Prahlada (film)

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Prahladan
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Directed byK. Subramaniam
Written byDevotional
Screenplay byN. P. Chellappan Nair
Produced byMadras United Artist Corporation
Starring T. K. Balachandran, N. P. Chellappan Nair, Guru Gopinath, Thankamani Gopinath, Kumari Lakshmi
Music byVidwan V. S. Parthasarathy Ayyankar
Release date
  • 17 August 1941 (1941-08-17)
Country Kingdom of Travancore
Language Malayalam

Prahlada is a 1941 Indian Malayalam-language film, directed by K. Subramaniam and produced by Madras United Artist Corporation. [1] The film stars T. K. Balachandran, N. P. Chellappan Nair, Guru Gopinath, Thankamani Gopinath and Kumari Lakshmi. [2] The film's score was composed by Vidwan V. S. Parthasarathy Ayyankar. The movie is the remake of Prahalada , a Tamil film was released in 1939. It is the first Devotional film in Malayalam. It is the debut Malayalam film of director-producer K. Subramaniam, T. K. Balachandran and music director V. S. Parthasarathy Iyengar. It was also the debut film of Guru Gopinath and Thankamani Gopinath. [3]

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