Kanne Pappa

1969 Indian film

6 June 1969 (1969-06-06)

CountryIndiaLanguageTamil

Kanne Pappa is a 1969 Indian Tamil-language film, directed by P. Madhavan. The film stars K. R. Vijaya, R. Muthuraman, Baby Rani and J. P. Chandrababu. It was released on 6 June 1969.^[1] The film was remade in Hindi by Madhavan as Aansoo Aur Muskan and also in Telugu as Bhale Papa.^[2]

Plot

Cast

K. R. Vijaya as Kalyani and Kalpana
R. Muthuraman as Bhaskar
Baby Rani as Lakshmi
J. P. Chandrababu as Kannaiah
C. R. Vijayakumari as Margaret
Thengai Srinivasan as Pattakathi Mannaru
M. N. Nambiar as Inspector James
Manorama as Roopa
V. K. Ramasamy as Nanda Gopala Samy
Major Sundarrajan
Rama Prabha as Subbhamma
C. K. Saraswathi as Andalammal
Kannan as Shankar
V. S. Raghavan as Station Master
Suruli Rajan as Dharman
Pakoda Kadhar as Mandu

Soundtrack

The music was composed by M. S. Viswanathan, with lyrics by Kannadasan.^[3]

Song	Singers	Length
"Kanne Pappa"	Susheela	03.17
"Thendralil Aadai"		3:54
"Chippikull Pani Vizhunthu"		2:00
"Sathiya Muthirai" (Adhu Vanagam Padiya)		4:10
"Kanne Pappa" (sad)		2:55
"Kalathil Idhu Nalla"	L. R. Eswari	3:57
"Baktharai Kakkum Pandu Ranga"		1:06

Reception

The Indian Express wrote, "Kanne Pappa is a miserable attempt at producing a rather intelligent and interesting story. What really marred the picture is the most unimaginative screenplay and the equally incompetent direction."^[4] Baby Rani won the Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Child Artist.^{[citation needed]}

References

^ "கண்ணே பாப்பா / Kanne Pappa (1969)". Screen 4 Screen. Archived from the original on 3 April 2024. Retrieved 3 April 2024.
^ "Aansoo Aur Muskan". MySwar. Archived from the original on 4 May 2022. Retrieved 14 July 2022.
^ "Kanne Pappa (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) – EP by M. S. Viswanathan". Apple Music. 31 December 1969. Archived from the original on 14 July 2022. Retrieved 13 July 2022.
^ "Interesting story marred". The Indian Express. 7 June 1969. p. 5. Retrieved 13 July 2022 – via Google News Archive.