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Sankarlal (1981)

Sankarlal poster
Directed by
T. N. Balu
Genre
action film
Country
India
Runtime
1h 56m
Rating
9.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A man takes on dual roles as a father and his son. The story involves action and family conflict set in India.

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What happens

Sankarlal is a 1981 Indian Tamil-language action film, written, directed and produced by T. N. Balu. It stars Kamal Haasan in dual lead roles as father and son. Balu died half-way during production, and the film was eventually completed with N. K. Viswanathan as director. The film was simultaneously shot in Telugu-language as Andagaadu (transl. Handsome) with Allu Rama Lingaiah and Rao Gopal Rao. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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