Deiva Piravi (1960)
தெய்வப்பிறவி
Madhavan marries Thangam. He takes care of Thangam’s mother and brother along with his younger brother. Meanwhile, Madhavan gives shelter to his father’s mistress and her daughter. The evil ladies allege Thangam for loose morals. The rest of the story is how they come into good terms.
- Date of release
- 1960-04-12
- TMDB
- 8.3 / 10 (3)
- Runtime
- 3h 2m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- R. Krishnan, S. Panju
Casting
- Sivaji Ganesan — Madhavan
- Padmini — Thangam
- K. A. Thangavelu
- M. N. Rajam — Thilagam
- M. S. Sundari Bai
- C. Lakshmi Rajyam
- S. S. Rajendran — Ramu
- Tambaram Lalitha — Nandhini
- M. Saroja — Arundhathi
- Kallapart Natarajan — Manohar
- K. Sarangapani — Saminatha Pillai
- A. Karunanidhi — Nair
Interesting facts
Deivapiravi is a 1960 Indian Tamil-language film directed by Krishnan–Panju. The film stars Sivaji Ganesan, Padmini, S. S. Rajendran, K. A. Thangavelu and M. N. Rajam. It was dubbed and released in Telugu as Anumanam on 24 June 1961. At the 8th National Film Awards, the film won the All India Certificate of Merit for the Third Best Feature Film. It was also remade in Hindi in the same year under the title Bindya.
Production
Deivapiravi was written by K. S. Gopalakrishnan. A writer accused him of story theft and Gopalakrishnan was taken to court, but was exonerated after his story was found to be original. S. P. Muthuraman who went on to become a popular director made his acting debut with this film portraying a small role of Angamuthu's son.
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