Ek Gaon Ki Kahani

Ek Gaon Ki Kahani (1957)

Jaya lives in a village called Chandangaon in India along with her widower dad, Gokul, who works for a living as a compounder, but calls himself a Homeopathic doctor and dispenses Arnica for all kinds of ailments, especially since there is no qualified doctor in the village. Since Jaya is or marriageable age, he has arranged her marriage with hard-of-hearing Shiv, the son of Dayashankar, who is the President of the Gram Panchayat. Dayashankar is anxious to get Shiv married so that he can get some dowry from Gokul. The other suitor for Jaya is Ratan, whose mother would like her to re-marry her son as his wife, Maya, is unable to conceive. Then a new doctor arrives in this village to look after the charitable dispensary. Things heat up when Dayashankar and Ratan's mom find out that he may be Jaya's new suitor. Hilarious chaos reigns when Maya assaults her cruel mother-in-law, and Ratan abducts Jaya from her marriage with Shiv.

Date of release
1957-01-01
TMDB
10.0 / 10 (1)
Runtime
2h 17m
Genres
Drama
Director
Dulal Guha

Casting

Interesting facts

Ellorum Nallavare 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, it was simultaneously produced in Telugu and Hindi languages as Andaroo Manchivare and Ek Gaon Ki Kahani. Except for the Telugu version, it emerged a box-office bomb. Gemini did not produce another film until 1985 which became Janani.

Production

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

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