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Rajapart Rangadurai
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Wikipedia article
'Rajapart Rangadurai' is a 1973 Indian Tamil-language drama film, directed by P. Madhavan. It stars Sivaji Ganesan and Ushanandini.https://kalkionline.com/kalkionline_archive/imagegallery/archiveimages/kalki/1974/jan/13-01-1974/p29.jpg The film was released on 22 December 1973.
Plot
'Rajapart Rangadurai' narrates the story about a poor theatre actor. It is a film on theatre actors who, through time have been ignored, they play all roles from mythology characters to patriotic people, but fail to appeal to modern viewers who are drawn to more glamour and glitter.
Cast
*Sivaji Ganesan as Rangadurai/Rajapart
*Ushanandini as Alamel
*M. N. Nambiar as Somasundaram
*V. K. Ramasamy as Drama Teacher & Drama Group Owner
*S. V. Ramadas as Mohanraj
*Srikanth as Baskar
*Kumari Padmini as Vasanthi
*Sasikumar as Ramu
*Jaya as Seetha
*C. K. Saraswathi as Ramu's mother
*T. K. Bhagavathi as Vasanthi's father
*V. R. Thilagam as Meenakshi
*Suruli Rajan as Konangipatti/Konangi
*Manorama as Chinthamani
*Senthamarai as Karuppaiya
*Poornam Viswanathan as Jilla Collector
*Samikannu as Sivakozhunthu
*Boopathy Raja as Young Rangadurai
*Seethalakshmi as (Tiruppur Kumaran Mother Drama Artist)
*Angamuthu as (Drama Group's)
*Sedhupathy as Radhakrishnan Pillai
*Heran Ramasamy as Aarumugam
*Venkadachalam Pillai as Drama Audion's
*S. N. Parvathy as Doctor (Seetha Pregnant Delivery)
*Sridevi as Valli (Young Chinthamani, Drama Actor)
*Radha Ravi as (Baskar Friend, college mate)
*Karuppu Subbiah as (Drama Group's)
*Loose Mohan as (Drama Group's)
*Pattom Sadan as (Drama Group's)
*Pakoda Kadhar as Ittuli (Drama Group's)
Production
In the scenes where Rangadurai speaks Shakespearean English, Ganesan's voice was dubbed by Shakespeare Sundaram.
Soundtrack
The music was composed by M. S. Viswanathan, while the lyrics were written by Kannadasan.
Re-release
A digitally restored version was released in mid-2017, and ran for over 100 days theatrically.
References
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