Connection
Kalaignan is a film of genre Thriller with Kamal Haasan
Kalaignan (1993)
If you like this film, let us know!
- Infos
- Casting
- Technical infos
- Photos
- Videos
- Film quotes
- Characters
- Music
- Awards
Add to a movie listKalaignan (Tamil:கலைஞன்; English: Artist) is a 1993 Tamil-language thriller film directed by G. B. Vijay and produced by Ramkumar Ganesan. The film features Kamal Haasan and Bindiya in the lead roles while Sivaranjani, Sindhuja, Nirmalamma and Chi. Guru Dutt play supporting roles. The film opened in April 1993. This Story Inspired by Novel Goodbye Piccadilly, Farewell Leicester Square By Arthur La Bern. Already Alfred Hitchcock done a movie called Frenzy
Synopsis
The movie revolves around a Tamil pop singer Inderjeet based in Bangalore who has a large female following. The movie opens with the death of a back-up dancer, Sandhya, in Inderjeet's group and soon a police detective is put in charge of the investigation. Although the police suspect Inderjeet as he is very short-tempered, they have no evidence linking him to the crime. Meanwhile Divya, Sandhya's elder sister, arrives at her aunt, Dr. Prabhavathy’s (their dad's elder sister) house to find out the truth about Sandhya's death. She goes to meet Inderjeet but is put off by his arrogance. She also talks to his manager, Dr. Harichandra Prasad, and other musicians who all have differing opinions about Sandhya.Actors
Kamal Haasan
(Indrajeet)
Sivaranjani
(Sandhya)
Farheen
(Divya)
Nirmalamma
(Dr. Prabhavathy)
Guru Dutt
(Dr. Harichandra Prasad)
Comments
Leave comment :
Suggestions of similar film to Kalaignan
There are 568 films with the same actors, 26920 with the same cinematographic genres (including 5546 with exactly the same 2 genres than Kalaignan), to have finally 70 suggestions of similar films.If you liked Kalaignan, you will probably like those similar films :
Kuruthipunal (1995)
, 2h23Directed by P. C. Sreeram
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Spy
Themes Spy films, Films about terrorism
Actors Arjun Sarja, Kamal Haasan, Nassar, Gautami, Geetha, Nizhalgal Ravi
Rating84%
Two honest and bold police officers Adhi Narayanan (Kamal Hassan) and Abbas (Arjun) device a master plan to bring in control the Terrorist Groups and send two secret vigilance officers, named Anand and Shiva on an operation called Operation "Dhanush". The objective is to infiltrate a terror group headed by a man named Badri, and send information back to Abbas. A leak from inside the police camp leads the terrorist to oust Anand as a spy but before they could torture him and get the information of the second spy, he commits suicide.
Kathirukka Neramillai (1993)
, 2h20Genres Drama
Actors Karthik, Kushboo Sundar, Sivaranjani, Nassar, Rajesh, Chinni Jayanth
Rating54%
Raju (Karthik Muthuraman) and his sidekicks (Chinni Jayanth, Vadivelu and Thyagu) stole black money to help an orphanage. D.I.G. Mohanraj knew that they are thieves but he's unable to send them in jail. Raju and Radhika (Sivaranjani), Mohanraj's daughter, failed in love. Her father refuses to accept it so he arranged a marriage with Ajith (Udaya Prakash), a police officer. Raju drank alcohol and he became drunk, and he killed Ajith. When he came back to his car, there was Raju drunk at the back seat. Raju's look-alike said his flashback. His name was Somasekhar, fell in love with Bhavani (Kushboo Sundar) and married her. She worked at Chatterjee's (Nasser) Ganja estate. Chatterjee wanted Somasekhar's estate but Somasekhar didn't want to sell it to a criminal. Chatterjee's henchmen killed his wife who gave birth to a girl. Somasekhar, wounded, can't do anything. Few years later, Ajith kidnapped his daughter. Somasekhar, after told the flashback, reveals to Raju that he still will kill 2 people as Raju. Somasekhar went, to his daughter's nanny home who also worked for Chatterjee, as Raju and she asked him to be Somasekhar for some days. Raju's lover and his friends came to see him but Somasekhar advised to go to a place, they went there and Somasekhar's friend kidnapped them like Raju. Finally, they managed to escape. Somasekhar found where his child was kidnapped. Chatterjee caught Raju and Somasekhar. Somasekhar revealed that he gave his property and his daughter to Raju. Somasekhar killed Chatterjee and died.
Sathya (1988)
Directed by Suresh Krissna
Genres Thriller, Action
Actors Kamal Haasan, Amala Akkineni, Rajesh, Nassar, Vadivukkarasi, Kitty
Rating78%
Sathya (Kamal Hassan) is a young man who wants to make a difference and ends up becoming a henchman to a political leader who has his own agenda.
