Kaithi (1951)

Original title

கைதி

Directed by

S. Balachander

Genre

mystery film

Country

India

Runtime

2h 52m

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A man is wrongfully convicted of a crime and escapes from prison. He tries to clear his name while being hunted by police.

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What happens

Kaithi (transl. Prisoner) is a 1951 Indian Tamil-language crime thriller film written and directed by S. Balachander for Jupiter Pictures. Balachandar also composed the music, and stars alongside S. A. Natarajan, S. Revathi and V. Meenakshi. Adapted from the American film Dark Passage (1947), it revolves around a man being wrongfully convicted, and escaping to clear his name. Kaithi was released on 23 December 1951, and emerged a commercial success. No print of the film, however, is known to survive, making it a lost film. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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