Anubavi Raja Anubavi
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Director K. Balachander Screenplay K. Balachander Writer K. Balachander | 7/10 Release date January 1, 1967 (India) Duration Country India | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date January 1, 1967 (1967-01-01) Music director M. S. Viswanathan, Viswanathan–Ramamoorthy Cast Similar movies Related K Balachander movies |
Anubavi Raja Anubavi (English: Experience it, dear. Experience it.) is a 1967 Indian Tamil-language comedy film written and directed by K. Balachander. It stars Nagesh along with R. Muthuraman, Rajasree and Jayabharathi. Nagesh played dual role in the movie as a modern trend boy without mustache and another as a village man with long hair and mustache. It was remade in Hindi as Do Phool and in Kannada as Kittu Puttu and Malayalam as Aanandham Paramaanandham. The storyline of 1993 Hindi movie Aankhen was similar to this movie.
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The dual role played by Nagesh in Tamil was reprised by Mehmood in Hindi and by Dwarakish in Kannada. Earlier, the triple role played by Nagesh in Panakkara Kudumbam was reprised by reprised by Mehmood in Hindi version (Humjoli) and by Dwarakish in Kannada version (Bhale Huduga).

Cast

Tamil Track list

Music was composed by M. S. Viswanathan while the lyrics were written by Kannadasan. According to Udhav Naig of The Hindu, the song "Madras Nalla Madras" was one of the first songs that tried to provide a commentary on life in Chennai. References to how no one goes slow on the road or speaks good Tamil were also seen in the song. "Muthukulikka Vaareergala" was sung in the Tuticorin Tamil dialect.
Telugu track list

The Telugu language lyrics are written by Anisetty Subbarao.
Reception

Film historian Randor Guy praised the film for the "excellent screenplay, dialogue and direction of K. Balachander and the brilliant performance by Nagesh in a dual role."
Remakes



References
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