Padikkadha Medhai

Padikkadha Medhai (1960)

Chandrasekaran, an industrialist, is very successful in his business and has a loving family. His three sons and two daughters live happily as one family. He brings up an orphan, Rangan (Sivaji Ganesan), who is utterly devoted to the family. Calamity strikes the family in the form of loss in business. The last daughter's marriage gets cancelled. The brothers and their wives ill-treat their parents and Rangan and his wife. Seeing this Chandrasekaran has no choice to ask Rangan and his wife leave their house. Aftermath Chandrasekaran dies a broken-hearted man leaving his wife and youngest daughter to be in their children's merciless hospitality. Rangan, with his simplicity and pure-hardheartedness, takes it upon himself to look after the mother and sister. In the end, he proves that love and affection is the greatest wealth.

Date of release
1960-06-25
TMDB
7.5 / 10 (2)
Runtime
2h 44m
Genres
Drama
Director
A. Bhimsingh

Casting

Interesting facts

Padikkadha Medhai is a 1960 Indian Tamil-language drama film directed and co-written by A. Bhimsingh. The film stars Sivaji Ganesan, S. V. Ranga Rao, Kannamba and Sowcar Janaki. It is a remake of the 1953 Bengali film Jog Biyog, itself based on the novel of the same name by Ashapurna Devi. The film was released on 25 June 1960 and became a commercial success. It was remade in Telugu as Aatma Bandhuvu (1962), with Ranga Rao and Kannamba reprising their roles, and in Hindi by A. Bhimsingh as Mehrban (1967).

Production

Padikkadha Medhai is a remake of the 1953 Bengali film Jog Biyog, based on the novel of the same name by Ashapurna Devi. After producer N. Krishnasamy bought the rights to remake the film in Tamil, he approached C. V. Sridhar to write the dialogues. Sridhar, after watching Jog Biyog, declined Krishnasamy's offer, citing scheduling conflicts and concealing his dislike of the film, and instead recommended his then assistant K. S. Gopalakrishnan.

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