Kalyana Mandapam (1965 film)

Kalyana Mandapam (English: Wedding Hall) is a 1965 Indian, Tamil language film produced by Dhanalakshmi Theatres. The film was directed by Maa. Raa. and featured C. L. Anandan, Ravichandran, K. R. Vijaya and Rajasree in the lead roles.

It is the story of a young prince, Prathaban who, when he was about to be crowned, was denied the Kingdom by some conspirators who alleges that he is an imposter and there is another true prince. Prathaban vows that he will prove his claim and goes in search of his identity. He meets a mystic who gives him a talisman. One day when Prathaban was sleeping in an abandoned building, he meets a spirit. He believed it was the spirit of his dead mother and kept it inside the talisman. But someone took away the talisman. Prathaban continues his journey and on his way meets a girl, Anandhi and they fall in love. It turned out that Anandhi is a princess. Prathaban is imprisoned for loving Anandhi. How he establishes his identity and regains his Kingdom forms the rest of the story.

List adapted from the database of Film News Anandan and from the film's song book.

The film was produced by Maa. Raa., a popular writer who also directed and wrote the story and dialogues. K. Jagannathan and D. Subramaniam also joined Maa. Raa. as producers. Cinematography was handled by M. Karnan while R. Devarajan was in charge of editing. T. S. Rangasamy was in charge of audiography. Art direction was by Angamuthu and choreography was done by Chinnilal, Sampathkumar, Rajkumar and Jayaraman. The film was shot at Sharadha Studios.

This film is the debut for K. R. Vijaya.

Music was composed by R. Parthasarathy while the lyrics were penned by Vaali and Thellur Dharmarajan. Playback singers are T. M. Soundararajan, P. B. Srinivas, P. Susheela, S. Janaki and L. R. Eswari.