Major Chandrakanth (1966)
Major Chandrakanth is a 1966 Tamil film directed by K. Balachander. The screenplay was based on a play of the same name by Balachander himself. The film stars Jayalalithaa, Muthuraman, Nagesh, A. V. M. Rajan, and Major Sundarrajan in the titular character. Sundarrajan who portrayed the role of a retired blind army major acquired the prefix Major and was more commonly known as Major Sundarrajan there after. The film was remade in Hindi as Oonche Log and in Telugu as Sukhadukhalu.
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