Gentleman (1993 film)

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Gentleman
Gentleman 1993 poster.jpg
Theatrical release poster
Directed by S. Shankar
Written byS. Shankar
Uncredited:
Balakumaran
A. Venkatesh
Dialogues by
Produced by K. T. Kunjumon
Starring Arjun Sarja
Madhubala
Subhashri
Cinematography Jeeva
Edited by B. Lenin
V. T. Vijayan
Music by A. R. Rahman
Production
company
A. R. S. Film International
Distributed byA. R. S. Film International
Release date
  • 30 July 1993 (1993-07-30)
Running time
160 minutes [1]
CountryIndia
LanguageTamil

Gentleman is a 1993 Indian Tamil-language heist action film directed by S. Shankar, in his directorial debut, and produced by K. T. Kunjumon. The film stars Arjun Sarja, alongside Madhubala, Subhashri, M. N. Nambiar, Manorama, Goundamani, Senthil, Charan Raj, Vineeth, and Rajan P. Dev. In the film, a respected Madras-based businessman moonlights as a thief to steal from the rich and give to the poor for their education.

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Gentleman was released on 30 July 1993 and the film became a commercial success, running for over 175 days in theatres. It won three South Filmfare Awards (including Best Film – Tamil and Best Director – Tamil), four Tamil Nadu State Film Awards (including Best Actor and Best Director) and five Cinema Express Awards. The film was a breakthrough for Arjun and Shankar and established them as one of the top actors and directors in Tamil cinema. It was remade in Hindi as The Gentleman (1994).

Plot

In Ooty, Krishnamoorthy "Kicha" and his sidekick Mani perform a swashbuckling heist of several crores, while being in disguise diverting the attention of police, and escape in Nilgiri Mountain Railway, much to the frustration of Inspector Ratnam. Kicha is a respected citizen running a legitimate papadam business with Mani in Madras. Susheela, one of Kicha's many female employees, has a crush on him and is constantly demanding his attention. Another thing adding to Susheela's woes is the arrival of her jovial cousin Sugandhi, who makes the place lively and playful with silly fights between Mani and Babloo.

Sugandhi later develops a crush on Kicha after being saved by him from the goons who tried to molest her. Kicha tells Sugandhi that he has no such feelings for her and wants her to find a suitable husband. Before leaving Madras, Sugandhi steals Kicha's ring as a souvenir. After several unsuccessful attempts at nabbing the thief, the disgraced police officer Azhagar Nambi shaves his head and is left with a ring mark on his face, after a scuffle with the thief. Nambi investigates the design of the mark, believing it was formed by a ceremonial ring worn by Brahmin priests, but to his vain, finds that such a design is uncommon to Brahmin priests, but rather resembles a mangala sutra.

Meanwhile, Nambi's parents force him to marry Sugandhi, from whom he gets the particular ring and learns that it belongs to Kicha. In an attempt to trap and arrest Kicha, Nambi plots an attempt at Kicha's house, where they were invited for a wedding dinner, hosted by Kicha. Nambi shoots Kicha, who narrowly escapes with a bullet injury in his hand. Kicha and Mani arrive at their hideout, where Susheela follows them and accuses Kicha of his deed. After Susheela threatens to commit suicide, Kicha reveals his past.

As a student, Kicha is a district-level topper, along with his best friend Ramesh, but they are denied their desired medical college seats despite scoring high marks due to reservation and bribery, which leads Kicha's mother and Ramesh to commit suicide. Due to this, Kicha becomes a thief to build a college, with the desire to make education available to the deserved, regardless of income, caste, or religion.

In the present, to fund the final stages of the construction of the college and being aware of the police trap, Kicha makes one last attempt to steal money from the Chief Minister (CM) and succeeds, but Nambi manages to arrest him. In the courtroom, Kicha demands that the CM (who was previously the education minister who demanded the bribe from Kicha) should arrive at the courtroom. Though exposed to the public, the CM is let off, where an infuriated youth, who was triggered by Kicha's testimony, kills the CM in a suicide bombing. Six years later, Kicha and Mani complete their prison sentence and inaugurate the college.

