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'Neelagiri Express' is a 1968 Indian Tamil-language thriller film directed by ThirumalaiMahalingam and written by Cho Ramaswamy. The music was composed by T. K. Ramamoorthy. The film stars Jaishankar, Cho, Vijaya Nirmala and Vijaya Lalitha. It is a remake of a 1967 Malayalam film 'Cochin Express' (1967). The film, released on 23 March 1968, was a commercial success.

Plot



A murder takes place aboard Neelagiri Express, bound to Coimbatore from Madras. Ravanan is the only passenger who is travelling with a deceased. One of Ravanan's co-passengers is a mysterious woman named Kalavathy. She takes him off the train to have food at Arakkonam and purposely makes him lose the train, and she disappears. In the meantime, a wealthy man named Sabapathy is murdered, and Ravanan becomes a crime suspect. CID Inspector Shankar is assigned the task of nabbing the criminal behind the murder. He realises that Ravanan is innocent and begins the investigation. So, he sets out of solving the case with the help of Ravanan and eventually finds the murderer.

Cast



* Jaishankar as CID Inspector Shankar

* S. A. Ashokan as the villain with eye-patch

* Cho Ramaswamy as Ravanan

* Vijaya Nirmala as Geetha

* Vijaya Lalitha as Kalavathy

* V. S. Raghavan as Sabapathy

*S. V. Ramadas as Boopathy

* K. Vijayan as Kumar

* S. Parvathi as Mahalakshmi

* Tambaram Lalitha as Geetha's mother

*Kallapart Natarajan

* Srividya (special appearance in the song "Thiruthani Muruga Thennava Thalaiva")

* M. Bhanumathi (special appearance in the song "Thiruthani Muruga Thennava Thalaiva")

Soundtrack



The music was composed by T. K. Ramamoorthy and the lyrics were written by Kannadasan.

Release and reception



'Neelagiri Express' was released on 23 March 1968. 'Kalki' said the story looked like it lacked salt and pepper. Despite this, it was a commercial success.

References




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