''Thenum Paalum'' () is a 1971 Indian

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romantic drama film Romance films or movies involve romantic love stories recorded in visual media for broadcast in theatres or on television that focus on passion (emotion), passion, emotion, and the affectionate romantic involvement of the main characters. Typica ...

directed by P. Madhavan. The film stars

Sivaji Ganesan Villupuram Chinnaiya Manrayar Ganesamoorthy, better known by his stage name Sivaji Ganesan, (1 October 1928 – 21 July 2001) was an Indian actor and producer. He was active in Tamil cinema during the latter half of the 20th century. Sivaji Ga ...

, Padmini and

B. Saroja Devi Bangalore Saroja Devi (born 7 January 1938) is an Indian actress who has acted in Kannada, Tamil, Telugu and Hindi films. She acted in around 200 films in over six decades. She is known by the epithets "''Abhinaya Saraswathi''" (Saraswathi of ac ...

. It was released on 22 July 1971.

Plot

Somanathan, a leading advocate, has four daughter's and among them Thangam is his favorite and most beloved daughter. One day on his visit to Madras to attend an important case, an unexpected event happens in Thangam's life. On the day of Somanathan's visit to Madras, businessman Ramu visit's Somanathan's place and meet him. The purpose of this visit is to buy a land from Somanathan to build a factory for Ramu's new business. Somanathan introduces Thangam to Ramu and tell his daughter Thangam to guide Ramu to the land site. As per Somanathan's request Ramu stays in Somanathan's guest house next to his bungalow. The next day, both Ramu and Thangam visit the site and Thangam falls in love with Ramu in that trip and also, saves Ramu from a snake bite. Same night, by mistake Ramu drinks alcohol which looks alike water and got boozed and drunken. With this drunken state he doesn't want to stay at Thangam's place and decided to leave the guest house. While entering the house to inform Thangam's mother about his leaving, he happened to see the only Thangam in a fully romantic. Ramu who is not in his control due the alcohol lose his control and it was accepted by Thangam as she was already in so much affection on Ramu got in physical with each other and shared the bed. When Ramu realized his mistake, it was too late. When he was trying to escape, he was caught by Thangam's mother who was returning from temple. On her insistence to Ramu to marry Thangam, Ramu reveals that he is already married to Janaki. On Thangam's mother's repeated request and compulsion, Ramu assures that Ramu will marry Thangam only with his wife's acceptance and take Thangam with him. But Thangam's mother does not agree, so finally Ramu has to take Thangam with him to Madras and makes her stay at his office staff Balu's place until he tells his wife all what happened and make his wife to accept his situations and agrees Ramu to marry Thangam. Now the film revolves around how Ramu manages and handles the issues arises between Janaki and Thangam. Mainly how he handles his mother-in-law aka Janaki's mother and her troublesome doubt relating to Ramu's extra marital affairs. Meanwhile, while returning from his Madras case visit advocate Somanathan learns that his beloved daughter Thangam went to Rameswaram for a picnic (as informed by his wife (Thangam's mother) and his other daughters) and suspected to be dead in the severe storm struck in the coastal town, Rameswaram. But Somanathan is unable to accept and believe this. So he was in search of his daughter that he will find her one-day alive. In search of his daughter he finally arrives at Ramu's office and seeking his help to search his daughter just in case if she is alive. While they were speaking Ramu receives a phone call from Thangam and without revealing to Somanathan that he is talking to Thangam, Ramu tells Thangam to go back to home safe before any known people of her seeing her. There comes a great twist (please watch the movie, otherwise it might be a spoiler to this movie). Thangam got pregnant in the meanwhile. Thangam meets a person outside the telephone booth, Who was that person and what happened to Thangam, which makes the remaining story more interesting and complicating to Ramu to handle. Finally the movie ends with a climax of all getting together but, , , watch the movie.

Cast

as Ramu * Padmini as Janaki *

as Thangam *

S. V. Ranga Rao Samarla Venkata Ranga Rao (3 July 1918 – 18 July 1974), popularly known as SVR, was an Indian actor, producer, and director known for his works majorly in Telugu and Tamil films. He is regarded as one of the finest actors in the history of ...

as Advocate Somanathan *

S. N. Lakshmi Sennalkudi Narayana Lakshmi (1927 – 20 February 2012) was an Indian actress, who appeared in supporting roles, often playing roles of a mother or grandmother in films. A recipient of the state government's Kalaimamani and Kalaiselvam awards, ...

as Sivakami *

M. S. Sundari Bai Madurai Saurashtra Sundari Bai (2 March 1923 – 12 March 2006) was an Indian actress, singer and dancer who worked mainly in Tamil cinema from the 1940s to the 1970s. Sundari Bai was the wife of writer and director Kothamangalam Subbu. Her mos ...

as Akilandam *

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 film ...

as Balu *

Sachu Saraswathi Sundaresan Iyer, professionally known as Kumari Sachu (born 7 January 1948) is an Indian actress who has acted in more than 500 films in five different languages and a few television serials. She is a character actress/comedienne who ...

as Abinayam *

Typist Gopu Gopalarathnam, known by his stage name Typist Gopu, was an Indian actor known for comedy and supporting roles. He acted in over 600 stage plays and 400 films. Career A native of Manakkal, Lalgudi in Trichy district, Gopalarathnam was active ...

as Rathnam *

Ganthimathi Ganthimathi (30 August 1940 – 9 September 2011) was a Tamil stage and film actress. She acted in over 500 films. Early life Kanthimathi was born in Manamadurai in the then Ramanathapuram district of India. She started acting in dramas and ...

as Aatha *

Shanmugasundari Shanmugasundari (23 September 1937 – 1 May 2012) was a Tamil actress. she acted in more than 750 films. Her daughter T. K. Kala is also an actress and playback singer. She also appeared in comedy roles along with Vadivelu in many films. Care ...

as Sundari *

Goundamani Subramaniyan Karuppaiya (born 25 May 1939), known by his stage name Goundamani, is an Indian actor and comedian who works in Tamil cinema. He is known for his comic duo partnership in Tamil films with fellow actor Senthil. The pair dominated t ...

as Subramani * Seethalakshmi as Balu's mother * Master Ramesh as Kannan

Soundtrack

The music 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 ...

, while the lyrics were written by

Kannadasan Kannadasan (; 24 June 1927 – 17 October 1981) was an Indian philosopher, poet, film song lyricist, producer, actor, script-writer, editor, philanthropist, and is heralded as one of the greatest and most important lyricists in India. Freq ...

and Vaali. The song "Manjalum Thanthaal" attained popularity.

References

External links

{{P. Madhavan 1970s Tamil-language films 1971 films Films scored by M. S. Viswanathan Films directed by P. Madhavan