Nadigar Thilagam Sivaji Ganesan

Joe, I think Kalnayak is right. I don't remember which interview it was but I do remember Kamal saying that he expressed his wish to Shivaji to produce a commercial hit as different and entertaining as Uthama Puthiran. But Shivaji reportedly laughed away his idea asking him where he got the impression that Uthama Puthiran was a hit. That was when Kamal himself knew that it was not a hit. But whatever the outcome was, I for one feel that the movie is a lesson in script writing and dialogue delivery. Even today's mass movies can't stand up to the classic entertainer that was Uthama Puthiran.

www.maalaimalar.com
(visit Kaalachuvadugal->cinema varalaru ->Chevalie Sivaji)
website says Uthama Puthiran was hit and ran for 21 weeks in Chennai.

A review of Uthama Puthiran:
http://www.thenisai.com/tamil/movies/uputhiran.htm

Nadigar Thilagam

I am not dragging JJ in NT thread. Ennudaiya Idyaya kumaral. Avar 100 varusham vaazavendiyavar. Avar thanudaiya Grand Daughter JJ foster sonku marriage, foster son arrest athan mulam NT patta avasthai, athanal avarudaiya health spoil ananthu. Lastly he last his breath. entha vedanaiyai enal till today thangamudiyavilai.

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I am not dragging JJ in NT thread. Ennudaiya Idyaya kumaral. Avar 100 varusham vaazavendiyavar. Avar thanudaiya Grand Daughter JJ foster sonku marriage, foster son arrest athan mulam NT patta avasthai, athanal avarudaiya health spoil ananthu. Lastly he last his breath. entha vedanaiyai enal till today thangamudiyavilai.

உங்கள் வேதனையில் நானும் பங்கு கொள்கிறேன் .ஆனால் என்ன செய்வது .அதைப்பற்றி பேசுவதை விடுத்து நடிகர் திலகத்தின் நல்ல நினைவுகளை அசை போட்டு மனத் திருப்தி அடைந்து கொள்வது தான் நல்லது.

NT’s political career II Phase-1967-1975 Continuation
(Oct 1972- Oct 1975)

When the news spread that MGR had been suspended, tension mounted and MGR himself was in a shooting. When informed about the developments and asked about his reaction, he replied “ Indru Paayaasam Kudithen”, again a clear indication that he wanted the suspension to happen. The MGR fans clearly came out in large numbers and in every city/town/village there were rallies, which culminated in violence. Law & Order completely broke down and it was free for all. All educational institutions were closed indefinitely and protests were happening everywhere. MGR launched his ADMK (later to change as AIADMK) on Oct 17th and some leaders from DMK like KAKrishnaswami, Nanjil Manoharan joined him. DMK unleashed violence on MGR’s supporters and they retaliated back. Within 3 days of his launching ADMK, MGR released his Idhya Veenai on Oct 20th. The movie not a great one was caught in a trap. Because of the Law & Order situation the crowds were less and secondly fans were more eager on the political arena. The expulsion and subsequent launching of the new party helped the movie to sustain for 100 days. At this time any act by both the sides sparked off violent clashes. Madurai Muthu, the Madurai Dist Secretary and the most vocal critic of MGR had wantonly conducted a meeting in Madurai Thilagar Thidal also known as Sandhai on the 3rd day of Iveenai’s release (i.e.) 22nd Oct and the movie was playing in the nearby Sri Devi Theatre. The people coming out of the theatre and going to the theatre had to go through the side street of the meeting ground and police diverted all the crowds through another way. Still violence erupted and spilled over for a week. Nanjil Manoharan had planned a trip to Delhi and he was attacked at the Chennai airport itself. At this point of time the entire Chennai city was in the hands of the fans and it became an unwritten rule that all vehicles should carry a pasted notice proclaiming “MGR Vazhga”. It is rumoured that once even MuKa’s vehicle was stopped in the beach road and when the security police accompanying him tried to disperse the crowd, it seems that MuKa prevented them and the protesters pasted the notice on the car without knowing that MuKa was inside. All these things helped MGR to the maximum. The public was turning against the government and years of toil by PT & Congress workers were beginning to bear fruit when MGR came and simply reaped the harvest. To put it simply, he hi-jacked the agenda of Congress. Here it must be said that Congress in TN, caught unexpectedly in the midst failed to take charge and except Kannadasan’s remark about ADMK “Ithu verum oru 100 naal padam”, Congress did not even officially respond to the situation and MGR the clever strategist he always was, made use of the situation to the hilt. Only after a month or so when a media correspondent asked about the new party did PT gave his, ever-famous quote, “Rendum Ore Kuttaiyle Oorina Mattainen”. After this clarification Congress circles caught in a dilemna whether to support MGR or not, came out against both Dravidian parties.
Meanwhile NT’s dream run was continuing and in spite of the troubled times NT came to Madurai on 29th Oct for the 177th day celebrations of Pattikkada Pattanama and that Sunday witnessed overwhelming crowds in the Central Cinema, which was screening the movie. Another proof that NT’s films were doing excellent business even in that troubled times was the continuous 100 Housefull shows in Madurai New Cinema that Vasantha Maaligai had completed on the previous day (i.e.) 28th Oct. When the Central theatre could not entertain the huge crowd that had come for Morning and Matinee shows, NT along with other artists were taken on a procession in an open jeep that started from the Theatre to Pandiyan Hotel where he was staying. Though this was not in the agenda, the crowds thronged the entire route and I was an eyewitness to the procession and reception. In December NT had another release Neethi and again it was a hit (100 days run in Devi Paradise & Salem).

