The actor says that the time progressed very fast, the director wish that he has done every film with him and his bond should go back to his youth. Kamal Haasan and Mani Ratnam have won a gangster film with some similarities together after 35 years of “Nayakan”, and two withdraw from the great decades of the cinema.
“Thug Life” is a follower of the 1987 Tamil film, which has chronic the life of a person who rises to become a revered don from Mumbai slums. Considered the best in style in India, three National Awards won and in 1988, Oscar was sent to the Oscar as India’s official entry.
In “Thug Life”, his second cooperation in the same style, Hassan, Nayak, is similar to his character in “Nayakan” – Satthivale Nicker.
The film emerged from an idea imagined by Haasan, which later brought to Ratnam to co-develop the story and direct the film. Both friends have also co-produced the film, which is scheduled to release in theaters on 5 June.
Why did it take so long? Ratnam, who made films like “Rosa”, “Irruvar”, “Bombay”, “Dil Se” and two-part’s epic “Ponin Selvan”, after “Nayakan”, he said that he wanted to cast Hasan every time.
The 68 -year -old filmmaker told PTI, “Every film that I have done, I want a lotus. So I am happy. Finally, I am doing one in which he is there. It’s time.”
70 -year -old Haasan, sitting next to him, resonated Bhavna.
“Time went more faster than us … but never better than never,” he said.
Before their friendship “Nayakan”, starts with dreams he would discuss at Hassan’s Aldams Road Home in Chennai, the actor remembered in earlier conversation with the press.
Haasan, who started his career as a child star at the age of five with “Kalathur Kannamma” (1960) and became a huge actor-star by the 1980s, put an open house for talented people to roam around those days, Ratnam said.
“Tamil cinema got a new actor-star and was right on top. But he had his home open. There could be many writers, many actors, many technicians, who could just fall in, roam and have a chat with him. So it was like a reproductive field … It was a amazing place to grow a technician,” said Ratnam.
Hassan said that he has probably forgotten most of the discussions during those days, but remember it as a “fearless time”.
“It was not a lack of responsibility. We wanted responsibility. But none of it was fiscal. We were ready to do anything. We never thought about money … because both of us did not come to films to make money. We did not come to films to remove poverty.
Nevertheless, Hassan accepted, he has acted in about 150 films, which he “needs to do”.
He said, “If I grade the rest of the hundred films, there is still a category where I will keep some films in the top line because it cannot have a film topping. Also, another good film will come and put it in its place,” he said.
Coming back together after a long years, Haasan said that Ratnam and he discussed several ideas before finalizing the “thug life”.
The actor said, “I don’t even remember where we all went … The only thing we did not go to an area because he had just completed ‘Ponin Selvan’,” the actor said referring to two-part adaptation of the historical novel of Ratnam’s two-part.
Discussing the name Sakthivel Naicker, Haasan said that both liked the name.
Haasan said, “There is a certain amount of emotion. I do not believe in the business of that fate because I really believe that it is not luck for people worth it. I think we enjoyed making a film. I wrote it and he liked this idea.” Hasan, also known for films like “Pushpaka Vimana”, “Indian”, “Guna” “” “Vishwaropam” and “Vikram”, wore many hats on the project, but on the set, he was just an actor, said Ratnam.
“The manufacturer’s job was far away,” he said.
Hasan, citing Satyajit Ray, said that making a film has always been an expensive case and filmmakers have to make some compromises to see their vision alive.
“I have recently heard that Satyajit Ray Saheb has prepared an advertisement for his second film or fourth film because his third film did not do well … I wondered why Satyajit Ray would think about this, but everyone will think it … If Ray has done it, how can we save it? How we can save it? We are accountable for that ticket, so we said.”
Ratnam agreed that budgetary concerns are part of the business.
“This is an art form, which includes a lot of capital and includes a comprehensive audience.
Storytellers face all kinds of obstacles and censorship in telling their stories with a political message, but both Hasan and Ratnam have successfully navigated that disturbed road. Artist, he said, has always found a way to tell his stories, even in the most challenging circumstances.
Haasan said, “They will always be there.
In Ratnam’s view, sometimes these restrictions make filmmakers “think out of the box”.
“In the land of so many restrictions, there are great filmmakers who have made films. Therefore, we cannot use it as an excuse. It will be there. It is a fact of life. It’s not only for filmmakers, it’s not only for filmmakers, this is true for everyone. It’s true to a journalist and it’s true to a writer,” he said.
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