Sundaram’s third entry was personal. He had seen Simha in a grainy VCD with Tamil subtitles. The line still shook him: “Naan evvalavo pera saaptu irukken... aana eppavum simha maamsam saptathu illa!” (I’ve eaten many things… but never lion meat!). He reimagined it with Tamil actor Nassar as the father. The interval block—where Balakrishna arrives on a bullock cart smoking a beedi—became legendary in Sundaram’s head.
The next morning, Kumar handed Sundaram a note: “Add ‘Legend’ (2022) to the list. Balakrishna plays a hippie who becomes a gangster. In Tamil, it’s called ‘Ketta Payale.’” balakrishna tamil movie list
“This one,” Sundaram whispered, “is for the B and C centers.” He imagined the film’s Tamil title: Veeramuthu . The plot: A peaceful devotee of Murugan in Palani whose daughter is wronged. In the climax, Balakrishna shaves his head, applies holy ash, and single-handedly annihilates fifty goons using only a vel (spear) while a T. Rajendar-style song plays backwards. “No logic,” Sundaram admitted. “Only mass .” Sundaram’s third entry was personal
“He speaks Telugu,” his friend Kumar scoffed. “We watch Tamil movies.” aana eppavum simha maamsam saptathu illa
To prove his point, Sundaram decided to create a mythical list: —a fan’s fantasy of what would happen if the "Hindu Hridaya Samrat" conquered Kollywood.
For the final entry, Sundaram went wild. Akhanda as a Tamil-Telugu bilingual. He cast Vikram as the villain and gave Balakrishna a dialogue about the river Cauvery. In the climax, his Aghori character curses the villains using ancient Tamil from the Tirukkural . “They will not just die,” Sundaram laughed. “They will be reincarnated as mosquitoes in a drainage pipe.”
Sundaram smiled. The list had grown. Since Nandamuri Balakrishna has not acted in direct Tamil cinema (primarily Telugu), this story creatively imagines a "Tamil movie list" through the lens of a fan reinterpreting his legendary films for a Tamil audience.