In the political arena, hot things were happening and DMK was committing mistake after mistake. They tried to put down all protests by force and that was complicating matters. Just because a College Professor in Palayamkottai by the name Srinivasan supposed to have supported MGR in the class, he was attacked inside his house and his house ransacked. The students again erupted all over TN. Worst was to follow. In Tiruchy, there is a hostel called Clive Hostel and the inmates of the Hostel were brutally attacked. Reason was the students had allegedly eve teased the daughter of DMK minister Anbil Dharmalingam. But insiders had another story (i.e.) students supported MGR. (Probably Tiruchy people will remember this incident). Mathialagan (brother of KAK) who was earlier a minister in MuKa’s cabinet was now the Speaker of TN Assembly. He had switched over to ADMK and in this atmosphere the assembly was convened. MuKa the manipulator he is decided on another course when he saw Mathialagan would support MGR. The Deputy Speaker at that time was Virudhunagar P.Srinivasan (the same person who defeated PT and who is now a major contributor to AIADMK’s official organ Namadhu MGR) and MuKa brought in a motion, which expressed no confidence in Mathi & made PS as the Speaker. Mathi refused to budge from the Speaker’s seat and PS also went and started conducting proceedings. Mathi asked MGR to speak on the no confidence motion that he had moved and MGR began to speak. PS asked a ruling party MLA to speak. There was pandemonium all around. MGR was hurling corruption charges from one side and the DMK members were shouting at him. MuKa made a signal to the Assembly staff and MGR’s mike was switched off. MGR continued to speak without mike and Chappals and mikes were thrown at him. At that point MGR stopped and proclaimed the famous quote “ Sattasabai Sethuvittathu” and walked out. He was to return to the same assembly only as CM of TN in 1977. Since assembly forum was not available to him, MGR along with M.Kalayanasundaram (the veteran CPI leader) prepared the corruption charges and went to Delhi and gave it to the then President V.V.Giri. The President sent the same to Union cabinet, which sent it to the TN Ministry for its comments. When enquired about this MuKa remarked “ Paarthen, Padithen, Rasithen” in his own style, but of course it is another story that the Sarkaria Commission that probed the corruption charges against the DMK ministers in 1976, took MGR’s memorandum as the basis.

As all these things were happening, normalcy slowly returned to TN and all the three major parties were charting out their own course. At that time the Parliament member of Dindigul (if my memory serves me right it was Rajangam of DMK) passed away and by-election was announced. MGR announced that ADMK will contest the election and rumours were doing round that Mrs.Rani Annadurai was going to be its candidate but MGR announced the name of Maya Thevar. Congress put up NSVChithan and DMK’s candidate was Pon.Muthuramalingam. Indira Congress also decided to put up its own person and Karu.Seemaichamy filed his papers on behalf of IC. It was a no holds barred campaign as stakes were high. MGR had another duty to fulfill and that was the release of Ulagam Sutrum Vaaliban, which he had put on the cold storage. Starting from January
1973, he was totally involved in the shooting and post production works of the film. He wanted the film to get released before the election. Simultaneously he was doing both the film’s work and election campaign. DMK leaders had ridiculed the movie and said it will never see the light of the day. Madurai Muthu went one step further and declared he will wear a sari, if at all the movie released. So it became a prestige issue for MGR. He finished the movie and got it censored. At that time MuKa put up another hurdle. His Government raised the tax on posters in Chennai and the amount was huge. MGR decided not to put up posters. Another factor was the largest circulated daily Dina Thanthi was against MGR as SiPa Adhithanar was a minister in MuKa’s cabinet and MGR decided to give the release ads only in Dinamani & Dinamalar. That was unheard of because a cinema release without Thanthi ad could not be thought of in those days. The movie was released on 11th May 1973 and that went on to become the biggest hit of MGR’s career. That also immensely helped ADMK in Dindigul by-election. Coming to NT and congress, both PT & NT put their heart and soul in the campaign for NSVChithan. The election took place on May 20th and the results were declared on the next day. ADMK won by a huge margin and the votes were like this.

