Rickshawkaran is a 1971

1971 in film

The year 1971 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*February 8 - Bob Dylan's hour long documentary film, Eat the Document, premieres at New York's Academy of Music...

 Tamil-language film starring M. G. Ramachandran

M. G. Ramachandran

Maruthur Gopalan Ramachandran , popularly known by his initials , was an Indian film actor, director, producer and politician....

. It was a major success and was produced by Sathya Movies, owned by R. M. Veerappan who was a close colleague of M. G. Ramachandran. M. G. R, the lead actor won a National Film Award in the Best Actor

National Film Award for Best Actor

The National Film Award for Best Actor is an honor presented annually at the National Film Awards of India to an actor who has delivered the best performance in a leading role within the Indian film industry.-Background:The Directorate of Film Festivals makes awards annually in several categories...

 category.

Plot

The movie begins with M. G. R contesting in a Rickshaw race along with fellow rickshaw drivers, meanwhile elsewhere a man with a child is being chased by thug. The man is killed and he is burnt. M. G. R finds the kid and goes in search of justice but is failed by the judicial system by a corrupt lawyer. Manjula plays the female lead, while Padmini plays a supporting role.

Cast

• M.G. Ramachandran
• Manjula
  Manjula Vijayakumar
  Manjula Vijayakumar is a South Indian actress. She has acted in more than 100 films in South Indian languages like Tamil, Telugu and Kannada. She and actor Vijayakumar married shortly after they fell in love on the sets of Unnidam Mayanguhiren...
  
  
• Padmini
  Padmini (actress)
  Padmini was an Indian actress and trained Bharathanatyam dancer who has acted in over 250 Indian films. She has acted in the Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Hindi language films...
  
  
• S. A. Asokan
• Major Sundarrajan
• 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...
  
  
• Cho Ramaswamy
• Thengai Srinivasan
  Thengai Srinivasan
  Thengai Srinivasan was a Tamil film comedian popular in the 1970s and 1980s. He has been given the title Thengai after he acted as a coconut-seller in the drama Kal Manam, staged by actor K. Kannan. Though basically a comedian, he proved himself an all-rounder by excelling in roles other than...
  
  

National Film Awards

• 1972 — National Film Award for Best Actor
  National Film Award for Best Actor
  The National Film Award for Best Actor is an honor presented annually at the National Film Awards of India to an actor who has delivered the best performance in a leading role within the Indian film industry.-Background:The Directorate of Film Festivals makes awards annually in several categories...
  
   for M. G. Ramachandran
  M. G. Ramachandran
  Maruthur Gopalan Ramachandran , popularly known by his initials , was an Indian film actor, director, producer and politician....
  
  

Soundtrack

No.	Song	Singers	Lyrics	Notes
1	"Kadloram Vaangiya"	T. M. Soundararajan	Kannadasan Kannadasan Kannadasan was a Tamil poet and lyricist, heralded as one of the greatest and most important writer in the Tamil language...
2	"Ange Sirippavarkal"	T. M. Soundararajan	Kannadasan
3	"Kollimalai Kaatukkule"	T. M. Soundararajan, 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...	Kannadasan
4	"Ponnazhagu Penmai"	P. Susheela, L. Rajeswari	Kannadasan
5	"Kadalooram Vaangiya"	T. M. Soundararajan	Kannadasan

External links

• Rickshawkaran at Jointscene