Ellorum Nallavare

Ellorum Nallavare
Theatrical release poster
Directed byS. S. Balan
Screenplay bySiddalingaiah
Story byGorur Ramasawamy Iyengar
Produced byS. S. Balan
StarringR. Muthuraman
Manjula Vijayakumar
Jayanthi
Music byV. Kumar (Tamil/Telugu)
Ravindra Jain (Hindi)
Production
company
Release date
  • 11 April 1975 (1975-04-11)
CountryIndia
Languages
  • Tamil
  • Telugu
  • Hindi

Ellorum Nallavare (transl. All people are good) is a 1975 Indian Tamil-language film, directed and produced by S. S. Balan under Gemini Studios. A remake of the 1974 Kannada film Bhootayyana Maga Ayyu,[1] it was simultaneously produced in Telugu and Hindi languages as Andaroo Manchivare (transl. Everyone is good) and Ek Gaon Ki Kahani (transl. The story of a village). Except for the Telugu version, it emerged a box-office bomb. Gemini did not produce another film until 1985 which became Janani.[2]

Plot

The storyline includes characters like a greedy moneylender and his repentant son, a good Samaritan, who is a victim of the unscrupulous moneylender, his son, the enmity that springs up, romance thrown in for good measure, the fury unleashed by a remorseless nature, and the terrible wages that evil earns.

Cast

Cast (Tamil) Cast (Telugu) Cast (Hindi) Role
R. MuthuramanSobhan BabuRakesh Pandey
Lokesh
Manjula
JayanthiJayshree Gadkar
Tamil
Telugu
  • Dhulipala as Venkayya
  • Tyagaraju
  • KV Chalam
  • Nirmala
Hindi

Production

Ellorum Nallavare was produced and directed by S. S. Balan[3][4] under the Gemini Studios banner.[5][6] It was a trilingual,[7] produced in Tamil, Telugu and Hindi languages.[8] The Telugu version was titled Andaroo Manchivare,[9] and the Hindi version was titled Ek Gaon Ki Kahani.[10] The film was entirely shot at Kalasapura village, they built house sets there specifically for the film.[11]

Soundtrack

The soundtrack was composed by V. Kumar.[12][13]

Song Singer(s) Lyrics
"Sivappukkal" T. M. Soundararajan Pulamaipithan
P. Susheela
"Padaithaane Bramma Devan" S. P. Balasubramaniyan
"Yamma Kannu"
"Pagai Konda Ullam" K. J. Yesudas

Reception

Kanthan of Kalki appreciated the performances of the cast and crew particularly appreciating cinematography for the flood scene and concluded that the film's producer and director S. S. Balan reminds of S. S. Vasan and called it an exciting colour film.[11] Despite this, it was a box-office bomb.[3] Ek Gaon Ki Kahani too did not succeed, but the Telugu version did.[14]

References

  1. ↑ "பிளாஷ்பேக்: எதிர்பார்ப்பை புறக்கணித்து ஏமாற்றமளித்த "எல்லோரும் நல்லவரே"". Dinamalar (in Tamil). 3 March 2025. Archived from the original on 16 June 2026. Retrieved 16 June 2026.
  2. ↑ "ஜனனி". Anna (in Tamil). 14 July 1985. p. 4. Archived from the original on 11 October 2025. Retrieved 4 July 2026 – via Endangered Archives Programme.
  3. 1 2 Rajadhyaksha & Willemen 1998, p. 99.
  4. ↑ Rajadhyaksha & Willemen 1998, p. 594.
  5. ↑ "தேவரை தியேட்டருக்கு வரவழைத்த வாசன்! ( தமிழ்சினிமா முன்னோடிகள்: தொடர் -14)". Ananda Vikatan (in Tamil). 2 November 2015. Archived from the original on 28 February 2023. Retrieved 27 February 2018.
  6. ↑ Pillai, Swarnavel Eswaran (2015). Madras Studios: Narrative, Genre and Ideology in Tamil Cinema. India: Sage Publications. p. 100. ISBN 978-93-5150-212-8.
  7. ↑ Ashokamitran (2016). Fourteen Years with Boss. Penguin Books. p. 161. ISBN 978-0-14-342329-4.
  8. ↑ Vaidiyanathan, K. (23 December 2014). "S S Balan was the doyen of Tamil journalism". Exchange4media. Archived from the original on 20 March 2018. Retrieved 20 March 2018.
  9. ↑ Bhaskar, Vijaya (14 January 2006). "1975 – The mother of all years". Idlebrain. Archived from the original on 20 October 2018. Retrieved 19 October 2018.
  10. ↑ "EK GAON KI KAHANI (1975)". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 13 April 2018. Retrieved 13 April 2018.
  11. 1 2 காந்தன் (27 April 1975). "எல்லோரும் நல்லவரே". Kalki (in Tamil). p. 39. Retrieved 28 February 2023 – via Internet Archive.
  12. ↑ "Ellorum Nallavare". Saregama. Archived from the original on 28 February 2018. Retrieved 27 February 2018.
  13. ↑ "BOLLYWOOD INDIAN Ellorum Nallavare P. SUSHEELA Sounderarajan 7" 45 RPM EMI Columbia EP 1975". ecrater. Archived from the original on 11 November 2022. Retrieved 11 November 2022.
  14. ↑ Kandavel, Sangeetha (24 November 2011). "Tamil director Gautham Vasudev Menon making India's first trilingual film". The Economic Times. Archived from the original on 19 October 2018. Retrieved 19 October 2018.

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