Unnaipol Oruvan

Unnaipol Oruvan (1965)

உன்னைப்போல் ஒருவன்

After being abandoned by her lover, Thangam, a construction worker, lives in a slum with her only son Chitti Babu. Chitti grows up as an irresponsible kid until he meets the owner of an ice cream factory.

Date of release
1965-02-27
Runtime
2h 30m
Genres
Drama
Director
Jayakanthan

Casting

Interesting facts

Unnaipol Oruvan is a 1965 Indian Tamil-language drama film written, co-produced and directed by Jayakanthan. Based on his novel of the same name, the film was his directorial debut. The film stars R. Gandhimathi, P. Udhayan, S. Prabhakar and A. K. Veerasamy. It had no songs with the background score composed by Chitti Babu. The film won the Third Best Feature Film at the 12th National Film Awards in 1965.

Production

Unnaipol Oruvan was a novel written by Jayakanthan, and serialised in the magazine Ananda Vikatan. Jayakanthan was encouraged by members of the Communist Party of India, with whom he was associated, to make a film based on his stories. Venus Krishnamurthy, a Tamil film distributor, had earlier informed Jayakanthan that he was ready to produce a film based on one of Jayakanthan's stories.

Krishnamurthy was impressed with the novel and asked Jayakanthan to write the script. Jayakanthan completed the script in 10 days and showed it to Krishnamurthy, who after hearing the script, remarked that it resembled a typical Bengali film and did not have any entertaining aspects featuring in it. Jayakanthan and his friends took the criticism seriously and walked out.

The film was made on a shoestring budget of almost ₹1 lakh (worth ₹3 crore in 2021 prices). Principal photography of the film began on the Diwali day of 1964. Members of the Seva-stage troupe were signed up to play principal roles in the film. Filming was completed in 21 days. The film had no songs, and the background score was composed by Chitti Babu.

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