Ellorum Nallavare

Ellorum Nallavare
Theatrical release poster
Directed by S. S. Balan
Produced by S. S. Balan
Written by S. S. Balan
Story by Gorur Ramasawamy Iyengar
Starring R. Muthuraman
Manjula Vijayakumar
Jayanthi
V.S. Raghavan
Lokesh
Music by V. Kumar
Production
company
Release date
 1975
Language
  • Tamil
  • Telugu
  • Hindi

Ellorum Nallavare (lit. All people are good) is a 1975 Indian Tamil-language film directed and produced by S. S. Balan. This story is an adaptation of the Kannada film Bhootayyana Maga Ayyu.[1] It was simultaneously produced in Telugu and Hindi languages, with the Hindi version titled Ek Gaon Ki Kahani (lit. The story of a village). The trilingual was the last production of Gemini Studios; it emerged a box office bomb and led to the studio's collapse

Plot

With a picturesque village as the backdrop, the storyline includes characters like a greedy moneylender and his repentant son, a good Samaritan who is a victim of the unscrupulous moneylender, his son, the enmity that springs up, romance thrown in for good measure, the fury unleashed by a remorseless nature, and the terrible wages that evil earns.

Production

Ellorum Nallavare was produced and directed by S. S. Balan.[2][3] It was the final film produced under the Gemini Studios banner.[4][5] It was a trilingual,[6] produced in Tamil, Telugu and Hindi languages.[7] The Hindi version was titled Ek Gaon Ki Kahani.[8]

Soundtrack

The soundtrack was composed by V. Kumar.[9][10]

Track Song Singer(s) Lyrics
1 Sivappukkal T. M. Soundararajan, P. Susheela Kannadasan
2 Padaithaane Bramma Devan S. P. Balasubramaniyan Panchu Arunachalam
3 Yamma Kannu S. P. Balasubramaniyan Panchu Arunachalam
4 Pagai Konda Ullam K. J. Yesudas Pulamaipithan

Reception

Ellorum Nallavare was a box office bomb,[2][11] and led to the collapse of Gemini Studios.[6]

References

  1. ↑ http://www.mayyam.com/talk/archive/index.php/t-11002-p-7.html
  2. 1 2 Rajadhyaksha & Willemen 1998, p. 99.
  3. ↑ Rajadhyaksha & Willemen 1998, p. 594.
  4. ↑ "தேவரை தியேட்டருக்கு வரவழைத்த வாசன்! ( தமிழ்சினிமா முன்னோடிகள்: தொடர் -14)". Ananda Vikatan (in Tamil). 2 November 2015. Retrieved 27 February 2018.
  5. ↑ Pillai, Swarnavel Eswaran (2015). Madras Studios: Narrative, Genre and Ideology in Tamil Cinema. India: SAGE Publications. p. 100.
  6. 1 2 Ashokamitran (2016). Fourteen Years with Boss. Penguin Books. p. 161. ISBN 978-0-14-342329-4.
  7. ↑ Vaidiyanathan, K. (23 December 2014). "S S Balan was the doyen of Tamil journalism". Exchange4media. Retrieved 20 March 2018.
  8. ↑ "EK GAON KI KAHANI (1975)". British Film Institute. Retrieved 13 April 2018.
  9. ↑ "Ellorum Nallavare". Saregama. Retrieved 27 February 2018.
  10. ↑ "Ellorum Nallavare — Single". iTunes. Retrieved 27 February 2018.
  11. ↑ Raj, Michael (19 December 2017). "விகடன் எம்.டி பாலசுப்ரமணியம் காலமான தினமின்று ..." Nellai Times now (in Tamil). Retrieved 13 April 2018.

Bibliography

  • Rajadhyaksha, Ashish; Willemen, Paul (1998) [1994]. Encyclopaedia of Indian Cinema (PDF). Oxford University Press. ISBN 019-563579-5.
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