Topic started by Rajan (@ 203.195.177.152) on Wed May 9 17:34:11 .
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Hello people,
Could anyone tell me what happened to Mr. Kamal Hassan’s multi crore project, Marudhanayagam?? Has it been shelved?? I hope some portions of the movie has already been canned. What’s the problem with that movie?

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• From: Dean Devlin (@ ) on: Sun Jun 22 08:27:19
  
  Well. In True fact, The Marudhanayagam project is held in postphone ment due to lack of monetary funds. It is true that Kamal has lost lots of money in it....
  But the fact is he is trying to gain the confidence of Hollywood producers to fund the project but had recently also failed.
  
  But I have heard that he is in a determination that he is going to come out with 6 movies per year to gain the 16 million and release it.
  It is a sure OSCAR winning movie, just look at the cast list. Rajini, satyaraj, nasseer, and even heard recently a french model is also in the list. Instead of being critical, lets give indians a hand for a change..
  
  All the success to you Kamal. Remember i;ll be the 1st one to rush in the theatre to see it..:)
  
  
• From: rajeshrs_tvm (@ 61.1.227.138) on: Mon Jun 23 15:47:35 EDT 2003
  
  Mnayakam will be his last movie bcoz after that he will bcome bankrupt.
  i donno what he gains by bankrupting his producers
  by writing 'intellectual'(socalled) craps
  
  
• From: s.jayaganesh (@ ) on: Tue Mar 16 23:28:03
  
  hai I am Jayaganesh from coimbatore.
  I am very like kamalahasan.He was very Wonderful
  Actor.
  my Adress:
  s.jayaganesh
  s/o sivagurunathan
  semmedu Nehruji street13/8
  coimbatore-641114
  
  
• From: s.jayaganesh (@ 210.212.244.3) on: Tue Mar 16 23:29:45 EST 2004
  
  yes
  
  
• From: kamalfan (@ 210.18.90.1.sify.net) on: Tue May 11 07:04:40
  
  Marudha nayagam WILL NEVER be made.
  
  Kamal simply does not have the money to make it.
  He can never earn it also.
  
  Simple.
  
  
• From: a.s.dinesh harshan (@ 61.17.23.2) on: Tue May 11 08:40:16 EDT 2004
  
  kamal sir can do this big project(iam having a small way for it).i need the personal and residential address of kamal sir ,which will be helpfull for me to share the ideas with sir.
  please send sir address to my id.
  
  
• From: wasju sbored (@ 155.69.5.234) on: Wed May 12 07:42:45 EDT 2004
  
  The movie probably wouldn live upto people's expectation .. but you gotta give the man the credit for having dreams ..
  
  probably one of the very few in the "industry" to have actually looked out side the box to make some thing worth watching ..
  
  kamal's work as seen in "kurudhipunal" a screenplay written by himself is a classic example of his capabilities..
  
  .. to mindless optimism n gr8 ppl
  
  
• From: ambuli mami (@ 149.226.255.200) on: Wed May 12 11:55:13 EDT 2004
  
  Appreciate kamal for his efforts atleast.
  Unlike ppl who depend only on style n crap stories.
  
  20 mins of M.nayagam is taken. I read in sujatha's "oriru ennangal" in www.ambalam.com
  
  
• From: kamalfan (@ 210.18.90.1.sify.net) on: Thu May 13 07:05:41 EDT 2004
  
  hey kamal fans,
  Marudhanayagam will never be made. It is very highly budgetted. Kamal does not have & cannot collect the money for it. Another disadvantage for kamal is that there is no authentic info on marudhanayagam. There are conflicting versions. So, kamal should not have chosen it.
  
  And dinesh, U do not know kamal's address? ask his fans,yaar. Perhaps, with your help (???), marudhanyagam will be made after all. So, some hope for kamal & his fans, ha! ha!
  
  As for kuruthipunal, it was a remake of the hindi film, drohkaal. So, the original screenplay by kamal. The only originality was the chopping of the role played by naseeruddin shah (arjun in tamil) & adding that to his own role.
  
  The footage of 20 mins of marudhanayagam is what that will remain.
  So, as U fans said, he can only dream.
  
  U know only thing. When kamal was dreaming about oscar, aamir khan almost nearly won the oscar for lagaan.
  
  kamal lamented in a interview to sujatha, that Hey ram should have been the 1st film to have gone for the oscars. But U see, simply dreaming about oscars will not do. Only has to put those dreams to reality.
  
