Prahalada (1939)

பிரகலாதா

Based on 'Vishnu Purana', the film deals with the story of Prahlada and his devotion to Lord Vishnu.

Date of release
1939-12-12
TMDB
10.0 / 10 (1)
Runtime
2h 12m
Genres
Drama
Director
B. N. Rao

Casting

Interesting facts

Prahalada is a 1939 Indian Tamil language film directed by B. N. Rao. It deals with the story of Prahlada and his devotion to Lord Vishnu. It was one of the earliest adaptations of this mythologic story after the 1932 Telugu version. The story has subsequently been adapted 20 times in numerous languages including Hindi, Gujarati, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Bengali and Assamese with most of them being successful at the box office. It is also the one of those rare instances where a story has been adapted so many times, generally to box-office success. The film's story is based on the story of Narasimha and Prahlada. It features M. G.

Production

The production was by Salem Shankar Films and Central Studios in Coimbatore. The story and the dialogues of the Tamil film were closely followed for the Malayalam version. The script and dialogues of the Malayalam version was by N. P. Chellappan Nair. The film was an average success at the box office.

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