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Chembarathy

Chembarathi
Chembarathi film.jpg
Directed by P. N. Menon
Produced by S. Krishnan Nair
Written by Malayattoor Ramakrishnan
Starring Madhu
Shobhana (Roja Ramani)
Raghavan
Sudheer
Music by Devarajan
Cinematography Ashok Kumar
Edited by Ravi Kiran
Production
company
New India Films
Distributed by Thirumeni Pictures
Release date
  • 7 July 1972 (1972-07-07)
Running time
140 minutes
Country India
Language Malayalam

Chembarathi (English: Hibiscus) is a 1972 Malayalam film directed by P. N. Menon and written by Malayattoor Ramakrishnan. It was produced by S. K. Nair (S. Krishnan Nair), a famous literary personality and the founder of Malayalanadu weekly. It stars Madhu along with newcomers Roja Ramani, Raghavan and Sudheer in major roles. The film was an adaptation of Malayattoor's short story "Lodge". Renowned film director Bharathan worked as art director in this film.

It was a notable critical and commercial success upon release. The film was remade in Tamil as Paruva Kaalam in 1974 with Roja Ramani repeating her role and Kamal Haasan playing the male lead and also in Telugu as Kanne Vayasu.

The film sound track album has 8 songs written by Vayalar Ramavarma and composed by G. Devarajan.



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