Uttama Villain (2015)

Manoranjan, a superstar, is counting his last days due to brain tumor. How he goes about his final wish of doing a comedy film with his mentor Margadarsi forms the crux of the story.

Director:

Ramesh Aravind

Writers:

Kamal Haasan (story and screenplay), Crazy Mohan (dialogue)

Stars:

Kamal Haasan, K. Balachander, K. Viswanath

6 wins & 1 nomination.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Kamal Haasan	...	Uthaman / Manoranjan
K. Balachander	...	Marghadarsi
K. Viswanath	...	Poornachandra Rao (as K. Vishwanath)
Nassar	...	Muttharasan (as Nasser)
Jayaram	...	Jacob Zachariah
Urvashi	...	Varalakshmi
Pooja Kumar	...	Karpagavalli
Andrea Jeremiah	...	Dr.Arpana
Parvathy Thiruvothu	...	Manonmani (as Parvathi Menon)
Parvati Nair	...	Indira (as Parvathy Nair)
M.S. Bhaskar	...	Chokku Chettiar
Chitra Lakshmanan	...	Lakshmanan
Ananth Narayan Mahadevan	...	(as Anant Mahadevan)
Shanmugha Rajan	...	Minister
Gnanasambandam	...	Minister

Storyline

Manoranjan (Kamal Haasan) is a superstar, who realizes that he is counting his final days due to brain tumor. So he suddenly decides to return the advance taken from a producer and instead he wants to do a comedy film with his mentor and guru Margadarsi (K Balachandar) as his final wish. This is big news that comes as a shock to everyone including his family and manager. How Manoranjan goes about it, forms the rest of the story.

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Plot Keywords:

mentor | 

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Genres:

Comedy | Drama

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Did You Know?

Trivia

Initial reports suggested that popular comedian Vivek would play an important role in the film, making the film his first collaboration with Kamal Haasan. The reports, however, went unconfirmed and eventually false.

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Quotes

Uthaman: [last dialog] Is there a bigger sadness than the boon of immortality. Is there anyone who wants to hear an endless story?

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Soundtracks

Mutharasan Kadhai
Produced by Ghibran
Written by Kamal Haasan
Performed by Kamal Haasan

User Reviews

Most under rated movie. But Kamal is best!

This movie was indeed emotional and has a lot of flaws in the direction. When I read the reviews posted by few others I felt that is complete nonsense and should review this movie. Movie these days has nothing. Except foul words, item songs and cheap dialogues. I guess you know which movie I am talking about. But this movie is like a lesson and in fact actors who consider doing roles based on background music and who is completely on masala terms should see this movie and learn what they call "acting". Kamal is a legend that is something no one can question. If one does then he is probably the one , you know. Kamal has done really good in few scenes where you never expected . Scenes are there in this movie which you can never ever forget. The movie did not go well in the box office. But indeed was appreciated by many. The reason why the movie did not go well was because the movie did not have santhanam, punch dialogues, item songs, cheap dialogues and of course a lazy storyline. An intellectual will definitely appreciate this movie.

Details

Official Sites:

Official Facebook

Country:

India

Language:

Tamil Telugu

Release Date:

2 May 2015 (India)

Also Known As:

The Honest Villain

Box Office

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$110,119

Company Credits

Production Co:

Raajkamal Films International, Thirupathi Brothers

Technical Specs

Runtime:

171 min

Sound Mix:

Auro 11.1

Color:

Color