Total Votes Polled –5,05,000
ADMK - 2,60,000
Congress - 1,19,500
DMK - 93,000
Indira Congress - 11,000

ADMK polled more than 50% votes and it became certain that ADMK is here to stay. Though disappointed PT said that he would continue to serve the people. MuKa on his part said “ Oru Paanai Sotrukku Oru Soru Patham endra pazhamozhi itharkku porunthathu” and went on to add that the candidate selection was not right and the District Secretary (M Muthu) should realize this. That started the sidelining of Muthu in DMK, which eventually culminated in his exit.

Before this, starting March 1973, TN experienced a severe draught and Load shedding for hours together was the order of the day. The situation was so worse that Kanji Thottis were opened in Ramnad District. This also worked against the Government. Before May NT had two releases. NT’s Raja Raja Chozhan was slated to release on March 31st and the producer Anand Theatre Umapathy had charted Theatres all over TN. At this time ACT announced that his Bharatha Vilas would release on 24th March. Fans were taken aback. RRC was the much-expected film and another NT film just 1 week before that was suicidal, they felt. At that point of time they had no hopes on BV. But NT and VCShanmugam gave the go ahead to ACT and how wrong the fans were. ACT proved that a good film could withstand any competition and BO wise BV collected more than RRC. RRC also had a decent run (97 Days in Madurai). After this the Dindigul election came and days after the Dindigul election, the Union Minister Mohan Kumaramangalam representing Coimbatore Parliament constituency died in a plane crash. So another by-election was on the cards. But in those days the State Government can decide on the dates and MuKa fresh from the defeat postponed the by election.

So TN politics progressed without any dramatic incidents except for the murder of two ADMK workers Poolavari Sugumaran & Vathlagundu Arumugam. In the former Veerapandi Arumugam was the prime accused and of course after a long drawn out legal battle he was acquitted. Of course Press was under constant attack and during this period Makkal Kural & Alai Osai offices were brutally attacked and in fact Vellore Narayanan the editor of Alai Osai had suffered multiple injuries. The reason was they wrote against DMK. So the terror, which started in 1971, continued unabated.

In June, July NT had 2 releases. Ponnoonjal was released on 15th June, but since it was in production for long and had a weak story line, it failed to hit it big. The songs were the high points and that helped the film to a certain extent. Engal Thanga Raja hit the screens on 14th July. Produced by Telugu Producer/Director VBRajendra Prasad this was a hit from day 1.It was in this movie that NT extensively used the name of PT & his photo and the fans/congress workers were delighted. In fact the song Kodiyil Oruvan Piranthu Vandhan in the film was very much used when PT passed away. The movie ran up to Deepavali. MGR’s USV was cruising, but his Pattikattu Ponniah (last MGR-JJ film) released on 31st August bombed at the BO. NT for Deepavali had Gowravam (no need to explain) and in December 1973, NT again had two releases. Dec 7th saw the release of Manitharil Manickam (guest role for NT) and on 22nd Rajapart Rangadurai hit the screens. RR did well but again it was not so big. Here again the movie for a major part projected Congress and PT in good light. The song Inquilab Zindabad done by emotionally charged NT drew a great applause and it was a regular in Congress meetings.
On the political side Periyar EVR passed away on Dec 24th, coinciding with the death of Rajaji who breathed his last on Dec 25th, a year before.

The dawn of New Year 1974 saw the arrival of Sivakamiyin Selvan on Jan 26th. A remake of Aradhana, the most popular Hindi movie of that period, SS still was nice and the songs by MSV were simply superb. The movie, which had a great opening, faltered after 60-70 days mainly due to the negative word of mouth regarding some song sequences, which people felt were sexy. Considering that the director was CVR, it was to be expected, but still the scenes were not accepted.

