Kamal Haasan plays cop dress-up while ripping off Witness, Lethal Weapon AND The Untouchables. Chaos.
Soora Samhaaram is a 1988 Tamil language film starring Kamal Haasan in the role of police officer, ACP Athi Veerapandiyan. This medium budget action film also stars Nirosha (credited in title as Mythili), Nizhalgal Ravi, Pallavi and Kitti. Mani Rathnam's long time associate Krishnamurthy (Kitty) appears as villain Mohandas.Soora Samharam is well known for 2 major action scenes which was based from The Untouchables and Lethal Weapon. The story of the film is based on Peter Weir's 1985 acclaimed drama Witness.Kamal Hassan planned to follow Soora Samhaaram with big...
Acting
Kamal somehow commits 100% to this Frankenstein script.
Stunts
That Untouchables staircase scene but make it Tamil.
Director
Chitra Lakshmanan
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Chitra Lakshmanan was Mani Ratnam's associate, which explains the visual polish on this budget bin script.
This film represents peak 80s Tamil cinema's 'inspiration' era—where 'based on' meant 'shot-for-shot remake with songs added.'
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