''Aattukara Alamelu'' () is a 1977 Indian
Tamil
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-language film directed by
R. Thyagarajan and produced by
Sandow M. M. A. Chinnappa Thevar. The film stars
Sivakumar and
Sripriya. It was released on 10 November 1977 and became a
silver jubilee hit. The film was remade in
Telugu as ''Pottelu Punnamma'' and in
Hindi
Hindi ( Devanāgarī: or , ), or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi (Devanagari: ), is an Indo-Aryan language spoken chiefly in the Hindi Belt region encompassing parts of northern, central, eastern, and western India. Hindi has been ...
as ''
Mera Rakshak''.
Plot
Goatherd Alamelu leads a happy life with her pet goat in a village. Her life changes for the worse when a landlord talks ill of her character and claims to have had an affair with her.
Cast
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Sivakumar as Vijay
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Sripriya as Alamelu
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Jaiganesh
Jai Ganesh (1946 – 11 February 2001) was an Indian Tamil film actor. He had supporting roles in the films '' Aval Oru Thodar Kathai'' and ''Attukara Alamelu'', among others. His most popular roles have been as a supporting actor or as a vill ...
as Balu
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Suruli Rajan
Suruli Rajan was a Tamil film comedian/character artiste. He was a recipient of Tamil Nadu State Government's Best Comedian Award for the year 1981–82.
Biography
Suruli Rajan was born in 1938 in Periyakulam, near Theni. His father ''Ponna ...
as Velu
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S. A. Ashokan as Dharmalingam
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Kavitha as Radha
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Major Sundarrajan as Aarumugam
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Thengai Srinivasan as "Nattu Vaithiyar" Nallamuthu
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Nagesh
Nagesh (born Cheyur Krishnarao Nageshwaran; (27 September 1933 – 31 January 2009) was an Indian actor, mostly remembered for his roles as a comedian in Tamil films during the 1960s. Nagesh was born in Dharapuram. He acted in over 1,000 fil ...
as Varadhachary
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Jayamalini
Jayamalini (or Jaya Malini) is an Indian actress who has acted in more than 500 Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada and Hindi movies.
Career
She was introduced to Tollywood in 1975 by Vittalacharya in the movie he produced, ''Aadadani Adrustam ...
Production
The title ''Aattukara Alamelu'' was inspired by ''
Mattukkara Velan'' (1970). Sivakumar said it took him "15 years to do the role in
'Aattukara Alamelu''. The name of the title character, Alamelu, is a reference to Sripriya's birth name.
Soundtrack
The music for this film was composed by
Shankar–Ganesh
Shankar–Ganesh is an Indian music director duo who has worked on Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada movies for around 50 years.
Career
They started as assistants to Tamil music composers M. S. Viswanathan and T. K. Ramamoorthy in 1964 an ...
.
Release and reception
''Aattukara Alamelu'' was released on 10 November 1977,
Diwali day.
''Film World'' wrote, "''Aattukara Alamelu'' is a fluke; one misses any worthy element that is a box-office draw besides the performance of the goat!". The film was a
silver jubilee hit.
Legacy
''
Enga Ooru Aattukkaran'' (1990), which also stars Sripriya, was compared by N. Krishnaswamy of ''
The Indian Express
''The Indian Express'' is an English-language Indian daily newspaper founded in 1932. It is published in Mumbai by the Indian Express Group. In 1999, eight years after the group's founder Ramnath Goenka's death in 1991, the group was split be ...
'' to ''Aattukara Alamelu'' as it also prominently features a goat.
References
External links
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{{Sandow M. M. A. Chinnappa Thevar
1970s Tamil-language films
1977 films
Films scored by Shankar–Ganesh
Tamil films remade in other languages