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Karuppu Panam
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Wikipedia article
'Karuppu Panam' is a 1964 Indian Tamil-language crime film directed and photographed by G. R. Nathan. The screenplay was written by Valampuri Somanathan from a story by Kannadasan. Music was by ViswanathanRamamoorthy. It stars T. S. Balaiah, K. Sarangapani, Balaji, K. R. Vijaya and Sheela. The film was commercially successful.
Plot
Cast
;Male cast
* T. S. Balaiah as Sattanathan
* K. Sarangapani as Dhamodharan
* Balaji as Gandhi
* Kuladeivam Rajagopal as Raju
* V. S. Raghavan as Sambasivam
* Shanmugasundaram as Sundaram
* Ramanathan as Devi's brother
* Kannadasan as Thanikachalam
;Female cast
* K. R. Vijaya as Devi
* Sheela as Lucy
* C. K. Saraswathi as Shankari
* S. N. Lakshmi as Sattanathan's first wife
* S. Varalakshmi as Kamala
Production
'Karuppu Panam' was directed and photographed by G. R. Nathan. The screenplay was written by Valampuri Somanathan from a story by Kannadasan. Editing was handled by S. Surya (for whom this was a posthumous release) and R. Devarajan, and art direction was handled by Alagappan.
Soundtrack
The music was composed by ViswanathanRamamoorthy. Lyrics were written by Kannadasan.
Reception
'The Indian Express' wrote, "As a photographer, G. R. Nathan's work is slick but as a director it is slack at many places [...] Kannadasan writes better than he acts".
References
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