Kadhanayakan
Starring: Pandiyarajan, S.Ve Shekhar
Malayalam Original: Nadodikkattu
Director: Sathyan Anthikkad
An out and out slapstick comedy revolving around
the struggles of two unemployed youth. Fate
throws them into trouble, face to face with
a smuggler. There is a case of mistaken identities
and in the end the two protagonists help the
police nab the smuggler; all in a Laurel and
Hardy style. The movie went on to create a cult
following in Malayalam and even had two sequels
made. There were no sequels in Tamil however.
In the Malayalam movie, the two main characters
played by Mohanlal and Srinivasan leave Kerala
for Dubai and are stranded in Madras. This pair
of Lal & Srini achieved legendary status
after this movie. In the Tamil version, Pandiyarajan
and S.Ve Shekhar leave Madras for Dubai and
get stranded in Kerala.
