Kanavane Kankanda Deivam

Kanavane Kankanda Deivam (transl. Husband is a Palpable God) is a 1955 Tamil language fantasy film directed by T. R. Raghunath and produced by Pattanna.

Kanavane Kankanda Deivam
Directed by	T. R. Raghunath
Produced by	Pattanna
Screenplay by	K. V. Srinivasan
Story by	K. V. Srinivasan Umachandran Sadasivabrahmam
Starring	Gemini Ganesan Anjali Devi Lalitha V. Nagaiah M. N. Nambiar
Music by	Addepalli Rama Rao Hemant Kumar
Cinematography	B. S. Ranga
Edited by	S. R. Chandra Sekaran
Production company	Vauhini Revathi Narasu Studios
Distributed by	Narayanan Company
Release date	6 May 1955 (6 May 1955)
Running time	167 minutes
Country	India
Language	Tamil

The film script was written by K. V. Srinivasan, Umachandran, and V. Sadha Sivabramnam, and the soundtrack was composed by Hemanth Kumar and A. Rama Rao. The film stars Gemini Ganesan, Anjali Devi, Lalitha, with M. N. Nambiar, T. P. Muthulakshmi, Friends Ramaswamy, Chittoor V. Nagaiah.

The film was remade in Hindi as Devta (1956) The movie ran for 100 days at many cinemas across South India.[1] This film had dance sequences in Gevacolor.

Plot

The King, Soora Simmahar (Chittoor V. Nagaiah), loses his sight and seeks a "Naga Jothi" (serpent light) found in Sarpalokam (Serpent World). A young servant from the King's palace named Vijayan (Gemini Ganesan) who is in love with Princess Nalini (Anjali Devi), undertakes the hazardous journey of retrieving the serpent light.

Vijayan travels to the netherworld and discovers that the Serpent Queen, Naga Rani (Lalitha), jealously guards the light. Vijayan realizes that the Serpent Queen has become attracted to him, and so he pretends to return her love so as to get the light. After Vijayan successfully takes the light, the Serpent Queen becomes aware of his trickery and curses him, turning him into an ugly man.

When Vijayan returns home, Princess Nalini marries him despite his ugliness, however, they are banished from the palace and are forced to live in a hut. Soon after, they have a baby boy, and happily live together in the hut. Vijayan's devoted wife and their son withstand many trials and tribulations. Eventually Vijayan regains his original physical being.[1]

Cast

Cast according to the opening credits of the film

Male cast R. Ganesh as Vijayan V. Nagaiah as Soorasimmar M. N. Nambiar as Veerasenan Friend Ramasami as Singan Nat Annaji Rao as Karunakaran V. P. Balaraman as Soldier

Female cast Anjali Devi as Nalini Lalitha as Nagarani M. N. Rajam as Mallika T. P. Muthulakshmi as Naagi Bala as Nagakanni Baby Uma as Raja

Production

Bhanumathi Ramakrishna, who gained fame from her work with Swarga Seema (1945), was cast at one point. She sang the song "Unnai Kann Theduthey," which was used (resung by P.Susheela) in the film even though she left in the middle of production.[1] Lalitha was cast as a vamp after production commenced, as a substitute for Bhanumathi. Others in the cast included M. N. Nambiar, V. Nagaiah, M. N. Rajam, T. P. Muthulakshmi and 'Friend' Ramasami. Gemini Ganesan disguised himself as a beggar and approached producer Narayana Iyengar, who was so impressed that he gave him the role in the film.[2] The film had its dance sequences by Anjali Devi in Gevacolor which was something rare in that decade.[3]

Soundtrack

Kanavane Kankand Deivam
Soundtrack album by A. Rama Rao and Hemant Kumar
Released	1955
Recorded	1955
Genre	Sareegama[4]
Language	Tamil
Producer	A. Rama Rao and Hemant Kumar

Music composed by A. Rama Rao and Hemant Kumar. Lyrics written by Papanasam Sivan, V. Seetha Raman, K. V. Srinivasan, Ku. Ma. Balasubramaniam and Hemanth Rao. Playback singers are Ghantasala, P. Susheela & P. Leela.

Some songs from the film became hits, the most popular being "Unnai Kann Theduthey". This song was filmed later with Lalitha and was first rendered by P. Bhanumathi. The sequence was shot before the actress chose to walk out of the film. This song (lyrics by Ku. Ma. Balasubramaniam), is still fondly remembered by Tamil movie fans. Bhanumathi told Randor Guy years later that in the song recorded with P. Suseela, the hiccups were hers. This was one of Suseela's early hits as playback singer.[1][5] "Unnai Kann Theduthey" was later remixed by G. V. Prakash Kumar in Va Quarter Cutting (2010).[6]

No	Song	Singer	Lyricist	Length(m:ss)
1	"Jaga Jothiyae"	P. Leela		06:15
2	"Kaashaayam Kattikittu"	???		04:53
3	"Enthan Ullam Thulli"	P. Suseela	Ku. Ma. Balasubramaniam	03:02
4	"Unnai Kann Theduthe"	P. Suseela		03:45
5	"Amba Pethaikku Irangi"	P. Leela		02:49
6	"Kanavane Kann Kanda Deivam" (Amma Nee Kalankathe)	Ghantasala		04:58
7	"Anbalae Malarnthanal"	P. Suseela		03:25
8	"Oh Madha Vantharul"	P. Suseela		03:42
9	"Vazhvinil Valam"			02:02
10	"Intha Veenkobam"	P. Suseela & P. Leela		03:22

Remake

Kanavane Kankanda Deivam was remade in Hindi as Devta (1956),[1] where Gemini Ganesan and Anjali Devi returned.[7]

Kanavane Kankanda Deivam (Tamil)	Devta (Hindi)
Vijayan (R. Ganesh)	Vijay (Ganesh)
Soorasimmar (V. Nagaiah)	Sangram Singh (Bepin Gupta)
Veerasenan (M. N. Nambiar)	Veersen (Nambiar)
Singan (Friend Ramasami)	Bahadur (Agha)
Karunakaran (Nat Annaji Rao)	Balvir (Kamalkrishna)
Soldier (V. P. Balaraman)	Soldiers ( V. P. Balaram, K. Ramaswamy)
Nalini (Anjali Devi)	Nalini (Anjali Devi)
Nagarani (Lalitha)	Naag Rani (Vyjayantimala)
Mallika (M. N. Rajam)	Mallika (Indira)
Naagi (T. P. Muthulakshmi)	Naagi (Krishnakumari)
Nagakanni (Bala)	Naag Kanya (Kumari Kamala)
Raja (Baby Uma)	Raja (Roopkumar)

References

1. Guy, Randor (31 December 2009). "Blast from the past: Kanavaney Kankanda Deivam". The Hindu. Archived from the original on 10 August 2014. Retrieved 19 December 2016.
2. Sudhish Kamath. "Rewind to the first reel". The Hindu. Retrieved 16 September 2015.
3. "Colour films in Tamil".
4. http://saregama.com/album/kanavane-kankanda-deivam_14883
5. "Kanavane Kankanda Deivam songs". gaana. Retrieved 2 April 2016.
6. "வ - குவாட்டர் கட்டிங்". Webdunia (in Tamil). Retrieved 8 June 2018.
7. "Devta". Upperstall.com.

External links

• Kanavane Kankanda Deivam on IMDb
• "Kanavane Kankanda Deivam songs". itunes. Retrieved 2 April 2016.