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[[Principal photography]] for the film began with a [[Puja (Hinduism)|''Puja'']] ceremony held at [[AVM Productions|AVM Studios]] on 20 January 1960.{{Sfn|Saravanan|2013|p=125}} The initial budget for the film was {{INR}} 450,000.{{efn|name=exchange}} After the inclusion of Ganesan instead of Chandrababu as well as making appropriate changes to the original script, the budget increased to {{INR}} 1.05 million.{{Sfn|Saravanan|2013|pp=127-128}}{{efn|name=exchange}} The role of Aalavandhar's wife was initially offered to [[Pasupuleti Kannamba]], but due to her poor health at that time, Bhimsingh cast [[M. V. Rajamma]] instead.{{Sfn|Saravanan|2013|p=129}}
[[Principal photography]] for the film began with a [[Puja (Hinduism)|''Puja'']] ceremony held at [[AVM Productions|AVM Studios]] on 20 January 1960.{{Sfn|Saravanan|2013|p=125}} The initial budget for the film was {{INR}} 450,000.{{efn|name=exchange}} After the inclusion of Ganesan instead of Chandrababu as well as making appropriate changes to the original script, the budget increased to {{INR}} 1.05 million.{{Sfn|Saravanan|2013|pp=127-128}}{{efn|name=exchange}} The role of Aalavandhar's wife was initially offered to [[Pasupuleti Kannamba]], but due to her poor health at that time, Bhimsingh cast [[M. V. Rajamma]] instead.{{Sfn|Saravanan|2013|p=129}}

==Themes==
In his book ''Popular Cinema and Politics in South India: The Films of MGR and Rajinikanth'', S. Rajanayagam compared ''Paava Mannippu'' to two other Ganesan films: ''[[Paarthaal Pasi Theerum]]'' (1962) and ''[[Pasamalar]]'' (1961) as the three films "sentimentalised the family-based fraternal, filial and paternal love".<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.co.in/books?id=5FHeCQAAQBAJ&dq=paava+mannippu&source=gbs_navlinks_s | title=Popular Cinema and Politics in South India: The Films of MGR and Rajinikanth | publisher=[[Routledge]] | last=Rajanayagam | first=S. | year=2015 | pages=60 | isbn=978-1-138-82203-0}}</ref>


== Music ==
== Music ==

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Paava Mannippu
File:Pava mannippu.jpg
Theatrical Release Poster
Directed byA. Bhimsingh
Written byM. S. Solaimani (dialogues)
Screenplay byA. Bhimsingh
StarringSivaji Ganesan
Devika
Gemini Ganesan
Savitri
M. R. Radha
CinematographyG. Vittal Rao
Edited byA. Bhimsingh
Music byViswanathan-Ramamoorthy
Production
companies
AVM Productions
Buddha Pictures[2]
Distributed byAVM Productions
Release date
16 March 1961[1]
Running time
193 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageTamil

Paava Mannippu (English: Clemency) is a 1961 Tamil-language drama film directed by A. Bhimsingh. The film features Sivaji Ganesan, Gemini Ganesan, Savitri, M. V. Rajamma, Devika and M. R. Radha in lead roles. The film, produced by Buddha Pictures, had musical score by Viswanathan–Ramamoorthy and was released on 16 March 1961.

Pava Mannippu was the first South Indian film to receive the National Film Award for Second Best Feature Film. The film revolved around the theme of religious harmony with the central characters belonging to Hindu, Muslim and Christian communities. The film was dubbed into Telugu as Papa Pariharam.

Plot

Aalavandhar (M. R. Radha) is a jeweller who lives with his wife (M. V. Rajamma) and two sons Ramu and Rajan. Out of greed, Aalavandhar kills a fellow jeweller who comes to sell him diamonds. When the police interrogate him, he smartly puts the blame on one of his workers named Manickam Pillai (T. S. Balaiah). Manickam lives with his wife and daughter Thangam. His wife, on learning about his implication in the murder, dies of shock immediately after delivering a baby girl. A sympathetic neighbour leaves the baby in the custody of Aalavandhar's wife and takes the elder daughter with her. Aalavandhar's wife hands cover the child to their family friend, James (S. V. Subbaiah). Manickam, on learning about his wife's death and before getting arrested by the police, kidnaps Ramu in revenge and leaves him on a railway track to be killed. Before he changes his mind to rescue him, a local Muslim doctor (Chittoor V. Nagaiah) saves the child and takes him away. All the four children grow: Aalavandhar's son Rajan (Gemini Ganesan), Ramu as Raheem (Sivaji Ganesan) in the doctor's house, Manickam's first daughter as Thangam (Savitri) in the neighbour's house and his second daughter as Mary (Devika) in James's house. Rajan falls in love with Thangam while Raheem likes Mary. The two women reciprocate Rajan's and Raheem's feelings.

