''Vikrama Urvashi'' or ''Urvasiyin Kadhal'' is a 1940 Indian,
Tamil
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* Tamils, an ethnic group native to India and some other parts of Asia
** Sri Lankan Tamils, Tamil people native to Sri Lanka also called ilankai tamils
**Tamil Malaysians, Tamil people native to Malaysia
* Tamil language, nati ...
-language film directed by C. V. Raman. The film stars C. V. V. Panthulu and C. S. Sulochana. And, the film was produced by
Modern Theatres
Modern Theaters Ltd was an Indian film studio in Salem, Tamil Nadu started by T. R. Sundaram Mudaliar in 1935. The studio produced over more than 150 films until 1982 in Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Hindi, Sinhalese and even English of w ...
Cast
The list is adapted from the database of
Film News Anandan
Film News Anandan (born Mani) was an Indian film historian and photographer based in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. He was popularly known as the "walking encyclopedia" of Tamil cinema.
Early life
Anandan was born as Mani. His father P. K. Gnanasagaram ...
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*C. V. V. Panthulu
*C. S. Sulochana
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Kali N. Rathnam
Narayana Padaiyatchi Ratnam (c. 1897 – August 1950), popularly known as "Kali" N. Ratnam, was a Tamil stage and film artist known for his roles as a comedian in Tamil movies of the 1930s and 1940s. Renowned Tamil actor and politician M. G. Ra ...
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C. T. Rajakantham
C. T. Rajakantham (1917–2002) was a Tamil stage and film actress. She was the mother-in-law of playback singer Tiruchi Loganathan and grandmother of playback singers and popular music show judges T. L. Maharajan and Deepan Chakkravarthy
E ...
*P. A. Rajamani
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G. Ramanathan
*P. R. Mangalam
Production
As was the custom of the day, the film had an alternate title ''Urvasiyin Kadhal''.
The film was the debut as actor and singer for
P. A. Periyanayaki
P. A. Periyanayaki (14 April 1927 – 1990) was an Indian playback singer and actress who worked mainly in Tamil-language films. She also performed stage concerts as a Carnatic singer.
Early life
She hails from Thiruvadhigai near Panruti. H ...
who was in her early teens at that time. She later blossomed as an actress and more popularly as a
playback singer
A playback singer, also known as a ghost singer, is a singer whose singing is pre-recorded for use in films. Playback singers record songs for soundtracks, and actors or actresses lip-sync the songs for cameras; the actual singer does not app ...
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Soundtrack
G. Ramanathan composed the music while the lyrics were penned by his elder brother G. Sundara Bhagavathar.
See also
List of Modern Theatres films
References
External links
* - song by P. A. Periyanayaki
* - song by P. A. Periyanayaki
Indian black-and-white films
1940s Tamil-language films
Films scored by G. Ramanathan
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