In the meantime, the two were busy remaking their hits in Hindi. Varumayin Niram Sivappu, which came in 1980, was Kamal’s last Balachander collaboration (in Tamil) until Punnagai Mannan in 1986. He had a pretty good bunch of films in the Seventies, and they have been written about quite a bit - especially the K Balachander movies. The 1980s remain the most interestingly undocumented phase of Kamal’s career.
#RAJINI HITS 80S TV#
I’d look longingly at ‘Kanne Kalaimaane’ as it played on Oliyum Oliyum on TV and wonder what could be so ADULT about this! Little did I know, despite the fact that the muscles of my right arm were beginning to attain far more definition than the ones of my left. I wasn’t allowed to go to the film, though, as it was A-rated. Was this what that Kamal was like? No, there was Moondram Pirai, too. Now, I’m Googling this song up and sighing. I’m wondering if it’s better to have been a fan of an actor in the pre-Internet age, when you couldn’t instantly look things up, and so a song like this one played more pleasantly in your head.
Madhavi dances by the swimming pool of a five-star hotel and Kamal is on the drums, making his best “the pay cheque better be worth it” face. It had a song that went ‘Cola Cola Coca-Cola / Soda Soda Whiskey Soda’. I think Mangamma Sabadham was one of them. In fact, I am trying to remember the number of Kamal films I’ve actually seen in a theatre in the pre-Pushpak and Nayakan days.
(Friday meant school.) There were no early-morning special shows. Back then, there was no concept of an FDFS. Maybe you need the Internet to really have a war. And the Rajini fan would say something like “Rajini’s leather jacket in Nallavanukku Nallavan is very cool.” And afterwards, we’d all go and have a “Pepsi Cola”, which was basically a tube of frozen, coloured water.
So a “war” really meant sitting around at lunchtime, when dabbas of sambar rice were opened and the air was instantly filled with the gastronomic equivalent of a fart in an elevator, and saying things like “ Kaaki Sattai is really awesome”. I think India was too docile a place back then. All you kids doing the Ajith-versus-Vijay wars on Twitter, let me take you back to the time we used to do Kamal-versus-Rajini wars.
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