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Moondram Pirai (transl. The third crescent ) [ a ] is a 1982 Indian Tamil -language romantic drama film written, directed and filmed by Balu Mahendra . The film stars Kamal Haasan and Sridevi , while Y. G. Mahendran , Silk Smitha and Poornam Viswanathan played supporting roles.
Subsequently, she played a woman who suffers from Amnesia in the critically and commercially successful classic Moondram Pirai (1982). She also achieved success by starring as a female lead in the successful dramas Padaharella Vayasu (1978), Meendum Kokila (1981), Premabhishekam (1981), Vazhvey Maayam (1982) and Aakhari Poratam (1988).
Opening Title Director Cast Production Ref J A N: 1: Nadamadum Silaigal: Malleeswar: C. H. Narayana Rao, Shankar, Roopa, Vadivukkarasi: Sri Nithyodaya Pictures: 2 ...
Naankam Pirai (Tamil), Punnami Rathri (Telugu) Scenes involving Ganja Karuppu and Manobala for Tamil version; Scenes involving Krishna Bhagavan for Telugu version 2013 Attahasa: A. M. R. Ramesh: Kannada Vana Yuddham (Tamil) Reshot scenes to suit nativity 2013 Theeya Velai Seiyyanum Kumaru: Sundar C: Tamil Something Something (Telugu)
The film was set in the late 1980s and early 1990s, during the time of Indian intervention in the Sri Lankan civil war and assassination of Indian prime minister Rajiv Gandhi. The film deals with an Indian Army special officer who is appointed by the intelligence agency R&AW to head covert operations in Jaffna shortly after Indian peace-keeping ...
Reword "In February 2014, Kamal Haasan, in an interview with The Hindu Business Line, said that when Mahendra narrated the story of Moondram Pirai to him, Haasan listened to Mahendra for about 20 minutes and then told Mahendra to include him in the film,[9] after Mahendra assured Haasan that he would walk away with the applause."
Haasan received his first National Film Award for Best Actor in 1983 for Moondram Pirai in which he played the role of a school teacher who looks after a girl suffering from amnesia. In 1988 he secured his second National Film Award for Best Actor for his performance in Mani Ratnam 's Nayakan , which was ranked by Time magazine as one of the ...
She soon established herself as a leading female star of South Indian Cinema, with roles in such films as 16 Vayathinile (1977), Sigappu Rojakkal (1978), Padaharella Vayasu (1978), Varumayin Niram Sivappu (1980), Meendum Kokila (1981), Premabhishekam (1981), Vazhvey Maayam (1982), Moondram Pirai (1982), Aakhari Poratam (1988), Jagadeka Veerudu ...