Naangu Killadigal

Naangu Killadigal
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Directed by	L. Balu
Written by	A. L. Narayanan
Produced by	Modern Theatres
Starring	Jaishankar R. S. Manohar Thengai Srinivasan Bharathi Suruli Rajan
Cinematography	C. A. S. Mani
Edited by	L. Balu
Music by	Vedha
Production company	Modern Theatres
Release date	26 September 1969
Running time	138 Mins
Country	India
Language	Tamil

Naangu Killadigal (transl. Four clever men) is 1969 Indian Tamil-language comedy thriller film directed by L. Balu and produced by Modern Theatres. The film script was written by A. L. Narayanan. Music was by Vedha. It stars Jaishankar, R. S. Manohar, Thengai Srinivasan and Suruli Rajan playing lead, with Bharathi, Kumari Padmini, C. L. Anandan playing pivotal roles.

Cast

• Jaishankar as Anandan (a) Kumar
• R. S. Manohar as Ganesan Iyer
• Thengai Srinivasan as Velu (a) Natanam
• Suruli Rajan as Baba (a) Bhai
• Bharathi as Shanthosh Kumari, film actress
• C. L. Anandan as Narendran, A film actor
• Kumari Padmini as Prema, Narendran's girlfriend
• Oru Viral Krishna Rao as Narendran's secretary
• Venniradai Moorthy as Thandavam, Shathosh Kumari's secretary
• Karikol Raju as Shanthosh Kumari's father
• A. L. Narayanan as Tape Singaram
• Chandran as Alwar
• Pushpamala as Pushpa (a) Pappa
• Sivasooriyan as Bioscope
• Ramanathan as Rowdy Varadhan
• Ramani as Shanthosh Kumari's mother

Soundtrack

Music was by Vedha and lyric were written by Kannadasan and A. L. Narayanan.

No.	Song	Singers	Length(m:ss)
1	"Sevvaanathil Oru Natchathiram"	T. M. Soundararajan, P. Susheela	03:22
2	"Nenjikku Nimmathi"	P. Susheela	03:19
3	"Ethu Ethile"	P. Susheela, L. R. Eswari	03:17
4	"Pookkadi Pakkam"	S. V. Ponnusamy, L. R. Eswari	03:56

Reception

The Indian Express wrote, "The main defect of the movie is that you do not know where the parody ends and where they are serious. It is very much like the story of a person who cut his nose to spite his face."