Raja Veetu Pillai

Raja Veetu Pillai (transl. The boy from the king's home) is a 1967 Indian Tamil-language film directed by Dada Mirasi and written by M. K. Santharam.^[1] The film stars Jaishankar and Jayalalithaa. It was a successful film on its release.^[2] Jayalalithaa dressed up as a cowgirl with shorts and started off a trend.^[3]

Raja Veetu Pillai
Poster
Directed by	Dada Mirasi
Written by	M. K. Santharam
Produced by	P. L. Mohanram
Starring	Jaishankar Jayalalithaa
Cinematography	W. R. Subbarao
Edited by	S. A. Murugan
Music by	S. M. Subbaiah Naidu
Production company	Mohan Productions
Release date	1967 (1967)
Running time	115 minutes
Country	India
Language	Tamil

Plot

Cast

Male cast

• Jaishankar as Raja^[4]
• M. N. Nambiar as Aanand
• V. S. Raghavan as Raghunathan's father
• Srikanth as Raghunathan^[5]
• Thengai Srinivasan as Singaram

Female cast

• Jayalalithaa as Raja's love interest^[4]
• Pushpalatha as Geetha^[4]
• Jayabharathi as Anandhi

Production

The film originally began production under the title Inba Nila, with M. G. Ramachandran starring. It was later shelved, but restarted production under the title Raja Veetu Pillai, with Ramachandran now replaced by Jaishankar.^[6]

Soundtrack

All the songs were written by Vaali and the music was composed by S. M. Subbaiah Naidu.^{[citation needed]}

Title	Singer(s)	Length
"Poovu"	L. R. Eswari	3:29
"Raja Veetu Pillaiyaanalum"	T. M. Soundararajan, L. R. Eswari	4:32
"Oorukkellaam"	T. M. Soundararajan, P. Susheela	3:38
"Andru Ninaithom"	T. M. Soundararajan, P. Susheela	5:01
"Paithiyakaran"	T. M. Soundararajan	4:06

Reception

Kalki wrote what's new in this film, you have to put on magnifying glasses and see. A research team can be appointed for this.^[4]