By this time the by election to Coimbatore Parliament & Coimbatore West Assembly seat were announced and it was to coincide with Pondicherry Assembly election. For the first time after the Congress split good sense prevailed in both Congress camps and an alliance between Congress (O) & Congress ® came up. By this Congress (O) would contest in TN and both the parties would contest equally in Pondicherry. People were very happy and it was widely believed that this might lead to the merger of Congress factions at least in TN. Cho’s Thuglak was in the forefront in advocating such a course. ADMK along with CPI was on one side and again DMK was the third front. CPM, which had supported ADMK in the Dindigul by election, had wanted to contest Coimbatore but MGR gave it to CPI’s Parvathy Krishnan. So CPM put up its own candidate Ramani there. Congress had put up S.V.Lakshmanan (who was later the President of Janata in the name of SVElakuvanar). The contest was tough and again NT campaigned hard. Indira Gandhi came up for campaigning and a joint meeting was addressed by her and PT in which our NT also participated. (Some people may remember the famous photograph in which NT is seen walking behind IG & PT). Unlike Dindigul, which predominantly was rural, this was urban area and that showed. Though Parvathy Krishnan won, the margin between her and SVL was barely 2000 votes. In Coimbatore West, ADMK’s C.Aranganayakam (who was later to become a minister in both MGR’s & JJ’s cabinet) scrapped through a slender margin of 500 votes. In Pondicherry, ADMK won 12 seats, Congress –12 (IC-7 + OC –5), CPI-2, DMK-2 & Independents –2. The results showed that with a little hard work Congress could make a successful comeback. ADMK staked its claim to form a ministry in Pondicherry with the support of Independent. Ramasamy became the CM. But MGR’s political in experience showed. He had nominated his own man as Speaker. That reduced ADMK’s strength by 1. Within 21 days of swearing in, there was a big uproar in the assembly when the opposition leaders waved a copy of Budget papers before it was presented by the Government and in the subsequent no confidence motion the Government was defeated by 15-14. Even if the Speaker in a total strength of 30 members were to cast his vote still the votes would have been just equal and thus the Government fell and President’s rule was proclaimed. It was a bitter lesson for ADMK & MGR. But for Congress, there were reasons to be optimistic regarding the future. DMK was nowhere in the scheme of things.

NT’s Thai (last B/W film of NT) was released in March 1974 with JJ as heroine. A dance drama song in the movie was all praise for PT and that was the only worth remembering from that movie. On April 12th, Vani-Rani (remake of Seetha Aur Geetha) was released. Though a heroine oriented film, NT did a sort of comical role but the film was loaded heavily in favour of Vanishree. Still it ran 100 days in Madurai-New Cinema. Come June 1st, Thangapathakkam hit the screen. A top-notch quality movie, which rewrote BO records. At this time TN politics again became hot but for different reasons. Sathiyavani Muthu, Minister for Backward Classes had remarked that Gandhiji didn’t do anything great for Dalits and this sparked a furore. Congress strongly condemned this and MGR also joined the bandwagon. If you remember an entire saranam in Naan Padichen Kanchiyele Netru was devoted to this controversy. The saranam starting with the line
“Indhyavin Thanthai Endru Gandhi Irunthar” will end with the line
“Indru Esuvorgal Avaralthan Padhavi Adainthar.”
Another controversy that broke out was the DMK’s allegation that MGR had spoken ill of womenfolk. Of course it didn’t cut ice with the public. The DMK wanted to be in the limelight, as it clearly knew that the fight was between ADMK & Congress. Even in Thangapathakkam, the second Cho character (Vyyapuri aka Vaigai Valavan) was entirely used to make fun of MGR’s Annaism & DMK’s populist schemes. As the above-mentioned controversies were happening, MGR asked Vaalee to write the song Naan Padichen and it was immediately composed and picturised for Netru Indru Naalai. The song came out and there was widespread talk that a lot of political digs were there in the film. There were reasons too. The Madras Corporation under DMK had indulged in a big corruption, which was popularly known as Muster Roll Oozhal and this also found mention in that song. (Veetukellam Velicham Poda Kudtha Panathile, thangal Velicham Pottu Vazhunthu Vittar Nagarasabhaiyile). All these made DMK panic and again the DMK threatened to disrupt the screening of the film. The film was slated for release on 12th July 1974 and two days before, in Madurai, DMK people led by Pazhakadai Pandi (who later became the Madurai District Secretary of ADMK) climbed the wall of Chinthamani Talkies, where the movie was charted, after the night show and tore the screen. But the movie managed to get released on the release day itself and theatres all over TN had to put up additional police protection. The DMK’s panic gave publicity to the movie and this helped to stretch it for 100 days. Left to itself the movie would have hardly made an impression because the songs were the only saving grace. Having lost face, the DMK government again came out with a draconian announcement and that was the hiking of Entertainment Tax to nearly 70% in TN. The whole industry revolted against the move and first time in the annals of TN, all the cinema halls were closed for 5 days from 15.08.1974 to 19.08.1974. Never before or Never after had the theatres remained closed for 5 consecutive days. NT was the President of Nadigar Sangam at that time and a delegation of film people under NT went and met MuKa. After a long negotiation MuKa agreed to bring down the Tax. It was clear that MuKa was targeting the whole film industry because of his personal clash with one individual. In fact NT’s own En Magan was scheduled to release on 15th August, but that was postponed and it released on Aug 21st. A remake of Hindi Be-Imman, this Balajee movie went on to complete 100 days in our Madurai- New Cinema. MuKa’s Government smarting under its own failure then sent a circular to all theatres which had requested and got the police protection for NEN, to pay the entire cost incurred to the Government for giving police protection. It is the duty of the Government to give protection and for that it demanded the reimbursement of expenses incurred. Such was the attitude.

