So, for our engineering college cultural festival, when we were thinking of a theme for our Tamil skit, we hit upon a novel idea.Flix Flix Flashback Saturday, October 24, 2020 - 11:45 Anand Kumar RS I remember the episode very well.There was no pre-release hype then as it is the case for new releases nowadays.However, the poster depicting a clean shaven Kamal with a bloodied nose intrigued us.
To us, it was a Kamal film and in those days, we invariably caught up with all Kamal films. Three of us friends watched the film at Anand Theatre in Madras and after watching, we walked down the stairs. The usual quick post-mortem of a film after watching it was missing and the mood was sombre and reflective. There was an adrenaline rush inside among us with chests all pumped up. Silver Nattupura Nayagan Tamil Driver About MeterukkuAs was wont those days, the usual argument with the auto driver about meterukku mela pottu kudunga ensued. Silver Nattupura Nayagan Tamil Drivers Fleecing TacticsWe were not in a mood to succumb to the auto drivers fleecing tactics. Writer Balakumaran style dialogues flowed from the three of us in turns. Ethukuyya meterukku mela pottu kudukkanum Ungalaala Madras pere kettu poyiduchu (Everything should be stopped. Why should we pay above the meter Its because of you that the name of Madras is spoilt) Nee enna vena sollikka. Meterukku mela pottu kudutha varum, illa varaathu (You can say whatever you want, if you dont pay extra, the auto wont come) said the auto driver. We got into the auto and told him Vandiya police stationukku ottuyya Innikku oru vazhi paakaama vidarathu illa (Drive the auto to the police station. Clearly, the film had awakened the sleeping Velu Nayakkar in us The above is a factual narration and not an imaginary story. The story of a slum dweller taking on the system and becoming a towering and benevolent don, that too in an alien land, which is what Nayagan was all about, clearly touched a raw nerve with Tamil cinema goers. One the one side, if the character had such an impact on many of us, on the other side, the way the film was made had a huge impact on Tamil film aficionados. Just the opening shot of a boy running with the sound of his huffing and puffing in the background blew us away. Within a few minutes we could realise that we were not watching another regular film. Once back in college after Deepavali holidays, we would watch it many times over and keep talking about different aspects of the film endlessly. I have often seen many Tamil filmmakers in the past three decades saying that Nayagan was one of the most influencing films in their lives and career. Tamil cinema, in that sense, can be divided into Before Nayagan and After Nayagan era in terms of filmmaking. Months after Nayagan s release, even as it ran for silver jubilee in theatres, the film kept coming back in our lives.
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