''Aval Yaar'' () is a 1959 Indian

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-language

legal thriller The legal thriller genre is a type of crime fiction genre that focuses on the proceedings of the Criminal investigation, investigation, with particular reference to the impacts on courtroom proceedings and the lives of characters. The genre came ...

film, directed by K. J. Mahadevan. The film stars

Sivaji Ganesan Villupuram. Chinnaiya Manrayar Ganesamoorthy (1 October 1928 – 21 July 2001), better known by his stage name Sivaji Ganesan, was an Indian actor and film producer. He was mainly active in Tamil cinema during the latter half of the 20th centur ...

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, S. V. Ranga Rao and

Sowcar Janaki Sankaramanchi Janaki (born 12 December 1931), widely known as Sowcar Janaki, is an Indian actress known for her works in Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada films. In a career spanning over seven decades, Janaki has appeared in nearly 390 fil ...

. It was released on 30 October 1959, and did not do well at the box office.

Plot

Mahalakshmi is the daughter of a wealthy banker called Sahasranamam, who wishes that she would marry a young man (Gopi). However, a noted lawyer of that town, Sadhasivam, a widower, wishes to marry her and to save her father's reputation, she marries him and soon loses her father. The couple have a son. The lawyer's nephew Bhoopathi, not worldly-wise, has a friend called Bahadur, who wishes to exploit him for his money. Bhoopathi has a sweetheart called Asha. Thanks to the marriage, the lawyer's safe keys are now handled by Mahalakshmi, which upsets Bahadur. He drives a wedge between the lawyer and his wife. Suspecting his wife, the lawyer turns her out of the house. The innocent woman without her husband's knowledge takes the child away. She loses the child, who is brought up by a rich couple, Manivel and Maragatham. This upsets Mahalakshmi, who loses her mental balance. Years pass and Mahalakshmi, completely cured, takes care of a young girl, Vijaya, under a new name, Ponni. Her son goes to England to become a barrister, about which his mother has no knowledge. Bahadur creates fake letters as if written by Mahalakshmi and threatens to publish them in his third-rate "yellow" magazine unless she pays a huge price. When she goes to meet Bahadur to persuade him to hand over the letters, he is found murdered. She is arrested and charged with murder. By now Sadhasivam has become a judge and the case comes up for trial before him. How the truth comes out and happiness is restored forms the rest of the plot.

Cast

;Male cast *

as Sadhasivam * Ramanachalam as Kannan * S. V. Ranga Rao as Manivel *

S. V. Sahasranamam Singanallur Venkataramana Iyer Sahasranamam (29 November 1913 – 19 February 1988), also known as S. V. S., was an Indian actor and director. Primarily a theatre actor, he also worked in over 200 films, mainly in Tamil cinema. Early lif ...

as Banker Sahasranamam * T. R. Ramachandran as Boopathy *

T. K. Ramachandran T. K. Ramachandran (died October 1993), was an Indian actor and film producer, who worked in Tamil cinema. He was a popular villain and character actor in many movies in the 1950s and also acted as hero in initial years. In 1966 he produced the ...

as Bahadur * G. Pattu Iyer as Doctor * V. Gopalakrishnan as Ragupathy *

Parthiban Radhakrishnan Parthiban (born 15 November 1957) is an Indian actor and film director who works mainly in Tamil cinema. He has directed 16 films, produced 14 films and acted in more than 70 films. He started his career as assistant director for ...

as Ravichandran * G. V. Sharma as Sundaramoorthy ;Female cast *

as Mahalakshmi *

as Vijaya * Malini as Asha * Sandhya as Maragatham *

K. R. Chellam Kambayanatham Rangaswami Kanakavalli (born 1918), known professionally as K. R. Chellam, was an Indian actress who appeared in Tamil language films. Early life Kambayanatham Rangaswami Kanakavalli was born in 1918 to a middle-class Iyengar fam ...

as Ponnamma * Baby Malathi as Baby Vijaya * Karaikudi Lakshmi as Vijaya's Mother ;Support cast * Ganapathy Bhat, Sami Velayutham, Sampath,
V. K. Achari, and Haniff Kumar.

Production

V. Gopalakrishnan who acted in this film revealed that Ganesan worked in this film "hardly 4 to 6 days".

Soundtrack

The music was composed by S. Rajeswara Rao while the lyrics were penned by

Papanasam Sivan Paapanaasam Raamayya Sivan (26 September 1890 – 1 October 1973) was an Indian composer of Carnatic music and a singer. He was awarded the Madras Music Academy's Sangeetha Kalanidhi in 1971. He was also a film score composer in Kannada cinema a ...

, V. Seetharaman,

Pattukkottai Kalyanasundaram Pattukkottai Kalyanasundaram (13 April 1930 – 8 October 1959) also known as Pattukottaiyar was an Indian Tamil poet and lyricist, penning over 250 songs within a six year period. He is best known for writing various song lyrics for M. ...

, and V. Lakshmanan. One song "Kannan Pirandhaan" by

Subramania Bharati Subramania Bharati (Born Chinnaswami Subramaniyan; 11 December 1882 – 11 September 1921) was an Indian writer, poet, journalist, teacher, Indian independence activist, social reformer and polyglot. He was bestowed the title ''Bharati'' for hi ...

also was included in the film.

Reception

Ananda Vikatan ''Ananda Vikatan'' is a Tamil-language weekly magazine published from Chennai, India. History ''Ananda Vikatan'' was started by Late Pudhoor Vaidyanadhaiyar in February 1926 as a monthly publication. The issue for December 1927 was not publishe ...

'' said that though the story was confusing, the film was technically good. Kanthan of ''

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'' appreciated the director for trying to take Tamil cinema in a new direction, even if he was not successful in achieving that goal. Facing competition from another Sivaji Ganesan starrer ''

Bhaaga Pirivinai ''Bhaaga Pirivinai'' () is a 1959 Indian Tamil-language drama film directed by A. Bhimsingh, starring Sivaji Ganesan, M. R. Radha and B. Saroja Devi. The film was released on 31 October 1959. It was remade in Hindi as '' Khandan'' (1965), i ...

'', it did not do well at the box-office.

References

External links

* {{IMDb title 1950s Indian films 1950s legal thriller films 1950s Tamil-language films 1959 films Films scored by S. Rajeswara Rao Indian legal thriller films Tamil-language Indian films