Aalavandhar continues to indulge in illegal activities. Raheem and his father protect the people living in a nearby slum area and fight for their rights. Though the slum does not belong to Aalavandhar, he claims it to be his property and plans to sell it for his own personal gain. Raheem and Aalavandhar often argue over this issue. Aalavandhar is also keen to get Mary married to Rajan so that he can inherit James' property. On learning about Raheem's love for Mary, Aalavandhar pours acid on Raheem's face while he is sleep to get rid of him. Though Raheem survives, his face is disfigured. Mary, nevertheless, continues to love Raheem. On hearing of this, Aalavandhar implicates Raheem in a false charge of theft and attempt to murder him; Raheem gets arrested. While Raheem is in jail, Aalavandhar gets the slum vacated.

In the meanwhile, Manickam, who has serving time in prison for Aalavandhar's murder, is released from jail on account of good behaviour and joins James as a driver to be with Mary. Rajan becomes a police officer and soon finds out about his father's illegal activities. After having a frustrating argument with Aalavandhar, Rajan resigns his job as he does not wish to take action against his father. Raheem soon comes out on bail and plans to get Rajan and Thangam married. Aalavandhar comes to know of this and, in a fit of rage, locks Raheem in a hut and lights it on fire. When Manickam learns about the conflict between Aalavandhar and Raheem, he reveals to Aalavandhar's wife that Raheem is her son Ramu, whom he kidnapped. All of them rush to save Raheem. When Aalavandhar learns the truth about Raheem, he immediately realises his mistakes, rushes inside the burning hut and saves him. Aalavandhar then confesses his wrongdoings to the police and is arrested. All the family members unite and propagate religious harmony.

Cast

Lead and supporting actors
Lead and supporting actresses

Production

The idea for Pava Mannippu came to A. Bhimsingh based on a story narrated to him by comedian and singer J. P. Chandrababu. The story involved a man who was born a Hindu, raised as a Muslim and weds a Christian woman. Bhimsingh was impressed with Chandrababu's story and decided to direct a film based on it in addition to producing it under his banner Buddha Pictures. The project was titled Abdullah.[3]

Bhimsingh initially filmed 2,000 feet (610 m) of test footage with scenes featuring Chandrababu as the protagonist. Not convinced with the outcome, Bhimsingh sought M. Saravanan's opinion by screening the filmed footage to him. Saravanan liked the story and narrated it to his father A. V. Meiyappan, who volunteered to co-produce the film with Bhimsingh under AVM Productions; Bhimsingh agreed and began to draft a new script under the new title of Pava Mannippu.[3][4]

While attending the marriage ceremony of Sivaji Ganesan's brother V. C. Shanmugam, Bhimsingh approached Ganesan himself for the lead role as he felt that the film would not work with Chandrababu as the protagonist. Chandrababu too felt the same and agreed to Bhimsingh's choice of Ganesan doing the lead role. Ganesan agreed to do the role after being impressed with the script.[5] Actress Devika was chosen to play Ganesan's love interest, Mary, for which she accepted a salary of ₹ 4,500.[6][a]

Principal photography for the film began with a Puja ceremony held at AVM Studios on 20 January 1960.[8] The initial budget for the film was ₹ 450,000.[a] After the inclusion of Ganesan instead of Chandrababu as well as making appropriate changes to the original script, the budget increased to ₹ 1.05 million.[5][a] The role of Aalavandhar's wife was initially offered to Pasupuleti Kannamba, but due to her poor health at that time, Bhimsingh cast M. V. Rajamma instead.[9]

Themes

In his book Popular Cinema and Politics in South India: The Films of MGR and Rajinikanth, S. Rajanayagam compared Paava Mannippu to two other Ganesan films: Paarthaal Pasi Theerum (1962) and Pasamalar (1961) as the three films "sentimentalised the family-based fraternal, filial and paternal love".[10]

Music

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The soundtrack and score were composed by Viswanathan–Ramamoorthy while the lyrics for the songs were written by Kannadasan.[11] The songs were recorded on 45 RPM record made by The Gramophone Company of India Ltd, under whose label the soundtrack was also released.[12][13] The violin portions for the song "Vantha Naal Muthal", which is based on the Mohanam raga,[14] were played by Ramamoorthy himself. Mukul Bose, the brother of film director Nitin Bose, was the sound designer for the film. For the recording of "Vantha Naal Muthal", Bose had to make use of another area that was allocated for film shooting as the recording theatre could not accommodate all the musicians. The song was recorded using electrical cable wires attached to the film shooting area from the recording theatre.[15]

The soundtrack received critical acclaim, with "Aththan Ennaththan", "Kaalangalil Aval Vasantham", "Paalirukkum Pazham Irukkum" and "Vantha Naal Muthal" becoming evergreen hits.[16][17] Film critic and historian Randor Guy of The Hindu believed that Kannadasan’s lyrics and Viswanathan-Ramamoorthy's music contributed significantly to the film's success.[16] Writing for the same newspaper, film critic Baradwaj Rangan, found "Kaalangalil Aval Vasantham" to be a "joyous list song".[18][b] Singer Charulatha Mani, in her column, A Raga's Journey named "Vantha Naal Muthal" her "personal favourite" in the Mohanam raga and that T. M. Soundararajan's voice "expresses the gamakas with precision."[14] According to Tamil film historian Vamanan, Pava Mannippu "set the stage for a new musical phase that crowned Susheela as the queen of Tamil film songs." He also labelled "Aththan Ennaththan" as an "entrancing melody".[19][20] Writing for The Hindu (Tamil), S. S. Vasan made a thematic comparison of "Vantha Naal Muthal" to Hemanta Mukherjee's song "Din Raat Badalte Hain" from Naya Sansaar (1959). The former mentions how the personality of humans keep changing inspite of natural elements around him remaining intact, while the latter notes that everything is prone to change, including humans and natural elements, and nothing ever really remains intact.[21]

