Kudiyirundha Koyil
| Kudiyirundha Koyil | |
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| Directed by | K. Shankar |
| Produced by | T. S. Raja Sunderasan |
| Written by | Swornam |
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| Music by | M. S. Viswanathan |
| Cinematography | V. Ramamoorthy |
| Edited by | K. Shankar K. Narayanan |
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Production
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Saravana Screens
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| Distributed by | Saravana Screens |
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Release date
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1968 |
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Running time
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166 mins |
| Country | India |
| Language | Tamil |
Kudiyirundha Koyil (English: The Sacred Dwelling), is a 1968 Indian Tamil film directed by K. Shankar, starring M. G. Ramachandran, J. Jayalalitha, Rajasree, M. N. Nambiar, Nagesh & L. Vijayalakshmi. Box office hit of the year 1968 and crossed more than 100 days in Chennai and other major cities.The movie is a remake of 1962 Hindi movie China Town.
Twins Sekhar and Anand (Master Sekhar) along with Mangalam (Pandari Bai), their mother witness their father (S. V. Ramadoss) being killed by escaped prisoner Nagappan (M. N. Nambiar), and are grief-stricken. This prompts the family to leave to Chennai in order to pursue a new life. But when Sekhar gets down from the train to fetch some water, it leaves without him. Nagappan arrives and kidnaps Sekhar, who is raised as a criminal, unaware that the same man killed his father.
Years later, the now-grown up Sekhar (M. G. Ramachandran) who calls himself "Babu", is an established criminal and is the most wanted man in the city. Meanwhile, Anand is a club-dancer and neither are aware of each other's existence. During a police encounter, Babu is greviously wounded and seeks shelter in Mangalam 's house, although he does not recognise her as his mother. He develops a soft corner for her, but when Nagappan (now known as Boobadhi, the owner of a cabaret and employer of Babu) learns about this, he tries to eradicate the kind-self out of Babu.
During another police encounter, Babu is again wounded but becomes insane this time, also becoming amnesiac. D.I.G. Mogan (Major Sundarrajan), the local inspector then comes across Anand, and after seeing the striking resemblance between him and Babu, advices him to act as Babu in order to get all the secrets of the gang and have them arrested. Anand agrees, but later realises Babu is his brother. Anand's girlfriend Jaya (Jayalalithaa) sees him having lot of money in a brief-case, and the police chase him. Unaware of the truth, she thinks he has turned into a criminal, and refuses to speak to him. Anand's mother also comes to know of this, and becomes heartbroken. However, Mangalam and Jaya soon reconcile with Anand after learning of the truth, and they both also learn that Babu is his brother.
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