Rajinikanth shaved his moustache for first time on screen in 'Thillu Mullu' & other facts

Thillu Mullu stars Rajinikanth as Chandran /Indran along with ngai Srinivasan, Nsh, Poornam Vishwanathan, Sowcar Janaki, Mhavi and Viji Chandrasekhar. Released in 1981 it is a Tamil-langu comedy film directed by K. Balachander. Thillu Mullu tells story of Chandran, who lies to his boss that his mor is ill to get a leave but gets caught. To save his job, he is forced to pretend to his boss that he has a twin bror. Re to kw a few interesting facts about film.

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10 interesting facts about Thillu Mullu

1. Thillu Mullu is a remake of 1979 Hindi movie Gol Maal. original stars Amol Palekar, Utpal Dutt, Bindiya Goswami and ors. It received rave reviews and was a super hit at box office, being highest-grossing film of 1979.

2. Rajinikanth did a full-fledged comedy role for first time in Thillu Mullu. Prior, he was mainly kwn for his action films. Rajini’s performance in film was praised by critics.

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3. Rajinikanth shaved his moustache for first time on screen for this film. He was hesitant to do so and also for doing comedy. It was filmmaker Balachander who convinced him.

4. Rajinikanth wanted Nsh to play Indran and Chandran. He suggested same to director K. Balachander. But he refused and took Rajinikanth for role. Nsh appears in film playing himself.

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5. Thillu Mullu was Rajinikanth and Balachander’s last film toger. It was also last film when both Rajinikanth and Kamal Haasan acted toger. Kamal makes a cameo appearance in film as an actor who is helping Rajini.

6. Kamal Haasan’s character name in film is Charuhasan. It is a reference to his real-life elder bror. Charuhasan is an actor, director, writer and retired lawyer.

7. Rajinikanth met his wife Latha during shoot of Thillu Mullu. At that time, she was a student at Ethiraj college. Latha met Rajinikanth to interview him for a college magazine and love happened.

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8. On 100th year of Indian Cinema, Forbes India included both Rajinikanth and ngai Shrinivasan on list of 25 Great Acting performances in Indian Cinema. Shrinivasan plays role Sriramachandramurthy in film. two were praised for ir on-screen presence.

9. Popular Director/ Actor Visu wrote screenplay for this film. He initially worked as an assistant to K. Balachander. His last work as a writer and actor was in 2016 released Manal Kayiru 2.

10. A remake of Thillu Mullu was released in 2013 with same name. It stars Shiva reprising Rajinikanth’s role and Prakash Raj playing ngai Sreenivasan’s role. film was a moderate success but could t recreate magic of original.