''Kanmani Poonga'' is a 1982 Indian

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-language film written and directed by

Visu Meenakshisundaram Ramasamy Viswanathan (1 July 1945 – 22 March 2020), best known by his stage name Visu, was an Indian writer, director, stage, film and television actor and talk-show host. Visu initially worked as an assistant to director K ...

. The film stars himself,

Saritha Saritha is an Indian actress who has acted in more than 500 films in Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada and Telugu languages. She was one of the popular and critically acclaimed lead actresses during the 1980s. She also appeared in a television serial, ' ...

and

Kishmu Meenakshisundaram Ramasamy Krishnamurthy better known as Kishmu was an Indian film and stage actor. He is also brother of famous actor and director Visu. Kishmu made his debut in the Visu-directed film Manal Kayiru in 1982. Other notable film ...

. It was released on 14 November 1982 and failed commercially.

Plot

Cast

* M. R. Rajamani * Kuriyakos Ranga

Production

''Kanmani Poonga'' was the second directorial venture of Visu, who also wrote it. The film was produced by V. Mohan of Anandhi Films, photographed by N. Balakrishnan and edited by N. R. Kittu.

Soundtrack

The soundtrack was composed by

M. S. Viswanathan Manayangath Subramanian Viswanathan (24 June 1928 – 14 July 2015), also known as M.S.V., was an Indian music director, singer and actor who predominantly worked in Tamil film industry. He was popularly known as ''Mellisai Mannar''. He compose ...

Release

''Kanmani Poonga'' was released on 14 November 1982, and failed commercially. The film received an

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from the Censor Board, and Visu avoided directing such films in the future, instead going for family entertainment.

References

External links

* {{Visu 1980s Tamil-language films 1982 films Films directed by Visu Films scored by M. S. Viswanathan Films with screenplays by Visu