

Karthi, brother to Ghrajni Surya, now wants to focus on Andhra Pradesh market too. It was another of RK's successful and respectful attempts at mass entertainment mixed with mass education, generations later it's all so obvious that unfortunately we can lose sight of how much good it did at the time and just how well-intentioned it was. He has already started learning Telugu language.

Buoyed by the success of Yuganiki Okkadu, he is now dubbing his current Tamil film, Paiyya into Telugu as Awara. Directed by N Linguswamy of Run fame, the film has Karthi and Tamannah as the lead pair. Awara is a Bengali action romantic film starring Jeet, Sayantika Banerjee and Mukul Dev, directed by Rabi Kinagi. I was watching the colourful Suraj a while ago and was reminded of old black and white Awara which I hadn't seen in decades – it's another take on once a bandit's son always a bandit's son or, Blood vs Destiny. When Surja (Jeet) falls in love with Poulomi (Sayantika), he decides to follow her to Kolkata, where she lives with her brother, who is a goon. There, he learns that Poulomi is being forced to marry a rowdy. Delinquent wastrel and felon Raj is the kicked about son of a strict old-fashioned judge (played by Prithviraj) which neither of them realise, he and childhood friend Nargis who is now the judge's ward fall in love and, well, it spirals out of control for everyone. Awara Paagal Deewana (2002) is a Comedy Hindi film starring Akshay Kumar,Suniel Shetty,Aftab Shivdasani,Amrita Arora,Aarti Chabria,Paresh Rawal,Johnny Lever,Rahul Dev,Om Puri,Asrani in the lead roles, directed by Vikram Bhatt. Is it Nature or is it Nurture that has made him a proud tramp? Some lovely noirish photography and atmospheric flashback scenes complement a melodramatic storyline, and there's even time for an admirable dream/nightmare sequence. It's a marvellous, if very contrived film with plenty of ideas, some tremendous images and great music by Shankar - Jaikishan as it is but as usual for me whenever the incomparable Lata sings it's turned into something even more special. Favourite bits: Nargis never looked lovelier or more iconic throughout but Aa Jao Tadapte Hain Arman with RK stroking her hair takes top prize the literally dreamy and fascinating Tere Bina Aag Yeh Chandni and RK does his anthem Awara Hoon too. According to Lata it took a whole night to record the music for the dream sequence. So many sincere films made over the last 50 years have no morality, at the most charitable most don't even know the meaning of the word so what's so bad about a film having too much? Nothing wrong at all with Good beating Evil! Imho, even though poverty still breeds crime while Our Betters still deny it, Raj Kapoor's finest film. Awara Paagal Deewana (2002) is a Comedy Hindi film starring Akshay Kumar,Suniel Shetty,Aftab Shivdasani,Amrita Arora,Aarti Chabria,Paresh Rawal,Johnny Lever,Rahul Dev,Om Puri,Asrani in the lead roles, directed by Vikram Bhatt.
