''Moondru Deivangal'' () is a 1971 Indian

Tamil Tamil may refer to: People, culture and language * Tamils, an ethno-linguistic group native to India, Sri Lanka, and some other parts of Asia **Sri Lankan Tamils, Tamil people native to Sri Lanka ** Myanmar or Burmese Tamils, Tamil people of Ind ...

-language

drama film In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. The drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular ...

, directed by Dada Mirasi and written by

Chitralaya Gopu Sadagopan (better known as Chitralaya Gopu) is an Indian screenwriter and director who works in the Tamil cinema. He has written nearly 60 films, and directed 27 of them. He scripted dramatic films such as ''Moondru Dheivangal'' and ''Shanti Nil ...

. 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 ...

, Muthuraman and

Nagesh Nageshwaran Rao (born Cheyur Krishnarao Nageshwaran; (27 September 1933 – 31 January 2009) was an Indian actor and comedian mostly remembered for his comic roles in Tamil films during the 1960s. Nagesh was born in Dharapuram. He acted in ov ...

. It is a remake of the 1968

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film ''

Aamhi Jato Amuchya Gava ''Amhi Jaato Amucha Gava'' is a Marathi language film released on 9 August 1968. The film was remade in Tamil as ''Moondru Deivangal'' and in Hindi as ''Teen Chor''. Plot Shridhar Pant is a good and kind businessman. He lives happily with his wif ...

''. The film was released on 14 August 1971.

Plot

Three thieves get into a family's home and act as if they are good people. However, the family's humility causes a change of the thieves' heart and whether they reform or not forms the rest of the story.

Cast

Production

''Moondru Deivangal'' is based on the 1968

film ''

'', written by Madhusudan Kalekar. The screenplay was written by

, departing from most of his earlier screenplays which were comedies.

Soundtrack

The music was composed by

M. S. Viswanathan Manayangath Subramanian Viswanathan (24 June 1928 – 14 July 2015), also known as M.S.V., was an Indian music director, singer and actor who predominantly worked in Tamil film industry. Popularly known by the sobriquet "Mellisai Mannar" (), he ...

, 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 ...

. The song "Vasanthathil Or Naal" is set in

Darbari Kanada Darbari Kanada, or simply Raga Darbari (pronounced darbāri kānada), is a raga in Carnatic music. It is a janya ragam (derived scale) of 20th Melakarta raga Natabhairavi. It is believed to be borrowed into Hindustani classical music by M ...

raga.

Release

''Moondru Deivangal'' was released on 14 August 1971, and underperformed commercially; Gopu felt this was because "it wasn't of Sivaji's standard".

References

External links

* {{IMDb title, 1445685 1970s Indian films 1970s Tamil-language films 1971 drama films 1971 films Films scored by M. S. Viswanathan Indian drama films Tamil remakes of Marathi films Tamil-language Indian films