After this there was not much political activity and Deepavali came. Both NT & MGR had releases though there was a week’s gap between Urimaikural & Anbai Thedi. After a long time NT’s Deepavali film didn’t do well and UK became a Super Hit. Surprise of surprises MGR had another release in the same month, Sirithu Vaazha Vendum, a remake of Amithab’s Zanjeer. It did average business and in Madurai it ran for 100 days. On the film front, in the months that followed, MGR had Ninaithathai Mudippavan (a remake of Saccha Jutha and took a long time in the making) in May 1975(average), Naalai Namadhe (remake of Yaadon Ki Baarat) in July 1975(Flop), Idhyakani in August 1975 (the last Super Hit of MGR) & Pallandu Vaazgha (remake of Shantaram’s Do Ankhein Baara hath) in Oct 75(Deepavali- Average). NT on the other hand had Manithanun Deivamaagalam for Pongal 1975 (Flop), Avanthan Manidhan (175th movie) in April 75 (Hit), Mannavan Vanthanadi in Aug 75 (Hit) & Anbe Aruyire in Sep 75 (Flop).

On the political arena, TN was again facing hardships and a severe draught was sweeping TN. Again Kanji Thottis were opened and Madras city was experiencing its worst summer. That was the time the MuKa government was involved in wasteful expenditures like sprinkling Silver Iodide from helicopters to bring artificial rain. Its much-publicized Veeranam scheme became synonymous with corruption and the pipes were just lying on the outskirts of Madras. People’s ire was uncontrollable. At this time braving the hot and humid weather and defying his age, PT took a whirlwind campaign across the state and people simply thronged his meetings. Such was the response that Kalki began serializing the tour under the caption Vaadiya Payirukku Vanmukil Kamaraj. Meanwhile all of a sudden Delhi politics turned topsy-turvy on a singe day. Rajnarain the Socialist party candidate against Indira Gandhi in Rae Barielly way back in 1971 had filed a case against her and suddenly the Judgement by Justice Sinha of Allahabad High Court was pronounced on June 12th 1975, which set aside the election of Indira. All hell broke loose and the entire opposition had come together under JP (Jayaprakash Narayan). JP in the previous year (74) had successfully organized an agitation in Bihar against the Congress ministry headed by Jagannath Mishra. In 1975, Gujarat was continuously placed under President’s role and for conducting an election Morarjee Desai had undertaken a fast. The Central Government had to give in at last and elections were held and it threw up a hung assembly and this was in May-June. As usual Indira tried to put up her party in power there in Gujarat. So when the Judgement too came up, the entire opposition joined together. Indira took the unprecedented step of proclaiming Emergency on the night of June 25th and all opposition leaders were arrested in a midnight operation. Only PT was spared. Meanwhile PT who had undertaken a tour in May-June fell ill and he had to cancel all his programmes. If an intensive tour affected his health, the proclamation of Emergency and arrest of his long time associates broke his heart. NT had not conducted the annual conference for 1973 & 1974 and so the fans had arranged a function to celebrate his 175th movie. That was to be held along with PT’s birthday on July 15th. But the sudden turn of events and PT’s ill health forced the organizers to cancel the celebrations. Slowly central Government had assumed ominous roles and Press censorships were introduced. It was so authoritarian that Thuglak suspended its publication for 2 months (4 issues). PT was slowly regaining health. Come October 1st, NT celebrated his birthday and PT even with his failing health turned up at Annai Illam to wish NT. NT was overwhelmed with emotion and little did he realize (or for that matter all of us) that this would be one last time that he will be seeing his leader in flesh and blood. That ominous October 2nd dawned and Congress workers under the TNCC President PaaRaa (P.Ramachandran) paid homage to Mahatma Gandhi & LB Sasthri. PT who had a normal day till the forenoon ate his lunch of Thayir Satham with Keerai and retired to bed. He asked his assistant “ Lightai off paanitu po”. The servant obediently did what his master ordered without realizing that the Light of TN is going to get switched off forever. After an hour or so when he came back to the room, he found something uneasy and called up the Dr. immediately. The Dr. came rushing in and found that the Light had indeed gone off. PT had suffered a low BP, wherein the pressure comes down to Zero which in turn will stop the function of the heart. Yes PT the Ezhai Pangalar passed away without any pain or discomfort. For NT this was more than anything he could stand and his grief knew no bounds and he swooned repeatedly. Thus a great chapter in TN history came to an end on that black Thursday and it also brought to end the most active part of NT’s political career.

