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The director puts Radha in a short skirt. He puts Kamal in a toga, which means the hero ends up showing more leg than the heroine.
When asked to name a film that’s so bad it’s good, a ‘Gaptun’ Vijayakanth movie would seem the obvious choice. But somehow the “badness” stands out more when it comes from someone associated with quality cinema, like Kamal Haasan. The star-actor made many so-bad-it’s-good films in the 1980s (Andha Oru Nimidam, Japanil Kalyanaraman), but I chose A Jagannathan’s Kadhal Parisu, because it was released in 1987, which was a watershed year for Kamal, the year of Nayakan. Thereon, his focus changed, and even his “casual” films had the stamp of quality (think Pammal K Sambandam or Panchathanthiram). Yes, Soora Samhaaram, which came out in 1988, is a bad film, but at least, it was trying to do something different. Kadhal Parisu, on the other hand, is a lazy-ass attempt to duplicate the success of Kakki Sattai, the Kamal-Ambika starrer from 1985.
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Rahini David
June 29, 2019
Someone has toned down that wiki page. It used to be even more .. fun.
Is this your new series?
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MANK
June 29, 2019
Hilarious! Man, you bothered to go over the entire film scene by scene. I think there was Nanum oru thozhilali which was in the same year or previous year.
I don’t think the film had any script. They made it up as they went along. And I believe it was in the making for a long time. And since Radha was paired opposite Kamal, she must have been a bigger star than Ambika at the time.
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shaviswa
June 29, 2019
This will be rated as one of your very best. It is so-humorous-it-is-brutal 🙂
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Madan
June 29, 2019
After a long time, BR snark genre strikes again.
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vijay
June 29, 2019
when it comes to surreal badness Kamal can try hard but he will never be in the league of TR, think en thangai kalyaani or oru thaayin sabadham from around that time
For me, the so bad its good film was Vikram. The likes of kaadhal parisu, per sollum pillai were just bad. I can probably rewtch parts of Vikram today. The soundtrack was also better as a bonus
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Voldemort
June 29, 2019
This was one heck of a good read! Have this as a series please, BR.
On a side note, my favorite so bad it’s good movie is Yei Nee Romba Azhaga Irukka starring Shyam and Sneha. It’s just so bad, you can’t stop laughing throughout.
The best bad part is when they reveal whose eyes were selected for the eye donation camp.
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Honest Raj
June 29, 2019
From WP:
“Malini claims that, that night, Mohan entered her room and they had consensual sex, but Mohan denied it and refused to marry her. So she bought up rape charges against him and sent him to prison.”
So, what were the feminists doing then? 🙂
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Honest Raj
June 29, 2019
I really wonder what’s so bad about Japanil Kalyanaraman. Maybe, one day you should write about Silambattam. 🙂
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LASANTH
June 29, 2019
Mr. Rangan, there should be a option to like/dislike your reviews. I liked this one. Was laughing throughout and colleagues at office were staring
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Sri Prabhuram
June 29, 2019
There are so many to choose from:
Thimiru Pudichavan
Rekka
Aap Kaa Surroor
All of the MSG films
Any KV Anand film from 2011-present
Any Madhur Bhandakar film except DTBHJ
I really don’t need to go on.
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Lakshmi M
June 29, 2019
Absolutely hilarious write up. There is a movie of TR with Mumtaz. It was so atrociously bad that I found it fascinating. Nice way to spend time without having to use the brain.
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Anu Warrier
June 29, 2019
BR, BR, BR – you owe me a new laptop.
*Warning to self: Never read this series again while drinking tea.
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Vikram s
June 29, 2019
And BR is back… 🙂
For a non-tamil film watcher like me, this made me want to watch it… Like. NOW 🙂
My favorites-
Mard- Dara Singh carving ‘mard’ on his new born’s chest and a shot of the baby smiling cherubically
Gunda- where the girl is walking in skimpy clothes on a coonoor hill, she is going to college…and all the villians walking up to the camera and introducing themselves in thyme
Hoshiyar- with jeetendra playing son to tanuja’s dukhiyari maa…
The list goes on…how I miss the 80s…sigh
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Aman Basha
June 29, 2019
God, I don’t know anything about this movie but your writeup seems to have way more thought than it did.
A movie so bad that it’s good would be Superman.. Not the Christopher Reeves classic but the Telugu movie starring NTR(gulp!). BR sir or some genius needs to bring out this hidden gem and dissect every part of it🤣🤣
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thebeadhandbag
June 30, 2019
Why would the girl inherit the ticklish hip when siluvai isn’t the dad ?
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vinjk
June 30, 2019
This is too good!
I am sure Salman’s Yuvraj…sorry Yuvvraaj…will (and should) appear in this series
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Shankar
June 30, 2019
Baddy, you picked Kadhal Parisu? C’mon it was a classic compared to this 😄
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Madan
June 30, 2019
Shankar: Righttuu! I was thinking of Mangamma Sabatham too. I think Uyarndha Ullam also deserves an (dis)honourable mention. Mid 80s was Kamal’s worst phase.
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(Original) venkatesh
July 1, 2019
And he is back.
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vinjk
July 1, 2019
So glad to know that “So Bad It’s Good Film” series began with Mohanlal starrer “Rock N’ Roll”
Nalla shakunam! Can’t get better than this! 😀
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Enigma
July 2, 2019
That was hilarious. Some of Kamal’s choices in the 80s were truly awful. Rajinikanth’s masala movies back then were far better than the commercial movies that Kamal routinely used to star in. Sattam, Savaal, Mangamma Sabadham, this one, Per Sollum Pillai, Kaaki Sattai, Andha Oru Nimidam, Thoongathey Thambi, Sakalakalavallavan…that is quite a list.
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Naveen
July 17, 2019
i think SPM and AVM contributed to this class of junk in the 80s
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sanjana
July 17, 2019
Please dont make fun of movies. You will not get meals and gifts. Only Coffee or tea and then it will be water. And then you may have to pay for water and air too.
https://scroll.in/reel/930487/not-aimed-at-authentic-journalists-tamil-producers-on-plan-to-ban-film-critics-for-negative-reviews
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