Sumathi En Sundari
1971 film by C. V. Rajendran
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Sumathi En Sundari (transl. My beautiful Sumathi) is a 1971 Indian Tamil-language romantic comedy film, directed by C. V. Rajendran.[1] The film stars Sivaji Ganesan and Jayalalithaa. It is a remake of the 1967 Bengali film Nayika Sangbad.[2][3] The film was released on 14 April 1971.[4]
Jayalalithaa
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| Directed by | C. V. Rajendran |
| Screenplay by | Chithralaya Gopu |
| Story by | Prasantha Deb |
| Starring | Sivaji Ganesan Jayalalithaa |
| Cinematography | Thambu |
| Edited by | N. M. Shankar |
| Music by | M. S. Viswanathan |
Production company | Ram Kumar Films |
Release date |
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Running time | 138 minutes |
| Country | India |
| Language | Tamil |
Sumathi En Sundari (1971) - IMDb"Sumathi En Sundari" is a 1971 Tamil romantic comedy film about a famous actress named Sumathi who, after missing her train, takes shelter at an estate manager's house and is mistaken for his wife. She pretends to be a runaway wife named Sundari, and he pretends to be her husband to maintain the pretense for his colleagues. The two eventually fall in love, but a crisis occurs when the film crew tracks her down to the estate, creating a conflict between her career and her newfound love.
Cast
- Sivaji Ganesan as Madhu[5]
- Jayalalithaa as Sumathi / Sundari[1]
- V. Gopalakrishnan as Director Chinnasamy
- K. A. Thangavelu as Rathnasamy
- Nagesh as Mannangatti Sundaram
- Sachu as Sachu / Saraswathi
- Thengai Srinivasan as Paramanandam
- Senthamarai as Railway Station Master
- Vennira Aadai Moorthy as Moorthy
- Jayakumari as Dancer
- Gundu Karuppaiah as Iyer
- S. N. Parvathy as Parvathi
- Gemini Maali as the film producer
Production
The filming was completely held at Kodaikanal and was also held at Thekkady, Kerala for 20 days.[6][7] Rajendran wanted two horses for an important scene however after he found one of the two horses to be skinny and rides only in reverse he decided not to change the horse as it would become difficult to obtain the call sheets of Ganesan so he shot the scene with Nagesh riding in skinny horse and Ganesan riding a much healthier horse converting into a humorous scene.[6]
Soundtrack
The music was composed by M. S. Viswanathan.[8] "Pottu Vaitha Mugamo" is the first song that S. P. Balasubrahmanyam sang for a Ganesan film; another man was originally to sing the song, but Viswanathan chose Balasubrahmanyam.[9] That song is based on Valaji raga.[10]
| Song | Singers | Lyrics | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| "Oru Alayamagum Mangai Manadhu" | P. Susheela | Kannadasan | 05:24 |
| "Ellorukkum Kaalam Varum" | A. L. Raghavan, L. R. Eswari | 02:58 | |
| "Oh Orayiram" | P. Susheela | 04:00 | |
| "Pottu Vaitha Mugamo" | S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, B. Vasantha | 05:10 | |
| "Ye Pille Sachayi" | T. M. Soundararajan, A. L. Raghavan, L. R. Eswari | 04:32 | |
| "Oru Tharam Ore Tharam" | T. M. Soundararajan, P. Susheela | Vaali | 03:30 |
| "Kalyana Santhaiyile" | P. Susheela | Kannadasan | 02:25 |