Manohara (film)

• D. S. Sadasivarao: King
• P. Kannamba: Queen
• Sivaji Ganesan: Manohara
• T. R. Rajkumari: Vasantasena
• Kaka Radhakrishnan: her son
• S. A. Natarajan: General Ugrasen
• S. S. Rajendran:
• K. A. Thangavelu:
• Pandharibai:
• Girija:

Manohara ( Tamil: மனோகரா ) is a Tamil film directed by LV Prasad in the year 1954.

Action

The king succumbs to the seduction of Vasantasena. He leaves it for his wife and his son Manohara. Vasantasena can Mahohara arrest to make her own son to the heritage of the country. In their attempt to seize power, it also locks the king and queen to jail. Manohara can escape from captivity and leads a successful popular revolt against Vasantasena and their general Ugrasen to.

Background

The costume drama Manohara plays in the 11th century at the time of the Chola dynasty, a time of great expansion of the Tamil empire. Writer M. Karunanidhi sat here a stage play of the influential Tamil playwright PV Sambandham Mudaliar (1872-1964) with tamil nationalist tendency, which was in line with the attitude of Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam his party. The chauvinistic attitude of the film culminates in a monologue Ganesans at the end of the film, in which he all Aryans, defaming anti- North Indian rhetoric as intruders and jackals, who came through the Khyber Pass.

The film was made ​​in addition to Tamil in a Telugu and a Hindi version under the title Manohar, which differ in the songs of the film. The lyrics of the Tamil version derived from Karunanidhi; the Telugu version of Acharya Athreya (1921-1989), B. Lakshmikanta Kavi and Sri Sri (1910-1983); the Hindi version of Vishwamitter Adil.