Director: P.C. Sriram; Producer: Kamal Haasan, S. Chandra Hasan; Cinematographer: P.C. Sriram; Editor: N.P. Satish; Cast: Kamal Haasan, Arjun Sarja, Gowthami Tadimalla, Geetha (Actress), K. Vishwanath, Nazar, Nilalgal Ravi, Anusha, Subhalekha Sudhakar, Ajay Ratnam, John Edathattil, Aravind Krishna
Duration: 02:22:27; Aspect Ratio: 1.633:1; Hue: 125.162; Saturation: 0.015; Lightness: 0.271; Volume: 0.242; Cuts per Minute: 13.477
Summary: 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.
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