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Director
  
J. Mahendran

Screenplay
  
J. Mahendran

Country
  
India

7.1/10
IMDb

Music director
  
Ilayaraja

Duration
  

Language
  
Release date
  
17 April 1981

Cast
  
Ashwini
,
Rajasekhar
,
Archana
, ,

Similar movies
  
Related J Mahendran movies

Nandu (English: Crab) is a 1981 Tamil feature film written and directed by J. Mahendran. The film's score and soundtrack are composed by Ilayaraja.

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Tamil movie song nandu manjal veyil maalai itta poove


Plot

Ram Kumar Sharma is a sickly person living in Lucknow in a large family. He suffers from asthma and does not like the behavior of his autocratic father but is deeply attached to his loving mother. Unable to get along with his father who compels him to marry a girl of his choice, the protagonist leaves for Chennai. He finds a job there and meets Seetha (Ashwini). Once settled, he goes around looking for a house with the help of house broker - Kumari Muthu. Incidentally, he finds Seetha residing as a tenant in a portion under the very same house. He likes the portion and agrees to start living there.

The lives of the girls who live in portions of the large house are brightened by the appearance of the engineer from Lucknow. Of them, two of them try to impress Sharma. One of them is the house owner's daughter, while the other is Seetha. Eventually, he ends up marrying Seetha.

Nandu - The significance of the title "Nandu" is not known until the climax of the story. Nandu means crab in Tamil. The protagonist plays an asthma patient in the movie.

Cast

  • Suresh as Ramkumar Sharma
  • Aswini as Seetha
  • Venniradai Moorthy as Singa Muth
  • Vanitha as Uma
  • Kutty Padmini as Lakshmi
  • Sami Kannu as Arunachalam
  • S. N. Parvathi as Uma's mother
  • Kumari Muthu as House broker
  • Soundtrack

    Lyrics are written by Gangai Amaran (Tamil) , Madukkur Kannan( Yaar Kannan) (Tamil) and P. B. Srinivas (Hindi) and scored by Ilayaraja.

  • Paaduthamma Kaatril Alaikal - Title Song
  • Alli thantha Bhoomi{Lyrics by Madukkur Kannan ( Yaar Kannan)} - Malaysia Vasudevan
  • Kaise Kahoon Kuch Kahna Sakoon - Bhupendra, S.Janaki
  • Manjal Veyil Maalai Itta Poove - Uma Ramanan
  • Hum Hai Akele - S.Janaki
  • References

    Nandu (film) Wikipedia
    Nandu (film) IMDb