Friendship Day: Most memorable on-screen friends in South Indian films

Entertainment By South First Desk 06/08/2023 Read the article

On the occasion of Friendship Day on Sunday, 6 August, South First revisits the most popular iconic characters that have withstood the test of onscreen friendship to this date.

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The first Tamil film that invariably comes to mind when you talk of friendship is Thalapathi (1991), a blockbuster that featured two superstars as friends Rajinikanth and Mammootty.

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The second iconic Tamil movie that comes to mind when one talks of friendship is Nayakan (1987), with Kamal Haasan and Janagaraj, again directed by ace director Mani Ratnam.

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RRR is probably the iconic friendship that Telugu audiences see on the big screen — Alluri Sitarama Raju and Komaram Bheem.

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Nadodikkattu (1987) directed by Sathyan Anthikad and written by Sreenivasan is a movie where two friends, Ramdas (Mohanlal) and Vijayan (Sreenivasan), reach Chennai in search of a job.

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Ramji Rao Speaking (1989), actor Innocent appears as Mannar Mathai, Mukesh plays the role of Gopalakrishnan and Sai Kumar as Balakrishnan.

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Kannada movie Diggajaru (2001) directed by D Rajendra Babu is a remake of the Tamil film Natpukkaga (1998), Vishnuvardhan and Ambareesh make for memorable friends onscreen.

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Kalidasa (late Dr Rajkumar) and King Bhoja (Srinivasa Murthy) in director Renuka Sharm’s Kaviratna Kalidasa (1983) epitomise their friendship to near perfection on the screen.

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