Master of Nine Emotions! The Multi-faceted, Versatile and People's Actor - Muthuraman

Muthuraman was one of the several actors who were introduced to the Tamil Movie Industry by SSR. Muthuraman was a stage actor in SSR's troupe and had acted in several plays including several poetic dramas of Mahakavi Bahrathiyar. He got into movies by playing supporting roles during the early stages of his acting career. He went on to establish himself as a leading actor during the era dominated by MGR, Sivaji and Gemini which by itself is a phenomenal achievement and speaks volumes about his talent. He was popularly known as Navarasa Thilagam meaning Master of the nine different human emotions and had an ability to portray all these different emotions with utter ease! He was a favorite co-star of Sivaji and had acted in several movies with Sivaji. His flair for comedy had bagged him several comedy movies during his long film career spanning over four decades. Kaadhalikka Neramillai, Kaasethaan Kadavuladaa, Ooty Varai Uravu, Anubhavi Raja Anubhavi, Edhir Neechal were a few of those super hit comedy movies featuring Muthuraman. Enjoy this super hit song from Police Karan Magal featuring Muthuraman and Vijayakumari. Music - Viswananthan Ramamoorthy and Lyrics by Kannadhasan.

Hit Song from a Superhit Comedy Movie (1964)

This is a hit song from the evergreen comedy movie Kaadhalikka Naeramillai starring Muthuraman, Balaiah, Nagesh, V S Raghavan, Ravichandran (debut), Kanchana, Rajashree, Sachchu and others. The film was directed by Sridhar and music scored by M.S.Viswanathan. This is easily the most Wodehousian of all Indian movies. From beginning to end,its a laugh riot. The basic plot of mistaken identities is a common staple of many Wodehouse novels, but its spirit has never been captured so well in Indian cinema. The story,the dialog, the music, the cinematography, the direction all come together in a perfect, heady concoction never experienced before or since in Tamil cinema. This was the first Tamil film to be shot in Eastman colour. Sridhar's handling of the light-comedy subject matter was a revelation, coming on the heels of his highly-successful tear-jerkers. Comedic geniuses Balaiah and Nagesh, playing the roles of a rich father and a movie-mad son, play off each other in scintillating fashion. The scene where Nagesh narrates a ghost story to Balaiah and scares him out of his wits is a classic sequence. The heroes, Muthuraman and a young Ravichandran, are ideal for their roles. So are the heroines,Kanchana and Rajshree. Sachhu too has excelled, playing Nagesh's aspiring movie heroine and his love-interest. Enjoy the song.

Ravichandran Hits - Maadi Mela Maadi

This is a hit song from the super hit evergreen movie Kaadhalikaa Neramillai starring Ravichandran (Debut), Muthuraman, Kanchana, Rajashree, Balaiah, Chacchu and the one and only Nagesh. The movie was directed by Sridhar. The interesting background to this song is that Dance Master Sundaram (Prabhu Deva's) father is one of the dancers in the group (the one in the white shirt who dances with Ravichandran in the beginning of the song).