Panathukkaga(English: For a money) is a Tamil language film release on 1974. Starring Sivakumar in the lead role of the protagonist. Jayachitra , Sripriya, Kamal Haasan and Thengai Srinivasan in the Supporting role.
, 2h28 Directed byKailasam Balachander GenresDrama, Romance ActorsSivakumar, Jayachitra, Sreevidya, Kamal Haasan, Jayasudha Kapoor, Poornam Vishwanathan Rating70% The story is about three sisters Srividya, Subha and Jayachitra, each getting attracted to their tenant, a young man played by Sivakumar. Sivakumar falls in love with Jayachitra. However, things take a turn to the worse in the typical Balachander style when Jayachitra sacrifices herself to the whims of a playboy, played by Kamal Haasan in order to save her friend (Jayasudha) from his exploits. What happens next, who marries whom, is the crux of a dramatic climax.
, 2h32 Directed byKailasam Balachander GenresDrama, Romance ThemesFilms about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about prostitution ActorsSivakumar, Kamal Haasan, Prameela, Jayachitra, Jayasudha Kapoor, M. N. Rajam Rating76% Lalitha is the eldest daughter of a pious and conservative Brahmin family. She has eight siblings and poverty rules reign. She decides to take up the family mantle and goes to work. Due to family needs and ill fate, she ends up as a prostitute but manages to settle all her brothers and sisters. Her family ditches her when they come to know about her dark side. Thangavelu, a man who was once rejected by her marries her. She loses her sanity in the end.
, 2h32 Directed byMuktha Srinivasan GenresDrama, Comedy ActorsJaishankar, Jayachitra, Sowcar Janaki, V K Ramasamy, Kamal Haasan, Sundarrajan Rating55% Adhering to its title 'Cinema Paithiyam', the movie depicts and traces the life and transformation of Jaya (Jayachitra) from the reel world to the real world. So obsessed is she with movies and the movie world, that she worships the popular film hero Jai Shankar, believing all that he portrays on screen, to be his real self. He becomes the ideal man of her dreams, and she even tattoos his name in her arm. Hell breaks loose when she refuses to marry the boy Natarajan (Kamalhaasan) arranged by her brother and her sister-in-law. At his juncture, steps in her Uncle, who takes it upon himself to show her the true world, by taking her on a trip around the real life of a star.