MK. Thyagaraja Bhagavathar Maasilaa Nilave Nin Ambikaapathi

Haridas had an unbreakable record run of over three years in the same theatre 'Broadway' at Madras and became the eternal favourite of millions. The picture ran through three deepavali festivals and created an unprecedented box office hit.

After the release of this picture, MKT's fame rose to a limitless height. He was by then the highest paid star. He gave the producers the maximum return for their investment and the audience utmost satisfaction. His remuneration went up to Rs.One lakh and more from this picture. He was the first male star to receive such a huge sum as remuneration. In 1944 for the sum of Rs. one lakh you could easily buy a hundred acres of land, that would make one lakh in 1944 equivalent to five hundred crores today.

N.C.Vasanthakokilam, who was held as matching in her skills to the great M.S.Subbalakshmi herself, has done the heroine's role. The regular feature of MKT films, the comedy track of N.S.K., T.A.Maduram and Pulimootai Ramasamy are not missing in this movie. P.B.Rangachari, T.R.Rajakumari and Nat Annaji Rao, father of the late Haridass Giri, also appear in this film.

The horse which is seen in the opening song, 'Vaazhvilor thirunaal', is MKT's own !

The song, 'Manmada leelaiyai vendraar undo' in charukesi became an unparalleled hit and is considered as the best song ever in that raga. It even attracted the appreciation of the great Semmangudi.

This film also contains 'Ennudal thanil' in ragamalika (Yadukulakambodi and Atana) which was the favourite of the late M.G.Ramachandran. The unforgettable 'Annayum thandayum' in Manolayam, the everlasting 'Krishna mukunda' in Navroj, the precious 'Nijama' in Bekada are the other well known hits. It is almost solely by his golden voice that MKT established an unbreakable record in the form of Haridas.

N.C.Vasanthakokilam has sung a couple of beautiful songs namely 'Kathiravan uthayam' in Bilahari, 'Yenathuyir naathar' in Mayamalava Gowla and one more song in a hindustani tune. MKT and NCV sing a duet song 'Thottatharkellam' in Sindhu Bhairavi and MKT and T.R.Rajakumari sing a duet song 'Ennalum intha' in ragamalika.

A song by NCV, 'Kanna vaa manivanna vaa' was recorded for this film and was even released as a gramaphone record but the song was not picturised. Haridas is an unusually short film compared to the length of films in those days because at the time of making Haridas, there was a ration for motion picture film reels due to World War II. This short but superb film was neatly directed by Sundar rao Nadkarni.


From out of the profits earned, the producers floated the Madura Knitting Company in Madurai and brought out the Lion brand vests in the market !!


His voice was considered the best suited one for the microphone. During that time he acted in the play 'Bilhanan' for one of the programmes in AIR, Trichy. The play was a very big success. A German sound engineer was doing the recording. He, after hearing MKT's voice, said that MKT does not have merely a golden voice but a gold mine in his throat !

MKT was booked at that time for as many as twelve films namely 'Raja yogi','Sri Valli', 'Sri Murugan', 'Valmeeki','Udayanan', 'Bilhanan ','Bhaktha Metha','Jeevakan ','Kalidas', 'Nambiyandar Nambi',' Vidhyasagar' and'Meyporul Nayanar'. A few songs were also recorded for each of these films. Rajayogi (AVM Productions) was almost completed. It was then that some so called respectable personalities plotted against him and dragged him into the murder case of the editor of a yellow magazine (called Indu Nesan), C.Lakshmikanthan (For more information on the murder case please visit the Biography-Page 3 section ). Unfortunately, due to the tragic drift in MKT's life, these movies are lost forever to MKT fans. Bhagavathar was honest enough to return all the money which he received as advance from the producers.

These films were completed with other stars in the lead role. T.K.Bhagawathy once said that Bhagavathar has sung eight songs for Rajayogi which are very good.

Although the songs recorded for the above pictures have not been released as gramaphone records, one song by Bhagavathar, 'Mukundane Nandan Maindane' in Subhapanthuvarali was used in the film 'Vikata Yogi' starring P.U.Chinnappa.

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[davpjdav]

maybe you are right i have no idea. i was told it was mkt.

[davpjdav]

maybe you are right i have no idea. i was told it was mkt.

[govindarajanns]

It is not by MKT ,certainly but by TMS and P.Banumathj in a later edition of Ambikapathi

[ssakthivel69]

This is TMS, not MKT.

[ssakthivel69]

@ssakthivel69

[ssakthivel69]

This is TMS, not MKT.



[suhirjp]

There is a MKT version of the same movie but this one is TMS

[krishnanchari2010]

It is TMS who has sung with Bhanumathi !

[radnusvrd]

WTF, This is TMS and Bhanumathi!