  So, kamal fans, keep dreaming about oscar for kamal. It will forever remain a dream only.
  
  Happy dreaming.
  
  
• From: Movie Critic of Southern Blood (@ cache91.156ce.maxonline.com.sg) on: Tue Sep 14 08:10:50
  
  
  The movie Marudhanayagam is going to be made under whatever the cost is. Yes, it is a very costly project and Kamal alone will not be able to spend such a huge amount of money to make the movie. Yet, Kamal has said that he would make that movie under any cost. The media has not forgotten what he had said to them long time ago. So whenever the reporters interview him, they had never missed to ask the question " what abt your film Marudhanayagam?" And Kamal would reply that he would be making the movie very soon. He is not saying it for fun, infact, he had done alot of homework for this movie Marudhanayagam. He had studied alot of historical books to learn abt the man Marudhanayagam. He had also trained twenty of his make-up artists to do the movie's make-up in the american way. The trainer who trained the make up artists was none other than the man who did make-up for the movie avvai Shanmugi( Chachi 420 in hindi), Barry Cooper.
  
  Anyone can say that Kamal can never make Marudhanayagam come to screens, but they have to understand that unlike any actors Kamal is the only brave man in the Indian movie industries, who have the guts to say that he can do something that nobody would dare to even speak of. He wouldn't stop with just saying things, but would prove that he is capable of achieving success. One example is the movie Sandiyar which was later renamed Virumandi. This movie of Kamal's own production, faced alot of political tension and kamal was demanded to drop the making of this movie. When Kamal disagreed, He faced more troubles from politicians. Some politicians even vandilised his expensive sets to trouble him, but kamal was calm and even though he agreed to change the title of the movie, he did not compromise in changing any of the storyline or the screenplay. The movie was released just as it was written by kamal Hasan but with a different title that many directors appreciated as being far more interesting then previous title Sandiyar. As Kamal was not granted to film this movie in the areas of Madurai and Theni, he filmed the whole movie in chennai. He did not go to any nearby villages of chennai, but built the whole village in which the movie was filmed through sets. All the houses and the streets were nothing but sets, but many people thought the movie was made in a village. No, it was filmed in the sets built in the studios of chennai. No one had gone to any village to make that movie.
  
  Of course, Hey Ram is a movie that deserves oscar and the respect of all movie makers. If not why would an actor such as shah Rukh Khan, considered the most famous in bollywood and one of the producers of the movie Samrat Asoka would want to act in Hey Ram as Kamal Hasan's friend which is infact a minor role for him in that movie. Why?, Because Shah Rukh Khan respects Kamal Hasan and his movie in which he would have seen a magic. So I tell those who misjudge Kamal Hasan. He is a man who has a strong determination and very very very DARING. He would indeed make Marudhanayagam come to screen. He has already collected the call sheets of all the important actors and actresses who are acting in that movie. Santosh Sivan, the director of Samrat Asoka is one and the most important of the Cinematographers working for the movie. Kamal has bought a alot of land in which the sets for the movie are going to be built. Kamal has already spent about 14 crores for the movie and is in need of 75 crores more to finish off the movie. The Hollywood did not refuse to offer Kamal the money he needed but it was unable to give him the money because the US government placed an Economic ban on India for testing its nuclear weapons when Kamal was starting off with Marudhanayagam. This broke the relations between Kamal Hasan and the Hollywood. Now Kamal has got the French production Companies to help him, with this help, Kamal would finish Marudhanayagam movie by 2006.
  
  
  
• From: anand (@ 203.200.211.65) on: Tue Sep 21 14:33:12 EDT 2004
  
  Kamal may be determined, but in marudhanayagam, he is toeing a dead horse. There is absolutely no literature on marudhanayagam. Whatever there is, is only hearsay.
  
  Also, it will be impossible to make considering the budget. Nobody would risk it on kamal.
  
  He should be trying something like say Ponniyin selvan. That too requires a high budget, but the backbone i.e the great novel by kalki is there. Only screenplay needs to be done.
  
  
• From: azhagan (@ 61.2.228.173) on: Fri Sep 24 16:10:45 EDT 2004
  
  Marudhanayakam
  Ithu oru
  kaviyin kanavu
  mazhalaiyin aasai
  
  
  

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