Virumaandi (2004)
, 2h45Directed by Kamal Haasan
Genres Drama, Action
Themes Films about capital punishment
Actors Kamal Haasan, Abhirami, Nassar, Pasupathy, Rohini, Sennalkudi Narayana Thevar Lakshmi
Rating83%
The film starts with Angela Kathamuthu (Rohini) and her cameraman in Central Jail interviewing prisoners serving life imprisonment and awaiting the death sentence. She meets Kothala Thevar (Pasupathy) who is serving a life sentence. He tells his version of the story that led to his conviction. According to him the root cause of the problem is Virumaandi (Kamal Haasan) - the happy go lucky rogue. His support to Kothala Thevar in his clash against Nallama Naicker (Napoleon) brings about a bonding between the two. Annalakshmi (Abhirami), the niece of Thevar falls for Virumaandi. Thevar with an eye on the fertile land owned by Virumaandi does not object to the romance. According to Thevar, Annalakshmi was abducted by Virumaandi and raped. A clash between Virumaandi and Thevar takes places in which 24 innocent people are killed.
Nayakan (1987)
, 2h25Directed by Mani Ratnam
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, Action, Crime
Themes Mafia films, Films about music and musicians, Politique, Musical films, Political films, Gangster films
Actors Kamal Haasan, Saranya, Karthika, Nassar, Janagaraj, Delhi Ganesh
Rating86%
Sakthivelu alias "Velu" Nayakan is the son of an anti-government union leader (Kitty). The child, Velu, is tricked by the police into locating his father, and then witnesses his father's death in a police shootout; he later kills the person who was the cause of his father's death and escapes to Bombay.
Kadamai Kanniyam Kattupaadu (1987)
Directed by Santhana Bharathi
Genres Drama, Action, Crime
Actors Sathyaraj, Geetha, Kamal Haasan, Nassar, Jeevitha rajasekhar, Delhi Ganesh
Rating75%
The film revolves around the story of an honest and straightforward Tamil Nadu police officer and his life. The story of the film is an adaptation from I. V. Sasi's Malayalam film Aavanazhi. Music for this movie is scored by Ilaiyaraaja.
Unnaipol Oruvan (2009)
, 1h46Directed by Chakri Toleti
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Films about terrorism
Actors Mohanlal, Kamal Haasan, Lakshmi Narayan, Ganesh Venkatram, Nassar, Anuja Iyer
Rating79%
The recently dismissed police commissioner of Chennai, Inspector General Raghavan Maraar (Mohanlal), describes in a voice-over about his sudden termination due to a common man who walked into his life. An unnamed man (Kamal Haasan) is shown strategically placing a travel bag in a train in the Chennai Central railway station and in a shopping mall. He proceeds to place another bag, under the false pretense of lodging an FIR, in the toilet of a police station in Anna Salai, Chennai.
Apoorva Sagodharargal (1989)
, 2h30Directed by Srinivasa Rao Singeetham
Genres Comedy, Action
Themes Circus films, Films about families
Actors Gautami, Kamal Haasan, Sreevidya, Rupini, Nagesh, Aachi Manorama
Rating82%
Sethupathy (Kamal Haasan) is an honest and upright police officer. When he arrests four bigwigs Dharmaraj (Nagesh), Francis Anbarasu (Delhi Ganesh), Nallasivam (Nasser) and Satyamoorthy (Jaishankar), they escape justice easily and return to take revenge. They kill him and poison his wife (Srividya). She escapes and gives birth to twins with the help of another woman Muniyamma (Manorama) but the babies are separated and each woman believes that the other is dead because of the events happening next to birth. One of the twins, Raja (Kamal Haasan) grows up as a mechanic with Muniyamma, while the other twin, Appu (Kamal Haasan), a dwarf, grows up in the circus with his mother.
Krishna (1996)
Directed by Kitty
Genres Drama, Action, Romance
Actors Prashanth, Heera, Nassar, Chinni Jayanth, Kasthuri, Kitty
Rating29%
This script must be run from the command line
Mumbai Xpress (2005)
, 2h26Directed by Srinivasa Rao Singeetham
Genres Comedy, Action
Actors Manisha Koirala, Kamal Haasan, Om Puri, Nassar, Manobala, Saurabh Shukla
Rating59%
Three amateur thieves plot to kidnap a wealthy person’s (Saurabh Shukla) son from the boy's school. They do a trial run. However on the eve of the kidnap, the guy whose job is to operate a crane in this plan is hospitalized. The services of Avinasi aka Mumbai Xpress (Kamal Haasan), a deaf stunt man performing daredevil bike acts is roped in. Twists and turns take place where the other two gang members are hurt and invariably Mumbai Xpress is left to perform the all tasks by himself. He kidnaps a wrong boy Daddu (Hardhik), the illegitimate son of Ahalya (Manisha Koirala) and police officer Rao (Om Puri), but manages to get a huge ransom from Mehta by default. A brawl takes place between the original kidnap planners-Digambar (Vijay Raaz), Johnson (Dinesh Lamba) and Avinasi in handling Ahalya’s child but Avinasi delivers the child unhurt to his mother. He secretly listen to Ahalya's tele-con with Rao where Rao wants to settle both the ransom and sever his ties with her. Ahalya pleads and coaxes him to help her get the ransom which Rao is willing to pay. The child takes a fancy to Avinasi and wants him to be the man in their life, and gets him to agree.Ahalaya wants either Rao’s or Mehta'a money which Avinasi is holding, whereas Avinasi is in love and wants to be that protective person. Rao appoints Mehta to handle the ransom and what follows is a series of mix-ups.