Raman Abdullah

<p>Friends Abdullah and Raman go through misadventures to save their face from a strict . Director had offered a leading role to actor , who was unable to take up the offer as a result of schedule clashes with his work in (1997). The film’s shoot became the epicentre of a dispute that arose between the and (FEFSI). It was reported that members of FEFSI had stopped the filming of as Mahendra was engaging outside cast members in the film. This led FEFSI to go for an which affected to the delaying of several Tamil films. During production, the makers had to change the name of the film from to following protests from the Muslim community. The music was composed by . R. P. R. of wrote Even though the story is familiar till the first half, the director hides the boredom with a comedy thread, but in later half he shouldn’t have messed up with unnecessary fights, Bombay villain gangs and godown climax but called Ilayaraja’s music as only relief and concluded except for the title and the song in the beginning there is anything special about religious unity in the film, it could have been even titled as Kuppusamy Munusamy. The film was a commercial failure, but won the Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Film (Special Prize).</p>