Kamal Haasan’s Kiss Removed From Thug Life

Mani
Ratnam’s

Thug
Life
is
special
on
many
counts,
the
least
of
them
being
the
Kamal
Haasan
factor.

The
last
time
Kamal
and
Mani
—
who
are
related;
Mani’s
wfe
Suhasini
is
Kamal’s
niece
—
came
together
was
33
years
ago
in
the
startling
gangster
epic

Nayakan.

Many
years
ago
I
had
asked
Kamal
why
Mani
and
he
hadn’t
collaborated
after

Nayakan,
and
he
had
said,”All
I
will
say
is
the
answer
to
the
question
that
haunts
both
of
us
—
why
not
another
film
together
after

Nayakan?
—
will
soon
be
answered.

“Nayakan
is
no
doubt
the
most
influential
film
of
my
career.
We
keep
discussing
ideas.
But
we
never
get
down
to
it.
I
don’t
know
what
we
fear.
We
spoke
again
on
my
birthday
when
he
came
visiting.”

Post

Nayakan,
the
Mani-Kamal
collaboration
is
finally
here.

The
trailer
of

Thug
Life
doesn’t
seem
to
offer
anything
we
haven’t
seen
before,
but
has
whipped
up
a
storm
for
all
the
wrong
reasons.

There
is
an
uproar
over
Kamal’s
torrid
smooch
with
his
co-star
Abhirami
Gopikumar,
who
is
reportedly
30
years
his
junior
(the
fact
is
not
crosschecked
as
we
haven’t
seen
her
passport).

Apparently,
Mani
Ratnam
decided
to
remove
the
kiss
after
the
widespread
outrage.

Twenty-five
years
ago
in

Hey
Ram,
Kamal
had
liplocked
with
Rani
Mukerji
who
was
23
years
his
junior.

Not
comfortable
with
the
kiss
Rani
had
gently
asked
her
passionate
co-star,
‘Sir,
is
it
necessary?’

Kamal
Haasan
said
‘YES.’

And
that
was
that.