Makkal Thilagam MGR Part - 20

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Rikshakaran is one among the many megahit movies that MGR had given. For the first time in Tamil film industry, a Tamil actor won the National Award for the movie. It is none other than Makkal Thilagam MGR. The movie was a directorial venture by Krishnan Nair. MGR had done the role of Rickshaw Karan in the movie. The movie had other actors as Manjula, Padmini, Asokan, Major Sundarrajan, Thengai Srinivasan, and Cho Ramaswamy. Many numbers in the movie turned out to be super hits.

RM Veerappan produced the movie under the banner Sathya Movies. The movie that hit the screens in 1971 proved to be a super hit. In a development, many old Tamil movies are being converted to digital and are being released so that the movies adhere to the taste of the present generation.

Many such movies have turned super hits. Many of MGR starrers and Sivaji starrers have been released in digital. Following MGR starrers as Naadodi Mannan, Maattukaran Velan, the movie Rikshakaran is being made in digital. Krishnakumar hailing from Coimbatore has been a distributor for the last five years. Now, he is into efforts to make the movie Rikshakaran in digital. The digital movie has features as DTS and cinemascope.