''Idhaya Veenai'' () is a 1972 Indian

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-language film, directed by R. Krishnan and S. Panju. The film stars

M. G. Ramachandran Maruthur Gopalan Ramachandran (17 January 1917 24 December 1987), also popularly known as M.G.R., was an Indian politician, actor, philanthropist, and filmmaker who served as the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu from 1977 until his death in 1987 ...

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and

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, with

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, M. N. Nambiar and

M. G. Chakrapani Maruthur Gopalan Chakrapani (13 January 1911 – 17 August 1986), commonly known as Ettan ("elder brother" in Malayalam), was an Indian actor and producer based in the Tamil film industry. He was the elder brother of actor-politician M. G ...

in supporting roles.

Plot

Somewhere in

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, several years previously, a young Sundaram was driven away from home by Sivaraman, his father, a severe lawyer. Sivaraman denies his son. Sundaram makes a promise to his father, that one day, he will beg him to recognize him. He currently lives in the

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as a tourist guide. When he finds Nalini, his younger sister, in the middle of a group of students, Sundaram decides to go back home, to gain knowledge of her and help the situation. But at the beginning, he incurs only troubles, in particular, with Kirymani, the lover of Nalini and Annamalai, a man with a double life.

Cast

The casting is established according to the original order of the credits of opening of the movie, except those not mentioned.

Production

The film was produced by Udhaya Productions. Parts of ''Idhaya Veenai'' were shot in

Soundtrack

The music 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 a ...

. The song "Kashmir Beautiful" attained popularity. Veena player Raghavan was initially approached to play the veena, but declined due to scheduling conflicts; his son R. Parthasarathy signed on instead.

Release

''Idhaya Veenai'' was released on 20 October 1972, Ramachandran's first release since his expulsion from the political party

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and started a party

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References

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* {{Krishnan–Panju 1970s Tamil-language films 1972 films Films directed by Krishnan–Panju Films scored by Shankar–Ganesh