Nadu Iravil

Nadu Iravil (transl. In the middle of the night) is a 1970 Indian Tamil-language crime thriller film, directed and produced by S. Balachander. The film's story was written by him and dialogue was written by Ve. Laxmanan, who also composed the music.[1] It is based on Agatha Christie's 1939 novel And Then There Were None.[2][3]

Nadu Iravil
Poster
Directed byS. Balachander
Produced byS. Balachander
Based onAnd Then There Were None
by Agatha Christie
StarringS. Balachander
Major Sundarrajan
Pandari Bai
Sowcar Janaki
Music bySundaram Balachandar
CinematographyK. V. S. Reddy
Edited byK. Govindasamy
Production
company
S. B. Creations
Distributed byS. B. Creations
Release date
1970
Running time
148 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageTamil

Plot

Dhayanandam is a rich man who takes care of his wife Ponni, they have no children. Dr. Saravanan was the close friend of Dhayanandam, he tells about his blood cancer and he dies in 20 days. All Dhayanandam's assets are going in vain. Dr. Saravanan gives an idea, to call all his relations and they have come. Unfortunately, they are murdered one by one in the night. All are terrified. The suspicion on the murderer shifts onto Dr. Saravanan only for it to be revealed that the real murderer is Dhayanandam's handicapped brother.

Cast
  • Major Sundarrajan as Dhayanandam
  • Pandari Bai as Ponni (Dhayanandam's wife)
  • Sundaram Balachandar as Dr. Saravanan
  • Sowcar Janaki as Ragini
  • Cho Ramaswamy as Servar Mose
  • V. Gopalakrishnan as Ranga Rajan, (Somanathan's Son-in-law/Leela's husband)
  • V. R. Thilagam as Leela (Ranga Rajan's wife)
  • M. S. S. Pakkiyam as Neelamegham's wife
  • E. R. Sahadevan as Neelamegham
  • K. Vijayan as Aravindhan (Vadivambal elder son)
  • V. S. Raghavan as Jambulingam (Dhayanandam's younger brother / blind man)
  • Sadhan as Kalyam (Aravindan's younger brother)
  • Kottappuli Jayaraman as Joseph (Dhayanandam's house servant)
  • Maali alias Mahalingam (Mohanambal's son)
  • S.N.Lakshmi as Vadivambal (Dhayanandam's sister)
  • C. V. V. Banthulu as Somanathan
  • Kalpana as Anu Radha (Neelamegham's daughter)
  • S. R. Janaki as Mohanambal (Dhayanandam's sister)
  • Ramanujam as Mottaiyan
  • Saroja as Pankajam (Mottaiyan's daughter)

Production

After the success of Bommai (1964), S. Balachander launched a film named Nadu Iravil the same year. It was based on the 1939 novel And Then There Were None, by the British writer Agatha Christie.[4][5] Unlike the novel, it features the characters in an urban house rather than being stranded on an island, but "dutifully follows the same idea of each one dying, with the assets of the deceased out for the taking".[6]

Release

Though Balachander completed the film in 1964–1965, no distributor was willing to buy it, prompting him to finance and distribute the film himself. Nadu Iravil was eventually released in 1970 and became a major success, prompting several distributors who earlier rejected the film, to return and beg Balachander for distributing it.[4] The Indian Express wrote, "The movie succeeds as a very good entertainer entirely due to the directorial work of S. Balachander and Reddi's camera."[7]

Soundtrack

The soundtrack was composed by Sundaram Balachander, while the lyrics for the songs were written by Ve. Laxmanan.

No.SongSingerLyricsLength(m:ss)
1"Kann Kattum Jadaiyile"P. SuseelaVe. Laxmanan06:11
2"Kann Kattum Jadiyile" (pathos)07:00
3"Naalu Pakkam Yeri"L. R. Eswari04:27
4"Naalu Pakkam Yeri" – 203:23

References
  1. Vijayakumar, B. (28 September 2014). "Panchathantram: 1974". The Hindu. Retrieved 3 November 2016.
  2. "Author of incredible reach". The Hindu. 24 October 2008. Retrieved 3 November 2016.
  3. Rangan, Baradwaj (11 April 2020). "Sivaji Ganesan's 'Vietnam Veedu' Turns 50: A Rewind To The Film, Its Time, And Its Leading Man". Film Companion. Retrieved 11 April 2020.
  4. Sampath, Vikram (2012). Voice of the Veena, S. Balachander: A Biography. Rupa & Co. p. 77. ISBN 978-81-291-1936-0.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  5. Rajadhyaksha, Ashish; Willemen, Paul, eds. (1998) [1994]. Encyclopaedia of Indian Cinema (PDF). Oxford University Press. p. 51. ISBN 0-19-563579-5.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  6. "Aboard the mystery train". The New Indian Express. 23 November 2017. Retrieved 29 November 2017.
  7. "Cinema". The Indian Express. 16 May 1970. p. 10.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.