''Kanna Nalama'' () is a 1972 Indian

Tamil language Tamil (, , , also written as ''Tamizhil'' according to linguistic pronunciation) is a Dravidian language natively spoken by the Tamil people of South Asia. It is one of the longest-surviving classical languages in the world,. "Tamil is one of ...

film, written and directed by K. Balachander. The film stars

Gemini Ganesan Ramasamy Ganesan (17 November 1920 – 22 March 2005), better known by his stage name Gemini Ganesan, was an Indian actor who worked mainly in Tamil cinema. He was referred as Kaadhal Mannan (King of Romance) for his romantic roles in films. G ...

and Jayanthi, with

Major Sundarrajan Srinivasan Sundarrajan (17 March 1935 – 28 February 2003), popularly known as Major Sundarrajan, was an Indian actor and film director who performed predominantly in Tamil language films and plays. He was well known for his sophisticated ...

, Manorama and V. S. Raghavan in supporting roles. It was released on 12 January 1972.

Plot

Gemini and jeyathi did not have a child after several years of prayers they were blessed with a boy. While jeyanthi was admitted in the hospital for delivery earthquake occurs and the baby got exchanged. One day when gemini goes from trichy to madras for a meeting with his boss his boss found his face similar with his son. At first he doubts his wife and gemini later found that their child got exchanged. Major sundarrajan ( boss) come to gemini's house to exchage their own children first they didnot accept and finally accept to change while their own son is physically challenged even then they accept to exchange the child. When he comes to meet his mother in a car accident babu dies and they took raju along with them. After raju went with his father he is unable to live with them he fell sick and jeyanthi losses her memory. Even doctors are unable to save the son and asked his mother to come and cure the child as soon as jeyathi reached their jeyanthi and the got cured and his boss family send raju along with gemini and jeyanthi.

Cast

Production

Soundtrack

The music was composed by M. S. Viswanathan, with lyrics by

Kannadasan Muthiah Sathappan Chettiar better known as Kannadasan (; 24 June 1927 – 17 October 1981) was a poet, film song lyricist, producer, actor, script-writer, editor, philanthropist, and is heralded as one of the greatest and most important l ...

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* {{K. Balachander 1970s Indian films 1970s Tamil-language films 1972 films Films directed by K. Balachander Films scored by M. S. Viswanathan Films with screenplays by K. Balachander Tamil-language Indian films