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Varavu Nalla Uravu (1981)

Varavu Nalla Uravu poster
Original title
வரவு நல்ல உறவு
Directed by
Visu
Genre
drama film
Country
India
Runtime
2h 19m
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

Two best friends lead very different family lives. One family is full of happiness, while the other runs like a machine without love. The film explores how their relationships change.

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What happens

Varavu Nalla Uravu (transl. Good family relations are valued) is a 1990 Indian Tamil-language drama film, written and directed by Visu and produced by Kavithalayaa Productions. The film stars Visu, Annapoorna, Rekha, Vidhyashree, Kishmu and Ilavarasan. It is about two contrasting families whose patriarchs are best friends. While one family is a happy one to start with, the other is a machine-like family devoid of love. Varavu Nalla Uravu is loosely based on the 1937 film Make Way for Tomorrow, and was remade into Telugu as Dabbu Bhale Jabbu, in Malayalam as Achan Kombathu Amma Varampathu and in Bengali Bangladesh as Amader Sontan. The film was released on 14 April 1990, and won Visu the Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Story Writer. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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