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{{Infobox film
| name = Kuzhandai Ullam
| image = Kuzhandai Ullam.jpg
| border = no
| caption = Theatrical release poster
| director = [[Savitri (actress)|Savitri]]
| producer = Savitri
| screenplay = Savitri
| starring = [[Gemini Ganesan]]<br />[[Sowcar Janaki]]<br />[[Vanisri]]
| music = [[S. P. Kodandapani]]
| cinematography = Singh<br />Sekhar
| editing = 
| studio = Sri Savitri Productions
| distributor = 
| released = {{Film date|df=yes/no|1969|January|14}}
| runtime = 
| country = India
| language = Tamil
| budget = 
| gross = 
}}
'''''Kuzhandai Ullam''''' ({{Translation|Childish heart}}) is a 1969 Indian [[Tamil language|Tamil]]-language [[Drama (film and television)|drama film]] directed, produced and written by [[Savitri (actress)|Savitri]]. The film stars [[Gemini Ganesan]], [[Sowcar Janaki]] and [[Vanisri]]. A remake of Savitri's [[Telugu language|Telugu]] film ''[[Chinnari Papalu]]'' (1968), it was released on 14 January 1969 and became an average success.

== Plot ==
A rich painter meets a tribal girl at a forest and falls in love with her. He finds himself married to her without knowing it, spends a night with her blissfully and then is forced into marrying a city girl to satisfy his mother. His emotional involvement with the tribal girl, whom he just cannot erase from memory complicates things. Ultimately, thanks to two children, the broken hearts are united.

== Cast ==
* [[Gemini Ganesan]]<ref name="IE review" />
* [[Sowcar Janaki]]<ref name="IE review" />
* [[Vanisri]]<ref name="IE review" />
* [[R. S. Manohar]]<ref name="IE review" />

== Production ==
Though [[Savitri (actress)|Savitri's]] Telugu film ''[[Chinnari Papalu]]'' (1968) was a [[box-office bomb]], it received critical acclaim; this prompted her to remake it in Tamil as ''Kuzhandai Ullam''.<ref name="thehindu" /> Savitri, in addition to directing, produced it under Sri Savitri Productions, and wrote the screenplay while M. Lakshmanan wrote the dialogues.<ref name="poster" /> Singh and Sekhar, the cinematographers of the original,<ref name="thehindu" /> returned in their positions.<ref name="poster" />

== Soundtrack ==
The soundtrack was composed by [[S. P. Kodandapani]], and the lyrics were written by [[Kannadasan]].<ref name="poster" /><ref>{{Cite web |title=Kuzhanthai Ullam |url=http://tamilsongslyrics123.com/listlyrics/256 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210721050233/http://tamilsongslyrics123.com/listlyrics/256 |archive-date=21 July 2021 |access-date=21 July 2021 |website=Songs4all}}</ref>{{Track listing
| extra_column = Singer(s)
| title1 = Angum Ingum Ondre
| extra1 = [[P. Susheela]], Renuka
| length1 =
| title2 = Muthu Chippikkulle
| extra2 = P. Susheela, [[S. P. Balasubrahmanyam]]
| length2 =
| title3 = Poomarathu Nizhalumundu
| extra3 = P. Susheela, [[S. Janaki]]
| length3 =
| title4 = Kudagu Naadu Ponni
| extra4 = P. Susheela, Seerkali Govindarajan
| length4 =
}}

== Release and reception ==
''Kuzhandai Ullam'' was released on 14 January 1969,<ref name="poster" /> during [[Pongal (festival)|Pongal]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=26 June 2016 |title=சாவித்திரி! (13) |url=https://www.dinamalar.com/supplementary_detail.asp?id=31624&cat=2&Print=1 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20191117085849/https://www.dinamalar.com/supplementary_detail.asp?id=31624&cat=2&Print=1 |archive-date=17 November 2019 |access-date=17 November 2019 |website=[[Dinamalar]] |language=ta}}</ref> ''[[The Indian Express]]'' wrote on 25 January, "[Savitri] has on the whole weaved a fairly appealing product though old-fashioned in style and treatment."<ref name="IE review" /> The film was an average success.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Jeyaraj |first=D. B. S. |author-link=D. B. S. Jeyaraj |date=7 July 2018 |title="Nadigaiyar Thilagam" Savitri: Biographical Movie About The Rise and Fall of a "Mahanati" (Great Actress) |url=http://dbsjeyaraj.com/dbsj/archives/59209 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190209124311/http://dbsjeyaraj.com/dbsj/archives/59209 |archive-date=9 February 2019 |access-date=17 November 2019 |website=dbsjeyaraj.com}}</ref>

== References ==
{{reflist|refs=
<ref name="thehindu">{{Cite news |last=Narasimham |first=M. L. |date=25 January 2019 |title=Chinnari Paapalu (1968) |work=[[The Hindu]] |url=https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-fridayreview/chinnari-paapalu-1968/article26086871.ece |url-status=dead |access-date=17 November 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190301175757/https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-fridayreview/chinnari-paapalu-1968/article26086871.ece |archive-date=1 March 2019}}</ref>
<ref name="poster">{{Cite news |date=14 January 1969 |title=Kuzhandai Ullam |page=5 |work=[[The Indian Express]] |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=P9oYG7HA76QC&dat=19690114&printsec=frontpage&hl=en}}</ref>
<ref name="IE review">{{Cite news |date=25 January 1969 |title=Popular heroine |page=5 |work=[[The Indian Express]] |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=P9oYG7HA76QC&dat=19690125&printsec=frontpage&hl=en}}</ref>
}}

== External links ==
* {{IMDb title|id=1464245}}

[[Category:Indian drama films]]
[[Category:Indian films]]
[[Category:Tamil remakes of Telugu films]]

Kuzhandai Ullam - Revision history

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