Thillu Mullu (1981)

Anecdotes

Thillu Mullu (transl. Hanky-panky) is a 1981 Indian Tamil-language comedy film directed by K. Balachander and written by Visu. A remake of the 1979 Hindi film Gol Maal, which itself is also a remake of the 1961 Bengali film Kanamachhi, it stars Rajinikanth, with Thengai Srinivasan, Nagesh, Poornam Viswanathan, Sowcar Janaki, Madhavi and Viji Chandrasekhar in supporting roles. The film is about Chandran, who lies to his boss to get a leave but gets caught. To save his job, he is forced to pretend to his boss that he has a twin brother.

Production

In 1979, K. Balachander began developing a Tamil remake of the Hindi film Gol Maal, released earlier the same year. By June 1980, Rajinikanth and Madhavi were confirmed to star in the still untitled remake. The film, which would later be titled Thillu Mullu, was Rajinikanth's first full-length comedy film.

Thengai Srinivasan was recruited to play Sriramachandramurthy. Balachander recalled, "Normally I try to get all actors to modulate the dialogue in a particular manner but for this character I wanted Thengai to do it in his style, so instead of teaching him, I asked him how he would like to do the scene and then developed on it.

The screenplay was written by Visu, with Ananthu assisting. B. S. Lokanath and N. R. Kittu served as cinematographer and editor respectively. The film was produced by P. R. Govindarajan and J. Duraisamy under Kalakendra Movies.

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