Re-watching of Sivaji Ganesan’s iconic films

The scene shown is from a Tamil movie, dice malari. An employee, Gemini Ganesan, enters the boss’s (Shivaji Ganesan) cabin with his on-going coworkers. Where Mithun delivers a powerful dialogue about workers’ rights, Shivaji expresses his anger with controlled and subtle emotions, ending with an almost inaudible ‘Get Out’.

As the scene ends, YG. Mahendra comes on stage amidst applause to talk about the film that released 60 years ago. “Just see how he lets Mithun steal the scene with ease,” says Mahendra. “His range of expression is unbelievable. His Tamil diction is impeccable. He is ‘Nadigar Thilagam’ Shivaji.”

In the form of three superhit films of Shivaji – pava manipu, passmalari And palum pazhmum For 60 years, a tribute was paid to the late actor with an audio-visual program at Vani Mahal.

Apart from the screenplay and dialogues, these films became famous not only for Sivaji’s performances, but also for other actors including MR Radha, Gemini Ganesan, Nambiar, Savitri, Devika, Saroja Devi, MN Rajam, Thangavelu and Balaiya. , a. Bhimsingh’s direction, Kannadasan’s lyrics and M.S. Viswanathan and T.K. Singers TM Sundararajan, PB Srinivas and P. Sushila shed more light.

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The audio-visual presentation was engaging as it contained interesting details about Shivaji’s acting skills and behind-the-scenes tales.

The audience sang songs like ‘Kalangalil Aval Vasantham’, ‘Athan Ennathan’, ‘Vandha Naal Mudal’, ‘Malargalai Pol Thangai’, and ‘Pattondru Kateten’.

Chennai based writer

Writes on music.

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