Director: Singeetham Srinivasa Rao; Writer: Hazan K, Santhanabharati; Producer: Kamal Haasan; Cinematographer: Barun Mukherjee; Editor: Kotagiri Venkateswara Rao; Cast: Kamal Haasan, Madhavi, L.V. Prasad, V.K. Ramasamy, Y.G. Mahendran, Delhi Ganesh, Charuhasan, S. Chandra Hasan, Dhanushkodi, G. Krishna Murthy, Master Gowtham, Nirmala, K.P.A.C. Lalitha, Rashmi, Radha Bai, Chitra, Baby Preethi, Raman, Ranjan Babu, Rambabu, Master Sivaji, 'Apaswaram' Ramji, Gopal, G.K. Venkatesh, Gangai Amaran
Duration: 02:18:04; Aspect Ratio: 1.333:1; Hue: 40.589; Saturation: 0.280; Lightness: 0.333; Volume: 0.288; Cuts per Minute: 15.216
Summary: A major Kamalahasan melodrama in which he plays a blind musician oppressed since infancy by his evil stepmother. Nancy (Madhavi) falls in love with him, but her father David forces her to marry someone else. The happy ending sees the lovers elope on a scooter with the aid of Nancy’s grandfather (Prasad). Kamalahasan apparently persuaded the producer, director and ex-actor Prasad to come out of retirement for this role. Both the direction and Kamalahasan’s performance are unabashedly melodramatic, milking the hero’s disability for all its worth, and Srinivasa Rao’s notorious zooms and cutaways underlined by rapid and awkward editing are fully in evidence. Unusually, the credits list everyone in a single rolling title sequence without assigning individual credits.
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