Nadu Iravil

Nadu Iravil
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Directed by	Sundaram Balachandar
Produced by	Sundaram Balachandar
Written by	Ve. Laxmanan
Story by	Sundaram Balachandar
Starring	Sundaram Balachandar Major Sundararajan Pandari Bai Sowcar Janaki
Music by	Sundaram Balachandar D. B. Ramachandran (Background Music)
Cinematography	K. V. S. Reddy
Edited by	K. Govindasamy
Production company	Vahini Studios
Distributed by	S. B. Creations
Release dates	1970
Running time	148 minutes
Country	India
Language	Tamil

Nadu Iravil (English: In the middle of the night) is a 1970 Indian Tamil crime thriller film directed and produced by Sundaram Balachander. The film story were written by Ve. Laxmanan and dialogue written by Balachander, who also composed the music. It is loosely based on Agatha Christie's Ten Little Niggers.

Cast

• Sundaram Balachandar as Dr. Saravanan
• Sowcar Janaki as Ragini
• Cho Ramaswamy as
• V. R. Thilagam as Leela (Ranga Rajan's Wife)
• M.S.S.Pakkiyam as Neelamegham's wife
• E.R.Sahadevan as Neelamegham
• K.Vijayan as Aravindhan (Vadivambal elder son)
• V. S. Raghavan as Jambulingam (Dhayanandam's younger brother/blind man)
• Sadhan as Kalyam (Aravindan's younger brother)
• Kottappuli Jayaraman as Joseph (Dhayanandam's house maid)
• Maali alias Mahalingam (Mohanambal's Son)
• S.N.Lakshmi as Vadivambal (Dhayanandam's Sister)
• C.V.V.Banthulu as Somanathan
• Kalpana as Anu Radha (Neelamegham's Daughter)
• Major Sundararajan as Dhayanandam
• S.R.Janaki as Mohanambal (Dhayanandam's Sister)
• Pandari Bai as Ponni (Dhayanandam's wife)
• Ramanujam as Mottiyan
• V.Gopalakrishnan as Ranga Rajan (Somanathan's Son-in-law/Leela's husband)
• Saroja as Pankajam (Mottiyan Daughter)

Production and release

After the success of Bommai (1964), Sundaram Balachander made Nadu Iravil the same year. It was based on the 1939 novel And Then There Were None (also known as Ten Little Niggers) by the British writer Agatha Christie. Though he completed the film in 1964-1965, no distributor was willing to buy the film, forcing Balachander to finance and distribute the film himself; Nadu Iravil was eventually released in 1970 and became a major success, prompting several distributors who earlier rejected the film, to return and beg Balachander for distributing it.

Soundtrack

Nadu Iravil
Soundtrack album by Sundaram Balachandar
Released	1970
Recorded	1970
Genre	Sareegama
Length	21:01
Language	Tamil
Producer	Sundaram Balachandar

Music composed by Sundaram Balachander and lyrics written by Ve. Laxmanan.

No	Song	Singer	Lyrics	Length(m:ss)
1	Kann Kattum Jadaiyile	P. Suseela	Ve. Laxmanan	06:11
2	Kann Kattum Jadiyile (pathos)			07:00
3	Naalu Pakkam Yeri	L. R. Eswari		04:27
4	Naalu Pakkam Yeri-2			03:23

Bibliography

• https://wrongtamilcinema.wordpress.com/2011/07/10/100-must-watch-tamil-films-before-you-die/

External links

• Nadu Iravil at IMDb

• http://www.thehindu.com/features/metroplus/panchathantram-1974/article6452869.ece
• http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-fridayreview/article1436117.ece
• Sampath 2012.