Bhanumathi Amma consoles her and assures her fulfilment of her ambitions. Jayachandran rejects her love and Indumathi attempts to commit suicide. Indumathi is impressed by the artistic talents of Jayachandran and falls in love with him at the first sight. Raveendran invites Jayachandran to his house. Omana) is against their relationship due to a family feud. Rajalakshmi is in love with Jayachandran (Prem Nazir), an artist, but her mother Bhavani Amma (T.R. Rajalakshmi (Sheela) gives Indumathi daily music lessons. Ummer) and his sister Indumathi (Usha Nandini) lose their mother and are brought up by their maternal aunt Bhanumathi Amma (Aranmula Ponnamma),who loves them as her own children. Padunna Puzha was not carried forward though Adoor Bhasi’s performance was appreciated by the audience.Īdvocate Raveendran (K.P. The practice of assigning female roles to male artistes experimented with in Subbalakshmi acting as Lord Krishna in K Subrahmaniam’s There were rare instances of female artistes performing male roles, for example Geeta Bali acting as the heroine’s brother in Kidar Sharma’s Hindi film With the advent of sound, this practice was stopped. This was perhaps the first time in Indian cinema that a male artiste performed a female role (not as a disguise) after the silent era of cinema. A specialty of this film was the triple role performed by Adoor Bhasi - as mother, son and daughter. Ummer, Sankaradi, Sheela, Usha Nandini, Aranmula Ponnamma etc acted in important roles. Music composed by Dakshinamoorthy was the highlight of the film. Shot at Shyamala and Arunachalam Studios, cinematography was by P. Puram Sadanandan wrote the script and dialogues. Both the films were successful at the box office. Krishnan Nair, who directed the film, directed the Tamil remake Padunna Puzha, released on June 20, 1968, was probably the first Malayalam film that was remade in another language. Early period in Malayalam cinema witnessed a series of remakes of Tamil, Hindi and Telugu films, most of which failed at the box office.

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