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Kamal Haasan's Inspiration From Hollywood!
Kamal Haasan is a one man cinema, from being a world class actor to a professional dancer, it's hard to find out things that Kamal cannot do when it comes to movies.
Kamal Haasan is known to have done films in almost all genres and played almost all characters from being an unemployed youth to an old woman. Many of his movies have been sent to the Oscars representing Indian movies but the actor is yet to impress the prestigious jury of The Academy Awards.
While Kamal Haasan's skill of selecting scripts had surprised everyone in the past, it still remains to be envied by his contemporaries. When most of his scripts have had originality, few movies have been inspired by Hollywood flicks.
We present to you a list of movies that has inspired Kamal Haasan, so much so that he has made those films in Tamil. For some movies he has acted in the lead role whereas others were produced by him.
Avvai Shanmughi (1996) shares the same plot with Mrs. Doubtfire (1993) where the protagonist transforms himself into an elderly woman to get back his daughter and wife. While Anbe Sivam (2003) is similar to Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987) where two men of different characters are forced to accompany each other in their journey, Thenali (2000) can be called as a remake to What About Bob? (1991) as the plot, storyline and the climax are identical to each other.
Read on to know more about Kamal Haasan's movies that has been made after inheriting inspiration from Hollywood.
English : Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987) Tamil : Anbe Sivam (2003)
The striking similarities between the English and the Tamil flick is how Neal Page first considers Del Griffith to be the reason for his travelling woes and their never ending arguments. Like in Planes, Trains and Automobiles, Madhavan first assumes that Kamal haasan has a family of his own and later realizes that Kamal doesn't have a family and invites him to join his family function where he introduces his family members.
English : Mrs. Doubtfire (1993) Tamil : Avvai Shanmughi (1996)
There are a lot of similarities between these two movies. In Avvai Shanmughi, Kamal plays the role essayed by Robin Williams in Mrs. Doubtfire. The climax of Avvai Shanmughi differs from that of Mrs. Doubtfire but the plot remains to be the same.
English : What About Bob? (1991) Tamil : Thenali (2000)
Thenali's
storyline
is
astonishingly
similar
to
that
of
What
About
Bob?
From
how
the
protagonist
suffering
from
multiple
phobias
follows
his
psychiatrist
where
he
camps
with
his
family
to
how
he
steals
the
show
in
an
interview
which
is
originally
meant
for
the
doctor.
Even
the
climax
is
strikingly
similar
where
the
hero
is
strapped
with
explosives
calling
it
as
a
''death
therapy''
and
how
the
hero
overcomes
his
fears
and
places
the
explosives
in
the
doctor's
house
thinking
it
to
be
a
fake
bomb
used
only
to
relieve
him
from
his
fears.
English : Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! (1990) Tamil : Guna(1991)
The
similarity
between
these
two
movies
is
how
a
psychiatric
patient
kidnaps
a
female
in
order
to
make
her
fall
in
love
with
him.
He
believes
his
destiny
is
to
marry
her
and
father
her
children.
Though
the
rest
of
the
plot
differs,
the
characterization
of
the
protagonist
is
similar.
English : Hardcore (1979) Tamil : Mahanadi (1994)
This film is about how the lead role who is a prosperous local businessman regains his lost daughter who is kidnapped and later becomes a victim of human trafficking. Though Mahanadi is adapted according to the Indian audience, the plot again remains to be the same.
English : Nine to Five (1980) Tamil : Magalir Mattum (1994)
Though Kamal Haasan has just done a guest role, the movie was produced and written by the actor himself. The similarity in this movie with Nine to Five is how three women manages to tie up their officer in his own house owing to his bad behaviour with them and increase the productivity in their office in his absence.
English : Green Card (1990) Tamil: Nala Damayanthi (2003)
Again like Magalir Mattum, this movie is written and produced by Kamal Haasan.The plot of this movie is very similar to that of Green Card where a foreigner marries a local resident to become a citizen of the country he intends to reside in.
English : The Bachelor (1999) Tamil: Pammal K. Sambandam (2002)
In Bachelor, the hero finds out that his recently-deceased grandfather's will says that he gets nothing of a multi-million dollar property unless he's married by 6:05pm on his 30th birthday. Sounds similar to the plot of Pammal K. Sambandam?
English : The Principal (1987) Tamil : Nammavar (1994)
A few of many similarities between these two movies are how the hero tries to get rid of narcotics trade within the campus and how he tries to fight against the most notorious student by literally engaging in a fight against him.
English : Butterflies Are Free (1972) Tamil : Raaja Paarvai (1981)
This classic is Kamal Haasan's 100th film and is an inspiration from Butterflies Are Free in which the protagonist is blind and how his relationship develops with the girl next door who eventually fall in love with each other.
