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A small boy (Ratnavelu) from Tamilnadu sees his father, a labor leader, killed in cold blood by a policeman...
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a maniratnam classic, ..brings out the tear drop in you.
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Cast
(Complete credited cast) | Kamal Hassan | ... | Velunayakan |
| Saranya | ... | Neela |
| Janagaraj | ... | Selva |
| Tinnu Anand | ... | Ajit Singh |
| Nasser | ||
| Delhi Ganesh | ... | Iyer |
| Nizhalgal Ravi | ... | Surya |
| M.V. Vasudeva Rao | ... | Vaapa |
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| Kartika | ||
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Nayakudu (India: Telugu title) (dubbed version)
Velu-Nayakan (India: Hindi title) (dubbed version)
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Nayakudu (India: Telugu title) (dubbed version)
Velu-Nayakan (India: Hindi title) (dubbed version)
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145 min
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This film is inspired by the true story of Mumbai based Tamil gangster of the 80s, Varadarajan Mudaliar.
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References Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
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It is really difficult to express the experience of watching nayakan in words, the real life story about the transformation of a boy into a rebel and then a don, brilliantly portrayed by one of the greatest actors alive today, Kamal Hassan.
While the film draws little inspiration from "The Godfather trilogy", the emotions and trauma associated with many events , along with ilayaraja's rendition of 'thenpandi seemayile' , really does make this movie very special!, nothing to beat this one, among the best movies i have ever seen. I can rate it along with American beauty, shawshank redemption or even amelie.