Kumudham And Kalki

Sri MGR Year 95, 30th November, Friday

MGR Devotee Tirupur Ravichandran has forwarded two images from Kumudham and Kalki Tamil weekly magazine to share in our MGR Blog.

 

 

The above image is from Kalki magazine, the article is about MGR philosophical song “Naalu Perukku Nandri” from Sangay Muzhangu. The lyric was penned by Kannadasan, the last stanza of the song ends in negative, our beloved Leader Puratchi Thalaivar MGR after going through the lyrics asked to change the last stanza to positive note.

 

The song:

 

 

 

Above is the answer given by Music Director Ilayaraja in Kumudham weekly magazine. After MGR became the Chief Minister he wished to continue acting and as per his wish “Unnai Vida Mataen” movie pooja was done. The music director of that movie was Ilayaraja (he was upcoming at that time). He has given a detailed answer how MGR chooses song and playback singer and he never revert back his decisions.

 

In Coimbatore Oli Vilakku had a 17 days run in Delite theater and previously the same movie was released in Royal theater couple of weeks back and screened two weeks. In Chennai the same movie with a worst print and blaring sound was re-released in Anna and Mahalakshmi theaters. In Anna the movie did one week run followed by 3 weeks in Mahalakshmi theater. Sathya Movies Rickshawkaran was re-released in Royal Theater for Diwali and was screened for 10 days.

70 MM MGR Movie

Sri MGR Year 95, 16th April, Monday

 

The first Tamil movie with 70 mm was Maaveeran which was released in 1986. But before that, in 1975 a 70 MM movie was planned by G.Umapathy who was the first producer for Tamil Cinemascope movie Nadigar Thilagam’s Raja Raja Cholan in 1973.

 

I had an opportunity to handle the Thirai Ulagam 1.9.1975 edition. In that the first page article is titled “Makkal Thilagam MGR Iru vedangalil nadika Oru Kodi Rubai selavil 70 MMyil uruvagum muthal Tamil padam – G.Umapathy thayarikirar”.

 

 

The movie is based on the novel written by Kalki titled Sivagamiyin Sabatham. The 7th century story – The vow of Sivagami, MGR doing a dual role as the King Mahendra Varman and Mamallan Narasimha Pallavan, Muthuraman as aide in the role of Paranjothi, the villain for MGR is M.N.Nambiyar he is also doing a dual role of Naganandhi and Chalukya King Pulikesi. The supporting characters will be enacted by S.V.Subbaiah and S.Varalakshmi.

 

 

The background music is by S.M.Subbaiah, dialogues by P.Neelakantan, choreography by Gopalakrishnan, since the movie is a historical one, the huge sets will be done by Angamuthu and camera is handled by two cameramen Balakrishnan and for the wrestling fight it will be Ravikanth who is a famous cameraman for trick shots.

 

The movie project was dropped as MGR became the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, we were unfortunate in a way that this 70 MM MGR movie was not made.

 

The Newspaper Thiraiulagam was forwarded by Olikirathu Urimaikural MGR Editor B.S.Raj to share in our MGR Blog.