Athisaya Penn is a 1959

Tamil films of 1959

A list of films produced in the Tamil film industry in India in 1959 in alphabetical order:-1959:...

 Tamil Romantic comedy film

Romantic comedy film

Romantic comedy films are films with light-hearted, humorous plotlines, centered on romantic ideals such as that true love is able to surmount most obstacles. One dictionary definition is "a funny movie, play, or television program about a love story that ends happily"...

 written by Javar Seetharaman and directed by M. V. Raman. The film starred Akkineni Nageswara Rao

Akkineni Nageswara Rao

Akkineni Nageswara Rao , also known as ANR, is a Telugu cinema actor from Gudivada, Andhra Pradesh. Nageswara Rao has worked in several genres of films in his 70-year acting career, including mythological, social, and drama films...

, Vyjayanthimala

Vyjayanthimala

Vyjayanthimala Bali is an Indian film actress, Bharathanatyam dancer, carnatic singer, dance choreographer, golfer and a Parliamentarian....

 in the lead while R. S. Manohar

R. S. Manohar

R. S. Manohar was a popular villain actor of yesteryears. He was born at Namakkal in 1925. He had acted over 200 films.-Biography:Ramasamy Subramania Manohar was born on 29 June 1925 at Namakkal as Lakshmi Narashiman to Subramania Iyer and Rajalakshmi Ammal. He got the name Manohar after playing...

, S. A. Ashokan, E. V. Saroja

E. V. Saroja

E. V. Saroja was a famous Tamil and Telugu actress and dancer. She belonged to Thanjavur district, Tamil Nadu.Her debut film was En Thangai in 1952 starring M. G. Ramachandran...

, Madhuri Devi, K. Sankarapani, K. N. Kamlam, M. S. Thirowpathi, V. Seetharaman, Angamuthu and Eswar as the ensemble cast

Ensemble cast

An ensemble cast is made up of cast members in which the principal actors and performers are assigned roughly equal amounts of importance and screen time in a dramatic production. This kind of casting became more popular in television series because it allows flexibility for writers to focus on...

, was produce by M. V. Raman himself with his production company Raman Productions. The films score was composed by S. M. Subbaiah Naidu, edited by M. V. Raman and was filmed by T. Muthu Sami.

Cast

• Akkineni Nageswara Rao
  Akkineni Nageswara Rao
  Akkineni Nageswara Rao , also known as ANR, is a Telugu cinema actor from Gudivada, Andhra Pradesh. Nageswara Rao has worked in several genres of films in his 70-year acting career, including mythological, social, and drama films...
  
  
• Vyjayanthimala
  Vyjayanthimala
  Vyjayanthimala Bali is an Indian film actress, Bharathanatyam dancer, carnatic singer, dance choreographer, golfer and a Parliamentarian....
  
  
• R. S. Manohar
  R. S. Manohar
  R. S. Manohar was a popular villain actor of yesteryears. He was born at Namakkal in 1925. He had acted over 200 films.-Biography:Ramasamy Subramania Manohar was born on 29 June 1925 at Namakkal as Lakshmi Narashiman to Subramania Iyer and Rajalakshmi Ammal. He got the name Manohar after playing...
  
  
• S. A. Ashokan
• E. V. Saroja
  E. V. Saroja
  E. V. Saroja was a famous Tamil and Telugu actress and dancer. She belonged to Thanjavur district, Tamil Nadu.Her debut film was En Thangai in 1952 starring M. G. Ramachandran...
  
  
• Madhuri Devi
• K. Sankarapani
• K. N. Kamlam
• M. S. Thirowpathi
• V. Seetharaman
• Angamuthu
• Eswar

Soundtrack

• Eena Meena Deeka (Female); Singer : P. Susheela
  P. Susheela
  Pulapaka Susheela is an Indian playback singer. In a career spanning more than four decades, she has recorded songs in many Indian languages including Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, Hindi, Bengali, Oriya, Sanskrit, Tulu, Badaga and Sinhalese.-Personal life:She is the daughter of Pulapaka...
  
  
• Anippillai Tennampillai
• Eena Meena Deeka (Male); Singer : T. M. Soundararajan
• Eppo Varuvaro
• Makara Veenai; Singer : A. P. Komala
  A. P. Komala
  A. P. Komala was a South Indian playback singer. She has sung songs in Tamil, Malayalam and Telugu languages.-Filmography:These are some of the films where she was playback singer.-References:...
  
  
• Sila Per Vaza Pala Per
• Tanni Podura Pazakkam; Singer : T. M. Soundararajan
• Unnai Nenachale; Singer : P. Susheela
  P. Susheela
  Pulapaka Susheela is an Indian playback singer. In a career spanning more than four decades, she has recorded songs in many Indian languages including Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, Hindi, Bengali, Oriya, Sanskrit, Tulu, Badaga and Sinhalese.-Personal life:She is the daughter of Pulapaka...
  
  

Inspiration

The film is a remake from 1957 Bollywood

Bollywood

Bollywood is the informal term popularly used for the Hindi-language film industry based in Mumbai , Maharashtra, India. The term is often incorrectly used to refer to the whole of Indian cinema; it is only a part of the total Indian film industry, which includes other production centers producing...

 film Aasha

Aasha (1957 film)

Aasha, also transliterated as Asha, was a 1957 Hindi film. The film became a box office hit.- Plot :The story tells about Kishore who is good-hearted person and always helps poor people even though he is from Zamindar family. Then he travels to Bombay to stay with his cousin Raj who cheats lots of...

 which becomes hit at box office and ended up as 7th highest grossing film of 1957

Bollywood films of 1957

A list of films produced by the Bollywood film industry based in Mumbai in 1957:-Highest grossing:The top ten grossing films at the Indian Box Office in 1957:-1957:-External links:* at the Internet Movie Database...

. It starred by Kishore Kumar

Kishore Kumar

Kishore Kumar , born Abhas Kumar Ganguly, was an Indian film playback singer and an actor who also worked as lyricist, composer, producer, director, screenwriter and scriptwriter.Kishore Kumar was one of India's greatest performers of the late 20th century...

 and Vyjayanthimala

Vyjayanthimala

Vyjayanthimala Bali is an Indian film actress, Bharathanatyam dancer, carnatic singer, dance choreographer, golfer and a Parliamentarian....

 who reprises her role from the original and also directed by M. V. Raman.

External links

• Athisaya Penn profile at Upperstall.com
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