VAIRA MAALAI 1954 (tamil)

     Vaira maalai is a good clean picture with plenty of entertainment. It is a well directed, well acted and pleasantly produced picture with no other intentions except to entertain. Mistakes often spell mirth, and this is a story of mistakes.

Song Booklet of Vaira Maalai

  The picture is an amusing comedy in which a boy and a girl who should be only too delighted to be united in wedlock, desperately try to run away from an arranged marriage with each other because each party of the arranged marriage is unaware of the identity of the other party. The story is light and tenuous but it is packed with plenty of innocent laughter enabling the picture to be a thoroughly enjoyable affair.

   For paying a sum of Rs 1000 to a girl who had danced at his birthday celebration, Rangaswamy (Manohar), a college student in madras, goes to his house in Coimbatore in order to get hold of a diamond necklace on which he could raise the required money. He meets a girl on the road with whom he falls in love, but her younger brother pulls her away before he could get to know her. Rangaswamy’s uncle and guardian, Sambhandam tells him that he had arranged for his marriage with Santha (Padmini), daughter of Paramasivam (Thangavelu) tenanting Rangaswamy’s house.

                         

     Actually the girl whom he had met on the road is Santha, but Rangaswamy does not knows it. Nor does Santha know that the young man who had been chosen for her is none other than the person whom she had met on the road. The comedy evolves around the fact that both of them try to find a way out of the marriage-and this gives rise to paradoxical situations. A mad woman, Santha’s aunt, is also thrown in and she adds her quota to the rich crop of laughter. After much ado and amusement the two are married.

Padmini in Vaira Maalai

   Sets are few and simple. Padmini’s dances were exquisite pieces. Music and songs were good and direction is impressive.  Thangavelu as Santhas’s father Paramasivam steals the picture with his easy and natural performance. Vadhiraj as Santha’s younger brother and Manohar as Rangaswamy gives best performance. Padmini impresses with her work and looks.

   Film was produced by vaidya films, directed by N. Jaganathan. Lyrics by kannadasan and Music by M.S. Viswanathan, film was released on 25^th September 1954.

    In short Vaira malai is a good, clean and enjoyable picture which amuses and entertains greatly.