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Navagraham
1970 film by K. Balachander From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Navagraham (transl. Nine Planets) is a 1970 Indian Tamil-language comedy drama film written and directed by K. Balachander. The film stars Nagesh, Srikanth, R. Muthuraman and Lakshmi, with Ragini, Sivakumar, Rama Prabha, Y. G. Mahendran (his film debut), V. Gopalakrishnan and G. Sakunthala in supporting roles.[1] It was released on 3 September 1970.[2]
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Plot
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Nine people living as a joint family in a house have amongst them varied characters with weird idiosyncrasies. A thief and orphan, Baalu, enters the house and uses this to his advantage playing one family member against another. He then realises that he is the son of Somu, the patriarch of the house, and then sets to reunite the family only to be thrown out by all of them in the end.
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Cast
- Nagesh as Baalu[3]
- Sundarrajan as Somu
- Muthuraman as Siva
- V. Gopalakrishnan as Mali
- I. S. R as Mani
- Mahendran as Anumanthu
- Sivakumar as Vatsala's lover
- Srikanth as Eeswaran
- Ragini as Akilaandam
- Rama Prabha as Amirtham
- G. Sakunthala as Saraswathi
- Lakshmi as Vatsala[3]
Production
Navagraham marked Y. G. Mahendran's acting debut in cinema.[4][5] Manorama was supposed to play the love interest of Nagesh but was dropped at the latter's insistence causing a permanent rift between them.[6]
Soundtrack
The soundtrack was composed by V. Kumar and lyrics were written by Vaali.[7]
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