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Thanjavur Ranganayaki Rajakumari

Thanjavur Ranganayaki Rajakumari
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Birth name Thanjavur Ranganayaki Rajayee
Birth at Thanjavur (Inde)
Death 20 september 1999 at Chennai (Inde)

Thanjavur Ranganayaki Rajayee (c. 1922 - d. September 20, 1999), popularly known by her screen name T. R. Rajakumari was a Tamil film actress, Carnatic singer and dancer. She has been called the first "dream girl" of Tamil cinema.
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Filmography of Thanjavur Ranganayaki Rajakumari (30 films)

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Actress

Periya Idathu Penn
Periya Idathu Penn (1963)
, 2h36
Actors M. G. Ramachandran, S. A. Ashokan, B. Saroja Devi, Nagesh, Madras Rajagopala Radhakrishnan Naidu, Jyothi Lakshmi
Roles Gangamma, Murugappan 's elder sister
Rating59% 2.9730952.9730952.9730952.9730952.973095
Murugappan (MGR) is a small time farm labourer who lives with his widowed elder sister Gangamma (T. R. Rajakumari) in a village.
Vanambadi
Vanambadi (1963)
, 2h26
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors S. S. Rajendran, Nagesh, Kamal Haasan, Sheela, R. Muthuraman, C. R. Vijayakumari
Roles Parvathi (Thanikachalam wife)

A young women Meena(Devika) escapes from the clutches of a womenzing Zamindar Marthandam(O. A. K. Devar). She is targeted shoot him and escapes from the place and run away the railway track and she attempts suicide and saved by an elderly couple named as Thanikachalam(S. V. Sahasranamam and his wife Parvathi(T. R. Rajakumari), who adopted her. Because, she was similar to the elder couple own daughter Uma was passed away from two years ago. Meena such as habit of similar to uma, Meena was wrote poet, singing and composing music instruments. They wish her wed their nephew Sekahar(S. S. Rajendran). But he was agree the wedding and started avoiding her. But Meena was falls love with sekhar. Adopted brother Mohan(R. Muthuraman and a friend Nithyanandham(T. R. Ramachandran try to help of meena holding hand of Sekahar. Sekhar was impressed to her and loves with each other. Meena and Sekhar wedding is arranged. But, during the ceremony another man Gopal(R. S. Manohar) shows up claims to meena to be his wife and she's named as Sumathi. Gopal kept at the evidence for their wedding photo and witness of her father Somasundaram(V. S. Raghavan).
Thangapadumai
Thangapadumai (1959)
, 3h4
Genres Drama
Actors Sivaji Ganesan, Padmini Ramachandran, Thanjavur Ranganayaki Rajakumari, 'Kalaivanar' N. S. Krishnan, M. N. Nambiar, M. N. Rajam

Sivaji Ganesan plays the younger physician to the king (R. Balasubramaniam) and his wife (Padmini) was modelled on Kannagi as the personification of female virtues. The physician is commanded to the palace to treat the king where the princess (M. N. Rajam) falls for him and virtually enslaves him, preventing him from going back to his wife. She even goes to the extent of blinding the hero and in a long drawn out song-oriented climax, the wife prays before the gold statue of Parvathi, hence the title, and gets back her husband's sight and happiness.
Thangamalai Ragasiyam
Thangamalai Ragasiyam (1957)

Directed by B. R. Panthulu
Genres Drama
Actors Sivaji Ganesan, Jamuna, P. S. Veerappa, M. N. Nambiar, Thanjavur Ranganayaki Rajakumari, T. R. Ramachandran
Rating60% 3.0084553.0084553.0084553.0084553.008455
Sivaji Ganesan plays the role of a prince who is separated from his parents by his father's foe at a very young age. He grew up as a ferocious and vicious cavemen. Then he meets Jamuna, who by her word of love and affection turns Sivaji for good. Both set out to find the secret of Thangamalai to find and save Sivaji's parents.
Pudhumai Pithan
Pudhumai Pithan (1957)
, 2h56
Actors M. G. Ramachandran, Thanjavur Ranganayaki Rajakumari, J. P. Chandrababu, B. S. Saroja, S. Balaiah

A king is imprisoned by his ambitious brother (T.S.Balaiah),who creates the impression that the king had died during an animal hunt. The crown prince (played by MGR) was on a sea journey and returns to attend the king's fake funeral. During the funeral, the crown prince comes to know the truth, via a secret message conveyed to him by the daughter (B.S.Saroja,in a bearded messenger disguise) of the palace physician. As expected, she falls in love with the prince. The sibling of king also plots to kill the prince by poisoning him with a drug, concocted by the palace physician. The drug was supposed to make the crown prince mad, who acts like a madman poisoned by the drug to fool everyone. Prince is also helped by a woman drama troupe leader (T.R.Rajakumari), who also had affection to the crown prince. Eventually, she sacrifices her life, leaving the prince to unite with the daughter of palace physician. The plotting villains were avenged by the prince and his comedian side kick (Chandrababu).
Gulebakavali
Gulebakavali (1955)
, 2h45
Genres Swashbuckler
Actors M. G. Ramachandran, Rajasulochana, Thanjavur Ranganayaki Rajakumari, G. Varalakshmi, '''S. D. Subbulakshmi, Thangavelu

A king has two wives. He banishes his first wife (S. D. Subbulakshmi) as an astrologer told him that he would lose his vision because of her son (MGR). The mother and son live in the woods and when he meets his father without knowing his identity, the king loses his sight. When the son gets to know about the sad tale from his mother, he sets out to bring a rare flower from Bakavali, which would restore the king's sight.
Manohara
Manohara (1954)

