词条 | Sevasadanam |
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| name = Sevasadanam | image = Sevasadanam 1938.jpg | film name = {{Infobox name module|Tamil|சேவாசதனம்}} | caption = Poster | director = Krishnaswami Subrahmanyam | producer = Krishnaswami Subrahmanyam | writer = Premchand K. Subramanyam | narrator = | starring = M. S. Subbulakshmi F.G. Natesa Iyer S. G. Pattu Iyer S. Varalakshmi | music = Papanasam Sivan | cinematography = Sailen Bose Ellappa Rama Rao | editing = Dharam Veer Singh | distributor = | released = {{Film date|df=y|1938|5|2}} | runtime = 210 minutes | country = India | language = Tamil | budget = | gross = | preceded_by = | followed_by = }}Sevasadanam ({{lang-en|House of Service}}) is a 1938 Indian Tamil-language drama film directed by Krishnaswami Subrahmanyam. It is one of the early Tamil films to be set in a contemporary social setting and to advocate reformist social policies. This was the first film for M. S. Subbulakshmi.[1][2][3][4][5] PlotAn abused wife Sumathi (M. S. Subbulakshmi) is driven out of her house by husband and later forced into prostitution. Later she reforms her ways and devotes her life to running an institution for the children of prostitutes. ProductionAfter the success of Balayogini (1937), director Subramanyam was encouraged to make more socially oriented films. In 1938 he decided to make a film version of Premchand's novel Bazaar-e-Husn. While Balayogini was about the travails of widows, Sevasadanam dealt with domestic abuse, prostitution and women's liberation. Subramanyam wrote the screenplay himself and made the film under his Madras United Artists Corporation Banner.[3][4] The completed film was 18,900 feet in length with a run time of 210 minutes.[4][5] Cast and crew
ReceptionSevasadanam was released on 2 May 1938. It was a critical and commercial success.[5] Ananda Vikatan favourably reviewed the film on 8 May 1938: {{Cquote | We should always expect somethings from Subramaniam's direction - for instance depiction of social ills.. If we have to say only two words about this talkie based on Premchand's story it is - Go see (it).[6]}}As was the case with Balayogini, conservative Hindus were upset with Sevasadanam.[7] The veteran Marxist leader N. Sankaraiah, has described Seva Sadhanam as an "unusual film" for choosing the subject of marriages between young girls and old men (which had social sanction). According to him, the film successfully broughout the "sufferings of the girl" and the "mental agony of the aged husband". Sankariah particularly appreciated F.G. Natesa Iyer's performance in the role of the old man, which he said " was impressive". Tamil film critic and historian Aranthai Narayanan observes in his book Thamizh Cinemavin Kathai (The Story of Tamil Cinema) that "Seva Sadhanam proved a turning point in the history of Tamil cinema. In the climax, the aged husband, now a totally changed man, was shown as casting aside with utter contempt his `sacred thread', which symbolises his Brahmin superiority. It came as a stunning blow to the then Brahmin orthodoxy."[8] AvailabilityNo print of Sevasadanam is known to survive, making it a lost film. While K. Subrahmanyam's family only have a few surviving photographs related to the film in their possession, the complete set of 78 rpm gramophone records in their original envelopes has survived in the collection of musicologist V. A. K. Ranga Rao in Chennai.[9] See also
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