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Manam Oru Kurangu (1967)

Manam Oru Kurangu poster
Directed by
A. T. Krishnaswamy
Genre
comedy film
Country
India
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A man from poor background is transformed into a refined gentleman by a language expert. The film uses comedy to comment on class and social pretension.

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What happens

Manam Oru Kurangu (transl. Mind is a monkey) is a 1967 Indian Tamil-language satirical film directed by A. T. Krishnaswamy and produced by T. V. Arasu. Based on the play of the same name, itself inspired by the 1913 George Bernard Shaw play Pygmalion, the film stars Cho Ramaswamy (who also wrote the screenplay), R. Muthuraman, T. S. Balaiah, A. V. M. Rajan, K. R. Vijaya and Vijayarani. It was released on 14 January 1967 and became a commercial success. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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