4 Decades Back

Sri MGR Year 99, 12th November, Saturday

One of my friend having some newspaper and magazine collections from 1960s & 1970s has asked me to go through his record. After spending some time I took some of our Purtachi Thalaivar MGR related articles for scanning, below are few scans.

 

I selected some articles that have appeared in 1976 period, that is 4 decades back history.

 

1. Anna Nee En Deivam

First article is about the song recording of “Anna Nee En Deivam” movie, the song was written by Vali and music composed by M.S.Viswanathan, the song is “Parakum Paingkili” a solo song for MGR. This song was not filmed as MGR had become the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu in 1977.

 

And another article is the photo of MGR leaning over the door frame.

 

2. Pallandu Vazhga

 

A photo from the movie “Pallandu Vazhga” to my knowledge I have not seen this MGR pose. I thought of sharing this in our MGR blog.

 

3. Puratchi Pithan

We all know that “Puratchi Pithan” was an unfinished movie, a photo was published in the Tamil daily showing MGR & Latha, and MGR holding an egg.

 

4. Uzhaikum Karangal

The movie review of “Uzhaikum Karangal” by Nagai Dharman. He has highlighted important aspects of the movie. Nagai Dharman has mentioned about the Deer horn fight and Rudra Thandavam performance of MGR.

 

The articles I had uploaded above are small and of scanning the quality is little bit diminished.

English Ads

Sri MGR Year 95, 6th September, Thursday

Most of advertisements of yester year Tamil Movies will be given in Tamil Dailies. Seldom the ads appear in English dailies. Below are some of the MGR movie ads that have appeared in English Dailies of those days.

 

 In Alphabetical order:

 

  

 

AVM Productions first colour movie Anbay Vaa and Padmini Pictures Ayirathil Oruvan were the above image ads that have appeared in English Newspapers.

 

 

Venus Pictures En Annan ad for the 100th day.

 

 

Mekala pictures Kanchi Thalaivan ad given in the newspaper, note that no mention of MGR’s name in the ad and a very small image of MGR compared to the close up image size of SSR.

 

 

Devar Films Mugarasi like the above image there is no mention of our beloved Leader Puratchi Thalaivar MGR name but the importance of hero is given in the image, unlike the above ad.

 

 

Padmini Pictures Nadodi this the 2nd week ad given in an English Daily.

 

 

Devar Films Neethiku Pin Pasam the reservation ad given in the English Newspaper.

 

 

The above ad is the 100th day of Panakara Kudumbam.

 

 

 

Another 100th day ad of Periya Idathu Penn.

 

 

The above ad is about the 151 successive houseful shows in Devi Paradise, Chennai for the movie Rickshawkaran.

 

 

Devar Films Vettaikaran reservation ad placed in an English Daily.

 

Some of the ads were from the collection from B.S.Raju, the Editor of Olikirathu Urimaikural.