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.

Movies based on novels
 

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


To discuss tamil movies that were based on novels.

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

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

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.

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....

Ramasamy: Mullum Malarum was by Umachandran.

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

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

Moodupani - Naragaththukku puthiyavan (Rajendrakumar)

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

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

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"?

VanakaththukuRiya KadaliyE - Rajendrakumar

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

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.

gita, RR: i guess if we start talking about movies based on english novels, things will overflow..makkal en pakkamlle irundhu neraiya padangal appadihttp://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...icon_smile.gif)

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

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

sAsanam of mahendran is also based on a short story.

Hi
My contribution to the list:
Mullum Malarum published in Kalki in the sixties.
Writer : Umachandran ? (not sure)
Movie directed by Mahendran.