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'Shankar Salim Simon' is a 1978 Indian Tamil-language masala film directed by P. Madhavan. It stars Vijayakumar as Shankar, Jaiganesh as Salim and Rajinikanth as Simon. The film was inspired by the 1977 Hindi film 'Amar Akbar Anthony', 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

*Manjula as Alamelu

*Rajinikanth as Simon

*Latha as Vasanthi

*Jaiganesh as Salim

* M. S. Vasanthi as Mumtaz

*V. S. Raghavan as Sadhasivam

*S. V. Ramadoss as Jaipal

*Suruli Rajan as Kabali

*Y. G. Parthasarathy as Vedhachalam

*Y. G. Mahendra as Mahesh

*Manorama as Mariyamma

*Peeli Sivam as Razak Bhai

*Veeraghavan as Village people

*T. M. Samikannu as Villager

*Vellai Subbaiah as Liquor Seller

Production



'Shankar Salim Simon' was adapted from the 1977 Hindi film 'Amar Akbar Anthony', but only retained the concept of the three title characters belonging to different religions of India: Hinduism, Islam and Christianity.

Soundtrack



All songs were written by Kannadasan and composed by M. S. Viswanathan.

References




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