''Thedi Vandha Mappillai'' () is a 1970 Indian

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-language film produced and directed by

B. R. Panthulu Budaguru Ramakrishnaiah Panthulu (26 July 1910 – 8 October 1974) was an Indian film director, producer and actor. He is best known for directing films in Kannada, Tamil, Telugu and Hindi. His most popular films are '' Karnan'', ''Veerapandiya ...

. 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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, S. A. Ashokan,

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and

Cho Ramaswamy Srinivasa Iyer Ramaswamy, better known as Cho Ramaswamy (5 October 1934 – 7 December 2016), was an Indian actor, comedian, character actor, editor, political satirist, playwright, film director and lawyer from Tamil Nadu. He was a p ...

. It is a remake of Panthulu's own 1967

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film ''

Beedi Basavanna ''Beedi Basavanna'' is a 1967 Indian Kannada language film, directed and produced by B. R. Panthulu. The film stars Rajkumar, Bharathi, Vandana (B. Vijayalakshmi) and Narasimharaju. The film has musical score by T. G. Lingappa. B. R. Panthu ...

''. The film was released on 29 August 1970. It won the

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Plot

The movie begins, whereby Solaimalai eldest baby daughter is kidnapped. The baby eventually is saved by passerby and raised as his own daughter. Solaimalai wife, Chellam unable to bear her eldest baby daughter lost, falls down from stairs and blame Solaimalai for his sins by murdering his boss. Solaimalai a.k.a. Pasupathy's boss is shot by Samundi, but the blame falls on Pasupathy. The surviving boss sends away his wife Parvati Ammal and son Shankar into hiding, fearing his family's fate. But before breathing his last, the boss learns the truth and entrusts in Pasupathy the task of finding Parvati and Shankar and handing them their rightful family assets. He also change his name from Solaimalai to Pasupathy fearing Samundi may revenge or murder him. Chellam hearing the truth finally hopes Pasupathi finds the true heir of his boss property heir, succumbs to her injury and dies. Several years later, Shankar, now a grown up youth, learns of the injustice committed to his father, and heads out to Chennai in search of his father's murderer, thinking as Solaimalai. However he don't know Solaimalai another name Pasupathi. Pasupathi vows to find Parvathi and Shankar and vows to get married of Uma and Shankar. Shankar meets Pasupathy's daughter, Uma and falls in love with her, without knowing her background. It is shown to us, Pasupathi eldest daughter, Jaya a raised as Thirumangai by the passerby (now turned as blind) is shown as a pick-pocket who only steals 1 rupee in day. Suresh gets acquainted with Karpagam (

). Meanwhile, Suresh a criminal misunderstand Shankar as CID during their train journey. Suresh sends his men to follow Shankar and traps him to find Solaimalai. However, Shankar outwits his men and escape with Uma's car coincidentally. Suresh notice Uma's car, and order his man, Alangaaram to spy on Uma and Shankar, still thinking that Shankar is spy to apprehend Suresh illegal business. While escaping, both Uma and Shankar gets acquainted with Jaya. Shankar soon finds that the car driven by Uma belongs to Solaimalai. Shankar sends letter to his mother to find out more details about Solaimalai. Pasupathi advertise in a paper via Alangaaram (Suresh's man) for English music teacher. Shankar with the help of Karpagam and Jaya disguise as an old English music teacher to find out the real Solaimalai. Thirumangai a.k.a. Jaya helps Uma to return her lost necklace. While return the necklace, Thirumangai finds out her own baby photo and about it. Pasupathi and Uma reveals, it is Pasupathi first born daughter and Uma's sister. Without knowingly her own photo, Thirumangai a.k.a. Jaya vows to find Pasupathi's eldest daughter (herself). Suresh man kidnaps Karpagam, whom both earlier on, in train journey. Karpagam assist Suresh to capture Shankar. However, during fight (as disguised old English music teacher), Shankar manage to bash them. However, Uma recognize the disguise, but pretend not knowingly and falls for Shankar. Eventually, Samundi manages to find Solaimalai house and threaten to kill him. Shankar who turns out to be there finds out the truth. Shankar fights with Samundi. Samundi manage to escape. Shankar got hurt in the fight, this is also watched by Alangaaram (Suresh man). Alangaaram brings Shankar to a fake doctor and give Shankar a sedate injection. Soon Suresh ( S. A. Ashokan), a notorious criminal imprisons Shankar, and impersonates him, for his wealth. Parvati is forced to play along, as Suresh threatens to kill Shankar. Thirumangai foster father(blind man) gets seriously ill reveals her true identity to Karpagam. Karpagam sends money to his friend to buy medicine. However, his friend was pick-pocketed by Thirumangai. Thirumangai repent for her deed. Uma reveals to Parvathi, that she loves Shankar. Parvati supports her decision, though Suresh black-mailing her. Karpagam manage to find Shankar and Parvati being kidnapped and blackmailed respectively, hatches a plan to rescue both of them with assistance of Thirumangai. Thirumangai manage to steal the entry token from Suresh and manage to rescue Shankar. The movie ends, with Shankar and Uma united together and Pasupathi manage to find her eldest daughter Jaya. Jaya marries Karpagam, who is a CID.

Cast

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 ...

References

External links

* {{B. R. Panthulu 1970 films 1970s Tamil-language films Films directed by B. R. Panthulu Films scored by M. S. Viswanathan Tamil remakes of Kannada films