The 21st of this month marked completion of 25 years of Nayakan aka Nayagan, the 1987 Tamil film written and directed by Mani Ratnam and starring Kamal Haasan. The cult classic based on the life of gangster Varadarajan Mudaliar was given pride of place in Time Magazine's 'All time 100 Best Films' for 2005. Strangely though, after this critically acclaimed project, the two movie maestros never really came together. However, all that is about to change now.