Legends reunite 35 years after 'Nayakan': It's about time, say Kamal Haasan and Mani Ratnam
Legends reunite 35 years after 'Nayakan': It's about time, say Kamal Haasan and Mani Ratnam
CHENNAI: (May 23) The actor says time moved too fast, the director wishes he had done every film with him and their bond goes back to their youth. Kamal Haasan and Mani Ratnam have gotten together 35 years after "Nayakan", the gangster film with few parallels, and the two cinema greats look back wistfully at the decades gone by.
"Thug Life" is the follow-up to the 1987 Tamil movie, which chronicled the life of a man who rises from Mumbai slums to become a revered don. The movie, considered one of the finest in the genre in India, won three National Awards and was sent to Oscars as India's official entry in 1988.
In "Thug Life", their second collaboration in the same genre, Haasan, the protagonist, has the same name as his character in "Nayakan" - Sakthivel Naicker.
