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	<ref name="thehindu">{{Cite news \|url=http://www.thehindu.com/features/cinema/Blast-from-the-Past-Chitra-1946/article16181128.ece \|title=Chitra (1946) \|last=Guy \|first=Randor \|date=1 July 2010 \|work=[[The Hindu]] \|access-date=8 June 2017 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170608130649/http://www.thehindu.com/features/cinema/Blast-from-the-Past-Chitra-1946/article16181128.ece \|archive-date=8 June 2017 \|author-link=Randor Guy \|url-status=dead }}</ref>		<ref name="thehindu">{{Cite news \|url=http://www.thehindu.com/features/cinema/Blast-from-the-Past-Chitra-1946/article16181128.ece \|title=Chitra (1946) \|last=Guy \|first=Randor \|date=1 July 2010 \|work=[[The Hindu]] \|access-date=8 June 2017 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170608130649/http://www.thehindu.com/features/cinema/Blast-from-the-Past-Chitra-1946/article16181128.ece \|archive-date=8 June 2017 \|author-link=Randor Guy \|url-status=dead }}</ref>

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{{short description|1946 film by Wahab Kashmiri}}
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{{Infobox film
| name = Chitra
| image = Chitra 1946.jpg
| caption = Theatrical release poster
| director = Wahab Kashmiri
| producer = [[T. R. Sundaram]]
| starring = [[K. L. V. Vasantha]] [[T. S. Balaiah]] [[T. S. Durairaj]] K. K. Perumal M. E. Madhavan V. S. Susheela
| studio = [[Modern Theatres]]
| released = {{Film date|df=yes|1946|3|30}}
| country = India
| language = Tamil
}}
'''''Chitra''''' is a 1946 [[Tamil language|Tamil]]-language film produced by [[T. R. Sundaram]] of [[Modern Theatres]]. Directed by Wahab Kashmiri, it features [[K. L. V. Vasantha]], [[T. S. Balaiah]], [[T. S. Durairaj]], K. K. Perumal, M. E. Madhavan and V. S. Susheela. The film was released on 30 March 1946 and failed commercially.

==Plot==
A widowed police commissioner's daughter (Vasantha) falls in love with another police officer (Balaiah). Vasantha's father realises that a man has been committing treason by secretly sending radio messages to enemies, so he hires Balaiah to discover who it is. Balaiah, aided by two incompetent helpers (Durairaj and Madhavan), sets out to find the culprit, but the culprit imprisons them in an isolated [[bungalow]].

Unable to find Balaiah, Vasantha is devastated. She and her father make several efforts to locate Balaiah and his aids but fail. At the bungalow, one of Balaiah's aids finds a tie-pin, which is a gift from Vasantha to Balaiah. Balaiah throws it out through a keyhole. Vasantha finds it, after which her father and his men storm the bungalow, free Balaiah and later capture the culprit. Balaiah and Vasantha re-unite.<ref name="thehindu" />

==Production==
''Chitra'' was launched in 1945, soon after [[World War II]] ended.<ref name="thehindu" /> Directed by Wahab Kashmiri, it was produced by [[T. R. Sundaram]] under the banner of [[Modern Theatres]], with [[K. L. V. Vasantha]], [[T. S. Balaiah]], [[T. S. Durairaj]], K. K. Perumal, M. E. Madhavan and V. S. Susheela as the lead actors.<ref name="Anandan" /><ref name="thehindu" /> The film's final length was {{convert|10569|feet|metres}}.<ref name="Anandan" />

==Release and reception==
Although censored on 19 December 1945, ''Chitra'' was released only on 30 March 1946.<ref name="Anandan" /> The magazine ''Pesum Padam'', then known for invoking English-language American films in the context of Sundaram's films, compared Sundaram's deft portrayal of the maid character Kannamma, "who steals the audience's hearts", with that of the minor characters in English films who often steal the show from the main actors.{{sfn|Pillai|2015|p=31}} Swarnavel Eswaran Pillai, author of the 2015 book ''Madras Studios'', believes the invocation of "English films" was deliberate as the reviewer's intention to paint Sundaram's sensibilities as Western was very conspicuous.{{sfn|Pillai|2015|p=89}} According to film historian [[Randor Guy]], the film was not successful because of the "wrong casting" of Balaiah, then known for playing negative roles, in a heroic role, and audiences disliked seeing him "going about smartly dressed in suits" and holding a pipe. The song "Ahahahahaha...Aanandham", picturised on Vasantha, attained popularity. The film's theme of a man leaking secrets to enemies via radio was later used in ''[[Andha Naal]]'' (1954).<ref name="thehindu" />

==References==
{{Reflist|refs=
<ref name="thehindu">{{Cite news |url=http://www.thehindu.com/features/cinema/Blast-from-the-Past-Chitra-1946/article16181128.ece |title=Chitra (1946) |last=Guy |first=Randor |date=1 July 2010 |work=[[The Hindu]] |access-date=8 June 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170608130649/http://www.thehindu.com/features/cinema/Blast-from-the-Past-Chitra-1946/article16181128.ece |archive-date=8 June 2017 |author-link=Randor Guy |url-status=dead }}</ref>

<ref name="Anandan">{{cite book|url=http://lakshmansruthi.com/cineprofiles/1946-cinedetails5.asp|title=Sadhanaigal Padaitha Thamizh Thiraipada Varalaru|last=Film News Anandan|publisher=Sivagami Publishers|year=2004|location=Chennai|language=Tamil|trans-title=Tamil film history and its achievements|author-link=Film News Anandan|archive-url=https://archive.is/20170608105018/http://lakshmansruthi.com/cineprofiles/1946-cinedetails5.asp|archive-date=8 June 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref>
}}

==Bibliography==
* {{Cite book |title=Madras Studios: Narrative, Genre, and Ideology in Tamil Cinema |last=Pillai |first=Swarnavel Eswaran |publisher=[[SAGE Publications]] |year=2015 |isbn=978-93-515-0121-3 }}

==External links==
* {{CITWF title|62172}}
{{Modern Theatres}}

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