Uthama Puthiran

Uthama Puthiran (1940)

உத்தம புத்திரன்

P. U. Chinnappa, plays in dual role, as twin brothers. One is a tyrant king and the other is a brave commoner, separated at birth. Loosely based on Alexander Dumas' The man in the Iron mask.

Date of release
1940-10-24

Casting

Interesting facts

Utthama Puthiran is a 1940 Tamil language film directed by T. R. Sundaram. P. U. Chinnappa, M. V. Rajamma, and T. S. Balaiah played the lead roles. It was the first Tamil film in which the leading actor P. U. Chinnappa played a double role.

Production

Uthama Puthiran was adapted from the 1939 Hollywood film The Man in the Iron Mask, which was based on the 1847–1850 novel The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later by the French adventure fiction maestro, Alexandre Dumas. The film was produced and directed by the Salem based movie mogul, T. R. Sundaram, it proved successful and established the singing star of the 1940s, P. U. Chinnappa.

M. V. Rajamma, Kannada theatre and film actress, played the heroine. Uthama Puthran was her second film with Chinnappa, the first being Yayathi (1938). T. S. Balaiah portrayed the negative role. The film had supporting cast featuring NSK, Mathuram, Kali N. Ratnam, and P. A. Periyanayaki.

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