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Of course Kamal doesn’t believe in such sentiments. Incidentally it so happened that Kamal plays the dual role Alavandhan, accidentally. That’s all. No sentiments. And Kamal is a staunch non-believer to have such sentiments. The Alavandhan team is of the opinion that the literature the world over- entertainers in particular - is replete with ‘double role’ characters and it still holds the interests of the audience. The story was written by Kamal in a Tamil magazine about 20 years back. It revolves round a mentally deranged elder brother and his younger brother who serves in the army and the tussles between them. No, no. It is not copied from ‘Silence of the Lambs’ an Oscar winner. It was written many, many years before that movie hit the screens. Must be Thomas Harris should have stolen the story of Kamal - Dhaayam, its original name when it was serialised in the Tamil Magazine.
And then the younger brother of the army falls in love with Raveena Tandon who works for the Star TV and eventually they get married. The new members in the family are not able to understand the callous nature of the elder brother who is spending his lifetime in the jail and out of sympathy for him try to get him out. As a result they face danger to their lives. ‘Half god and half animal - that is the mixture I am made of’ sings Nandakumar and the nation plunges into a blood bath.
The present Hindi cinema is moving towards realism - like Lagaan, Lajja, etc. May be Alavandhan seeks to set a new kind of trend. And it is usual for Kamal to release a comedy after an experimental attempt. ‘Singaravelan’ followed ‘Guna’; ‘Maharasan’ followed ‘Thevar Magan’ and ‘Tenali’ followed ‘Hey Ram’. Kind of survival technique. Kamal is doing Pammal K. Sambandam, after Alavandhan.
--Tamil Magan
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Alavandhan is the twentieth movie for Kamal where he has played more than one role. All his earlier dual role movies -
Iru Nilavugal, Sattam en Kaiyil, Indiran Chandiran, Aboorva Sagodharargal, Kalyanaraman, Michael Madhana Kama Rajan
(four roles) have been box office hits. 
Nandakumar, who is the elder brother, touched in the head, is serving a 22 year sentence in the jail for his act of crime when he was 12 years old. The jail administration is stoutly against releasing him, fearing that it would be harmful to the society, why, the entire nation for that matter. 
Apart from Kamal, Raveena Tandon, Milind Gunaji, Vikram Gokhale, Amrish, Raji Iyer,
Kittu Kidwani, Krishna Bhatt are also in the cast. There is no possibility that the five crore and above Tamil populace would have known any name other than Kamal. The movie probably is made with the Hindi market in focus. No doubt that the artistes are from the North. But the question is most of the good movies from the South have not been that popular in the North. ‘Moondram Pirai’, ‘Uyire’ of Mani Ratnam and ‘Mudhalvan’ of Shankar
created quite different kind of sizzle in the South and in the North.
