Kamal Haasan Instagram – Reposted from @rkfioffl I wanted kameswaran to be a genius in anything from being a toilet cleaner to a cook and thankfully, we did go to the right end of the alimentary canal. Then I came up with the character of a palakkad Brahmin. My first wife was a palakkad Brahmin and I liked the sing song manner of speaking .My experience of working in Malayalam films and having a lot of friends from Kerala helped me understand what goes wrong and right in the language. My guru in still photography , Mr.Ramamani ,loved the idea of me playing a Palakkad Brahmin and asked me to go for it and added that no one could do it but for me.That’s how kameswaran was born.
The original name for the film was Jolly jag Jeevan ram which probably was due to my influence working in Hindi films. Nobody was happy with it, after all we are Hindi agitators and they said it wouldn’t work. Madhana Kama Rajan was a title suggested by Mr.Crazy Mohan to which I said yes, but felt it was not inclusive. I suggested to add Michael to it and that’s how it was born. For Michael I wanted to use a Tirunelveli accent as I wasn’t sure about Coimbatore because I hadn’t met Ms.Kovai Sarala then. We’ve heard on the news and read on papers about the scam of counterfeit notes being printed in Coimbatore so I wanted him to be connected to that and that’s how we drew Michael’s character. Another thing we wanted to do is mix the 4 children across religions and did not want to make it obvious so we jus left it at that.
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