Shankar Salim Simon

Shankar Salim Simon
Directed by P. Madhavan
Produced by TK Gopinath
Written by Balamurugan
Starring Rajinikanth
Vijayakumar
Jaiganesh
Latha
Manjula Vijayakumar
Music by M. S. Viswanathan
Cinematography P. N. Sundaram
Edited by R. Devarajan
Production
company
Abhirami
Release date
 10 February 1978[1]
Country India
Language Tamil

Shankar Salim Simon is a 1978 Tamil-language film is directed by P. Madhavan. It stars Vijayakumar as Shankar, Jaiganesh as Salim and Rajinikanth as Simon. This is inspired from 1977 Bollywood film Amar Akbar Anthony starring Vinod Khanna, Rishi Kapoor and Amitabh Bachchan.

Plot

The movie revolves around three men Shankar, Salim and Simon who take the responsibility of reforming the society. Simon (Rajinikanth) and Salim (Jaiganesh) come from lower class, while Shankar (Vijayakumar) and his sister (Latha) are the children of (V. S. Raghavan), a corrupt businessman. Latha falls in love with Rajini, while Vijayakumar falls in love with Manjula Vijayakumar and Jaiganesh is already married. In different circumstances, Latha is forced to marry a man, but she runs away from him and lives with Rajini. The society goes against both Rajini and Latha and in the end Latha explains about how worse the man she is married to and unites with Rajinikanth.

Cast

Production

Shankar Salim Simon was adapted from the 1977 Hindi film Amar Akbar Anthony, but only retained the concept of the three title characters belonging to different religions of India: Hinduism, Islam and Christianity.[2][3]

Soundtrack

  • Vanthaale Oru Maha Raasi
  • Sindhu Nadhi Poovey
  • Idhu Undhan Veetu Kiliye

References

  1. ↑ Sreekanth, Gayathri (2008). The Name is Rajinikanth. Om Books International. p. 370.
  2. ↑ Ramachandran, Naman (2012). Rajinikanth: The Definitive Biography. Penguin Books. pp. 73–74.
  3. ↑ Maderya, Kumuthan (23 June 2017). "From Amar Akbar Anthony to Baahubali: Whither Indian Cinema's Secularism?". PopMatters. Retrieved 22 January 2018.


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