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Pona Machaan Thirumbi Vandhan
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Wikipedia article
'Pona Machan Thirumbi Vandhan' is 1954 Indian Tamil-language comedy film directed by C. Srinivasa Rao and produced by T. S. Venkataswami of Mercury Films. The dialogues were written by V. Seetharaman and screenplay by Mercury Films' Story Department. Based on the novel 'Punarjanmam' by Thumilan, it stars Sri Ram and Kusalakumari. The film was released on 27 November 1954 and did not succeed commercially.
Plot
A young man named Sambu (K. A. Thangavelu) is from a well-to-do family and his life is only to chew betel leaves and tobacco, besides eating. He also fond of reeling out platitudes about old times to his servant Kittan (C. P. Kittan). The young man is very fond of his sister Chandra (T. D. Kusalakuamari). He is keen on getting her married to a suitable young man and keeping the couple in his house. So, he release a peculiar advertisement asking for a bridegroom who has to send application money of Rs.1, 000/- to be considered for the alliance!. A young man (Sri Ram), who was mostly in North India and sick of Chappathi Kuruma, wishes to get back home. So, he replies to the ad. Another person and his sister Vimala (Lakshmi Kantha) then come to Sambhu's house. Not interested in the "Ad for groom" business. Chandra leaves the house. She meets Sriram and both, unaware of identity fall in love. They meet with a car accident and the rich car owners takes them home for treatment, thinking they are a married couple! Afraid of scandals, they change their names, leading to more complications. How the complication are solved forms the rest of the film.
Cast
;Male cast
* Sriram as Thyagu
* Shankaramoorthi as Rathnam
* Thangavelu as Sambu
* Ganapathi Bhatt
* Friend Ramasami
* Sampathkumar
* T. K. Ramachandran
* Velappan
* C. P. Kittan as Kittan
* Ganesh Singh
* Raja Wahab Kashmiri
;Male Support Cast
* Shankar, Mani Bhagavathar, Kottayam Kailasa Bhagavathar, Prasad, Varadarajan, Kuntu Pillai, and R. K. Krishnan Mudaliar.
;Female cast
* Kusalakumari as Chandra
* Lakshmikantha as Vimala
* Angamuthu as
* Rathnam
* Ranganayaki
* Jayagowri
* Saraswathi
* Saroja
* Varada Bai
* Rukmani
* Lakshmi
Soundtrack
Music by M. S. Viswanathan, C. N. Pandurangan and lyrics were written by V. Seetharaman and N. S. Chithambaram.
Release
'Pona Machan Thirumbi Vandhan' was released on 27 November 1954, and did not succeed commercially.
References
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