Nam Naadu (1969 film)

NAM NAADU
Nam Naadu
Directed by	C. P. Jambulingam
Produced by	B. Nagi Reddy M. G. Chakrapani
Written by	Swornam (dialogues)
Story by	Mullapudi Venkata Ramana
Starring	M.G.R Jayalalitha Nagesh S.A.Ashokan Sridevi
Music by	M. S. Viswanathan
Cinematography	Konda Reddy Sundar Babu
Edited by	C. P. Jambulingam G. Kalyanasundaram D. G. Jayaraman
Production company	Vijaya International
Distributed by	Vijaya International
Release dates	7 November 1969
Country	India
Language	Tamil

NAM NAADU (English: OUR COUNTRY) is a 1969 Tamil movie starring M.G.R and Jayalalitha.

Plot

Dharmalingham (S. V. Ranga Rao), Aalavandar (S. A. Ashokan) and Punniyakodi (K. A. Thangavelu) are three VIPs in a township who have established themselves as noble citizens of the country but in reality are traitors who dare to do any type of crimes for money.

Durai (M.G.R) is an honest government office clerk who wants to be sincere for the nation and to help the poor and needy. In order to save the rights of the poor he fights with higher society people which is disliked by brother Muthaiya (T.K.Bhagavathi) who works for Dharmalingham and is an equally honest person as Durai. Though Muthaiya scolds Durai for his acts he is very affectionate to him and Durai is equally respectful and affectionate towards him and his family. Durai once picks a fight with Aalavandar in a shop - he insists on his standing in a queue like everyone else as there should be no special right for him over poor people. This creates tension between Aalavandar and Durai. Muthaiya worries that he will get into trouble because Aalavandar and Dharmalingham are good friends.

Durai meets a tender-coconut selling girl Ammu (alias Alamelu) (Jayalalitha) and gets attracted towards her nobility and honesty. Aalavandar takes revenge on Durai by making fake bribery complaint on him and because of which Durai loses his job. The enmity between Dharmalingham and Durai increases gradually because of which his brother shouts at him and ask him to get out of the house as Muthaiya believes Dharmalingham is honest and treat him like God. Ammu supports Durai and takes him to slum. Durai works for them and earn the love of slum people and people support him to contest and win in the municipal election. Durai takes action against the trio with his rights and enmity further increases. The trio plan and succeed to throw Durai away from the municipal office. Meanwhile Muthaiya finds that Dharmalingham has looted a sum of Ten lakh Rupees which actually belong to the welfare of poor people. So he runs away with the money to save from them and he buries it in a place. But the trio catch him and shut him at a secret place when he refuse to open his mouth on the where abouts of the money.

Now Durai plans to take revenge on them and to reveal themself and their crimes by their own mouth. Did Durai succeed in his mission and found the money and his brother forms the rest of the story.

Cast

• M. G. Ramachandran as Durai, (Mister Metro-Gold Robert)
• J. Jayalalitha as Ammu (alias Alamelu)
• S. V. Ranga Rao as Dharmalingham, the chairman
• S. A. Ashokan as Aalavandar, a contractor and Dharmalingham's friend
• K. A. Thangavelu as Punniyakodi, a shopkeeper and Dharmalingham's friend
• S. V. Ramdass as The doctor
• T. K. Bagavathy as Muthaiya, Durai's elder brother
• R. S. Manohar as Vijay, Ammu's elder brother
• Ennatha Kannaiya as Kannaiya the lame
• Thengai Srinivasan as Kuppuswamy, the superior of Durai (in office)
• Nagesh as Govindha, Durai's friend
• K. R. Ramswamy (Guest-star) as The school master Vélaydhamm
• Chittor V. Nagaiah (Guest-star) as The school master Kandhaya
• Mukkamala (Guest-star) as
• Pandari Bai as Bakiyum, Muthaiya's wife
• Baby Padmini as Selvy, Muthaiya's daughter
• Baby Sridevi as Raja, Muthaiya's son

The casting is established according to the original order of the credits of opening of the movie, except those not mentioned

Awards

The Best Movie (Sirede Padham)

By The Cinema Fan Association Award (Cinema Rasigar Sangue Parisu)

Around the movie

The film was produced by the famous Vijaya Productions in the banner name Vijaya International.

The film was remade in Hindi in the year 1972 as Apna Desh (Our Country) by the same director with Rajesh Khanna celebrated silver jubilee hit.

It ran 100 days in Chennai and other major cities.

MGR's acting acted the Chairman of the Local body and renders justice to the poor as usual.

The song "Ninaithadai nadhathiye..." is a famous one, known for its advanced dressing style and dancing.

We can see in this movie beautiful two Harlequin Great Dane of MGR. They are also in another MGR, ULAGAM SUTRUM VALIBAN (1973).

"Djambhu" (alias the editor C.P.Djambhulingham), took charge of the editing for 14 movies of MGR.

Songs List

Music is composed by MS Vishwanathan.^[1]

References

External links

• http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0187333/