Kasethan Kadavulada

Kasethan Kadavulada
Directed by Chitralaya Gopu
Produced by
Written by Chitralaya Gopu
Starring
Music by M. S. Viswanathan
Cinematography K. S. Bhaskar
Edited by R. G. Gopu
Production
company
Distributed by AVM Productions
Release date
 19 May 1972
Running time
 120 minutes
Country India
Language Tamil

Kasethan Kadavulada (lit. Money is God) is a 1972 Indian Tamil-language comedy film written and directed by Chitralaya Gopu in his directorial debut. It is based on his play of the same name. The film stars Muthuraman, Thengai Srinivasan, Sreekanth and Lakshmi in the lead roles and Manorama and Venniradai Moorthy in supporting roles. The film was a low-budgeted film of the time and is perhaps best known for Srinivasan dressing up as a fake saint, making a lot of situational comedies along with it.

Plot

Lakshmi (Manorama) is an extremely domineering second wife to Sivaswamy (Vennira Aadai Moorthy) and controls all his money treating him with scorn and disdain. When Sivaswamy's son Ramu (Muthuraman), son of his first wife, requires a sum of Rs. 3000 for his sister's husband, she refuses instantly. Ramu and his cousin Mali hatch a plot with Appaswamy (Thengai Sreenivasan) who pretends to be a fake swamiji in order to get to her money safe and steal a sum of Rs. 50,000.

Meanwhile, Rama (Lakshmi) is an orphan whose only friend is the doctor of a mental institution. When Rama wants a conduct certificate, the doctor bungles and hands over the certificate of a mad girl. Rama arrives at Lakshmi's house to work as a secretary and lakshmi sees the certificate and decides to keep Rama at her house to humour her fearing her insanity. The film leads to plenty of humorous situations.

Cast

Production

Kasethan Kadavulada was a stage play which had been written and directed by Chitralaya Gopu.[2] AVM Productions founder A. V. Meiyappan who saw the play decided to adapt it into a feature film and insisted Gopu direct;[3] the film adaptation, also titled Kasethan Kadavulada, thus marked his directorial debut.[4] R. Muthuraman, Venniradai Moorthy and V. Gopalakrishnan who were part of the play reprised their roles in the film.[2] Thengai Srinivasan was selected to appear in the character of Madras Tamil speaking tea seller masquerading as a saint.[5] Gopu recalled that producers put up a huge cut-out for Srinivasan in the saint get-up. Srinivasan who was pleased did not want the lead actor Muthuraman to misunderstand so he and Gopu went to Muthuraman and explained that it was the role that became popular and even apologised to Muthuraman who smiled it away.[6]

Soundtrack

The music was composed by M. S. Viswanathan.[7] Elements of the song "Jambulingame" were borrowed by S. Thaman and used in the song "Pudhu Punal" from the film Mouna Guru (2011).[8]

No.SongSingersLyricsLength
1Andavan ThodangiM. S. Viswanathan, A. L. Raghavan, K. VeeramaniVaali03:29
2Aval Enna NinaithalP. Susheela03:24
3Indru Vantha Intha MayakkamP. Susheela03:35
4Jambulingame JadaadaraaK. Veeramani, Kovai Soundararajan, Dharapuram Sundarrajan03:33
5Mella PesungalKovai Soundararajan, L. R. Eswari04:18

Reception

Kasethan Kadavulada was released on 19 May 1972.[9] The film was a commercial success, and Gopu received more film offers to work as both director and writer.[3] Randor Guy of The Hindu stated that the film was remembered for "the excellent comedy sequences, humorous dialogue, fine direction of Chitralaya Gopu and excellent performances".[10] Thirumalai titled his 2011 comedy film as Kasethan Kadavulada which had no similarity with this film.[11]

Home media

Kasethan Kadavulada was made available for viewing on Amazon Prime Video when it was launched in India in December 2016.[12]

References

  1. ↑ Yamunan, Sruthisagar (12 October 2015). "When the camera rolled, she lived the character'". The Hindu. Retrieved 20 April 2018.
  2. 1 2 Bhatt, Karthik (29 June 2016). "Kaasethaan Kadavulada: From Stage To Celluloid". The Cinema Resource Centre. Retrieved 26 January 2018.
  3. 1 2 Rangarajan, Malathi (10 July 2009). "Looking back with a smile". The Hindu. Retrieved 20 April 2018.
  4. ↑ Rangarajan, Malathi (9 June 2016). "Classic comedy revisited". The Hindu. Retrieved 11 May 2018.
  5. ↑ Sampath, Janani (20 August 2014). "Language Found in Transition". The New Indian Express. Retrieved 20 April 2018.
  6. ↑ Raman, Mohan V. (20 October 2012). "He walked tall in tinsel town". The Hindu. Retrieved 20 April 2018.
  7. ↑ "Kasethan Kadavulada (1972)". Raaga.com. Archived from the original on 26 June 2014. Retrieved 26 June 2014.
  8. ↑ Ashok Kumar, S. R. (3 December 2011). "Twin treat". The Hindu. Retrieved 20 April 2018.
  9. ↑ Saravanan, M. (2013) [2005]. AVM 60 Cinema (in Tamil). Rajarajan Publications. p. 227.
  10. ↑ Guy, Randor (20 June 2015). "Blast from the Past: Kaasethan Kadavulada (1972)". The Hindu. Retrieved 20 June 2015.
  11. ↑ "Kasethan Kadavulada is old wine in a new bottle". The New Indian Express. 10 September 2011. Retrieved 20 April 2018.
  12. ↑ Poorvaja, S. (16 December 2016). "Tamil movie buffs welcome Amazon Prime Video". The Hindu. Retrieved 29 December 2016.
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