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.
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| 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.
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| 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 25th September 1954.
In short Vaira malai
is a good, clean and enjoyable picture which amuses and entertains greatly.