The song "Kaalangalil Aval Vasantham" provided a much needed breakthrough for P. B. Sreenivas as a playback singer. Bhimsingh and Viswanathan-Ramamoorthy convinced Meiyappan to let Sreenivas render the song instead of Gemini Ganesan's usual playback singer A. M. Rajah.[22] A remix version of "Vantha Naal Muthal" is featured on music artist M. Rafi's album Aasaiyae Alaipolae.[23] The song "Ellorum Kondaduvom" is aired on DD Chennai every Eid al-Fitr to commemorate the Islamic festival.[24]

All lyrics are written by Kannadasan

Tracklist[11]
No.TitleSinger(s)Length
1."Aththan Ennaththan"P. Susheela04:38
2."Ellorum Kondaduvom"T. M. Soundararajan, Nagore E. M. Hanifa04:44
3."Kaalangalil Aval Vasantham"P. B. Sreenivas03:10
4."Paalirukkum Pazham Irukkum"P. Susheela03:27
5."Saaya Veeti"T. M. Soundararajan, K. Jamuna Rani, L. R. Eswari03:57
6."Silar Siripar Silar Azhuvar"T. M. Soundararajan05:24
7."Vantha Naal Muthal"T. M. Soundararajan04:57
8."Vantha Naal Muthal (Pathos)"T. M. Soundararajan, G. K. Venkatesh04:54
Total length:35:11

Marketing

The film was released at Sathi Theatre in Chennai. For the publicity of the film, a giant size Helium Balloon printed with AVM title Paava Mannippu was put up floating in the skies of the Mount Road. The balloon attracted everyone crossing Mount Road during those days. It also landed AVM controversy as the necessary permission from the aviation authorities was not taken to fly a balloon in the skies. AVM somehow managed to come out of this controversy. To publicise the film, producer Meiyappan had conducted contests on Radio Ceylon in 1961. A contest for the film's songs (list the best songs in order) announced by AVM received thousands of entries. They were verified in AVM Studios complex by its employees and the results were announced.[25][26][27]

Reception

Critical reception

According to Randor Guy, Paava Mannippu stood out for the theme of religious tolerance and clemency through top artistes. Sivaji as Raheem scored among the audience along with other artistes. The film's theme is relevant even today.[16]

Box Office

The first Tamil film to present the theme of religious harmony and clemency among the people, it was a Sliver Jubilee hit (Ran for over 25 weeks) and received a National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Tamil.[1][16]

Awards

National Film Awards

Notes

  1. ^ a b c The exchange rate in 1961 was 4.79 Indian rupees (₹) per 1 US dollar (US$).[7]
  2. ^ According to Rangan, a list song is a song "whose structure is that of a list, a catalogue of similar-sounding (or similar-meaning) things."[18]

References

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  2. ^ Pava Mannippu (motion picture) (in Tamil). Raj Video Vision Tamil. 23 June 2014. From 0:00:35 to 0:00:55. Retrieved 30 November 2016. {{cite AV media}}: Unknown parameter |trans_title= ignored (|trans-title= suggested) (help)
  3. ^ a b Saravanan 2013, pp. 125–126.
  4. ^ முத்துராமன், எஸ்.பி. (3 June 2015). "சினிமா எடுத்துப் பார் 11 - "பீம்சிங் அல்ல 'பா'ம்சிங்"" [A look into cinema 11 - "Bhimsingh or 'Pa'msingh"]. The Hindu (Tamil) (in Tamil). Archived from the original on 30 November 2016. Retrieved 30 November 2016. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  5. ^ a b Saravanan 2013, pp. 127–128.
  6. ^ "வசனம் எழுத மறுத்த முரசொலிமாறன்". Dina Thanthi (in Tamil). 22 October 2016. Archived from the original on 1 December 2016. Retrieved 1 December 2016. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help); Unknown parameter |trans_title= ignored (|trans-title= suggested) (help)
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  9. ^ Saravanan 2013, p. 129.
  10. ^ Rajanayagam, S. (2015). Popular Cinema and Politics in South India: The Films of MGR and Rajinikanth. Routledge. p. 60. ISBN 978-1-138-82203-0.
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  14. ^ a b Mani, Charulatha (16 September 2011). "A Raga's Journey — Magical Mohanam". The Hindu. Archived from the original on 1 December 2016. Retrieved 1 December 2016. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
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  19. ^ Vamanan (4 April 2016). "Eternally on song – Susheela: Singing voice that made beauty permanent". The Times of India. Archived from the original on 1 December 2016. Retrieved 1 December 2016. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
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