C. T. Rajakantham

Acting

C. T. Rajakantham

Born 1917-01-26 · Coimbatore, Madras State (now Tamil Nadu), India

Acting credits

Raja Mukthi poster
7.0

King 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

Madras to Pondicherry poster
NR

Mala, 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

Burma Rani poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Burma Rani

1945

Adutha Veettu Penn poster
8.0

Mannaru 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

No artwork available
NR

1942 Indian Tamil-language film

Manonmani

1942

1000 Thalaivangi Apoorva Chinthamani poster
10.0

In 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

No artwork available
NR

1939 Indian Tamil-language film

Manickavasagar

1939

Abhimanyu poster
NR

A fantasy film based on a folk-tale from the Mahabharata.

Abhimanyu

1948

Nallavan Vazhvan poster
7.0

A 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

No artwork available
NR

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

Valmiki poster
8.0

Based 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

No artwork available
NR

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

No artwork available
NR

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

Sabapathy poster
10.0

A 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 artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Manamulla Maruthaaram

1958

Navarathiri poster
8.0

After 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

Uthiripookkal poster
6.8

Sundaravadivelu 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

No artwork available
8.3

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