Shankar Salim Simon

Shankar Salim Simon is a 1978 Tamil-language film directed by P. Madhavan. It stars Vijayakumar as Shankar, Jaiganesh as Salim and Rajinikanth as Simon. This was inspired by the 1977 Hindi language film Amar Akbar Anthony, starring Vinod Khanna, Rishi Kapoor and Amitabh Bachchan.

Shankar Salim Simon
Theatrical release poster
Directed byP. Madhavan
Produced byT. K. Gopinath
Written byBalamurugan
StarringVijayakumar
Rajinikanth
Jaiganesh
Latha
Manjula Vijayakumar
M. S. Vasanthi
Music byM. S. Viswanathan
CinematographyP. N. Sundaram
Edited byR. Devarajan
Production
company
Abhirami
Release date
10 February 1978[1]
Running time
112 Minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageTamil

Plot

The movie revolves around three men; Shankar, Salim and Simon who take the responsibility of reforming the society. Simon (Rajinikanth) and Salim (Jaiganesh) come from lower class, while Shankar (Vijayakumar) and his sister (Latha) are the children of (V. S. Raghavan), a corrupt businessman. Latha falls in love with Rajini, while Vijayakumar falls in love with Manjula Vijayakumar and Jaiganesh is already married. In different circumstances, Latha is forced to marry a man, but she runs away from him and lives with Rajini. The society goes against both Rajini and Latha and in the end, Latha explains about how worse the man she is married to and unites with Rajinikanth.

Cast

Production

Shankar Salim Simon was adapted from the 1977 Hindi film Amar Akbar Anthony, but only retained the concept of the three title characters belonging to different religions of India: Hinduism, Islam and Christianity.[2][3] The film dubbed in Telugu language as same name and released on October 14, 1978.[4]

Soundtrack

All songs were written by Kannadasan and composed by M. S. Viswanathan

No. Title Lyrics Singer(s) Length
1 "Vanthaale Oru" Kannadasan S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, P. Susheela 3:00
2 "Sindhu Nadhi Poovey" M. S. Viswanathan, S. Janaki 3:05
3 "Idhu Undhan" Vani Jairam 3:00
4 "Gopurathile" Kovai Sounderarajan 4:17

References

  1. Sreekanth, Gayathri (2008). The Name is Rajinikanth. Om Books International. p. 370.
  2. Ramachandran, Naman (2012). Rajinikanth: The Definitive Biography. Penguin Books. pp. 73–74.
  3. Maderya, Kumuthan (23 June 2017). "From Amar Akbar Anthony to Baahubali: Whither Indian Cinema's Secularism?". PopMatters. Retrieved 22 January 2018.
  4. https://cinemacinemacinemasite.wordpress.com/2019/09/10/shankar-salim-simon-14-10-78-rajnikanths-unique-record/


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