கண்ணகி

கண்ணகி (1942)

After losing his entire wealth to a courtesan, Kovalan returns to his wife, Kannagi. She offers him her last piece of jewellery to help him but he is falsely accused of theft and beheaded by the king.

Data de estreia
1942-08-22
TMDB
9.5 / 10 (2)
Duração
3 h 48 min
Géneros
Drama
Realizador
R. S. Mani

Elenco

Curiosidades

Kannagi is a 1942 Indian Tamil-language epic film directed by R.S Mani based on one of The Five Great Epics of Tamil Literature, Cilappatikaram. This is the first Tamil film based on the epic. The second film, Poompuhar, was released in 1964.

Production

The film was mounted on a lavish budget of ₹2.5 lakh (worth ₹25 crore in 2021 prices). The producers chose Elangovan to write the script after being impressed with his work in Ashok-Kumar (1941). The script was finalised after reading 16 scripts relating to the same concept and picking some points from them. P. Kannamba was cast as the titular character and she was 31 years old during the film's shoot.

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