Cast

Uncredited

Production

Development

After scoring back-to-back successes like Vasanthakala Paravai (1991) and Surieyan (1992), producer K. T. Kunjumon of A. R. S. Film International wanted to collaborate again with director Pavithran and actor R. Sarathkumar; however since they went on to do other projects, the collaboration did not happen. Photographer Stills Ravi and editor V. T. Vijayan suggested the name of S. Shankar who worked as an assistant in these two films. Shankar had prepared a story, but it was rejected by many producers. After listening to the story, an impressed Kunjumon decided to produce the film which would later be titled Gentleman, but on the condition that Shankar accept any changes he suggest, to which Shankar agreed, [12] making his directorial debut. [13] While Shankar also wrote the screenplay, Kunjumon selected Balakumaran to write the dialogues. [12] Cinematography was handled by Jeeva, editing by Vijayan and B. Lenin, and art direction by Maghi, [1] while Vikram Dharma was the action choreographer. [2]

Casting and filming

The initial story revolved the militancy of a Brahmin youth. Shankar wanted Kamal Haasan to play the lead at this stage, but he refused because he felt the story was too similar to Guru (1980) in which he acted and did not like Shankar's take on the concept. [14] [15] When Arjun was approached, he was reluctant. According to him, no directors wanted to make a film with him until the success of Sevagan (1992) which was directed by Arjun himself. Therefore when Shankar approached him with the script of Gentleman, he decided to decline without listening to the script just as he did to a few other directors. But he listened to the script after much persuasion and, impressed by the story, decided to do it. [16] [17]

The song "Chikku Bukku Rayile" was mostly shot at Egmore railway station. [9] The climax scene where a student kills the antagonist in a suicide bombing was inspired from the assassination of the then President of Sri Lanka, Ranasinghe Premadasa. [12] [18] Kunjumon insisted that Shankar rewrite the climax by adding this element, much to the dissatisfaction of Arjun, who felt that his heroism would be diluted. However, Kunjumon remained adamant and it was shot as per his wish. [12] The filming took seven months to be completed. [19]

Themes

Critics have noted the film's resemblance to Ore Oru Gramathiley (1987) due to caste-based reservation being a mutual theme in both and the protagonist being a Brahmin who rebels against this, [20] and Karuppu Panam (1964). [21]

Soundtrack

Gentleman
Soundtrack album by
A. R. Rahman
Released1993
Recorded Panchathan Record Inn
Genre Feature film soundtrack
Length23:42
Label Pyramid
Aditya Music
Lahari Music
T-Series
Producer A.R. Rahman
A. R. Rahman chronology
Pudhiya Mugam
(1993)		Gentleman
(1993)		 Kizhakku Cheemayile
(1993)
External audio
Nuvola apps arts.svg Audio Jukebox (Tamil) on YouTube
Nuvola apps arts.svg Audio Jukebox (Telugu) on YouTube

The score and soundtrack were composed by A. R. Rahman. Initially Shankar wanted Ilaiyaraaja to compose for the film later he was sceptical about the choice. [22] [23] Vairamuthu wrote the lyrics for all songs except "Chikku Bukku Rayile" and "Parkathey", which were written by Vaali. [12] The songs were recorded at Panchathan Record Inn, and the soundtrack was released under the Pyramid label. [24] The film and soundtrack were dubbed and released in Telugu with the same name. The lyrics were penned by Rajasri for this version. [25] The original Tamil soundtrack sold over 300,000 cassettes. [26]

