Sadhu Mirandal

<p>On 13 November 1958 in Madras (now ), Suryanarayana, a bank official, was murdered for money by his friend Narayana Swamy and associates Vijayakumar and Joginder, while travelling via Narayana Swamy’s car after taking a large sum of cash from his bank’s head office in to his branch in . Vijayakumar and Narayana Swamy were apprehended, but Joginder escaped. This incident became known as the “Suryanarayana Murder Case”, and inspired to write a screenplay. He produced it under the banner Sree Venkateswara Cinetone as the film , which his assistants directed. The story and dialogues were written by Usilai Somanathan. Art direction was handled by H. Shantaram, editing by A. Paul Durai Singham and cinematography by G. Vittal Rao. also contributed to the script, but was not credited. It is the feature film debut of . The final length of the film was 3,996 metres (13,110 ft). The soundtrack was composed by . Ramamoorthy earlier composed for films with (under the name ) and this was his first film as a solo composer. One song, “A for Apple… B for Biscuit…”, written by Thanjai Vaanan and sung by and , attained popularity, as did “Arulvaaye Nee Arulvaaye”, sung by . This song is set in the . was released on 14 April 1966, and was distributed by Sun Beam. The film became a commercial success, and received a positive review from for its innovative storyline and making.</p>