Meenava Nanban

<p>Kumaran, an adventurer comes to a fishing enclave who help him. He meets the arrogant daughter of Nagaraj, Kamali, who treats them with disrespect and reforms her as they fall in love with each other in the process. He then takes it upon himself to defend the fishermen exploited by Nagaraj. Together with Kamali, they reform Nagaraj while saving him from the bad guys, Arun and Selvaraj, he associates with who turn on him. After the success of (1974), decided to make another film with titled ( ); however it got dropped after Sridhar felt it lacked a strong plot. Sadayappa Chettiar approached Sridhar expressing interest to produce a film with Ramachandran as lead actor and Sridhar directing. Sridhar named the film as ( ) while simultaneously making another film with Ramachandran titled . Sridhar later changed the title from to as per Ramachandran’s suggestion. was the second and final collaboration of Ramachandran with Sridhar, after . , who worked as assistant director, recalled that another famous director joined as assistant in the film’s unit. Angamuthu took care of art direction while Shyam Sunder handled the stunt choreography. Ramachandran performed his own stunt in a scene by jumping from a 12 metres (39 ft) building, but sustained no injuries. A few scenes of were shot at Manipal. The filming was stopped for a few months because Sridhar met with an accident, damaging his left eye. After the operation, Sridhar restarted both films – and – at the same time. During that time, Ramachandran won the 1977 elections and became the , due to which was shelved after canning few scenes but Sridhar completed with climax was shot in a set of a boat resembling flood in studio. Ramachandran wore a wig to portray his character, and ensured it remained consistent throughout the course of production to preserve continuity. The soundtrack was composed by . recalled that Ramachandran discovered that he did not write any song despite production being near completion, so he insisted him to write the song “Thangathil Mugam Eduthu”. The song “Pongum Kadalosai” is based on raga. reviewed the film in two halves; the first was published on 21 August 1977, and the second the following day.</p>