Nandalala

Nandalala Tamil is a 2010 Tamil drama film written and directed by Mysskin. He himself plays the lead role, alongside newcomer Ashwath Ram and Snigdha Akolkar. The film, which is produced by Ayngaran International and features a highly acclaimed musical score by Ilaiyaraaja, is loosely based on the 1999 Japanese film Kikujiro, and partly inspired from Myshkins life.

After Myshkin had completed and released his maiden venture Chithiram Pesuthadi in 2006, he wrote the script for Nandalala for eight months, which was supposed to be his next directorial. A. M. Ratnam was initially to produce the film, for which his son Ravi Krishna was to play the lead role. Despite completing a photo shoot with Ravi Krishna, the film was shelved, since Ratnam opted out, after he incurred heavy losses with his previous productions. Director Saran was subsequently approached by Myshkin to produce the film, but as he wasnt impressed by the storyline and suggested some changes, which Myshkin didnt agree to, he, too, dropped the film. Myshkin decided to postpone the project, since nobody was interested, and instead wrote a new story and commenced a new project, which itself was a result of Myshkins anger. Myshkin later revealed, that in spite of demands from the producers, he didnt make any compromises in this film, in contrast to his previous ventures, as Nandhalala was his dream project.That film was Anjathe, which released in 2008, following which Myshkin recommenced Nandalala, taking up the lead role himself, after several lead actors from the Tamil film industry had rejected the offer, fearing of their image would get damaged. The lead character, Bhaskar Mani, that Myshkin plays in the film was initially supposed to be aroundyears old, however, as no actor was willing to take the role and he decide to play the character, he changed the age toto make it more suitable. For the sevenyearold schoolboy character, newcomer Ashwath Ram was selected, after over 100 children were auditioned. Snigdha Akolkar, who had performed an item number in Anjathe, was chosen to enact the lead female character, while Rohini was signed to play the mother of the lead character Bhaskar Mani. Nandhalala was initially Snigdhas debut Tamil film, for which Myshkin had signed her in 2006 already, but with the film g

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