Mani Ratnam directed Nayakan released in 1987 starring Kamal Haasan was a hit. It purportedly was based on the real-life story of underworld don Varadaraja Mudaliar, sympathetically depicting the struggle of South Indians living in Bombay. Be it Nayakan or The Godfather and so many other films, the thin line to success is the rise of poor in the competitive World. In one scene, a man would get killed in a car accident, to save the person who was about to be married, the hero would ask one of his henchmen to surrender posing as the ‘driver’ – poor can ...
