''Nalla Neram'' () is a 1972 Indian

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-language film, directed by M. A. Thirumugam and produced by

Sandow M. M. A. Chinnappa Thevar Sandow Marudur Marudachalamurthy Ayyavoo Chinnappa Thevar (28 June 1915 – 8 September 1978) was a film producer of Tamil cinema in the mid-1950s through the 1960s and 1970s. He is best known for his films featuring animals, and has produced nu ...

. The film stars

M. G. Ramachandran Maruthur Gopalan Ramachandran (17 January 1917 – 24 December 1987), popularly known by his initialism M.G.R. and as Makkal Thilagam/Puratchi Thalaivar, was an Indian actor, politician, and philanthropist who served as the chief minister of ...

and

K. R. Vijaya Deivanayaki, better known by her stage name K. R. Vijaya, is an Indian actress who has featured in Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu and Kannada films. She started her career in 1963 and has been acting for more than six decades in South Indian cinema. ...

. It is a remake of the 1971

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film '' Haathi Mere Saathi'' . All three versions were produced by Thevar. The film was released on 10 March 1972. It emerged a major success, running for more than 100 days in theatres.

Plot

Raja "Raju" Kumar owns elephants and earns a livelihood by making them perform tricks. He falls in love with Vijaya and they get married. But soon, a problem arises. Vijaya hates elephants because of a personal tragedy in her life. She also feels that Raju spends too much time with his elephant friends. He had to choose between the love of his wife and the friendship of his loyal and devoted pet elephants.

Cast

Production

''Nalla Neram'' is a remake of the 1971 Hindi film '' Haathi Mera Saathi'', which in turn was adapted from Chinnappa Thevar's own Tamil film '' Deiva Cheyal'' (1967) which flopped. This film was the sixteenth and final collaboration between Ramachandran and Thevar. For the song "Aagattumda Thambi", Ramachandran drove a '58

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Soundtrack

The music was composed by

K. V. Mahadevan Krishnankoil Venkadachalam Mahadevan (14 March 1918 – 21 June 2001) was an Indian composer, singer-songwriter, music producer, and musician who won the inaugural National Film Award for Best Music Direction in (1967) for '' Kandan Karunai''. ...

References

External links

* {{Salim-Javed 1970s Indian films 1970s Tamil-language films 1972 films Films about elephants Films directed by M. A. Thirumugam Films scored by K. V. Mahadevan Films with screenplays by Salim–Javed Tamil remakes of Hindi films Tamil-language Indian films