Word: nayakan
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...Since I had put Ratnam's Nayakan on the all-TIME 100 Movies list, and cited the Rahman score for Ratnam's Roja as one of my five favorite soundtracks, it seemed a small favor in return to take a 10min. subway ride to see their new film. It was worth the trip - mine, if not theirs...
...Hindi-Muslim riots in Bombay; the rivalry of Tamil actor-statesman M.G. Ramachandran (known as MGR) and screenwriter-statesman M. Karunanidhi (MK) in Iruvar; more terrorism in Del Se; the Sri Lankan war in Kannathil Muthamittal. He is also fascinated with powerful figures in the Mumbai Mafia. Nayakan attached the structure of The Godfather to the career of gang lord Varadarajan Mudaliar, and Ratnam revisited the underworld in Agni Nakshatram and Thalapathi...
...enthusiasm could be contagious. In 1994, Toronto Film Festival audiences gave a rapturous reception to the films of top Tamil auteur Mani Rathnam, including Nayakan (1987), a terrific gangster epic in the Godfather style, and Roja (1992), a terrorist Love Story. The song lyrics alone could easily attract camp followers: imagine an American star crooning, "Your sexy appearance triggers procreation in the earth...Life's a cactus without you," or "On your beautiful body, sweat never tastes salty...
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