Underplayed Gems

Ellorum Nallavare (1975)

Ellorum Nallavare poster
Directed by
S. Balasubramanian
Country
India
Elsewhere
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How it feels

This film is a village drama about ordinary people dealing with everyday moral questions. It follows a family and their neighbors as they navigate small-town life in rural India.

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What happens

Ellorum Nallavare (transl. All people are good) is a 1975 Indian Tamil-language film, directed and produced by S. S. Balan under Gemini Studios. A remake of the 1974 Kannada film Bhootayyana Maga Ayyu, it was simultaneously produced in Telugu and Hindi languages as Andaroo Manchivare (transl. Everyone is good) and Ek Gaon Ki Kahani (transl. The story of a village). Except for the Telugu version, it emerged a box-office bomb. Gemini did not produce another film until 1985 which became Janani. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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