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Nanban

Year:
Duration:
India:188 min | Kuwait:155 min
Genres:
Comedy | Drama | Romance
IMDB rate:
7.8
Director:
S. Shankar
Awards:
5 nominations
Details
Country: India
Release Date: 2012-01-12
Filming Locations: Andaman Islands, India
Earnings
Opening Weekend: INR 210,000,000 (Worldwide) (16 January 2012)
Gross: INR 1,680,000,000 (Worldwide) (1 May 2012)
Cast
Actor
Character
Vijay
Panchavan Parivendhan / Kosaksi Pasapugazh (as 'Ilayathalapathi' Vijay)
Srikanth
Venkat Ramakrishnan
Ileana
Riya
Satyaraj
Virumandi Santhanam
Sathyan
Srivatsan
Narein
Venkat's father
Surya S.J.
Panchavan Parivendan
Vijay Vasanth
Paneerselvam
T.M. Karthik
Riya's Fiance (as T.M. Karthik Srinivasan)
Uma Pathmanabhan
Venkat's mother
Manobala
Librarian Bose
Shanmuga Sundharam
Education Minister
Ajay Ratnam
Panchavan Parivendan's Father
Indrans
Virus's assistant
Ramanathan
Interviewer (as Chitkara Saahil)
Balaji
Senior student
Rinson
Millimeter
Shankar Sundaram
Exam Supervisor
Venkat Sundar
College senior
S. Shankar
Special appearance
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Trivia
During pre-production, Vijay Vasanth walked out of the film, but later rejoined.
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The Song "Askku Laska" video has been inspired by Director Shanker's previous hit song videos, like Knaanam Knaanam Nokia from Anniyan, Sahana from Sivaji and Anda Kaaka konda Kari from Anniyan.
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As of its release, Nanban holds the record for highest number of shows in a single day at Mayajaal multiplex in Chennai.
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Goofs
On the first day at class, the blackboard shows the date as 3/6/98 but when showing the degree certificate of the protagonist, the years of study are mentioned as 1997-2001.
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As per the date shown in the college blackboards the time line of the flashback period should be between 1998 and 2002. When Pari uses computer to change words in Srivatsan's speech for Teachers Day, the screen shots clearly show its Windows 7. Windows 7 was only released in 2009.
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iPads are shown being used in the year 2008, when they did not even exist. The Apple product was introduced in 2010.
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Photos from cast
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