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Paar Magale Paar (1963)

Paar Magale Paar poster
Directed by
A. Bhimsingh
Genre
drama film
Country
India
Runtime
2h 32m
Rated
U
Rating
9.0 of 10 from 2 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A family drama about a child raised by someone else and the tensions that arise when the truth comes out. It was based on a play and earlier Hindi film.

family dramaemotionalclassicsentimentalsuspensefulheartfeltold-fashioned

What happens

Paar Magaley Paar (pronounced [paːɾ maɡaɭeː paːɾ] transl. Look daughter, look) is a 1963 Indian Tamil-language drama film directed by A. Bhimsingh and written by Valampuri Somanathan. Based on the play Petral Thaan Pillaiya by Pattu, which in turn was based on the Hindi film Parvarish (1958), it stars Sivaji Ganesan, M. R. Radha, Sowcar Janaki and C. R. Vijayakumari. The film was released on 12 July 1963. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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