Mumbai Xpress (Hindi)

In 1981, Kamal Hassan and director Singeetham Srinivas made their first movie together. Amavasya Chandrudu (Raja Paarvai in Tamil) was a box office disaster, because apparently the movie was “too modern, too path-breaking for the audience of that time”.

In 1988, they broke new ground again with Pushpaka Vimanam. Everyone gasped at the intelligence of the movie, that had not a word spoken.

The duo then consistently raised the bar with storylines never heard of before in South-Indian Cinema. Apoorva Sahodarulu, Micheal Madana Kama Raju and Aadavaallaku Maatram w....