We will see the remaining phases in NT’s political life in the coming days.

Regards

Murali,
Again an excellent summary.

// He asked his assistant “ Lightai off paanitu po”. The servant obediently did what his master ordered without realizing that the Light of TN is going to get switched off forever.//

This made me in to tears.

He asked his assistant “ Lightai off paanitu po”. The servant obediently did what his master ordered without realizing that the Light of TN is going to get switched off forever.//

I think shivaji used this dialgoue in AVANTHAN MANITHAN in the last scene.

PANNAJALI UNNIDATHIL SELAI KETTAL
ANTHA PAARTHAAN AVAN UNNITADTHIL KEETHAI KEETAN
NAAN IRUKKUM NELAILIYIL UNNAI ENNA KETTPAEEN
INNUM NANMAI SEIDHU THUNBAM VANGUM ULLAM KETTPEN

KAALIL VILANGUMITTOM
KADAMAI ENNA AZHAITHOOM
NAALU VILLANUGU GALIL THINNAM
NATTIYA MADUGIRUM

great acting /great song/great music/great voice.

SHIVAJI/KD/MSV/TMS :thumbsup:

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Originally Posted by umaramesh

He asked his assistant “ Lightai off paanitu po”. The servant obediently did what his master ordered without realizing that the Light of TN is going to get switched off forever.//

I think shivaji used this dialgoue in AVANTHAN MANITHAN in the last scene.

PANNAJALI UNNIDATHIL SELAI KETTAL
ANTHA PAARTHAAN AVAN UNNITADTHIL KEETHAI KEETAN
NAAN IRUKKUM NELAILIYIL UNNAI ENNA KETTPAEEN
INNUM NANMAI SEIDHU THUNBAM VANGUM ULLAM KETTPEN

KAALIL VILANGUMITTOM
KADAMAI ENNA AZHAITHOOM
NAALU VILLANUGU GALIL THINNAM
NATTIYA MADUGIRUM

great acting /great song/great music/great voice.

SHIVAJI/KD/MSV/TMS :thumbsup:

Dear Ramesh,

NT was always attached to Kamarajar . Infact , he slightly touched his name in 2 songs :

1. Barathamay en arumai barathame

Ingay oru Gandhi irukindrar avar vazga. Therkey oru Gandhi varuginrar avar vazga

2. Thangangalay , nalai thalaivargale

Palli chalai thandhavan ezai thalaivanai dhinamum ennungal

Murali Srinivas,

You know, I am taking copies of all your posts and showing it to my friends and family members ! so informative you are !

Pl continue your excellent work

Today ,through Governer's spech ,TN govt announced that NT's statue will be opened at Merina Beach on his Ninaivu Naal July 21.

http://epaper.tamilmurasu.in/2006/may/24/disp.asp?i=3_3

Thanks again kalainjar!

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Originally Posted by joe

Today ,through Governer's spech ,TN govt announced that NT's statue will be opened at Merina Beach on his Ninaivu Naal July 21.

http://epaper.tamilmurasu.in/2006/may/24/disp.asp?i=3_3

Thanks again kalainjar!

:clap: Nice one .. Thanks to KaLaigNar.. !
But anyhow... I think someone have already opened the statue before (I think it is PANDICHERRY people) :roll: We are a bit late in this one. :evil: