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Cave | Red-light District
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Best Actor | 1992 | Kamal
Best Actor Special | 1991 | Kamal
Best Dialogue Writer | 1991 | Balakumaran
The cave where Guna hides Roshini aka Abirami is situated in between three naturally arranged imposing boulders. Due to this fact, from outside, when fog passes the cave, rises and comes out of the chimney-like opening, it appears as though a devil is cooking. For this mere reason, it was originally called as the Devil's Kitchen. Since the movie's release this almost untrespassed location, gathered popularity and has been rechristened to Guna Cave. It is currently a tourist attraction in Kodaikanal, Tamilnadu.
The caves which the film was shot in were earlier called Devil's Kitchen, Kodaikanal. The location became a tourist spot after the film's release and it later became known as "Guna Caves". It was here that the song "Kanmani Anbodu" was shot. Sathy who worked as Production controller for the film revealed that "the cave was about 500 to 600 deep , they tied ropes with pulleys and transferred all the production equipment's in and out of the 500 feet cave".
The film was first titled as Mathikettan Solai, but was later re titled as Gunaa.
Kamal Haasan revealed that the lengthy tracking shots in the beginning portions of the film were done as a tribute to Max Ophüls, a German-french director.
The 'Abirami' character in the film is an imaginary god-like charcter created by Guna. And as Guna wants to marry her, writer Sab John and Kamal Haasan decided that Guna believe himself to be a mythical being. So the character was written to have super strength despite being petite and to keep reciting difficult religious hymns despite being mentally stunted. There are a lot shots in the film, like the 'Guna as Jesus' shot in the beginning, suggesting the concept.
