Thirudadhe

Thirudadhe
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Directed by	P. Neelakantan
Produced by	V. Arunachalam
Written by	Kannadasan Ma. Lakshmanan
Screenplay by	Kannadasan
Story by	Kannadasan
Starring	M. G. Ramachandran B. Saroja Devi M. N. Nambiar K. A. Thangavelu M. N. Rajam
Music by	S. M. Subbaiah Naidu
Cinematography	V. Ramamoorthy
Edited by	R. Devarajan
Production company	A. L. S. Productions
Distributed by	A. L. S. Productions
Release date	23 March 1961 (1961-03-23)
Running time	173 mins
Country	India
Language	Tamil

Thirudadhe is a Tamil language drama film directed by P. Neelakantan. The film features M. G. Ramachandran, B. Saroja Devi and M. N. Nambiar in lead roles. The film, produced by V. Arunachalam, had musical score by S. M. Subbaiah Naidu and was released on 23 March 1961. Thirudathe became top-grossing film of the year and ran more than 150 days in major cities and maximum run was 166 days. The film was remade in Kannada as Manassakshi with Rajkumar. Later dubbed into Telugu and released as Jebudonga - 13-09-1961

Balu is a small-time thief once he happens to steal money from Sarojadevi’s brother who is the breadwinner of the family. After his death the family has to be taken care by Balu, his stealing attitude changes when his mother came to know that his son was a thief and sacrifices her life. How the family is saved is the rest of the story.

The music was composed by S. M. Subbaiah Naidu. Lyrics by Pattukkottai Kalyanasundaram, Kannadasan, Ku. Sa. Krishnamoorthi, Ku. Ma. Balasubramaniam, M. K. Athmanathan, Muthukoothan & Ra. Pazhanisami. Playback singers are T. M. Soundararajan, Seerkazhi Govindarajan, P. B. Sreenivas, S. C. Krishnan, A. L. Raghavan, P. Suseela, Jikki, K. Jamuna Rani & A. G. Rathnamala.