It has been current trends in Tamil and telungu film industry to pick up the title of all time legendry hero MGR movie titles in their movies. His film are all block buster movies and adding their titles gives more fame to the movies. However the next movie of Vijay is titled as ‘Kaavalkaran’, the title reveal that the story lineup which is about shielding the heiress to a wealthy empire from villainous forces.
This trends was initially started by Padma Shree kamal hasan in 1995 with his film ‘Sathi Leelavathi’ this title of the film was the debut film for the MGR in 1936 and soon after kamal many started keeping the title of MGR films. Some of the titles that have been used so far are ‘Mannathi Mannan’, ‘Ninaithadhai Mudippavan’, ‘Abhimanyu’, ‘Naam’ etc. However the most notable thing is that the MGR film titles which are being used with any film did’t got much success .Most of them were utter flops in the box office.
Are MGR films as unique as him? Of course yes. That’s why when Kamala Theatre in Chennai screened ‘Adimai Penn’ for a week last year– almost 41 years after it first released – 21 shows ran full house, overshadowing new releases during the time