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Michael Madana Kama Rajan is a 1990 Indian Tamil-language comedy film directed by Singeetam Srinivasa Rao and written by Kamal Haasan, with Crazy Mohan penning the dialogues. The film stars Haasan in four roles alongside Urvasi, Rupini and Khushbu, while Manorama, Delhi Ganesh, Nassar, Venniradai Moorthy, SN Lakshmi, Jayabharathi, RN Jayagopal, Nagesh, Praveen Kumar and Santhana Bharathi, RS Shivaji play supporting roles. It revolves around quadruplets who get separated at birth and cross paths as adults. Panchu Arunachalam obtained the rights to adapt a Pakistani film written by Kader Kashmiri. Despite retaining that film's core premise of quadruplets, Rao, Haasan and Mohan created an otherwise entirely new story.[2] The film was produced by Arunachalam's wife Meena, photographed primarily by BC Gowrishankar and edited by D. Vasu. Cast Kamal Haasan as Michael, Madanagopal, Kameshwaran and Subramaniam Raju Urvashi as Thiripurasundari Rupini as Chakku Bai Khushbu as Shalini Sivaraman Nagesh as Avinasi Venniradai Moorthy as Sivaraman Nassar as Ramu[3] Manorama as Gangabai Jayabharathi as Sushila SN Lakshmi as Thiripurasundari's grandmother Delhi Ganesh as Palakkad Mani Iyer Directed by Singeetam Srinivasa Rao Screenplay by Kamal Haasan Crazy Mohan (dialogue) Story by Kader Kashmiri Produced by Meena Panchu Arunachalam Starring Kamal Haasan Urvasi Rupini Khushbu Cinematography BC Gowrishankar Edited by D. Vasu Music by Ilaiyaraaja Production company PA Art Productions Release date 17 October 1990 Running time 162 minutes[1] Country India Language Tamil