‘Hello Naan Pei Pesuren’ (2016) also worked fine at the box office, despite critics panning the film. The latter’s sequel ‘Darling-II’ in 2016, however, wasn’t up to the mark. Others to taste success were ‘Yamirukka Bayame’ (2014), a low-budget horror-comedy film, and ‘Darling’ (2015), a remake of the Telugu film ‘Prema Katha Chitram’ (2013).
Its sequel ‘Aranmanai-2’ was also quite successful. One of them was Sundar C whose film ‘Aranmanai’ (2014) became a huge hit. The success of ‘Muni 2: Kanchana’ encouraged many filmmakers to try their hands in the genre. The third installment ‘Muni 3: Kanchana-2’ (2015) became the biggest hit in Lawrence’s career. The sequel ‘Muni 2: Kanchana’ (2011) was a blockbuster film that established Lawrence as a bankable actor and director. In 2007, Raghava Lawrence took the cue and made his first horror-comedy film ‘Muni’, which was an instant hit. Chandramukhi went on to be a blockbuster and proved that if presented well, the horror-comedy genre is a sure-shot formula for box office success.Ĭhandramukhi’s success created a ripple-effect in the genre. The film was also a comeback for Sivaji Productions, which was in urgent need of revival. The film was a remake of the Kannada film ‘Apthamitra’ (2004), which in turn was a remake of 1993 Malayalam film ‘Manichitrathazhu’. Twenty years later, the genre was revived with P Vasu’s ‘Chandramukhi’ (2005) that saw the comeback of Rajinikanth after the failure of his own production ‘Baba’ in 2002. The failure of these two films, unfortunately, brought the horror-comedy genre in Tamil to a screeching halt and no one tried that genre for many years. GN Rangarajan’s ‘Aduthathu Albert’, another horror-comedy which released in the same year, was also not able to appease the audience. The film sequel ‘Jappanil Kalyanaraman’ (1985) was however only an average success. Unlike ‘Idhu Nijama’, ‘Kalyanaraman’ became a huge success, establishing the horror-comedy genre in Tamil cinema.
The film inspired the 1979 Kamal Haasan starrer ‘Kalyanaraman’. The story revolves around the ghost of one of the brothers avenging his death by possessing his twin. Film’s director S Balachandar, who also wrote the script and composed the music, played the role of twin brothers in the film. In fact, it was ‘Idhu Nijama’ (1948) that introduced the genre in Tamil cinema. The blend of horror and comedy builds and releases tension in a script, and the genre is able to capture these two elements in the most entertaining and natural way.īut, when the genre is talked about in Tamil cinema, most people only remember hits like ‘Chandramukhi’ and ‘Kanchana’. Horror comedies aim to scare audiences by peppering the plot with comic elements which let them laugh at their own fears. The fact that audience is lapping up back-to-back released films of the same genre, with unaffected enthusiasm and irrespective of the opinion of critics, also establishes that the horror-comedy genre is a sure shot formula for box office success. What could substantiate the argument better than the recent success of horror-comic flicks ‘Jackson Durai’ and ‘Dhillukku Thuttu’, which were released by the same production house one after another and are still making money despite being in their fourth and third weeks (in theaters) respectively. More filmmakers are turning to horror-comedy with the genre earning big money at the box office horror-comedy seems to be the new flavour in Tamil cinema.
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