MGR met Nambiar, his good friend, and others connected with the production. After a few reels were shot, the director and the producers realised their hero was a better singer than actor, and halted production.
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Initially, the then popular playback singer Tiruchi Loganathan was made to play the loving brother in En Thangai, directed by Telugu-Tamil filmmaker C. Parasakthi had to wait for some more time to create history with Sivaji Ganesan as hero on screen. Having watched both the plays which had a similar storyline - that of a brother’s undying love for his sister - Sami suggested that the plays could be merged and made into a film, but Natarajan who had by then become famous refused to even hear of it. Sami was approached by some producers to make it into a film. In a quirk of fate, Sivaji Ganesan, virtually unknown at that time, played the hero on stage, whereas it was MGR who played it in the movie!Īround the same period, another play titled ‘Parasakthi’ was also making waves and noted writer-director of his day A. Natarajan (who came to be known as ‘En Thangai’ Natarajan).
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En Thangai was a popular stage play by T. This is a film with a fascinating story behind it, but few are aware of it.