Engal Thangam

ENGAL THANGAM
Directed by	Krishnan-Panju
Produced by	Murasoli Maran M.A.-M.P.
Written by	Murasoli Maran M.A.-M.P.
Starring	MGR Jayalalitha A. V. M. Rajan Pushpalatha S. A. Ashokan
Music by	M. S. Viswanathan
Cinematography	S.Maruthi Rav & Amirtham
Edited by	S.Pandjasamy & S.Muthu
Production company	A.V.M.
Distributed by	La Megala Pictures
Release dates	9 October 1970 (1970-10-09)
Country	India
Language	Tamil

Engal Thangam (In English: Our Gold) is a Tamil thriller film directed by the famous team Krishnan-Panju released in 1970.

Plot

The capital of the Tamil Country at the end of the 60s...

Thangam (MGR), a nice truck driver comes to the rescue of Soumadhi (Pushpalatha), his blind younger sister, by putting on (by assuming) the offences of Moorthy (A. V. M. Rajan), her husband.

Moorthy is a childhood friend of Thangam.

Today, Moorthy fell to the hands of a mysterious group of burglars, because he 's the best professional safe-cracker in the city.

Thangam wants at all costs to save him from this gang and to stop them.

Thangam will be helped in his quest by beautiful and intelligent Kaladevi (Jayalalithaa), his lover.

Cast

Actor	Role
M. G. Ramachandran	as Thangam, (Ramu alias Ramanadhan) and MGR himself (at the beginning of the movie)
A. V. M. Rajan	as Moorthy
J. Jayalalitha	as Kaladevi
Pushpalatha	as Soumadhi, after Lakshimi
S. A. Ashokan	as Selvaraj
R. S. Manohar	as Marthandhan
Cho Ramaswamy	as Larry
Thengai Srinivasan	as Pidhambar
V. S. Raghavan	as The commissioner, Kaladevi 's father
Manorama	as Miss Pantchali
S. N. Lakshmi	as
S.R.Janaki	as

The casting is established according to the original order of the credits of opening of the movie, except those not mentioned

Songs List

Music is composed by M.S.Visuwanadhan.

No.	Title	Lyrics	Singer(s)	Length
1.	"Dont Touch Mr X"	Vaali	T. M. Soundararajan & L. R. Eswari	[04:26]
2.	"Thangapadkathin"	Vaali	T. M. Soundararajan & P. Susheela	[04:31]
3.	"Kadha kaalatchebam"	Vaali	T. M. Soundararajan	[10:57]
4.	"Naan Alavodu Rasipavan"	Vaali	T. M. Soundararajan & P. Susheela	[04:56]
5.	"Mogam Piranthadamma"	Vaali	T. M. Soundararajan	[05:16]
6.	"Naan Sethu Pulachavanda"	Vaali	T. M. Soundararajan	[03:49]

Awards

Best Second Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Siredhe Iredhevade Padhirgal)

By The Tamil Nadu Government (Tamizh Arasin Parisu)

Around the movie

We can see at the beginning of ENGAL THANGAM, the MGR-politique to converse with the MGR-actor. That is really worth seeing!

He gives the real lesson of politics, an attractive blow of communication.

MGR also takes advantage in this realization, of the famous tandem of PARASAKHTI (1952), fourth with them, to tell in song, during almost ten minutes, the spatial exploit of the Odyssey of Apollo 11, disguised as Brahman !

MGR is unrecognizable.

In this story based on the relation brother-sister, the lyric writer Vâli, having drafted " Nâne alavodhu raçippavaine " dried completely, not knowing how to give a continuation(suite).

It is the chief minister of time(period), Mu.Karunanidi, personally and producer also on this movie via his Mégala Pictures, who came to the rescue of "Kavignar", out of inspiration.

"Kalaignair" completed, by adding " Yédaivoume alavinedhri kodhouppavaine … "