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Kamal to shoot from Feb 25
IndiaGlitz [Friday, February 06, 2009]

The latest buzz doing the rounds in Kollywood is that the film that will bring Kamal Haasan and Mohanlal together 'Thalaivan Irukkinran' would go to floors from the 25th of February.

According to reports 'Thalaivan Irukkinran' would be the remake of the Bollywood hit 'A Wednesday' that featured Naseeruddin Shah and Anupam Kher in lead roles. It was a film about a frustrated middle-aged man who plants bombs across the city to drive home a point to the government.

Sources add Kamal Haasan would play the role enacted by Naseeruddin Shah while Mohanlal would don the character enacted by Anupam Kher. The movie would be directed by Chakri, who had formal training in direction from the institute of film-learning in Hollywood. Kamal Haasan however denied reports that appeared in a section of the media that ‘Marmayogi’ has been dropped.

It has been confirmed that 'Marmayogi' to be directed by Kamal Haasan, was only postponed and not shelved. It's indeed a big disappointment for Kamal Haasan's fans, who expected their 'hero' to go ahead with yet another swashbuckling performance in 'Marmayogi'.

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After a long hiatus, the actor who doesn't believe in dubbing, is now ready to create a separate Hindi version of not one but two of his big-ticket Tamil films

Just returned from a month-long shoot of the Rs 100 crore Vishwaroopam, billed the actor's biggest film yet, and he is already on to his next plum project, Amar Hain, a film that takes a dispassionate look at the legitimisation of corruption in present-day India.

In typical Kamal Hassan style, Amar Hain too, is being made in two different languages, Tamil and Hindi, and Hassan will direct and play the lead in both versions.

A super-charged Hassan tells us, "It's a script that I wrote two years ago and put aside because it required great intellectual and financial inputs. I think I am now ready on both counts."

As such, Amar Hain is a film that says it like it is; it isn't judgmental about corruption, it looks at contemporary mores dispassionately, he adds.

The other angle is the invisibility of global crime lords in the era of technology. "In the digital era, everything including crime is on the computer and the phone. That's why we never see global players in the crime game, land in our country. They don't need to since all their work is digitally manouevred. Amar Hain goes into all of this," Hassan reveals.

Atul Tiwari, who is writing the dialogues for the Hindi Vishwaroopam will also be doing the dialogues for the Hindi Amar Hain. For Hassan, "Tiwari gets the sur right and that is very important in relocating the language and culture from Tamil to Hindi through the spoken word." He goes on to say, "This is also why I've always stayed away from dubbed films. I prefer to do films in two languages although it's time consuming and costly. And so it is with Vishwaroopam and Amar Hain".