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Chandrika is a film of genre Drama with Thikkurissy Sukumaran Nair

Chandrika (1950)

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Genres Drama,    Romance

Chandrika is a 1950 Indian Malayalam film, directed by V. S. Raghavan and produced by KMK Menon. The film stars Thikkurissi Sukumaran Nair, Nagavally R. S. Kurup in lead roles. The film had musical score by V. Dakshinamoorthy and G. Govindarajulu Naidu
. It is the first Malayalam film of lyricist P. Bhaskaran. Also the debut film of actor P. K. Vikraman Nair and actress Sethulakshmi. The only Malayalam film in which V. N. Janaki acted and as the first film to be produced in more than one language simultaneously.



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