Prabhu Deva was the first to act in the film Valanthan.. Shankar hesitated.. The producer made peace.
Did you know that prabhu deva was not originally going to play the hero in the movie Valathan?Valandan is the film directed by shankar following the huge success of Gentle. prabhu deva, nagma, SBB, Girish Karnadu, raghuvaran and others acted in this film. The plot of the film is about the love that develops between an ordinary young man and a woman from a rich family. Released in 1994, the film became a huge commercial success.K.T. jeeva has done the cinematography for this film produced by Gunjumon. A.R. With Rahman's bouncy music, all the songs became super hits everywhere. And even today the film lover is one of the evergreen hit albums.The film received various awards and recognitions. valentine won 4 National Awards, 2 Filmfare South Awards. Unni Krishnan, who debuted as a singer with this film, won the National Award in the very first film. Yes. Unni Krishnan won the award for Best Playback singer for Ennavale, Adi Ennavale.AS lakshmi Narayanan and VS Murthy for Best Audiography, Lenin and VD Vijayan for Best Editing and venky for Best Visual Effects. Similarly, the South Filmfare Award for Best tamil Director went to shankar and the Best music Score Award went to A.R. rahman was also given.But did you know that prabhu deva was not originally slated to play the hero in the movie Valathan? Yes. shankar wants prashant to play the hero in this film. But at that time prashant was very busy so he could not act in this film. So prabhu deva can be cast as the hero, says producer K.T. Gunjumon said. But shankar was initially hesitant to cast prabhu deva as the distributors felt that fans would not accept his skinny body and bearded look.However Kunjumon was firm in his decision and convinced Shankara. After this, prabhu deva acted as the hero in this film. vikram dubbed for prabhu deva in this film. Similarly, famous bollywood actress madhuri Dikshit was chosen as the heroine in this film.. But as she was also a PC, nagma was chosen after that.Similarly, Gunjumon wants Kaundamani to act as a comedian in this film. But Vadivel got that opportunity because he was also a PC. However, there is no doubt that shankar turned the simple story of Valathan into a huge hit through his making.