Kamal Haasan sings in English

Date: 9 May 2003 07:42:56 -0700
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Kamal Haasan sings in English
Shobha Warrier | May 09, 2003 17:37 IST
Kamal Haasan recently recorded an English song for his home
production, Nala Damayanthi, starring Madhavan and Geetu Mohandas.
Haasan first sang in English 27 years ago for the Malayalam film, Siva
Thandavam. It was a duet with Usha Uthup under M B Srinivas' baton.
The Nala Damayanthi song (lyrics: Pradeep Govind; music: Ramesh
Vinayakam) has been picturised on Madhavan roaming the streets of
Australia after having lost all his belongings, including his
passport. Homesick and unhappy, he sings:
I am stranded on the streets
And I got nowhere to go
Don't know what to do
And I don't know what to know
Groping in the dark
I'm searching for the light…
Madhavan plays Nala, a Brahmin youth from Palghat who goes to
Australia to work as a cook; the film is all about his hilarious
misadventures there. One of its highlights is the peculiar
Malayalam-Tamil Palghat dialect spoken by Madhavan. Haasan himself did
this to perfection in Michael Madana Kama Rajan.
Haasan was originally planning to play Nala himself, but decided to
cast Madhavan after watching him in Anbe Sivam.
Nala meets his Damayanthi in the form of a Tamilian from Jaffna who
was born and brought up in Australia. Geetu Mohandas, who plays
Damayanthi, speaks Sri Lankan Tamil in the film. Haasan himself
successfully adopted the accent in his hit Tamil comedy, Tenali.
Nala Damayanthi is Haasan's fourth film -- after Apoorva Sahodarangal,
Thevar Magan and Hey! Ram -- under his banner, Rajkamal International.
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