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Indiralokathil Na Azhagappan
Comedian Vadivelu’s second film as hero. His first movie as hero was “Imsai arasan 23 am Pulikesi” was a super duper hit. He is now working in Indiralokathil Na.Azhagappan as hero. Vadivelu plays 3 different roles in this movie. Director of this film is Ramaiyah. Vadivelu plays as “Indran”, “Yeman” and a normal human character. Art Director is Thotta Dharani, Gopinath is the cameraman. Sabesh - murali composed music. Detta Sharma is the heroine.
Indiralokathil Na Azhagappan is another fantasy comedy where Vadivelu is all set on success lane. Indiralogathil na azhagappan is rumoured to be one of the costliest comedy film with sets put up by Thotta Tharani costing a whopping Rs 5 to 7 crore. Vadivelu is said to have charged Rs 2.25 crore as payment. He has given bulk dates and is also providing a lot of input in the film.
Arai Enn 305il kadavul
The title is different, will the film be ? We have to wait and see, but we hope it will be a success, because Director Simbudevan who gave us a super hit movie “Imsai Arasan 23am Pullikesi” in a historical background with comedy king Vadivelu is now ready for his next film “Arai Enn 305il Kadavul” ( Room number 305il Kadavul ). Again his guru Shankar is the producer, Comedians Santhanam and Kanja Karupu plays the lead roles and Prakashraj as the Kadavul to them.
Thesiya Paravai
The comedy actor Vadivelu is crazy about doing different roles. Recently he has done the role of a historical king in the movie Imsai Arasan 23aam Pulikesi. This movie turned to be a great blockbuster. His next venture tilted Thesiya Paravai is going to be released shortly. In this movie he appears in 9 different “Get-ups”. Thesiya Paravai is produced by S. Sen Film International and directed by G. Babu Ganesh. Illayaraja has composed music for this movie.
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Even before starting on the story discussions, Shakti was smart to get Vadivelu’s call sheet. What’s this confidence he has in Vadivelu?
“We do not have a Charlie Chaplin, Laurel Hardy or a Jim Carrey to speak of. Nor are we likely to see an Eddie Murphy. Senthil and Gowndamani are our south Indian equivalent of Laurel and Hardy. Gowndamani tried his hand as hero in a couple of films. It did not work out and he was out of the film field twice on that account.
He then did the hero role of Chinnakalaivanar ‘Panju’ but Panju got punctured after a mere week. Thinking that it may be a freak result, he decided to use his fist. But the blow landed on him only as the reels gathered fungus in their boxes, without having takers.
In spite of knowing all this, Vadivelu has been brave enough to take the role of hero in ‘Himsai Arasan 23rd Pulikesi.’ “The subject was a comedy, so I thought, why not this one film? After this, I’ll come running back to comedy,” says Vadivelu to all he meets. He has become hero but this panic is in case producers and directors start making a beeline to other comedians!
When such is the case, what’s this about making Vadivelu a hero again?
Shakti Chidambaram has another explanation for this. “I am a comedy based director. I give great respect even to minor comedians. Vadivelu is a big comedian. He has an equally challenging role to Sathyaraj in ‘Kovai Brothers.’ I am determined that I will make such an actor a hero,” he says in a stubborn tone.
The Vaigai cyclone has still not heard about it. When he does….!
October 2nd, 2007 No Comments »
* This is the second movie Shankar is producing for his assistants after ‘Kadhal‘ fame Balaji Sakthivel. ‘Imsai Arasan 23am Pulikesi’ is directed by Shankar’s associate Simbudevan.
* This is a historical movie taken in tamil after a gap of 28 years.
* Though this movie is comedy based its historical background are true.The story moves during British period when Tipu Sultan ruled in the north and Veerapandian Kattaboman and Marudu Brothers ruled in the south.
* Imsai Arasan comes as a king ruling a smaller area under Pandiya Nadu.
* To bring out the true essence of the historical period palaces , gardens and wars were shot in magnificient sets spreading across 30 acres.
* Vadivelu has a double role,Nandita,Laksha,Risha are also there but the leading lady is Monika.Tejasree acts as a water girl in the palace.
* All characters have spoken pure in historical tamil and for Naseer its a piece of cake since he has acted in dramas.
* Vadivelu has gone down since he has to practice for horse riding and stunt squences.
* It takes nearly one and half hours to finish the makeup for Imsai Arasan.
* Music is by Sabesh Mulrali and lyrics are by Pulamaipithan.
October 2nd, 2007 No Comments »
Did anyone expect a Tamil film with comedian Vadivelu as the hero to rock at the box office? No, but it is doing so. It is. Imsai Arasan 23aam Pulikesi; Director: Simbu Devan - It is a laugh riot and audiences are rolling in their seats and aisles over the antics of comedy king Vadivelu.
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actor is working round the clock trying to finish work and is rumoured to be making Rs 2 Lakhs a day-making him the highest paid daily wage owner in India. Vadivel has emerged as Tamil cinema’s numero uno comedian. From Diwali to Pongal there were about 25 releases out which half of them featured Vadivel making him the ‘king of comedy”. He also has a team of people to write his comedy tracks which was a trend started by Vivek and hence producers are able to get ‘package deals’ from him.
And Vivek’s recent decision to turn hero with Solli Adippen has also helped Vadivelu to grab all his roles.Unlike Vivek , his biggest competitor Vadivelu does not insist on being cast as a city slicker and does not irritate the hero by trying to grab the punch line dialogues from him. Added to that the “king sized ego” of Vivek has also gone in favour of Vadivel as all major heroes like Rajnikanth, Vijay, Vijaykanth, Ajit, Prashanth and even Kamal Hassan prefer Vadivel in their films. Vadivel’s success is his Madurai style of dialogue delivery, which the audience love in B and C centres. Plus he has a great PR with his producers and directors and also the heroes.
Indiralokathil Na Azhagappan