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Anjal Petti 520
Anjal Petti 520
	Poster
Directed by	T. N. Balu
Written by	T. N. Balu
Produced by	N. Vasudeva Menon
Starring	Sivaji Ganesan; B. Saroja Devi
Music by	R. Govardhanam
Production; company	Bharath Movies
Release date	27 June 1969;
Country	India
Language	Tamil

Anjal Petti 520 (transl. Post box 520) is a 1969 Indian Tamil-language comedy film directed by T. N. Balu and produced by N. Vasudeva Menon.^[1] The film stars Sivaji Ganesan, B. Saroja Devi, M. N. Nambiar and Nagesh. It was released on 27 June 1969.^[2]^[3]

Plot

Prabhu is Chennai Manager in baby food company whose head office at Madurai. He is very talented Manager and his MD assures him promotion to General Manager position. Suddenly Prabhu gets information as his MD is not giving promotion. Prabhu becomes angry and writes his resignation abusing his company MD. And he drops the letter in Post box 520 (Anjalpetti 520). Next day Prabhu receives telegram bringing his promotion. Then Prabhu realises his mistake and willing to take back the letter he posted to Post box 520. There starts the story and he chasing the letter and he got messed up with conspiracy by villains and finally he come out from all problems.

Cast

Sivaji Ganesan as Prabhu
B. Saroja Devi as Saratha
Major Sundarrajan as Sivachidambaram
M. N. Nambiar as Nagarajan
S. V. Ramadas as Moorthy
K. D. Santhanam as Somasundaram
Senthamarai as Karmegam
R. Balasubramaniam as Kanagasabai
K. R. Ramsingh as Mangat
K. A. Thangavelu as Kanakkappar
Nagesh as Chandru/Stephan
Manorama as Stella
Thengai Srinivasan as Ananth
Vennira Aadai Moorthy as Somu
Suruli Rajan as Ramanujam
Typist Gopu as Gopu
O. A. K. Thevar as Climax Lawyer
Vijaya Lalitha as Dancer
Seethalakshmi as Prabhu Aunty
Natarajan Iyer as Climax Judge
S. A. Kannan as Ravanamoorthy
Natarajan as Court Dawali
Comedy Shanmugam as Post Man

Soundtrack

The music was composed by R. Govardhanam.^[4]

Song	Singers	Lyrics
"Manjal Mugamadiyo Santhana Silaye"	T. M. Soundararajan, P. Susheela	Kannadasan
"Pathu Pathinaru"	T. M. Soundararajan, L. R. Eswari	Kannadasan
"Thirumagal En Veetai"	P. Susheela	Vaali
"Aathi Manithan"	L. R. Eswari	Vaali

Reception

The Indian Express wrote, "Stringing together a few incidents, interesting in themselves but violating logic does not guarantee good entertainment, let alone make a novel movie."^[5]

References

^ Ashok, A. V. (19 July 2002). "Incredible charisma on screen". The Hindu. Archived from the original on 23 April 2021. Retrieved 2 March 2021.
^ "121-130". nadigarthilagam.com. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 11 September 2014.
^ "அஞ்சல் பெட்டி 520". Kalki (in Tamil). 6 July 1969. p. 62. Archived from the original on 22 July 2022. Retrieved 22 July 2022.
^ "Anjal Petti 520". Tamil Songs Lyrics. Archived from the original on 21 September 2021. Retrieved 20 September 2021.
^ "Too many fights". The Indian Express. 28 June 1969. p. 5. Retrieved 11 February 2021 – via Google News Archive.