''Thavapudhalavan'' () is a 1972 Indian Tamil-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. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super ...

directed by

Muktha Srinivasan Muktha Srinivasan (1929 – 2018) was an Indian film director and producer. Personal life V. Srinivasan was born in Malapuram on 31 October 1929 in a Tamil Brahmin family. His parents were Venkatachariar and Chellamma. He followed all Brahmi ...

and produced by Muktha Ramaswamy. The film stars

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

and K. R. Vijaya. It was released on 26 August 1972 and ran for 100 days to become a hit.

Plot

Cast

as Nirmal * K. R. Vijaya as Vasanthi *

Pandari Bai Pandari Bai (1930 – 29 January 2003) was an Indian actress who worked in South Indian cinema, mostly in Kannada cinema during the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. She is considered Kannada cinema's first successful heroine. She has acted as both hero ...

as Rajalakshmi * V. Gopalakrishnan as Eswaran *

Ganthimathi Ganthimathi (30 August 1940 – 9 September 2011) was a Tamil stage and film actress. She acted in over 500 films. Early life Kanthimathi was born in Manamadurai in the then Ramanathapuram district of India. She started acting in dramas an ...

as Eswari * M. R. R. Vasu as Jambu * Cho as James * Manorama as Pankajam * Senthamarai as Doctor * K. K. Soundar as Blindman * A. Sakunthala as Vimala *K. Kannan as Henchman *

Thikkurissy Sukumaran Nair Thikkurissy Sukumaran Nair (16 October 191611 March 1997) was an Indian poet, playwright, script writer, lyricist, orator, film director and actor, though he is best known as an actor in Malayalam cinema. He is the recipient of Padma Shri from ...

(guest appearance) *Vijayachandrika as Nurse

Production

The inspiration for the lead character's evening blindness disease came from a friend of Srinivasan.

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. He was popularly known as ''Mellisai Mannar''. He compose ...

Randor Guy Madabhushi Rangadorai (born 8 November 1937), better known by his pen name Randor Guy, is an Indian lawyer, columnist and film and legal historian associated with the English language newspaper '' The Hindu''. He is also the official editor of ...

wrote the English portions of "Love is Fine".

References

External links

* {{Muktha Srinivasan 1970s Tamil-language films 1972 drama films 1972 films Films about blind people in India Films directed by Muktha Srinivasan Films scored by M. S. Viswanathan Indian drama films