The opening of the song "Ottagathai Kattiko" is often thought to have been inspired from the 1991 Telugu song, "Eddem Ante Teddam Antav", composed by Raj–Koti and sung by Malgudi Subha from the album Chik Pak Chik Bam; in reality, Rahman, who was an arranger in Raj–Koti's team, helped them in composing the original song. [27] Once when Rahman went to visit a friend whose house was near a railway station, the sound of trains frequently disturbed their conversation; nonetheless, the train sounds inspired Rahman to compose "Chikku Bukku Rayile". [28] "Ottagathai Kattiko" is set in the Carnatic raga known as Dharmavati, [29] [30] "En Veetu Thotathil" has shades of Chenchurutti and Neelambari, [31] "Parkathey" is set in Mohanam, [32] [30] "Usalampatti Penkutti" is also set in Dharmavati. [33]

The songs from Gentleman were reused in the Hindi remake The Gentleman (1994), though only Anu Malik was credited for the music. [34] [35] "Ottagathai Kattiko" was later remixed by the French rap group La Caution as "Pilotes Automatique". [36]

Tamil
No.TitleLyricsSinger(s)Length
1."En Veetu Thotathil" Vairamuthu S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, Sujatha Mohan 3:56
2."Usalampatti Penkutti"Vairamuthu Shahul Hameed, Swarnalatha 4:41
3."Chikku Bukku Rayile" Vaali Suresh Peters, G. V. Prakash Kumar 5:24
4."Parkathey"Vaali Minmini, Srinivas, Noel James4:29
5."Ottagathai Kattiko"VairamuthuS. P. Balasubrahmanyam, S. Janaki, Sujatha Mohan, Minmini 5:15
Total length:23:45
Telugu
No.TitleSinger(s)Length
1."Kontegaadni Kattuko" S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, S. Janaki 5:15
2."Chikubuku Raile" Suresh Peters, G. V. Prakash 5:24
3."Naa Inti Mundunna"S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, Sujatha Mohan 3:51
4."Maavele Maavele" Minmini, Srinivas, Noel James4:29
5."Mudinepalli" Shahul Hameed, Malgudi Subha, Swarnalatha 4:40
Total length:23:39

Release

Gentleman was released on 30 July 1993. [37] Kunjumon promoted the film by playing trailers on television sets situated on suburban railway stations. [38] He had to distribute the film on his own since no distributors were willing to buy this film as they felt it "looked like a dubbed film". [12] Despite this, it became a major success, running for over 175 days in theatres. [39]

Critical reception

Writing for The Indian Express on 6 August 1993, Malini Mannath said, "Shankar makes a promising debut infusing his script with action, sentiment, comedy and even some titillating scenes for added measure and tries to give something different within the parameters of commercial cinema. Jeeva's camera is effective in capturing the well choreographed stunt scenes (Vikram Dharma)." [2] K. Vijiyan of New Straits Times wrote on 14 August 1993, "Sankar .. has provided thought-provoking story [..] build up the story well, making us eager to find out why the hero is committing all those robberies." [40] On 22 August 1993, Ananda Vikatan rated the film 50 out of 100. [41]

Accolades

EventCategoryRecipientRef.
41st Filmfare Awards South Best Film – Tamil K. T. Kunjumon [42]
Best Director – Tamil Shankar
Best Music Director – Tamil A. R. Rahman
1993 Tamil Nadu State Film Awards Best Actor Arjun [43]
Best Director Shankar
Best Music Director A. R. Rahman
Best Female Playback Singer Sujatha (for "En Veetu Thotathil")
14th Cinema Express Awards Best Picture (Special Award)K. T. Kunjumon [44]
Best Actor (Special Award)Arjun
Best New Face DirectorShankar
Best Music DirectorA. R. Rahman
Best Stunt Master Vikram Dharma

Legacy

In the 2019 Tamil film Hero , Arjun portrays Sathyamoorthy (whose name is similar to Krishnamoorthy), a man who steals money from the rich to build a school that is free for everyone. [45] The 2021 film Dikkiloona was titled after the word used by Goundamani and Senthil in Gentleman. [46] In June 2022, a sequel was announced with Kunjumon returning as the producer, and Gokul Krishna directing. [47]

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