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{{Infobox film
| name = Uttharavindri Ulle Vaa
| image = Uttharavindri Ulle Vaa.jpg
| caption = Poster
| director = N. C. Chakravarthi
| producer = C. V. Sridhar
| writer =
| screenplay =
| story = Chitralaya Gopu
| starring = Ravichandran
Kanchana
Nagesh
Rama Prabha
Venniradai Moorthy
Sachu
| music = M. S. Viswanathan
| cinematography = B. S. Lokanath
| editing = N. M. Shankar
| studio = Venus Combines
| distributor = Chitralaya Pictures
| released =
| runtime =
| country = India
| language = Tamil
}}
'Uttharavindri Ulle Vaa' is a 1971 Indian Tamil-language romantic comedy film, directed by N. S. Chakravarthi and produced by C. V. Sridhar under his production company Chitralaya Pictures. The film was written by Chitralaya Gopu, with music by M. S. Viswanathan. The film stars Ravichandran, Kanchana, Nagesh, Rama Prabha, Venniradai Moorthy and Gemini Mali, with Sachu, Thengai Srinivasan, Sundari Bai and Veera Raghavan in supporting roles. The film was remade in Telugu as 'Vintha Illu Santha Gola'.
Plot
Ravi lives in a bungalow that is bought by his father recently, so that Ravi can study in the city. Ravi stays with his three other bachelor friends, Mani, Raju and Mahalingam alias Mali. Raju works in a sports store which is a mundane job. Mani works as an assistant manager in a company while Mali works as a mechanic. When Ravi gets his collage leave for a week, the 4 friends plan to go on a vacation to Ooty. The three working friends cook up story to attain leave and succeed. The night prior to their planned trip, a woman comes and hides in their house. When the guys find her, she simply says that she is trying to protect herself. Ravi allows her to stay in his house for the time being and cancels the trip.
All 4 of them falls for the woman, Janaki and tries to make themselves good in front of her. They also come to a deal that if she falls for any one of them, the other 3 should give way to which all agree. They do various stuff to impress her. But Janaki falls for Ravi. One night, they all hear a child crying outside their house. An a one-year-old girl is found alone with a letter addressed to Mahalingam. It said that its from Sharadha, a woman that Mahalingam has cheated and the child is his. Mahalingam denies knowing such a woman but no one trusts him. The take in the child regardless, and name her Shanti. Ravi and Janaki's love deepens.
One day, while Raju is travelling in a bus, a woman follows him all the way home and addresses him as Nadha (Old fashioned style to call a lover boy or husband). Shocked, Raju informs his friends. Shortly, the woman's mother, Sivagami comes to the house too and settles there. She informs the rest that her daughter, Andal met with an accident recently and had gotten the memories of her past life. In her previous birth, she was married to Raju. Raju hates her constant urging romance. In the meantime, Ravi's father pays a visit but the guys carry it forward in a smooth manner.
To prevent anything worse from happening, they plan to bring in a psychiatrist, Dr. Swamynathan to cure Andal. Dr. Swamy is assisted by his nurse daughter, Sarasa. Janaki sees Dr. Swamy and gets shocked, and so does he. Sarasa and Mani fall in love. Dr. Swamy tells Mani that he had seen Janaki in a brothel when he went to attend a patient. Mani gets shocked and informs Mali and Raju. Janaki overhears this and leaves the house. When Mani tells Ravi about this, Ravi gets angry at him and goes to find Janaki.
Meanwhile, Raju brings Andal on his bike for a ride, as a treatment suggested by Dr. Swamy. He hits a woman and she falls unconscious and so does Andal. Raju is arrested for the same. The woman's handbag is taken by the police and Raju sees the picture of Baby Shanti and a threatening letter from Mahalingam. Raju says that it's his friend Mali. Mali too gets arrested for threatening the woman. It is also revealed that the woman is Sharadha and the child is hers. Both Sharadha and Andal gets conscious and Sharadha leaves for the police station to meet her child. Andal gets her memories back. At the station it is revealed that Mali is not the Mahalingam that Sharadha intended to give the child to. It happened that before Ravi's father bought the house, a man named Mahalingam lived in the house and he was the one who cheated Sharadha. He turns out to be a criminal who is on the run.
Janaki, gets cornered by criminal Mahalingam and it turns out that he was the one who forced her to be a prostitute and she ran away and hid in Ravi's house, bringing back her intro in this film. Ravi fights the bad guys and rescues Janaki. Ravi's father also gets to know about it. In the end, Ravi marries Janaki, Raju marries Andal and Mani marries Sarasa.
Cast
* Ravichandran as Ravi
* Kanchana as Janaki
* Nagesh as Raju
* Rama Prabha as Andal, Raju's lover
* Venniradai Moorthy as Mani
* Sachu as Nurse Sarasa, Mani's lover & Dr. Swamynathan's daughter
* Thengai Srinivasan as Dr. Swamynathan, Sarasa's father
* Sundari Bai as Sivakami, Andal's mother
* Gemini Mali as Mahalingam or Mali
* Veera Raghavan as Ravi's father
* Vijaya Chandrika as Saradha
* Baby Shanthi
Soundtrack
Music was composed by M. S. Viswanathan and lyrics were written by Kannadasan. The playback singers consists of T. M. Soundararajan P. Suseela, L. R. Eswari, S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, Saibaba and Sreekanth.
References
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