Director: T.G. Raghavacharya; Writer: Alexandre Dumas, Gemini Story Dept.; Producer: S.S. Vasan; Cinematographer: Kamal Ghosh; Editor: Chandru; Cast: Paluvayi Bhanumathi, M.K. Radha, R. Nagendra Rao, L. Narayana Rao, G. Pattu Iyer, V.P.S. Mani, D. Balasubramanyam, Suryaprabha, Lakshmiprabha, Venkumamba, Krishna Bai, Shyam Sundar, G.V. Sharma, Stunt Somu, J.S. Kasyap, Ramakrishna Rao, Velayudham, Vijayarao, Balaram, Anand, D.S.P. Rao, Sampath Kumar
Summary: Based on Alexandre Dumas’s The Corsican Brothers.
Vasan’s sequel to the smash hit
Chandralekha
(1948) adapted the Douglas Fairbanks Jr
version of the Dumas novel, directed by
Edward Small (1942). Made as a trilingual, its
nearly identical Tamil (Apoorva Sahodarargal)
and Telugu (
Apoorva Sahodarulu) versions
were nevertheless credited to different
directors, while M.K. Radha, who plays the
double role of the separated twins in Tamil is
replaced by his Chandralekha co-star Ranjan
for the Hindi film. The villain Zoravar Singh
(Nagendra Rao) defeats the rival kingdom of
Bhawanigarh and the good doctor Shankar
(Casshyap) manages to rescue the twins Vijay
and Vikram (Radha/Ranjan), heirs to the
throne. Vijay is raised in the city and Vikram in
the forest. They grow up to take revenge on
Zoravar. Both brothers love the same girl,
Ranjana (Bhanumathi), causing a rivalry that
generates further intrigues: Zoravar kidnaps the
girl as bait to get the two heroes to reveal
themselves. The
Hindi version (Nishan) was less
successful than the Tamil one, which broke several records.
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