Engal Thangam
| ENGAL THANGAM | |
|---|---|
 DVD Cover | |
| Directed by | Krishnan-Panju |
| Produced by | Murasoli Maran M.A.-M.P. |
| Written by | Murasoli Maran M.A.-M.P. |
| Starring |
MGR Jayalalitha A. V. M. Rajan Pushpalatha S. A. Ashokan |
| Music by | M. S. Viswanathan |
| Cinematography | S.Maruthi Rav & Amirtham |
| Edited by | S.Pandjasamy & S.Muthu |
Production company |
A.V.M. |
| Distributed by | La Megala Pictures |
Release dates |
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| Country | India |
| Language | Tamil |
Engal Thangam (In English: Our Gold) is a Tamil thriller film directed by the famous team Krishnan-Panju released in 1970. M.G.Ramachandran and Jayalalitha featured in this film. It was a super hit movie and ran more than 100 days in Chennai, Madurai and Trichy. The Kathakalatchepam by MGR for the Rocket launched to Moon was fantastic in this movie. All songs were superb.
Plot
The capital of the Tamil Country at the end of the 60s...
Thangam (MGR), a nice truck driver comes to the rescue of Soumadhi (Pushpalatha), his blind younger sister, by putting on (by assuming) the offences of Moorthy (A. V. M. Rajan), her husband.
Moorthy is a childhood friend of Thangam.
Today, Moorthy fell to the hands of a mysterious group of burglars, because he 's the best professional safe-cracker in the city.
Thangam wants at all costs to save him from this gang and to stop them.
Thangam will be helped in his quest by beautiful and intelligent Kaladevi (Jayalalithaa), his lover.
Cast
| Actor | Role |
|---|---|
| M. G. Ramachandran | as Thangam, (Ramu alias Ramanadhan) and MGR himself (at the beginning of the movie) |
| A. V. M. Rajan | as Moorthy |
| J. Jayalalitha | as Kaladevi |
| Pushpalatha | as Soumadhi, after Lakshimi |
| S. A. Ashokan | as Selvaraj |
| R. S. Manohar | as Marthandhan |
| Cho Ramaswamy | as Larry |
| Thengai Srinivasan | as Pidhambar |
| V. S. Raghavan | as The commissioner, Kaladevi 's father |
| Manorama | as Miss Pantchali |
| S. N. Lakshmi | as |
| S.R.Janaki | as |
The casting is established according to the original order of the credits of opening of the movie, except those not mentioned
Songs List
Music is composed by M.S.Visuwanadhan.[1]
| No. | Title | Lyrics | Singer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Dont Touch Mr X" | Vaali | T. M. Soundararajan & L. R. Eswari | [04:26] |
| 2. | "Thangapadkathin" | Vaali | T. M. Soundararajan & P. Susheela | [04:31] |
| 3. | "Kadha kaalatchebam" | Vaali | T. M. Soundararajan | [10:57] |
| 4. | "Naan Alavodu Rasipavan" | Vaali | T. M. Soundararajan & P. Susheela | [04:56] |
| 5. | "Mogam Piranthadamma" | Vaali | T. M. Soundararajan | [05:16] |
| 6. | "Naan Sethu Pulachavanda" | Vaali | T. M. Soundararajan | [03:49] |
Awards
Best Second Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Siredhe Iredhevade Padhirgal)
By The Tamil Nadu Government (Tamizh Arasin Parisu)
1970 Tamil Nadu State Film Award
- Won - Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Lyricist - Vaali
- Won - Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Character Artiste (Female) -Pushpalatha
Around the movie
We can see at the beginning of ENGAL THANGAM, the MGR-politique to converse with the MGR-actor. That is really worth seeing!
He gives the real lesson of politics, an attractive blow of communication.
MGR also takes advantage in this realization, of the famous tandem of PARASAKHTI (1952), fourth with them, to tell in song, during almost ten minutes, the spatial exploit of the Odyssey of Apollo 11, disguised as Brahman !
MGR is unrecognizable.
In this story based on the relation brother-sister, the lyric writer Vâli, having drafted " Nâne alavodhu raçippavaine " dried completely, not knowing how to give a continuation(suite).
It is the chief minister of time(period), Mu.Karunanidi, personally and producer also on this movie via his Mégala Pictures, who came to the rescue of "Kavignar", out of inspiration.
"Kalaignair" completed, by adding " Yédaivoume alavinedhri kodhouppavaine … "