Richard Attenborough attempting to get the project made for 18 years. He directed the screen version of the musical "A Chorus Line" (1985) and the anti-apartheid drama "Cry Freedom" (1987). He was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Director for both films. His later films as director and producer include "Chaplin" (1992) starring Robert Downey Jr., as Charlie Chaplin and "Shadowlands" (1993), based on the relationship between C. S. Lewis and Joy Gresham (the star of the latter was Anthony Hopkins, who had appeared in four previous films for Attenborough: "Young Winston", "A Bridge Too Far", "Magic" and "Chaplin"). Between
Charlie Chaplin (film) Charlie Chaplin (film) Charlie Chaplin is a 2002 Tamil comedy film directed by Sakthi Chidambaram, starring Prabhu Ganesan and Prabhu Deva. The film's commercial success led to remakes in Hindi ("No Entry"), Telugu ("Pellam Oorelithe"), Malayalam ("Happy Husbands"), Kannada ("Kalla Malla Sulla"), Marathi ("No Entry Pudhe Dhoka Aahey") and Bengali ("Kelor Kirti"). Prabhu won the Tamil Nadu State Film Award Special Prize for his performance in the film. The plot of the movie is inspired by the 1975 movie "Yarukku Maappillai Yaro". It is the first Indian movie to be officially remade in six Indian languages and is the second