:) Remake of Mr. K. Balachander's "Naan Avanillai" :)

Rating: Null/10 (28 December 2002)

In 1974, Tamil Nadu's famed movie director K.Balachander offered Tamil film enthusiasts yet another inspired creation - "Naan Avanillai" ("I am not he") starring Gemini Ganesan in the title role. It was one of the most entertaining, progressive and thought provoking movies of that time - especially in an era where most Indian films still dealt with formula musicals with romantic themes or stories dealing with identical twins separated at birth - (one grows up to be a police officer and the other a dacoit pursued by the unwitting twin, the police officer, the movies usually culminating in tne "revelation" by the widowed mother who identifies her long lost son by the melanotic mole on his back and brings about a family reunion of sorts...and so on and so forth). Mr. K. Balachander generally avoided such stereotypic tripe and made movies that stood out from the rest of the crop. Naan Avanillai was one of those. Enough said. The Tamil movie may be available on VHS. For those interested it would be worthwhile checking it out.