Maanavan
Maanavan is a 1970 Indian Tamil-language coming-of-age drama film directed by M. A. Thirumugam and produced by Sandow M. M. A. Chinnappa Thevar under Dhandayudhapani Films. The scripts were written by Balamurugan. The film starred Jaishankar and Muthuraman with Sowcar Janaki, Lakshmi, Nagesh and Sachu in supporting roles. Kamal Haasan appears only for a dance sequence along with Kutty Padmini. Hassan returns to Cinema as a teen actor after a seven-year hiatus. The film also marks the debut of many character actors and comedians like Pandu, Kathadi Ramamurthy among others.
Plot
Kathiresan is the son of Parvathi, a maid at the Panchayat president's house and her husband is a cattle herder. In a fight about gambling debts, his father kills a man and runs away with the police on his tail. He is later found and sent to jail for life imprisonment. Ravi, the son of Panchayat president of Salaiyur village in Chengapattu District, is Kathiresan's classmate. Ravi bullies Kathiresan and is not good at studies, while Kathiresan excels in it. Being jealous of this, the Panchayat president wants Kathiresan to quit studying and be a cattle herder. But Parvathi is intent on Kathiresan being educated and relocates to Madras. She becomes a maid in a school and a worker in a rice mill. With great difficulty Kathiresan studies well and gets admitted to a college. To help pay his fees, he works as a Cycle Rickshaw puller on the side.Ravi, who grew up to be a playboy, is enrolled in the same college as Kathiresan.
Kathiresan and Shanthi, who is the college-going daughter of Judge Satyamurthy, fall in love with each other. He passes his M.A with distinction and gets a job as a lecturer in the same college while preparing for his IAS entrance exams, which Ravi dislikes. Ravi finally gets dismissed from college due to his bad behavior. In revenge, he kills a student, Mani, and frames Kathiresan.
Ravi is ultimately found responsible for the murder and sent to the same jail as Kathiresan's father for life imprisonment. Kathiresan becomes an IAS officer and ends up coming to the same jail for inspection.
Kathiresan's father is released from jail and learns that his son is now an IAS officer. Ravi's father tries to assassinate Kathiresan with a bomb at a village function but is saved by Kathiresan. They are all reunited.
The comedy track is provided by Ramu and his lover.
Cast
Soundtrack
Music was by Shankar–Ganesh. The song "Chinna Chinna Pappa" urges people not to be slow or stubborn, also not to sleep in the day or forget their service to society.| Title | Lyricist | Singer | Length |
| "Chinna Chinna Pappa" | Tirchy Thyagarajan | P. Susheela | 03:52 |
| "One and Two Mudhal" | Tirchy Thyagarajan | L. R. Eswari | |
| "Kalyaana Ramanukkum" | Vaali | S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, P. Susheela | 03:26 |
| "Visiladichan Kunjugala" | Mariappa | T. M. Soundararajan, P. Susheela | 03:40 |