Kathanayakudu Movie
Kuselan is a 2008 Indian Tamil language drama film directed by P. Vasu. A remake of the Malayalam film Kadha Parayumbol (2007), it was produced by Pushpa Kandaswamy, Aswani Dutt and G. P. Vijayakumar in two languages. Kuselan stars Pasupathy and Meena in lead roles. Rajinikanth and Nayantara plays an extended cameo roles while Vadivelu and Livingston play supportive roles. The film was simultaneously made in Telugu as Kathanayakudu (transl. Hero) with Jagapathi Babu replacing Pasupathy, Sunil replacing Vadivelu, and Dharmavarapu replacing Livingston. Most of Rajinikanth’s scenes being dubbed from the Tamil version except the climax scene that features him alongside Jagapathi Babu.Directed by | P. Vasu |
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Produced by | G. P. Vijay Kumar Pushpa Kandaswamy C. Ashwini Dutt |
Written by | P. Vasu Marudhuri Raja (Telugu dialogues) |
Story by | Sreenivasan |
Starring | Rajinikanth Pasupathy (Tamil) Jagapathi Babu (Telugu) Meena |
Music by | G. V. Prakash Kumar |
Cinematography | Arvind Krishna A. D. Karunamoorthy (Additional cinematography) |
Edited by | Saravana |
Production
company |
Tamil:
Kavithalayaa Productions
Seven Arts Films Production
Telugu:
Vyjayanthi Movies |
Distributed by | Ayngaran (Worldwide) Pyramid Saimira (US) |
Release date |
1 August 2008 |
Running time |
158 minutes (Tamil) 146 minutes (Telugu) |
Country | India |
Language | Tamil Telugu |
Box office | ₹65crore |