Kavyamela

Jayadevan (Prem Nazir), the blind poet, has a burning passion to earn literary fame, but fate conspires to deny it to him for long. And when it comes, he disdains it.

Spurned by his sister and duped by the crook Vikraman (Adoor Bhasi), Jayadevan wanders from place to place and comes across a girl Sreedevi (Sheela), who, after initial suspicions, nurses him back to vision and falls in love with him. But ill-luck chases him even to prison.

Meanwhile, Vikram gets hold of Jayadevan's monumental work, the manuscript of his collection of poems, and publishes it in his own name which gains instant recognition. While Vikram is about to be honoured for this, Jayadevan succeeds in unfolding the truth. Yet in this moment of triumph and glory, he declines both the public encomium and the hand of Sridevi.

• Prem Nazir as Jayadevan
• Sheela as Sreedevi
• Adoor Bhasi as Vikraman
• G. K. Pillai as Dr. Panikkar
• Nellikkodu Bhaskaran as Balachandran, Dr. Panikkar's nephew
• Muthukulam Raghavan Pillai
• Nilambur Ayisha
• S. P. Pillai as Kamath
• Prathapachandran as Prasadakan
• P. Leela as herself
• P. B. Sreenivas as himself
• K. J. Yesudas as himself
• M. B. Sreenivasan as himself
• V. Dakshinamoorthy as himself

The film was shot at Newton and Shyamala Studios. The film's story line is similar to Guru Dutt's Pyaasa (1957, Hindi).[2] However, the film is an official remake of a Kannada film by Velan. T. E. Vasudevan bought the rights of the film from Velan with a shoestring amount of ₹ 1000. Owing to the commercial success of Malayalam version, Velan wanted to remake the film into Tamil. He bought back the rights for ₹ 5000, and made the Tamil film Devi (1968), which however failed in the box office.[1]

The music was composed by V. Dakshinamoorthy

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