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Nadu Iravil
Nadu Iravil
	Poster
Directed by	S. Balachander
Based on	And Then There Were None; by Agatha Christie
Produced by	S. Balachander
Starring	S. Balachander; Major Sundarrajan ; Pandari Bai ; Sowcar Janaki
Cinematography	K. V. S. Reddy
Edited by	K. Govindasamy
Music by	S. Balachander
Production; company	S. B. Creations
Distributed by	S. B. Creations
Release date	1970;
Running time	148 minutes
Country	India
Language	Tamil

Nadu Iravil (/nədʊ ɪrəvɪl/ transl. In the middle of the night) is a 1970 Indian Tamil-language crime thriller film, directed and produced by S. Balachander. The film's story was written by him and dialogue was written by Ve. Laxmanan, who also composed the music.^[1] It is based on Agatha Christie's 1939 novel And Then There Were None.^[2]

Plot

Dhayanandam is a rich man who takes care of his wife Ponni, but they have no children. Dr. Saravanan was the close friend of Dhayanandam, who he tells about his blood cancer and he dies in 20 days. While all Dhayanandam's assets are bound to go in vain, Dr. Saravanan gives an idea, to call all his relations, who eventually come. Unfortunately, they are murdered one by one in the night.

Cast

Major Sundarrajan as Dhayanandam
Pandari Bai as Ponni (Dhayanandam's wife)
S. Balachander as Dr. Saravanan
Sowcar Janaki as Ragini
Cho Ramaswamy as Servar Mose
V. Gopalakrishnan as Ranga Rajan, (Somanathan's Son-in-law/Leela's husband)
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 servant)
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)
S. R. Janaki as Mohanambal (Dhayanandam's sister in law)
Ramanujam as Mottaiyan
Saroja as Pankajam (Mottaiyan's daughter)

Production

After the success of Bommai (1964), S. Balachander launched a film named Nadu Iravil the same year. It was based on the 1939 novel And Then There Were None, by the British writer Agatha Christie.^[3]^[4] Unlike the novel, it features the characters in an urban house rather than being stranded on an island.^[5]

Soundtrack

The soundtrack was composed by S. Balachander, while the lyrics for the songs were written by Ve. Laxmanan.^[6]

Song	Singer	Length
"Kann Kattum Jadaiyile"	P. Susheela	06:11
"Kann Kattum Jadiyile" (pathos)	P. Susheela	07:00
"Naalu Pakkam Yeri"	L. R. Eswari	04:27
"Naalu Pakkam Yeri" – 2	L. R. Eswari	03:23

Release and reception

Though Balachander completed the film in 1964–1965, no distributor was willing to buy it, prompting him to 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.^[3] The Indian Express wrote, "The movie succeeds as a very good entertainer entirely due to the directorial work of S. Balachander and Reddi's camera".^[7]

References

^ Vijayakumar, B. (28 September 2014). "Panchathantram: 1974". The Hindu. Archived from the original on 3 December 2014. Retrieved 3 November 2016.
^ "Author of incredible reach". The Hindu. 24 October 2008. Archived from the original on 1 September 2022. Retrieved 1 September 2012.
^ ^a ^b Sampath, Vikram (2012). Voice of the Veena, S. Balachander: A Biography. Rupa & Co. p. 77. ISBN 978-81-291-1936-0.
^ Rajadhyaksha, Ashish; Willemen, Paul (1998) [1994]. Encyclopaedia of Indian Cinema. British Film Institute and Oxford University Press. p. 51. ISBN 0-19-563579-5.
^ "Aboard the mystery train". The New Indian Express. 23 November 2017. Archived from the original on 29 November 2017. Retrieved 29 November 2017.
^ "Nadu Iravil". Tamil Songs Lyrics. Archived from the original on 16 November 2021. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
^ "Cinema". The Indian Express. 16 May 1970. p. 10. Retrieved 22 January 2019 – via Google News Archive.