
Acting
C. T. Rajakantham
Born 1917-01-26 · Coimbatore, Madras State (now Tamil Nadu), India
Acting credits
7.0King Rajendra Varman and Queen Mrinalini are reigning the Vyjayanti empire. Mahendra Varman is the rival and the neighbouring king. Kannika is the minister’s daughter, who is in love with King Rajendra Varman and aims to attain him at any cost. This convoluted tale of palace intrigue, suspicion, unreciprocated love, seduction, villainy and piety was interspersed with excellent music.
Raja Mukthi
1948
NRMala, a modern college girl witnesses the murder committed by Sudhagar and hops into a bus bound for Pondicherry. Sudhagar follows and tries to kill her on the journey.
Madras to Pondicherry
1966
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Burma Rani
1945
8.0Mannaru falls in love with his neighbour, Leela, who is a skilled dancer and singer. Realising that he could woo Leela through music, Mannaru seeks help from his musically talented friend.
Adutha Veettu Penn
1960
1942 Indian Tamil-language film
Manonmani
1942
10.0In order to obtain supreme power, an evil saint must sacrifice 1000 men. Soon, he hatches a devious plan and persuades a princess to pose three extremely difficult questions to her suitors.
1000 Thalaivangi Apoorva Chinthamani
1947
1939 Indian Tamil-language film
Manickavasagar
1939
NRA fantasy film based on a folk-tale from the Mahabharata.
Abhimanyu
1948
7.0A social worker rescues a pretty young woman from an old rich landlord who wants to marry her. Enraged by this, the landlord falsely accuses the social worker of murdering his employee.
Nallavan Vazhvan
1961
Shekar, a rich young man, discovers that his cousins, Gowri and Sundar, are finding it difficult to lead a comfortable life. He decides to help them against his father's wishes.
Naan Petra Selvam
1956
8.0Based on the story of the Hindu sage Valmiki who starts as a bandit and eventually undergoes spiritual transformation into a religious mendicant. Valmiki falls in love with a princess,who is kidnapped by the villain
Valmiki
1946
Vasanthan (S. S. Rajendran) goes to America for higher studies. During his absence, his widowed mother Karpagam (C. T. Rajakantham) manages their glass factory at Salem with help of manager Balu (T. K. Ramachandran), who has a relationship with Vasanthan's niece Kokilam (M. N. Rajam). Since Vasnthan's mother does not understand the factory's working and management, Balu brings everything under his control and swindles the company by various means.
Mudhalali
1957
A fake Godman lusts after a pious courtesan. How her devotion to God transforms both of them forms the rest of the story
Krishna Bhakthi
1949
10.0A rich, happy-go-lucky young man lives with his faithful man-servant. The young man gets married to a well-to-do woman who is more educated than him, and she changes him to a more responsible person
Sabapathy
1941
No synopsis available yet.
Manamulla Maruthaaram
1958
8.0After a fight with her father on who her future husband should be, Nalina leaves home on the first night of Navaratri. For the next nine days, she experiences nine types of human behaviour.
Navarathiri
1964
6.8Sundaravadivelu is a wealthy, sadistic and authoritative man who disregards and manipulates everyone within his reach. Through his ruthless deeds, he makes life miserable for everyone in his village, including his ailing wife and two children.
Uthiripookkal
1979
Paalum Pazhamum is a 1961 Tamil-language film directed by A. Bhimsingh and featuring Sivaji Ganesan, B. Saroja Devi, Sowcar Janaki and others. Sivaji is a doctor searching for a cancer cure. Saroja Devi is Sivaji's nurse assistant. Sivaji offers to marry her after her father's death. Saroja Devi assists him in his research. After putting in enormous efforts, Sivaji emerges successful in formulating a new drug but Saroja Devi is diagnosed with tuberculosis. Sivaji neglects his duties as a doctor and starts focusing more on Saroja Devi's health. Saroja Devi flees on a train as she does not wish to divert him from his research.
Paalum Pazhamum
1961