Sampoorna Ramayanam

Sampoorna Ramayanam (1958)

சம்பூர்ண ராமாயணம்

The story of the complete Ramayana, from the birth of Lord Rama to his Pattabhisheka after completing his exile.

Date of release
1958-04-14
TMDB
8.0 / 10 (2)
Runtime
3h 24m
Genres
History, Drama, War
Director
K. Somu

Casting

Interesting facts

Sampoorna Ramayanam is a 1958 Indian Tamil -language Hindu mythological film directed by K. Somu. It is based on Valmiki's Ramayana. The film stars N. T. Rama Rao in the lead role of Rama and Sivaji Ganesan as Bharatha. It was released on 14 April 1958 and ran for over 264 days in theatres, thereby becoming a silver jubilee hit. The film was dubbed into Hindi as Ramayan in 1960.

Production

After Town Bus (1955), its producer M. A. Venu decided that his next venture would be Sampoorna Ramayanam, based on the Ramayana, an Indian epic written by Valmiki. It was directed by K. Somu and produced by Venu under M. A. V. Pictures, while A. P. Nagarajan wrote the screenplay. Cinematography was handled by V. K. Gopanna, and the editing by T. Vijayarangam.

K. V. Srinivasan dubbed the voice of N. T. Rama Rao, who played Rama. S. S. Rajendran was initially offered to play Bharata but declined due to his aversion to act in films based on mythology; Sivaji Ganesan was later cast in that role. This marked Ganesan's first mythological film.

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