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The Legend "Kathal Mannan" Gemini Ganesan

By SUBAHSHINI MARUTHAVEERAN

Location : Malaysia

Email-subahshinim@yahoo.com

 

Gemini Ganesan a profound name in Tamil film industry who passes away few weeks ago had been a great lost to the Indian Film Industry. He was recognized by his fans as the one and only “Kathal Manan” in Indian Cinema. From a Lecturer to a most outstanding Actor, he was and still a memorable actor.

As we can see most of his films are great blockbusters. With his tremendous and soft-spoken voice he had attracted the fans of Tamil film. His films are lighter in dialogues compared to any other actors. His films like “Kalyana Parasu”, “Then Nilavu”, “Adi Perukku”, “Kalathor Kannama”, “Vanjikotthai Valibam”, “Summai Thangi” had been a memorable movies until today. He attracted his fans with his sentimental and romantic acting that can’t be done by any other actor those days. Even in film circles he was known to his colleagues as “Sambhar” for his portrayal of soft roles and not doing action roles and speaking dialogues in a soft voice. This made him the one and only King of Romance or better known by the industry as “Kathal Manan”.

In his movies the songs are very much beautiful to be heard, even until today his songs in movies he acted can be still heard in television and radio stations. And the youngsters today too are humming his songs.

The “Kathal Manan” Gemini Ganesan had acted with most of the leading actresses those days like Saroja Devi, Anjala Devi, Devika, Padmini, VijayKumari, KR Vijaya, Vanishree, Vaijanthi Mala, Bharathi and Savithri. His acting with most of the actresses are superb and fantastic. It is said that he had a great on screen chemistry with most of the actresses he acted and even most of the actresses do say they find Gemini Ganesan a very sentimental person.

Despite his controversial love affair, the name “Kathal Manan” or “The King of Romantic” will always belong to Gemini Ganesan. He was and will own the title forever in Indian Film Industry. With his beautifully soft-spoken dialogues, tremendous romantic movements, made me proud to say that I will be his ardent fan forever.