Nadodi Pattukkaran

<p>Sundaram, Thevar Ayya, Periya Madurai, Seedan, Vadivelu and Annamalai form a music group. Sundaram is a jobless graduate who prefers making his living by singing than being unemployed. The group travels from village to village leaving their families. One day, the group enters a village where robbers spread terror among the villagers. The group confronts them and the police arrests the robbers. The group becomes quickly popular. Geetha, the daughter of the village head Sivathaya, falls under the spell of Sundaram. Later, Geetha and Sundaram fall in love, on the other side Geetha’s family objects their love. What transpires later forms the crux of the story. The music was composed by . N. Krishnaswamy of said “Ilayaraja has a few melodious numbers in this film, that sees Karthik emoting well. Directed and photographed by N. K. Viswanathan, the film is one that has possibilities that are wasted because of his preference for the pedestrian”. C. R. K. of praised the performances of Karthik, Mohini and Nambiar, Ilayaraja’s music but panned the comedy and concluded no matter what the film is, after a formula has been determined that all the incidents must be in this order, there is no need for a single story writer to give them a context.</p>