''Shankar Salim Simon'' is a 1978 Indian

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-language

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directed by P. Madhavan. It stars Vijayakumar as Shankar,

Jaiganesh Jai Ganesh (1946 – 11 February 2001) was an Indian Tamil film actor. He had supporting roles in the films '' Aval Oru Thodar Kathai'' and ''Attukara Alamelu'', among others. His most popular roles have been as a supporting actor or as a vill ...

as Salim and Rajinikanth as Simon. The film was inspired by the 1977

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film ''

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'', 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 *

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as Alamelu * Rajinikanth as Simon * Latha as Vasanthi *

as Salim * M. S. Vasanthi as Mumtaz *

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as Sadhasivam * S. V. Ramadoss as Jaipal *

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as Kabali *

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as Vedhachalam * Y. G. Mahendra as Mahesh * Manorama as Mariyamma *

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as Razak Bhai *Veeraghavan as Village people *T. M. Samikannu as Villager *

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as Liquor Seller

Production

''Shankar Salim Simon'' was adapted from the 1977

film ''

'', but only retained the concept of the three title characters belonging to different religions of India:

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, Islam and

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Soundtrack

All songs were written by

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and composed by M. S. Viswanathan.

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