ninainthu ninainthu nenjam... uruguthE..
neengidaatha thunbam peruguthE...
engirunthu nee vaadugindraayo...
thunba geethamE... paadugindraayo..
intha nilai endru maarumo...
unai kaanum inba naaLumE vanthu serumo
anaintha deepamaai aagi ponathEy
udainthu pona silai aanathE...naan
adaintha selvam koLLai ponathE...
amaithi indriyE alaiya nernthathE...
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Sadaram 1956
| P. Bhanumathi, Gemini Ganesh, K. R. Ramasami, T. S. Balaiah, M. N. Rajam, V. K. Ramasami, K. Sarangapani, C. K. Saraswathi and M. S. S. Bhagyam |
A tale of adventures Sadaram
Since the early decades of the 20th Century, “Sadarame” (Kannada) was a popular stage play. It’s about an enterprising, gutsy woman who has many adventures but emerges successful, and a prince who falls in love with her. It was adapted in Kannada by stage and screen pioneer Gubbi Veeranna from a little-known Marathi play, ‘Mitra’, written by Shirish Athwale. One of the characters in the play, an enterprising thief with a roving eye named ‘Pucca Kalla’, became a legend in Kannada theatre and screen with the role being played by Veeranna himself.
“Sadarame” was brought to the screen in 1935 in which the singing star of yesteryear K. Aswathamma was introduced in the lead role and Veeranna played Pucca Kalla. Directed by Raja Chandrasekhar, it was a super hit. Not surprisingly, Veeranna produced it again in 1956 with Sowcar Janaki in the title role, Kalyankumar as the prince and himself in the same role as Pucca Kalla though he was not so young.
K. Subramanyam produced a Tamil version in 1935, calling it “Naveena Sadaram”, with his star wife S. D. Subbulakshmi in the title role. It was in this film that Papanasam Sivan composed the music, wrote the lyrics and sang it off screen as a prayer, with his nephew S.S. Mani, the now popular song in the Carnatic music world, ‘Maa Ramanan Uma Ramanan...’ Sadly no gramophone record of the song was made. However, Subramanyam and Sivan used the song in Seva Sadanam, sung by MS, making it an immortal melody.
Then came the 1956 version produced by V. C. Subbaraman with Gemini Ganesh and P. Bhanumathi in the lead. K. R. Ramasami played Pucca Kalla. Bhanumathi in the title role acquitted herself excellently in her exuberant flamboyant style. During her adventures, she dons a male garb and saves a princess (M. N. Rajam) who makes him (her!) the army chief and also falls in love and marries! The interesting story has many turns, giving Bhanumathi ample scope to display her enormous talent.
In the end, the hero (GG) accepts both women as his wives!
The film had good music by G. Ramanathan and lyrics by Thanjai Ramaiah Das and A. Maruthakasi. Songs such as ‘Ninainthu ninainthu nenjam…’ (T. M. Soundararajan), ‘Rajathi kanney rajathi...’ (Ramasami, the song has some novel lines like ‘vun raapthavukellam ingey jaapthavum pottachi...!’) and ‘Azhagu bramhacharee...vaarum ayya Bhishmacharee’ (Jamuna Rani) became popular. Some of the lyrics were written in slang Tamil which went down well with a certain section of the moviegoers.
However, Sadaram did not fare well as expected. Ramasami, a fine singing star known for his impeccable dialogue delivery, seemed miscast. The lead pair was, however, a plus point.
Remembered for Bhanumathi’s excellent performance, Gemini Ganesh’s romantic presence and tuneful music.
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