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Server Sundaram is a film of genre Drama with Nagesh

Server Sundaram (1964)

Server Sundaram
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Length 2h38
Genres Drama,    Comedy,    Romance
Rating78% 3.920323.920323.920323.920323.92032

Server Sundaram (English: Waiter Sundaram) is a 1964 Indian Tamil comedy-drama film directed and co-produced by Krishnan-Panju with A. V. Meiyappan. The film stars Nagesh as the titular character. R. Muthuraman and K. R. Vijaya play the other lead roles while S. N. Lakshmi and Major Sundarrajan play supporting roles. The story focuses on the life of a hotel waiter and how he strives to reach greater heights after he becomes an actor to attain the love of his restaurateur's daughter.

The film was adapted from a play of the same name written by K. Balachander, with the play also featuring Nagesh himself in the titular role along with Major Sundarrajan and S. N. Lakshmi who reprised their roles in the film. Balachander also wrote the screenplay and dialogues for the film. Viswanathan–Ramamoorthy composed the film's soundtrack and background music, while Kannadasan and Vaali wrote the lyrics for the soundtrack's songs.

Released on 11 December 1964 with the release prints being 4,535 m (14,879 ft) long, Server Sundaram earned positive critical feedback and went on to became a commercial success. At the 12th National Film Awards, it won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Tamil under the Certificate of Merit category and a Filmfare Award for Best Tamil Film.

Server Sundaram earned Nagesh and Balachander their breakthrough in Tamil cinema and led to a lot of successful collaborations between the two. It became the first Tamil film to show numerous behind-the-scenes looks at various processes involved in film-making such as the studio interiors and song recording. It was remade into Hindi as Main Sunder Hoon (1971) with Mehmood Ali and Kannada as Server Somanna (1993) with Jaggesh.

Synopsis

Sundaram (Nagesh), a poor man, comes to Madras with aspirations of becoming a film actor. However, he ends up getting a job in a restaurant called Greenlands Hotel as a waiter. While catering for a group of people who go on an excursion to Mahabalipuram, he meets Radha (K. R. Vijaya), the daughter of his restaurateur, Chakravarthy (Major Sundarrajan). He misinterprets her friendly nature as love and falls in love with her. In the meantime, Sundaram happens to meet his friend Raghavan (R. Muthuraman), an influential businessman, in the restaurant. During their subsequent meetings, Sundaram tells Raghavan about his ambition to become an actor as well as about his love for Radha, without mentioning her name. Raghavan genuinely believes that the girl reciprocates Sundaram's feelings and motivates Sundaram to express his love.

Actors

Nagesh

(Sundaram)R. Muthuraman

(Raghavan)K. R. Vijaya

(Radha)Samarla Venkata Ranga Rao
Sennalkudi Narayana Thevar Lakshmi

(Sundaram's Mother)
And :
Sundarrajan
Aachi Manorama
Rama Prabha
T. M. Soundararajan
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