The 21st of this month marked completion of 25 years of Nayagan, the 1987 Tamil film written and directed by Maniratnam. The cult classic based on the life of gangster Varadarajan Mudaliar was given pride of place in Time Magazine's 'All time 100 Best Films' for 2005. Strangely though, after this critically acclaimed project, the two movie maestros never really came together. However, all that is about to change now. We've learnt that Kamal and Mani will be reuniting to do their next film although it doesn't have anything to do with Nayagan. Rumor has it that after Nayagan’s runaway success, both actor and director became too big in stature to be accommodated in one film despite being family. Fact is, Mani is married to Kamal's elder brother Charu Haasan's daughter Suhasini. It was only when Nayakan completed a quarter of a century that Kamal and Mani spoke at length and decided their collaboration would have to happen 'now or never' . Kamal confirmed the news and said, "Mani and I did speak when Nayakan turned 25. I am not at liberty to divulge the details of our conversation . All I will say is, the answer to the question that haunts both of us . why not another film together after Nayakan ? will soon be answered. Nayakan is the most influential film of my career. I suspect Mani feels the same." We hear the upcoming film is likely to be a Hindi-Tamil bi-lingual .
Maniratnam’s current project KADAL is on its finishing stage , The latest news about KADAL ‘s Music is that Kaviperarasu Vairamuthu's special lyrics will be featured in the film songs, The director has apparently borrowed two songs from ‘A compilation of Vairamuthu’s poems’ and a song from ‘Thanneer Desam’. A.R. Rahman's songs are the major highlight of this flick.
The film has Gautham and Thulasi in lead roles. Also in the star cast are Lakshmi Manchu, Arjun, Ponvannan, Pasupathy, Thambi Ramaiah, Arvind Swamy.
