Read that Tamil cinema is completing its Platinum Jubilee this year - 75 years of Tamil cinema. There was an article titled Film-makers' Favourites somewhere, where many successful directors like Shridhar, KB, Maniratnam, Ameer etc have rated their Top 10 films. "16 Vayathiniley" (1977) makes the maximum appearance in these lists i.e. almost all of these directors have this film in their top 10 list. As Maniratnam puts it, "...i like the film for its script, high standards and realism". I'm sure none of us can forget Ilayaraja's music too. And till date Sappaani-Mayilu-Parattai are fresh in our minds. One film that I surely want to watch now is "Andha Naal" (1954) . It's also in many lists, it was a revolutionary film as it was a song-less movie, especially in those days when there were more songs than dialogues! It has Sivaji Ganesan in the lead role, as an anti-hero. Now with Sivaji still blazing, here's my ranking of Shankar's works.
1.Indian
2.Muthalvan
3.Gentleman
4.Kadhalan
5.Anniyan
6.Boys
7.Jeans
Appo Sivaji? That should be in Rajni's ranking, not here!
2.Muthalvan
3.Gentleman
4.Kadhalan
5.Anniyan
6.Boys
7.Jeans
Appo Sivaji? That should be in Rajni's ranking, not here!
2 comments:
machi...anniyan should be bleow boys and i feel boys is a worthy film for this generation and i feel it was wrongly publicised..i am making a top 100 list of movies..do vote in mine-
...actually many are asking me that same question. But Boys,acco to me, is not of Shankar quality da..sombdy else shud have made it.
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