#16 vayathinile relodas songs indian movie

In the first part of the film, the doctor is seen leaving Mayil behind to marry another woman. In the movie, 16 Vayathinile, Shabbir’s character plays the role of a doctor who develops a romantic relationship with Mayil (played by Sridevi), a 16-year old girl in a village he visits. After Pongal, Shabbir will begin shooting as a part of a show on Doordarshan called ‘Crime Time’ directed by Ratheesh Iyer. “I have acted in around twenty serials till date,” he said. The actor has played roles in 40-45 films to date, apart from acting in serials.

#16 vayathinile relodas songs indian movie

In recent times, Shabbir has acted in Haridas, a 2013 Tamil movie starring Sneha and Kishore. “Kamal is an institute in film making,” he said about the star. Kamal also agreed with what I said, he reminisces. “He thinks twenty years ahead of time,” he said about Kamal’s movies.Įven when we were shooting for Hey Ram, I told Kamal that it was a movie that should be released later in time. Shabbir who has known Kamal Hassan since his days at the Adyar Film Institute in Chennai from where he passed out as a gold-medallist in 1977 has very high regard for him. Rani Mukherjee and Shah Rukh Khan had played lead roles in the movie produced and acted in by Kamal Hassan. “ Rani helped me master the Bengali dialogues I had to give,” he said.

He got another opportunity when he starred in K Hariharan’s National award winning movie Ezhavathu Manithan(The Seventh Man) which released in 1982.Īnother well-known movie that Shabbir acted in was Kamal Hassan’s 2000 release, Hey Ram. It later picked up again for Shabbir when he returned to Chennai. However, the movie faced difficulties and never saw the light of day.Ī career that had peaked with 16 Vayathinile, lulled soon after. The movie played an important role in the career graph of the superstars (Sridevi included), albeit with their unconventional looks in the movie, but ironic then that the charming doctor's fate was not quite the same. I did a movie with Mithun Chakravathy,” he said. “After the movie, I left Chennai and tried movies in Mumbai. “Even today people stop and recognise me by that doctor’s role I played,” he says. The film was a runaway success so much so that people even today are well aware of the movie. “My first shot for the movie was the scene in which I enter the village,” says Shabbir at his residence in Chennai. It was during the movie’s post-production that Shabbir was rechristened (given a film-alias) Sathyajith by music maestro Ilayaraja himself.Īfter his midnight encounter, Shabbir filmed ten days in Mysore where the entire movie was shot. Tall and lanky with his long hair, completely unconventional in looks compared to the typical moustached, muscular Tamil actor, opportunity came knocking literally on Shabbir’s door when still photographer Lakshmi Kanthan appeared outside his room one night in 1977 asking if he would be interested in a role in the movie. Mayil (Sridevi) falls in love with the doctor, who later abandons her. Ī landmark movie of its generation, Pathinaaru (16) Vayathinile became a launching pad for Shabbir, who had moved suitcase and parcel to Chennai from his hometown Bangalore in his hope to make a mark in the film industry. Starring Sridevi in the lead role and directed by Bharathiraja, the third role was played by a gentleman playing the role of the doctor, Shabbir Ahmed. The actors who played the village bumpkin and the roughie went on to become two of Tamil Nadu’s biggest actors today - Kamal Hassan as Chappani and Rajinikanth as Parattai respectively.While Kamal was already a big name by then, Rajini on the other hand was in his negative image portrayal phase. The third played the role of a well-respectable, distinguished-looking, prosperous doctor visiting the village. While one played the role of a village bumpkin dressed in rags, another played a villain character, the local roughie. In 1977, three actors shared screen space in a movie that turned out to be a blockbuster movie in Tamil cinema.