Seetha Kalyanam (1934 film)

Seetha Kalyanam Tamil Seethas Wedding is a 1934 Tamil film produced by Prabhat Film Company. It was the first film for musicians Papanasam Sivan and Veenai S. Balachander. The film was remade in Telugu in the same year.

The film was made under the banner of Prabhat Film Company. V. Shantaram wanted to make a Tamil film using his sets from his 1933 Marathi film Sairandhri. Sairandhri was a financial failure and Shantaram was looking to underwrite its cost by making a Tamil film reusing its sets at Kolhapur. He wrote to Sound and Shadow, a Chennaibased movie magazine asking for help. The people who ran the magazine film directors Murugadasa Muthuswamy Iyer, A. K. Sekhar, K. Ramnoth, and G. K. Seshagiri, their financial backer agreed to help Shantaram. The four of them with V. Sundaram Iyer and his children S. Jayalakshmi, S. Rajam and Veenai S. Balachander went to Kolhapur to participate in the new film. The childrens music tutor, Papanasam Sivan was hired to write the lyrics for the songs. Shantarams cousin, Baburao Pendharkar directed the film with K. Ramnoth as his assistant. The film was later remade in Telugu with a different set of actors, with K. Ramnoth as cinematographer and A. K. Sekhar as art director. The songs were not prerecorded. They were recorded live on the set with the actors singing them in their own voices, while the orchestra players played their instruments beyond the camera range. Instruments which could be carried easily like the harmonium, violin, flute, tabla and clarinet were mostly used.The film was very popular and became a hit. S. Rajam and S. Balachander became famous and came to be known as Prabhat prodigy stars. The film created a controversy among conservatives for having a brother and sister duo star as husband and wife. ........

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