''Sugam Enge'' () is a 1954 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

romantic drama Romance films involve romantic love stories recorded in visual media for broadcast in theatres or on television that focus on passion (emotion), passion, emotion, and the affectionate romantic involvement of the main characters. Typically their ...

film, directed by K. Ramnoth and produced by

Modern Theatres Modern Theaters Ltd was an Indian film studio in Salem, Tamil Nadu started by T. R. Sundaram Mudaliar in 1935. The studio produced over more than 150 films until 1982 in Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Hindi, Sinhalese and even English ...

. The script was written by A. K. Velan and

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 ...

. Music was composed by the

Viswanathan–Ramamoorthy Viswanathan–Ramamoorthy were an Indian music composing duo composed of M. S. Viswanathan and T. K. Ramamoorthy. They worked together on over 100 films, from 1952's '' Panam'' to 1965's '' Aayirathil Oruvan''. After their split, Ramamoorthy w ...

duo. The film stars K. R. Ramasamy and Savitri. It was released on 9 September 1954.

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Soundtrack

Music was composed by

Controversy

There was a misunderstanding between Kannadasan and M. Karunanidhi with allegations that ''Sugam Enge'' had plagiarised Karunanidhi's ''

Ammaiyappan Ammaiyappan is a village in the Tiruvarur taluk of Tiruvarur district, Tamil Nadu, India India, officially the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, seventh-largest count ...

''. It was eventually declared that ''Sugam Enge'' was not based on ''Ammaiyappan'', but a popular folk tale.

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* {{Modern Theatres 1950s Indian films 1950s Tamil-language films 1954 controversies 1954 films 1954 romantic drama films Films directed by K. Ramnoth Films involved in plagiarism controversies Films scored by Viswanathan–Ramamoorthy Films shot in Puducherry Indian black-and-white films Indian intellectual property law Indian romantic drama films Tamil-language Indian films Tamil-language romantic drama films