Did you know Karthi's 'Alex Pandian' was named after Rajinikanth' role in 'Moondru Mugam'?

It's been 7 long years since Karthi's film Alex Pandian hit big screen. film received negative reviews after releasing. However, it received a positive response from Rajinikanth's fans. Did you know Alex Pandian was named after Rajinikanth's iconic character from Moondru Mugam? Re furr to know everything about this fascinating piece of trivia.

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Alex Pandian named after Rajinikanth's role in Moondru Mugam

Alex Pandian was an action film released in 2013. film features Karthi and Anushka Shetty in le role. Karthi Sivakumar was critically appreciated for role, however, film did not do well at box-office. name of film garnered Karthi with a huge response from Rajinikanth's die-hard fans. Rajinikanth's movies have entertained his fans for over 4 deces now and y felt bound to watch Karthi's Alex Pandian. This is because film was named after Rajinikanth's role in Moondru Mugam released in 1982. 

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Moondru Mugam was Rajinikanth's highest grossing film of dece. He h played three roles in film including role of Alex Pandian, upright police and his two sons Arun and John. In Alex Pandian, Karthi played role of Alex Pandian who is a local thief. Even though Karthi played an extremely opposite role of Alex Pandian from his role in Moondru Mugam, Rajnikanth's fans me sure y watched film in atres. 

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About Alex Pandian movie 

• film Alex Pandian was directed and written by Suraj and produced by K. E. Gnanavelraja.
• movie also features  Santhanam, Milind Soman, Suman, Prathap Pon and Nikita Thukral along with le actors.
• film was also dubbed in Telugu and renamed as B Boy. It was reme in Kanna in 2015 and named Lodde. 
• plot of film revolved around Alex who is a small-town thief. He gets a contract to kidnap chief minister's daughter Divya for a few days. However, Divya tells him real reason for getting her kidnapped and he decides to help her. 
• music of film was composed by Devi Sri Pras and album was released on eve of Rajinikanth's birthday that year. 
• box office collection of film went up to ₹ 20 crores and makers faced a loss as budget of film was ₹ 35 crores. 

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