Ellorum Nallavare
Ellorum Nallavare (transl. All people are good) is a 1975 Indian Tamil-language film, directed and produced by S. S. Balan. It is a remake of the 1974 Kannada film Bhootayyana Maga Ayyu.[1] It was simultaneously produced in Telugu and Hindi languages as Andaroo Manchivare (transl. Everyone is good) and Ek Gaon Ki Kahani (transl. The story of a village). The trilingual was the last production of Gemini Studios; except for the Telugu version, it emerged a box-office bomb and led to the studio's collapse.
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| Directed by | S. S. Balan |
| Produced by | S. S. Balan |
| Story by | Gorur Ramasawamy Iyengar |
| Starring | R. Muthuraman Manjula Vijayakumar Jayanthi V.S. Raghavan Lokesh |
| Music by | V. Kumar |
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Release date | 11 April 1975 |
| Country | India |
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Plot
The story line 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 Telugu version was titled Andaroo Manchivare,[8] and the Hindi version was titled Ek Gaon Ki Kahani.[9]
Soundtrack
The soundtrack was composed by V. Kumar.[10][11]
| 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][12] and led to the collapse of Gemini Studios.[6] Ek Gaon Ki Kahani too did not succeed, but the Telugu version did.[13]
References
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- Rajadhyaksha & Willemen 1998, p. 594.
- "தேவரை தியேட்டருக்கு வரவழைத்த வாசன்! ( தமிழ்சினிமா முன்னோடிகள்: தொடர் -14)". Ananda Vikatan (in Tamil). 2 November 2015. Retrieved 27 February 2018.
- Pillai, Swarnavel Eswaran (2015). Madras Studios: Narrative, Genre and Ideology in Tamil Cinema. India: SAGE Publications. p. 100.
- Ashokamitran (2016). Fourteen Years with Boss. Penguin Books. p. 161. ISBN 978-0-14-342329-4.
- Vaidiyanathan, K. (23 December 2014). "S S Balan was the doyen of Tamil journalism". Exchange4media. Retrieved 20 March 2018.
- Bhaskar, Vijaya (14 January 2006). "1975 – The mother of all years". Idlebrain. Retrieved 19 October 2018.
- "EK GAON KI KAHANI (1975)". British Film Institute. Retrieved 13 April 2018.
- "Ellorum Nallavare". Saregama. Retrieved 27 February 2018.
- "Ellorum Nallavare — Single". iTunes. Archived from the original on 3 November 2016. Retrieved 27 February 2018.
- Raj, Michael (19 December 2017). "விகடன் எம்.டி பாலசுப்ரமணியம் காலமான தினமின்று ..." Nellai Times now (in Tamil). Retrieved 13 April 2018.
- Kandavel, Sangeetha (24 November 2011). "Tamil director Gautham Vasudev Menon making India's first trilingual film". The Economic Times. Retrieved 19 October 2018.
Bibliography
- Rajadhyaksha, Ashish; Willemen, Paul (1998) [1994]. Encyclopaedia of Indian Cinema (PDF). Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-563579-5.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)