Pava Mannippu

Pava 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 ViswanathanRamamoorthy and was released onMarch 1961. The film 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 characters belonging to Hindu, Muslim and Christian communties. The film was dubbed into Telugu as Papa Pariharam.

Sivaji Ganesan, Gemini Ganesan, Savitri, Devika, M. R. Radha, T. S. Balaiah, M. N. Nambiar and S. V. Subbiah costar in this complicated melodrama about the actions of one dishonest man and the effect they have on the next generation.The story of the film was narrated by Chandrababu to Bhimsingh. Bhimsingh was impressed and decided to direct the film under his production banner and the project was titled Abdulla. After shooting 2000 feet with Chandrababu, the film got stopped as Bhimsingh had faced many issues and was not convinced with the way the film was came. AVM Saravanan shown the portions of the film to his father Meiyappan. Meiyappan asked Bhimsingh to do the film under the partnership of AVM. Bhimsingh then approached Sivaji Ganesan to take up the lead role, scrapped the film taken till then and reshot it with Sivaji under the new title Pava Mannippu, the film was produced by Bhimsingh under his banner Buddha Pictures along with AVM Productions. ........

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