''Prahlada'' is a 1941

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-language film, directed by K. Subramaniam and produced by Madras United Artist Corporation. The film stars

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, N. P. Chellappan Nair,

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, Thankamani Gopinath and Kumari Lakshmi. The film's score was composed by Vidwan V. S. Parthasarathy Ayyankar. The movie is the remake of '' Prahalada'', a Tamil film released in 1939. It is the first mythological film in Malayalam. It is the debut Malayalam film of director-producer K. Subramaniam,

and music director V. S. Parthasarathy Iyengar. It was also the debut film of

and Thankamani Gopinath.

Cast

* N. P. Chellappan Nair as Sukracharya) *

(as Hiranyakasipu) * Thankamani Gopinath (as Kayathu) * Satyajeet singh * Kumari Lakshmi (as Prahlada)

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* 1941 films 1940s Malayalam-language films Films about Prahlada Indian black-and-white films Films directed by K. Subramanyam Films based on the Bhagavata Purana Films scored by Vidwan V. S. Parthasarathy Ayyankar {{1940s-Malayalam-film-stub