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Vaa Raja Vaa

1969 152’ b&w Tamil d/s A.P. Nagarajan pc C.N.V. Prod. c W.R. Subba Rao m Kunnakudi Vaidyanathan lp Master Prabhakar, Baby Shanti, V.S. Raghavan, Rukmini, Manorama, C.K. Nagesh

Raja (Master Prabhakar), aged 10, is a tourist guide at the Mahabalipuram shrine. His friend and mentor is a sculptor (Raghavan) who keeps a pillar in his yard on which there are sayings affirming the truths of past wisdom. Raja tries to see if these bits of wisdom are valid in today’s world and finds that they are. Neo-traditionalism Nagarajan style.

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