''Shankar Salim Simon'' is a 1978 Indian Tamil-language masala film directed by

P. Madhavan Palakrishnan Madhavan (1 January 1928 – 6 December 2003) was an Indian film director and producer in Tamil cinema in the 1960s and 1970s. Madhavan has directed 49 films and produced 39 films under the banner ''Arun Prasad Movies''. Career ...

. It stars Vijayakumar as Shankar, Jaiganesh as Salim and

Rajinikanth Shivaji Rao Gaikwad (born 12 December 1950), known professionally as Rajinikanth, is an Indian actor, producer and screenwriter. In a career spanning over five decades, he has done 160 films that includes films in Tamil, Hindi, Telugu, Kannad ...

as Simon. The film was inspired by the 1977 Hindi film '' Amar Akbar Anthony'', and was released on 10 February 1978.

Plot

Simon and Salim come from lower class, while Shankar and his sister are the children of a corrupt businessman. Latha falls in love with Simon, while Shankar falls in love with Alamelu and Salim is already married. In different circumstances, Latha is forced to marry a man, but she runs away from him and lives with Simon. The society goes against both Simon and Latha and in the end, Latha explains about how worse the man she is married to and unites with Simon.

Cast

* Vijayakumar as Shankar * Manjula as Alamelu *

as Simon * Latha as Vasanthi * Jaiganesh as Salim *

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as Mumtaz * V. S. Raghavan as Sadhasivam *

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as Jaipal * Suruli Rajan as Kabali * Y. G. Parthasarathy as Vedhachalam *

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as Mahesh * Manorama as Mariyamma * Peeli Sivam as Razak Bhai *Veeraghavan as Village people *T. M. Samikannu as Villager * Vellai Subbaiah as Liquor Seller

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,

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and Christianity.

Soundtrack

All songs were written by Kannadasan and composed by

M. S. Viswanathan Manayangath Subramanian Viswanathan (24 June 1928 – 14 July 2015), also known as M.S.V., was an Indian music director, singer and actor who predominantly worked in Tamil film industry. He was popularly known as ''Mellisai Mannar''. He compose ...

References

External links

* {{P. Madhavan 1970s masala films 1970s Tamil-language films 1978 films Films scored by M. S. Viswanathan Indian black-and-white films Tamil remakes of Hindi films Films directed by P. Madhavan