Veera Abhimanyu

<p>The prince explains to his pregnant wife the nuances of entering the , a deadly war-plan created by . , the child in Subhadrai’s womb, listens to it. When Arjunan is about to explain how to come out of it, shows up and diverts the topic. While the Pandavas are in the during the , Abhimanyu grows up at as a valiant warrior. While chasing , Abhimanyu enters King ‘s garden and meets , and they both fall in love. Abhimanyu seeks ‘s support to marry Uthrai. When the Pandavas’ ends, the marriage of Abhimanyu and Uthrai is conducted. Upon returning, the Pandavas seek their share of the kingdom, but the prince refuses to part with even five villages, leading to the . Drona creates the to stop Abhimanyu, who is slayed by the Kauravas through deceit. To a devastated Arjunan, Krishna conveys, through his , the truth about the circle of life. revolves around , a character in the Indian epic . Directed by and produced by Sunderlal Nahta and under the banner Rajalakshmi Productions, it was simultaneously produced in Tamil and Telugu languages, the latter as which featured a largely different cast. In Tamil, played the title role of Abhimanyu, and played . They were replaced in Telugu by and , respectively. played in both versions. Since Kanchana was familiar with the story and already knew what Uttara would go through, she was comfortable when facing the camera. The screenplay was written by S. I. Peruman, cinematography was handled by Ravi, the editing by N. S. Prakasam, and the art direction by S. Krishna Rao. The soundtrack was composed by , and the lyrics were written by . The song “Paarthen, Sirithen” is set in the known as . While in , Kannadasan was relaxing after a meal. His assistant requested him to write a “sweet song”; immediately, Kannadasan broke into the verse “Paarthen sirithen pakkathil azhaithen, anru unaithen ena naan ninaithen, andha malaithen idhuvena malaithen”; each word ended with “then”, meaning . The word appears 65 times in the song. Kannadasan took inspiration from a poem by , which used the same word five times. Writing for , Sudha Balachandran praised the song’s setting in the Sahana raga, and wrote that Kannadasan “penned lines with unique word-play, amazing puns and punctuated the verses with beautiful rhyming.” Film critic , who defines a “list song” as one where the “structure is that of a list, a catalogue of similar-sounding (or similar-meaning) things”, called it a list of “dazzling rhymes”. was released on 20 August 1965, eight days after (12 August). lauded the film, particularly the performances of Ganesan Rajan, Balaji Thevar, Nagesh and Varalakshmi, in addition to the battle sequences. Writing in , T. M. Ramachandran too praised the film, primarily for the cast performances, the storytelling, the sets and the trick photography. Despite this, the film did not succeed commercially, and distributors blamed the producers for casting Ganesan (instead of Rama Rao) as Krishna.</p>