Manohara

Movie
Original title	Manohara
Country of production	India
original language	Tamil
Publishing year	1954
length	199 minutes
Rod
Director	LV Prasad
script	M. Karunanidhi (screenplay), ; P. Sambandam Mudaliar (story)
production	LV Prasad
music	SV Venkatraman
camera	P. Ramasami
occupation
	DS Sadasivarao : King; P. Kannamba : Queen; Sivaji Ganesan : Manohara; TR Rajkumari : Vasantasena; Kaka Radhakrishnan : her son; SA Natarajan : General Ugrasen; SS Rajendran :; KA Thangavelu :; Pandharibai :; Girija :;

Manohara ( Tamil : மனோகரா) is a 1954 Tamil film directed by LV Prasad .

action

The king succumbs to the seduction arts of Vasantasena. He leaves his wife and son Manohara for her. Vasantasena arrests Mahohara in order to inherit her own son. In her attempt to seize power, she also locks the king and queen in prison. Manohara escapes from captivity and leads a successful popular revolt against Vasantasena and her general Ugrasen.

background

The costume film Manohara is set in the 11th century at the time of the Chola dynasty, a time of great expansion of the Tamil empire. Screenwriter M. Karunanidhi put here a play by the influential Tamil playwright PV Sambandham Mudaliar (1872-1964) with a Tamil nationalist tendency, which was in line with the attitude of his party Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam . The chauvinistic attitude of the film culminates in a monologue by Ganesan at the end of the film, in which he defamed all Aryans as intruders and jackals who came over the Khyber Pass in anti-North Indian rhetoric .

In addition to the Tamil version, the film was also made in a Telugu and a Hindi version under the title Manohar , which differ in the songs in the film. The lyrics in the Tamil version are from Karunanidhi; that of the Telugu version by Acharya Athreya (1921–1989), B. Lakshmikanta Kavi and Sri Sri (1910–1983); that of the Hindi version by Vishwamitter Adil .

literature

Entry on Manohara in Ashish Rajadhyaksha, Paul Willemen: Encyclopaedia of Indian Cinema , p. 336

Individual evidence

↑ = North Indian; in contrast to the South Indian Dravids , whose nationalists consider themselves the original and "rightful" inhabitants of the subcontinent
^ Ashish Rajadhyaksha, Paul Willemen: Encyclopaedia of Indian Cinema , p. 336

Web links

Manohara in the Internet Movie Database (English)

[1] = North Indian; in contrast to the South Indian Dravids , whose nationalists consider themselves the original and "rightful" inhabitants of the subcontinent

[2] Ashish Rajadhyaksha, Paul Willemen: Encyclopaedia of Indian Cinema , p. 336