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Nayakan (1987)

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Summary: A small boy (Ratnavelu) from Tamilnadu sees his father, a labor leader, killed in cold blood by a policeman. He kills the policeman and runs away to the city of Bombay. From there, the story traces his ascent to become a mafia chief (Velu Naicker), the breakup and deaths in his family, and then till his assasination at the hands of the lunatic son of another policeman who he killed in a fight. (imdb)

AKA: The Hero

Genres: Drama, Musical

Country: India

Directed By: Mani Ratnam

Written By: Balakumaran, Rajasri

Starring: Kamal Hassan, Tinnu Anand, Nasser, M.V. Vasudeva Rao, Delhi Ganesh, Janagaraj, Saranya

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na	aadhi	85	T₉
na	IMDb-byvotes	82	T₁₀
na	dejavu007	100	T₁₀
na	jithu	91	T₉
na	DavidB	30	T₁
na	evolving	75	T₆
na	muku25	91	T₁₀
na	imdb	82	T₁₀
na	sreeraj	90	T₉
na	Stain	50	T₄
My first Bollywood film (actually Kollywood, but why split hairs). I know all about how Kamal Hassan is a legend in India and actually has his own human services organization to help the poor, etc., etc., etc., but this movie feels like a junior high school pageant. Clearly, the makers of this movie want it to be _The Godfather_ really friggin' bad (Hassan even stuffs cotton in his mouth Brando-style at one point) but this isn't it. The obligatory musical numbers make it even more silly
na	iceblox	76	T₈
Gritty movie based on the real-life Mumbai underworld don, Varadaraja Mudaliar, expertly brought to the celluloid by Kamal Hassan, and which netted him a National Award for Best Actor.

Average Tier 7.82 from 11 Rankings