerbudget
+Hindi movies for a nationwide
+audience, indicating how the success of Mani
+Rathnam’s Tamil films changed the industry’s
+view of cultural imperatives. The film was
+dubbed into Telugu as Drohi.
+
+[[Film]]