Iraivan Kodutha Varam

1978 film by A. Bhimsingh

Vijayakumar
Rajinikanth
Srikanth
Cho Ramaswamy
Sumithra
Fatafat Jayalaxmi

CinematographyG. VittalraoEdited byA. Paul DuraisingamMusic byM. S. Viswanathan

Production
company

Raja Cine Arts

Release date

22 September 1978 (1978-09-22)

Running time

118 minutesCountryIndiaLanguageTamil

Iraivan Kodutha Varam (transl. The boon given by god) is a 1978 Indian Tamil language film directed by A. Bhimsingh. The film stars Vijayakumar, Rajinikanth, Srikanth, Cho Ramaswamy, Sumithra and Fatafat Jayalaxmi. It was released on 22 September 1978.^[1]^[2]

Plot

Cast

Vijayakumar as Balu
Rajinikanth as Rajnikanth^[3]
Srikanth as Ramu
Cho Ramaswamy as Raja
Sumithra as Parimala
Fatafat Jayalaxmi as Geetha
M. Bhanumathi
S. N. Lakshmi as Ramu's mother
Sundari Bai
Peelisivam as Gopal
Veeraraghavan as Geetha's father
Oru Viral Krishna Rao as Rao

Soundtrack

All songs were written by Kannadasan and composed by M. S. Viswanathan.^[4]


Title	Singer(s)	Length
"Vellai Kalai Uduthu"	M. S. Viswanathan	3:58
"Aanantham Tharum Raganga"	Vani Jairam	4:25
"Ada Raja Payale"	T. M. Soundararajan	3:28
"Mangal Endral"	Jolly Abraham	4:00

Reception

P. S. M. of Kalki appreciated the performances of star cast.^[5] Anna newspaper praised the acting of star cast and stated the story that should have had a nice ending have been unnecessarily dragged out.^[6]

References

^ "ஒரு பெண், மூன்று திருமணங்கள்... கதற வைத்த இறைவன் கொடுத்த வரம்". News18 (in Tamil). 25 September 2023. Archived from the original on 12 January 2024. Retrieved 17 December 2023.
^ "சூப்பர் ஸ்டார் ரஜினிகாந்த் - ஒரு சரித்திரம் | சூப்பர் ஸ்டாரின் திரைக்காவியங்களின் பட்டியல்கள்". Lakshman Sruthi (in Tamil). Archived from the original on 22 June 2022. Retrieved 1 July 2022.
^ Gurumurthy (6 March 2019). "Movies where character's name was same as actor's name! | Rajinikanth in films like Aadu Puli Aattam, Iraivan Kodutha Varam etc". Behindwoods. Archived from the original on 15 July 2020. Retrieved 30 August 2022.
^ "Iraivan Kodutha Varam". Tamil Songs Lyrics. Archived from the original on 25 October 2022. Retrieved 25 October 2022.
^ பி. எஸ். எம். (9 July 1978). "இறைவன் கொடுத்த வரம்". Kalki (in Tamil). p. 39. Archived from the original on 1 July 2022. Retrieved 1 July 2022.
^ "இறைவன் கொடுத்த வரம்". Anna (in Tamil). 5 October 1978. p. 4. Archived from the original on 20 May 2024. Retrieved 20 May 2024 – via Internet Archive.