When Crazy Mohan met Kamal Haasan for the first time

Kamal Haasan and Crazy Mohan combo is one of the vastly celebrated collaborations in Tamil cinema. Their debut film is director Singeetham Sreenivasa Rao’s Apoorva Sagodharargal and then, the rest is, as they history. Their frutiful combination has given golden films like Michael Madana Kama Rajan, Panchathanthiran, Pammal K Sammandham, Sathi Leelavathi, Avvai Shanmughi, Vasool Raja MBBS, Kaadhala Kaadhala etc. But, when did this epic pair meet each other? Crazy Mohan has shared his first ever meeting with Kamal Haasan to a daily.

“One evening in 1986-87, I was getting ready to go to Trivandrum to stage my play. There was a commotion behind my house in Mandaveli and I was curious to check it out. It turned out that a film crew was shooting in the cemetery there. I heard a voice from inside calling me. Usually, people are scared when they hear voices from inside a cemetery but I went in, courageously. It was Kamal Haasan who’d called me and he asked if I could write the dialogues for a project. And that was how, Apoorva Sagodharagal was born,” says Crazy Mohan.