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Moondru Deivangal
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Wikipedia article
'Moondru Deivangal' is a 1971 Indian Tamil-language drama film, directed by Dada Mirasi and written by Chitralaya Gopu. The film stars Sivaji Ganesan, Muthuraman and Nagesh. The film had musical score by M. S. Viswanathan. It is a remake of the 1968 Marathi film 'Aamhi Jato Amuchya Gava'.
Plot
Three thieves get into a family and act as if they are good people. However, the family's humility causes a change of the thieves' heart and do they reform form the rest of the story.
Cast
*Sivaji Ganesan as Siva
*Muthuraman as Muthu
*Nagesh as Nagu
*V. K. Ramasamy as Kumar's uncle
*S. V. Subbaiah as Pasupathy
*Sivakumar as Kumar
*V. S. Raghavan as a retired police officer
*M. R. R. Vasu as Veerappan
*Venniradai Moorthy as Moorthy
*Senthamarai as a police officer
*Chandrakala as Lakshmi
*Rukmani as Parvathi
*Jaya Kausalya
*Vijaya Chandrika as Muthu's wife
*K. R. Indira Devi
*Sivakami
Production
'Moondru Deivangal' is based on the 1968 Marathi film 'Aamhi Jato Amuchya Gava', written by Madhusudan Kalekar. The screenplay was written by Chitralaya Gopu, departing from most of his earlier screenplays which were comedies.
Soundtrack
The music was composed by M. S. Viswanathan. The song "Vasanthathil Or Naal" is set in Darbari Kanada raga.
Release
'Moondru Deivangal' was released on 14 August 1971, and underperformed commercially; Gopu felt this was because "it wasn't of Sivaji's standard".
References
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