Funny, sensuous, coy and intense, she is one of the few actresses who can carry a movie by herself minus an actor and has often. Stunning and gifted, Sridevi ruled the roost in the eighties after acting in over two hundred movies in various languages. When today’s stars talk of experimenting, and of daring to go against their ‘image’, this is the movie –- and Kamal, the actor -– you think of. Moondru Mudichu (1976) (First movie as heroine.) Gayathri (1977) Kavikkuyil (1977).

He disfigures himself for the role of the village idiot Chappani. A love triangle involving a college girl, Selvi (Sridevi) and the two men. P athinaaru Vayathinile ( At Age 16)/1977: Kamal Haasan, Rajnikanth, Sridevi Director: Bharati RajaĪ memorable film, how does one count the ways for why? For starters, the directorial debut of Bharati Raja who, in this lyrical film, forcibly dragged Tamil cinema from the stuffy confines of studio sets into the great outdoors.įor another, it heralded the coming of age, in more ways than one, of erstwhile child star Sridevi (though the Kamal-Rajini-Sridevi troika had made an impact a year earlier in Moondru Mudichu, this was the film that catapulted Sridevi to stardom).įor a third, the brilliant musical score of Ilayaraja who, seemingly inspired by the outdoors, turned in a medley of outstanding tunes.Ĭonsider this: a 23-year-old actor, yet to cement his place in the pantheon, goes against the young, virile type. TV Guide movie review and see our movie rating for Moondru Mudichu.

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