Ellorum Nallavare (transl. All people are good) is a 1975 Indian Tamil-language film, directed and produced by S. S. Balan.[1] It is a remake of the 1974 Kannada film Bhootayyana Maga Ayyu.[2] It was simultaneously produced in Telugu and Hindi languages as Andaroo Manchivare (transl. Everyone is good) and Ek Gaon Ki Kahani (transl. The story of a village). The trilingual was the last production of Gemini Studios; except for the Telugu version, it emerged a box-office bomb and led to the studio's collapse.
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Directed by | S. S. Balan |
Story by | Gorur Ramasawamy Iyengar |
Produced by | S. S. Balan |
Starring | R. Muthuraman Manjula Vijayakumar Jayanthi V.S. Raghavan Lokesh |
Music by | V. Kumar |
Production company | Gemini Studios |
Release date | 11 April 1975 |
Country | India |
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The story line includes characters like a greedy moneylender and his repentant son, a good Samaritan, who is a victim of the unscrupulous moneylender, his son, the enmity that springs up, romance thrown in for good measure, the fury unleashed by a remorseless nature, and the terrible wages that evil earns.
Ellorum Nallavare was produced and directed by S. S. Balan.[3][4] It was the final film produced under the Gemini Studios banner.[5][6] It was a trilingual,[7] produced in Tamil, Telugu and Hindi languages.[8] The Telugu version was titled Andaroo Manchivare,[9] and the Hindi version was titled Ek Gaon Ki Kahani.[10]
The soundtrack was composed by V. Kumar.[11][12]
Track | Song | Singer(s) | Lyrics |
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1 | "Sivappukkal" | T. M. Soundararajan, P. Susheela | Kannadasan |
2 | "Padaithaane Bramma Devan" | S. P. Balasubramaniyan | Panchu Arunachalam |
3 | "Yamma Kannu" | S. P. Balasubramaniyan | Panchu Arunachalam |
4 | "Pagai Konda Ullam" | K. J. Yesudas | Pulamaipithan |
Ellorum Nallavare was a box office bomb,[3][13] and led to the collapse of Gemini Studios.[7] Ek Gaon Ki Kahani too did not succeed, but the Telugu version did.[14]