Haridas (1944)
- Original title
- ஹரிதாஸ்
- Directed by
- Sundar Rao Nadkarni
- Genre
- biographical film
- Country
- British Raj
- Runtime
- 1h 57m
- Rating
- 8.0 of 10 from 2 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
This is a biographical film from 1944 about a person named Haridas. It stars M. K. Thyagaraja Bhagavathar and was one of the most commercially successful Tamil films of its era, running for a very long time in a single theater.
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What happens
Haridas is a 1944 Tamil language film directed by Sundar Rao Nadkarni and starring M. K. Thyagaraja Bhagavathar, T. R. Rajakumari and N. C. Vasanthakokilam. It holds the record for being the second longest-running Tamil film at a single theatre for 784 days. The first wasChandramukhi, running for an astounding 890 days. IBN Live included Haridas in its list of 100 greatest Indian films of all time. The film was initially released in black and white with just one scene in colour, which was manually colored by studio technicians. The film was re-released with full colour in 1946. It was the last film of M. K. Thyagaraja Bhagavathar before his two year imprisonment due to the Lakshmikanthan murder case. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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