[Beerinkol]

Sollathan ninaikkiren-Maniyans novel
'ninaikka therindha manamae'(this story came as thodarkadhai in Idhayam pesugiradhu with Stills of Kamal,Sripriya)and 'idhaya malar'(*ing Kamal,Sujatha and VKumar)were also based on Maniyans thodarkadhais

'Avan aval adhu'(*ing Sivakumar, Lakshmi, Sripriya)was based on Sivashankaris novle(muyal something)

'sirai','oru malarin payanam',First part of
'oru veedu iru vaasal' and a kannada film by name 'Mithilae nagarathu seedhagal' were all based on Anuradha Ramanans novels and sirukadhais.

[PhillipHer]

Topic suggested by RR on Tue Jan 12 02:37:28 .


To discuss tamil movies that were based on novels.

[Peptobismol]

Manisekaran,
Maragatham (*sivaji) is based on a old novel. Do you recollect the title?

[Ifroham4]

Sivashankaris 'aayul thandanai'(thodarkadhai in 'idhayam pesugiradhu')became 'kanneer pookal'(vijayan,Sripriya)

[Raj_Copi_Jin]

Sorry for the digression:

Ramji: I am zapped that u know my granny krishna since it was pre 70's
some of the novels i remember are
1. kanakavilas
2. prema ganganam.

Other novels will post later.

[9mm_fan]

hai... iam not sure if anyone of u would have heard about this movie "angalai nanbathey"... this movie is based on a novel by "stella bruss"... story came in vikatan... novel was a good one whereas the movie was a real horrible one....

[LottiFurmann]

Ramasamy: Mullum Malarum was by Umachandran.

[Lt_Apple]

Ramki, I smiled a big one at your 'muyal something'! It's 'Oru Singam MuyalAgiradhu'.

[brraverishhh]

bb: sure, the topic is just 'novels'.
As you recollected,
Makkal en pakkam - part of it is based on 'Rage of angels' (Sidney sheldon)

[Lillie_Steins]

Moodupani - Naragaththukku puthiyavan (Rajendrakumar)

[Slonopotam845]

Dhikkatra Parvathi by Rajaji and Athaivida Ragasiyam by Kannadasan have been made into movies.

[LottiFurmann]

Mr.Manisegaran:
Your list is very impressive.jayakanthan's Unnaippol oruvan and Yarukkaga Azhuthan are short stories rather than full length novels.
Malaikallan-(MGR starrer)was written by Kavignar Namakkal Ramalingam .
Rao Bahadur Singaram was written by Kothamangalam Subbu.
Unfortunately there are many excellent novels especially by Indra Parthasarathi and N.Parthasarathi which the moronic tamil film directors will never touch.
Ramamurthy

[doctorzlo]

RR
Maragatham was produced by Kovai Sri Ramulu's Pachirajan Movies and no by S Balachander. Balachander acted in it, along with Sivaji. Murasoli Maran wrote the dialogue in this 1959 movie. Is it "Karungkunra Kolai Vazhakku"?

[S.T.D.]

VanakaththukuRiya KadaliyE - Rajendrakumar

This movie has Sridevi doing dual role with Rajini,
Vijayakumar as jodies.

[doctorzlo]

gita: yes, Athma looked like inspired by "The Miracle". Pratap bothan's earlier movie Vetri Vizha was also an inspiration. The novel was "The Bourne Identity" (Robert Ludlum), at least till first half.

[Big A]

gita, RR: i guess if we start talking about movies based on english novels, things will overflow..makkal en pakkamlle irundhu neraiya padangal appadi)

[Fegasderty]

...otherwise known as "and there were None"

[Big A]

RR & bb,
BTW, makkaL en pakkam itself is remake of "rajavinda magan" *ing mohanlal.

[Slonopotam845]

sAsanam of mahendran is also based on a short story.

[Peptobismol]

oru oothappoo kan simittugirathu is by pushpa thangadurai
AVyil thodarkadhaiyAga vandhadhu