Vanjikkottai Valiban
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| Directed by | S. S. Vasan |
| Produced by | S. S. Vasan |
| Written by |
Story: K. J. Mahadevan C. Srinivasan Kothamangalam Subbu Story & Dialogue:Kothamangalam Subbu |
| Based on |
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas |
| Starring |
Gemini Ganesan Vyjayanthimala Padmini P.S. Veerappa |
| Music by | C. Ramchandra |
| Cinematography | P. Ellappa |
| Edited by | N. R. Krishna Sami |
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| Distributed by | Gemini Pictures |
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Release date
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12 April 1958 |
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Running time
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183 mins |
| Country | India |
| Language | Tamil |
| Box office | ₹ 3.6 million |
Vanjikkottai Valiban (English: The Youth from Vanji Fort) is a 1958 Indian Tamil-language Ruritanian romance film written by Gemini Studios story department consisting of K. J. Mahadevan, C. Srinivasan and Kothamangalam Subbu while the film was directed and produced by S. S. Vasan. It stars Gemini Ganesan and Vyjayanthimala in lead with Padmini, P.S. Veerappa, T. K. Shanmugam, Pasupuleti Kannamba, Vijayakumari, K. A. Thangavelu and M. S. Sundari Bai as the ensemble cast of the film. The camera was handled by P. Ellappa with the audiography was handled by C. E. Biggs while the editing was done by N. R. Krishna Sami. This film was remade in Hindi as Raj Tilak with the same lead actors.
Chokkalingam Navilur (T. K. Shanmugam) is a diwan at Vanjikottai Kingdom. He with his wife, Sivakami (Pasupuleti Kannamba), is loyal to their King. Chokkalingam without any hesitation accuses that Senathipathi (P.S. Veerappa), the brother of the King's second wife, Maharani Ranthamani Devi (Meenakshi) plotted the prince's killing (Daisy Irani). Found guilty, Senathipathi is banished by the kind but is helped by one of his soldier to stay in the kingdom without anyone's knowledge. He later sets up a fire in the city and stabs the king with his sword. The king before dying tells Chokkalingam to save his daughter Padma (Padmini) and the infant prince and dies later. In order to fulfil the king's desire, Chokkalingam sails to safety with the king's children, leaving his family behind. Soon his wife does the same with her children but is caught by the Senathipathi's army. Leaving her children on the moving boat, she is imprisoned for life at an island prison.
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