Global InformationKanavane Kankanda Deivam information
| Kanavane Kankanda Deivam | |
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| Directed by | T. R. Raghunath |
| Screenplay by | K. V. Srinivasan |
| Story by | K. V. Srinivasan Umachandran Sadasivabrahmam |
| Produced by | Pattanna Narayana Iyengar |
| Starring | R. Ganesh Anjali Devi |
| Cinematography | B. S. Ranga |
| Edited by | S. R. Chandra Sekaran |
| Music by | Addepalli Rama Rao Hemant Kumar |
Production company | Narayanan Company |
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Running time | 168 minutes[1] |
| Country | India |
| Language | Tamil |
Kanavane Kankanda Deivam (transl. Husband is a Palpable God) is a 1955 Indian Tamil-language fantasy film directed by T. R. Raghunath and produced by Pattanna. The film stars R. Ganesh and Anjali Devi, with V. Nagayya, M. N. Nambiar, Friend Ramaswamy and Lalitha in supporting roles. It revolves around a man who steals an object to cure the king's blindness and marry the princess, but becomes cursed because of the theft and seeks to undo it.
Kanavane Kankanda Deivam was released on 6 May 1955. The film received positive reviews mainly for the performances of Ganesh and Anjali Devi, and became a commercial success, running for over 100 days in many theatres. It was remade in Hindi as Devta (1956), with Ganesh and Anjali Devi reprising their roles.
- ^ Dhananjayan 2011, p. 148.