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Wikipedia article
{{Infobox film
| name = Aval Yaar
| image = Aval Yaar.jpg
| border = no
| caption = Poster
| director = K. J. Mahadevan
| screenplay = Vidwan Ve.Lakshmanan
| story = Devipriya
| producer = K. J. Mahadevan
| starring = Sivaji Ganesan
Pandari Bai
S. V. Ranga Rao
Sowcar Janaki
| cinematography = V. Ramamoorthy
| editing =
| music = S. Rajeswara Rao
| studio = Sudarsanam Pictures
| released =
| country = India
| language = Tamil
}}
'Aval Yaar' is a 1959 Indian Tamil-language legal thriller film, directed by K. J. Mahadevan. The film stars Sivaji Ganesan, Pandari Bai, S. V. Ranga Rao and Sowcar Janaki. The film had musical score by S. Rajeswara Rao. It did not do well at the box office.
Plot
Mahalakshmi is the daughter of a wealthy banker Sahasranamam, who wishes that she would marry a young man (Gopi). However, a noted lawyer of that town, Sadhasivam, a widower, wishes to marry her and to save her father's reputation, she marries him and soon loses her father. The couple have a son. The lawyer's nephew Bhoopathi, not worldly-wise, has a friend Bahadur, who wishes to exploit him for his money. Bhoopathi has a sweetheart Asha. Thanks to the marriage, the lawyer's safe keys are now handled by Mahalakshmi, which upsets Bahadur. He drives a wedge between the lawyer and his wife. Suspecting his wife, the lawyer turns her out of the house. The innocent woman without her husband's knowledge takes the child away. She loses the child, who is brought up by a rich couple Manivel and Maragatham. This upsets Mahalakshmi, who loses her mental balance.
Years pass and Mahalakshmi, completely cured, takes care of a young girl Vijaya under a new name, Ponni. Her son goes to England to become a barrister, about which his mother has no knowledge. Bahadur creates fake letters as if written by Mahalakshmi and threatens to publish them in his third-rate "yellow" magazine unless she pays a huge price. When she goes to meet Bahadur to persuade him to hand over the letters, he is found murdered. She is arrested and charged with murder. By now Sadhasivam has become a judge and the case comes up for trial before him. How the truth comes out and happiness is restored forms the rest of the plot.
Cast
;Male cast
* Sivaji Ganesan as Sadhasivam
* Ramanachalam as Kannan
* S. V. Ranga Rao as Manivel
* S. V. Sahasranamam as Banker Sahasranamam
* T. R. Ramachandran as Boopathy
* T. K. Ramachandran as Bahadur
* G. Pattu Iyer as Doctor
* V. Gopalakrishnan as Ragupathy
* Parthiban as Ravichandran
* G. V. Sharma as Sundaramoorthy
;Female cast
* Pandari Bai as Mahalakshmi
* Sowcar Janaki as Vijaya
* Malini as Asha
* Sandhya as Maragatham
* K. R. Chellam as Ponnamma
* Baby Malathi as Baby Vijaya
* Karaikudi Lakshmi as Vijaya's Mother
;Support cast
* Ganapathy Bhat, Sami Velayutham, Sampath,
V. K. Achari, and Haniff Kumar.
Soundtrack
The music was composed by S. Rajeswara Rao while the lyrics were penned by Papanasam Sivan, V. Seetharaman, Pattukkottai Kalyanasundaram, and V. Lakshmanan. One song "Kannan Pirandhaan" by Subramania Bharati also was included in the film.
Reception
'Ananda Vikatan' said that though the story was confusing, the film was technically good. Kanthan of 'Kalki' appreciated the director for trying to take Tamil cinema in a new direction, even if he was not successful in achieving that goal.
References
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