Kamal Haasan’s Gunaa releases worldwide on June 21.
Directed by Santhana Bharthi, Gunaa was released on Diwali Day in 1991. Produced by Swathi Chitra International, the film was released worldwide by Rajkamal Films International. Even after 33 years, not only Kamal Haasan fans but also the young generation of the contemporary times are reminiscing and celebrating the film Gunaa, the dialogues and songs featured in it, included!
Earlier this year, the Malayalam film Manjummel Boys opened in Tamil Nadu from city to village theaters and raked in moolah at the box office. Guna’s use of dialogues and songs in the film was one of the fundamental factors in achieving the feat of becoming the first Malayalam film to cross the Rs 200 crore mark! Even
when the movie Gunaa was released, the dialogues and songs featured in the movie Guna were not well received in theaters. Santhana Bharathi, who directed the film, said, “Today’s generation Manjummel Boys celebrated it in theaters with great fanfare. In the movie Guna, composed by Ilayaraja, with dialogue by Balakumaran and cinematography by Venu
Kamal Haasan, Roshini,
Rekha, Janakaraj, Ajayratnam,
S. Varalakshmi, Girish Karnad,
S. P . Balasubramaniam,
Sarath Saxena,
Kaka Radhakrishnan, Pradeep Sakthi and Ananthu were a part of the main cast. The songs written by Vaali have been sung by Kamal Haasan, S. Janaki, Ilayaraja, Yesudas. Notably, Guna won the third Tamil Nadu Government Award for Best Film in Direct Tamil Films released in 1991. Gunaa, an unmissable film in Kamal Haasan’s film career and in the history of Tamil cinema, has been remastered in digital format.
Fulfilling the long-standing wish of Kamal Haasan’s fans
Re-releases worldwide on June 21st. Pyramid Audio Group, which has been a pioneer in Tamil film audio for over fifty years, is set to release Guna worldwide.