Irumbu Thirai

Plot

The story revolves around the two brothers Manikam and Kondamuthu and their mill owner.

Crew

Production

In 1959, S. S. Vasan was making a Tamil film which would be a bilingual to Hindi film Paigham starring Dilip Kumar and Vyjayanthimala with theme built around capital-labour relations. The untitled film was referred as "Gemini Production .. ..", after some unsuccessful over the suggestion of the title, Vasan invited his employees to suggest a title for the under-production film where almost 2, 500 entries was submitted to him. After examining one by one, he finally satisfied with the title Irumbu Thirai, which means Iron Curtain, which symbolised the ideology of Marxist film theory. He also hosted a reception to honour the boy who suggested the title and rewarded him with some price money. For the mother of the lead actress, Vasundhara Devi the real-life mother of Vyjayanthimala was fixed where she also reprises her role in the Hindi version of the film, along with her all the female cast including Vyjayanthimala, B. Saroja Devi, Pandari Bai also reprises their roles as well.

Soundtrack

The soundtrack was composed by S. V. Venkatraman who earlier had many hit number through Bhookailas, Meera, Valmiki and Panakkaari. The hit album had Kothamangalam Subbu, Papanasam Sivan and Pattukkottai Kalyanasundaram as the lyricists. The singers consist of T. M. Soundararajan, Tiruchi Loganathan, Seerkazhi Govindarajan, P. Leela, Jikki, Radha Jayalakshmi & L. R. Eswari.

The song Nenjil Kudiyirukkum was well received by the audience especially the line "nilamai ennavendru theriyuma," which was made in Shanmukhapriya raga was also appreciated by critics alike.