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Usha parinayam movie2/19/2023 Pandyan, ‘Gundu’ Karuppaiah, Gundu Mani, C.K. Sambandam, ‘Kottapuli’ Jayaraman, Jothi, Indira B.Sc, V.P.S. Sundari Bai, ‘Azhwar’ Kuppusami, Mohana, Eswaran, Sayeeram, ‘Gemini’ Chandra, P.T. Remembered for: storyline, fantasy, Thangavelu and Sowcar Janaki. In one scene, as the couple fly across the sky, they switch on a transistor radio and a Radio Ceylon jingle with popular announcer Mayilvahanan’s voice comes on, a sequence that met with thunderous applause in cinemas. The movie did fairly well mainly because of the unusual storyline and fantasy elements. Master comedian Thangavelu’s wisecracks and Sowcar Janaki’s glamour made the movie eminently watchable. How Yama, Vishnu and other gods help Meenakshi and Sundar get united and live happily is the rest of the film. Mahabharata Pravachanam (chaganti koteswar rao gaari) lu naalanti variki yenthO bagundi. The father finds Meenakshi and locks her up, beating Sundar to within an inch of his life. Namaskaram, Chaala sramakorchi, chala manchi karyakramam chestunnaru. When the father fixes Meenakshi’s marriage with a rich old man, Sundar saves his sweetheart by helping her escape. Sundar disguises himself as a woman and fools the millionaire into appointing him as Meenakshi’s tutor. When he finds out, the father forbids Meenakshi to leave the house and even appoints two men to guard her. Understandably, the millionaire father hates him but, unknown to him, his daughter assists Sundar in his social welfare activities. Meenakshi falls in love with an educated young man Sundar (Thangavelu), who stages plays and donates earnings to the poor. Naan Kanda Sorgam is about a young and cultured woman Meenakshi (Janaki), daughter of a miserly millionaire, who is drawn to public service but her father hates the idea. The film was shot at Vijaya-Vauhini Studios. Loganathan (who later became famous), handled the camera. Janaki lent their voices, and an apsara dance sequence choreographed by Gemini Ramamurthi. The film had a dance-drama called Usha Parinayam for which P.B. The lyrics were by Thanjai Ramaiah Das, K.S. Gopalakrishnan who also wrote the dialogues. Naan Kanda Sorgam was a fantasy comedy adapted from a popular Bengali story by K.S. Subbarao, who has an avenue named after him in Chennai. Pullaiah promoted Bharghavi Films in partnership with a successful building contractor of Madras city, Ch. One of his biggest hits wasīalanagamma (1943) in Telugu, produced by S.S. Pullaiah was a pioneering filmmaker who made several hits in Telugu and Tamil.
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