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	'''Seetha Kalyanam''' (''English'': Seetha's Wedding) ({{lang-ta\|சீதா கல்யாணம்}}) (''[[Telugu language\|Telugu]]'': సీత కళ్యాణం) is a 1934 [[Tamil language\|Tamil]] film produced by [[Prabhat Film Company]]. It was the first film for musicians [[Papanasam Sivan]], [[S. Rajam]] and [[Sundaram Balachander\|Veenai S. Balachander]].<ref name=A>~~[http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/thscrip/print.pl?file=2009032051340400.htm&date=2009/03/20/&prd=fr& Artist’s~~ brush with celluloid~~] (~~[[The Hindu]] 20 March 2009)</ref> The film was remade in [[Telugu language\|Telugu]] in the same year. The film is known to be the first ever Tamil film to be released in colour.<ref>https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Article/maltribune19350105-1.2.62.1?ST=1&AT=search&k=seetha%20kalyanam&QT=seetha,kalyanam&oref=article </ref>		'''Seetha Kalyanam''' (''English'': Seetha's Wedding) ({{lang-ta\|சீதா கல்யாணம்}}) (''[[Telugu language\|Telugu]]'': సీత కళ్యాణం) is a 1934 [[Tamil language\|Tamil]] film produced by [[Prabhat Film Company]]. It was the first film for musicians [[Papanasam Sivan]], [[S. Rajam]] and [[Sundaram Balachander\|Veenai S. Balachander]].<ref name=A>"Artist's brush with celluloid", ''[[The Hindu]]'', 20 March 2009</ref> The film was remade in [[Telugu language\|Telugu]] in the same year. The film is known to be the first ever Tamil film to be released in colour.<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Article/maltribune19350105-1.2.62.1?ST=1&AT=search&k=seetha%20kalyanam&QT=seetha,kalyanam&oref=article\|title = Page 11 Advertisements Column 1}}</ref>

	== Plot ==		== Plot ==
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	== References ==		== References ==
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{{Infobox film
| name = Seetha Kalyanam
| image = Seethakalyanam1934.jpg
| caption = S. Rajam as [[Rama]] wielding [[Shiva]]'s bow in Seetha Kalyanam
| director = Baburao Phendarkar [[K. Ramnoth]]<ref name=B /><ref>[http://www.jointscene.com/movies/kollywood/Seetha%20Kalyanam%20-%20I/1124 Seetha Kalyanam – I]{{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110605045352/http://www.jointscene.com/movies/Kollywood/Seetha%20Kalyanam%20-%20I/1124 |date=5 June 2011 }}</ref>
| writer =
| starring = [[S. Rajam]] [[S. Jayalakshmi]] V. Sundaram Iyer [[Sundaram Balachander|Veenai S. Balachander]]
| producer = [[Prabhat Film Company]]
| distributor =
| music = [[Papanasam Sivan]] A.N. Kalayanasundaram
| cinematography = [[K. Ramnoth]]
| editing =
| released = 1934
| runtime =
| language = [[Tamil language|Tamil]]
}}

'''Seetha Kalyanam''' (''English'': Seetha's Wedding) ({{lang-ta|சீதா கல்யாணம்}}) (''[[Telugu language|Telugu]]'': సీత కళ్యాణం) is a 1934 [[Tamil language|Tamil]] film produced by [[Prabhat Film Company]]. It was the first film for musicians [[Papanasam Sivan]], [[S. Rajam]] and [[Sundaram Balachander|Veenai S. Balachander]].<ref name=A>[http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/thscrip/print.pl?file=2009032051340400.htm&date=2009/03/20/&prd=fr& Artist’s brush with celluloid] ([[The Hindu]] 20 March 2009)</ref> The film was remade in [[Telugu language|Telugu]] in the same year. The film is known to be the first ever Tamil film to be released in colour.<ref>https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Article/maltribune19350105-1.2.62.1?ST=1&AT=search&k=seetha%20kalyanam&QT=seetha,kalyanam&oref=article </ref>

== Plot ==
Sita Kalyanam is the story of [[Sita]]'s ([[S. Jayalakshmi]]) ''[[swayamvara]]''. Sita's father King [[Janaka]] (V. Sundaram Iyer) arranges a ''swayamvara'' for his daughter. He announces a contest and declares that whoever can wield ''Shiva Dhanush'' ([[Shiva]]'s bow) will be given Seetha's hand in marriage. After several kings and princes fail to do so, [[Rama]] (S. Rajam), the prince of [[Ayodhya]], wields the bow and marries Sita.

== Production ==
The film was made under the banner of [[Prabhat Film Company]]. [[V. Shantaram]] wanted to make a Tamil film using his sets from his 1933 Marathi film ''Sairandhri''. ''Sairandhri'' was a financial failure and Shantaram was looking to underwrite its cost by making a Tamil film reusing its sets at [[Kolhapur]]. He wrote to ''Sound and Shadow'', a [[Chennai]]-based movie magazine asking for help. The people who ran the magazine — film directors Murugadasa (Muthuswamy Iyer), A. K. Sekhar, K. Ramnoth, and G. K. Seshagiri, their financial backer — agreed to help Shantaram. The four of them with V. Sundaram Iyer and his children — S. Jayalakshmi, [[S. Rajam]] and Veenai S. Balachander — went to Kolhapur to participate in the new film. The children's music tutor, [[Papanasam Sivan]] was hired to write the lyrics for the songs. Shantaram's cousin, Baburao Pendharkar directed the film with K. Ramnoth as his assistant.<ref name =B>[https://web.archive.org/web/20080101141233/http://www.hindu.com/fr/2006/11/03/stories/2006110300660100.htm Remembering Ramnoth]</ref><ref name =A /> The film was later remade in Telugu with a different set of actors, with K. Ramnoth as cinematographer and A. K. Sekhar as art director. The songs were not pre-recorded. They were recorded live on the set with the actors singing them in their own voices, while the orchestra players played their instruments beyond the camera range. Instruments which could be carried easily — like the harmonium, violin, flute, tabla and clarinet — were mostly used.<ref name =C>[https://web.archive.org/web/20071013231725/http://hindu.com/cp/2007/10/05/stories/2007100550401600.htm Blast from the Past – Seetha Kalyanam (1933)]</ref>

== Cast ==
* [[S. Rajam]] – [[Rama]]
* [[S. Jayalakshmi]] – [[Sita]]
*V. Sundaram Iyer – [[Janaka]]
* T. V. Seetharama Iyer – [[Dasaratha]]
* P. Venkata Rao – [[Viswamitra]]
*G. K. Seshagiri
*Kamala – [[Kaikeyi]]
*Rajam – [[Kausalya]]
*S. Saraswathi – [[Urmila (Ramayana)|Urmila]]
*[[Sundaram Balachander|Veenai S. Balachander]] – Musician at Ravana's Court

== Reception ==
The film was very popular and became a hit. S. Rajam and S. Balachander became famous and came to be known as "Prabhat prodigy stars". The film created a controversy among conservatives for having a brother and sister duo star as husband and wife.<ref name=C />

== References ==
{{Reflist|2}}

== External links ==
* {{IMDb title|0253666}}

{{Films based on the Ramayana}}
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