Directed by L. V. Prasad
Genres Drama, Action
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Sivaji Ganesan, Pasupuleti Kannamba, Thanjavur Ranganayaki Rajakumari, S. S. Rajendran, Pandari Bai, Kaka Radhakrishnan
Roles Vasanthasenai
Rating69% 3.499743.499743.499743.499743.49974
This script must be run from the command line
Panakkaari
Panakkaari (1954)

Actors M. G. Ramachandran, Chittor V. Nagaiah, Thanjavur Ranganayaki Rajakumari, Thangavelu

T. R. Rajakumari, the then dream girl, played the Tamil Anna and Chittoor V. Nagaiah as the suspecting husband who ill-treats her for being friends with an army officer (M. G. Ramachandran). The original story of misunderstanding between the couple due to the wife’s friendship with another man was more or less followed in the Tamil version. MGR’s role was somewhat villainous. While old timers ‘Javert’ Seetharaman and C. V. V. Panthulu played their supporting roles effectively, Mangalam, the woman the army man discards was also impressive. In a sequence, Panthulu (playing an elderly husband) carrying on with his young daughter’s attractive dance teacher, signals her to come up to his bedroom, leaving the daughter to dance to a gramophone record! While the dancer is busy upstairs, the gramophone record which has a crack, goes on playing the same word, hearing which the wife rushes out of the kitchen and catches the husband and the dance teacher red-handed. Though this sequence is hilarious, the moviegoers in those days thought it was in bad taste. There is also another scene the Tamil audience didn’t relish much — the husband (Nagaiah) introduces his lovely wife (Rajakumari) to his army friend and the man and the woman shake hands. It was also why the public rejected the movie, despite its impressive cast and production values.
Anbu
Anbu (1953)

Genres Drama
Actors Sivaji Ganesan, Padmini Ramachandran, Thanjavur Ranganayaki Rajakumari, S. Balaiah, Lalitha, Thangavelu

Thangam (T. R. Rajakumari) is married to a man old enough to be her father, Rajamanickam Mudaliar (D. Thuraisamy) who has two children from his deceased first wife. The daughter is Lakshmi (S. Padma), and son, Selvam (Sivaji Ganesan). Thangam’s husband dies when she is expecting her baby. Selvam falls in love with a rich girl Malathi (Padmini), while a playboy (T. S. Balaiah) does his best to separate them. When Thangam’s child is born, ugly rumours are spread by Lakshmi that the father of the child is Selvam and the two had an incestuous relationship. Malathi believes the rumours and starts tormenting Thangam. How the young widow surmounts the problems forms the rest of the story.
Naa Illu
Naa Illu (1953)

Directed by Chittor V. Nagaiah
Actors Chittor V. Nagaiah, Mudigonda Lingamurthy, Thanjavur Ranganayaki Rajakumari, Chhaya Devi

The story is based on innocent people cheated by rich people. This film is about an ideal man Sivaram (Nagaiah), who lives happily with his wife (Raja Kumari) and two children. They like music very much and want to make their children musicians and singers. He is a responsible bank employee by profession. He goes to Bombay for financial transaction and gets money. He is trapped by Dhanaraj (Lingamurthy) and got into the attraction of beautiful Leela (Vidhyavathi). He loses the bank money and gets into jail. By the time he returns, the family conditions are poor. He is even prepared to do some dirty jobs for the sake of his family. His children gets encouragement from Balananda Sangham and shines. He gets out of his problems and joins the family.
Chandralekha
Chandralekha (1948)
, 3h30
Directed by Subramaniam Srinivasan
Genres Drama, Swashbuckler, Adventure, Historical, Musical
Themes Circus films, Films about children, Musical films, Political films, Films about royalty
Actors Ranjan, Thanjavur Ranganayaki Rajakumari, 'Kalaivanar' N. S. Krishnan, Sennalkudi Narayana Thevar Lakshmi
Roles Chandralekha, a village dancer and circus artiste
Rating67% 3.364313.364313.364313.364313.36431
Veerasimhan (M. K. Radha) and Sasankan (Ranjan) are the sons of a king. While passing through a village on his horse, Veerasimhan meets a village dancer named Chandralekha (T. R. Rajakumari) and they fall in love. At the palace, the king decides to abdicate in favour of Veerasimhan. This enrages the younger brother Sasankan; he forms a gang of thieves who embark on a crime spree. Chandralekha's father is injured in the ensuing chaos and dies soon after. Chandralekha, now orphaned, joins a band of travelling musicians, whose caravan is raided by Sasankan's men.
Valmiki
Valmiki (1946)

Genres Drama, Biography
Actors Honnappa Bhagavathar, U. R. Jeevarathinam, Thanjavur Ranganayaki Rajakumari, Nagapattinam Chandrashekhara Vasanthakokilam, S. Balaiah

The film was based on the story of the Hindu sage Valmiki (played by Honnappa Bhagavathar) who starts as a bandit and eventually undergoes spiritual transformation into a religious mendicant. Valmiki falls in love with a princess (played by Jeevarathnam) who is kidnapped by the villain (played by T. S. Balaiah).
Saalivaahanan
Saalivaahanan (1945)

Actors Ranjan, Thanjavur Ranganayaki Rajakumari, M. G. Ramachandran

Saalivaahanan (Ranjan), divinely blessed and born in a potter's family, falls in love with a princess (Rajakumari), while Vikramaditya (MGR) falls for his sister (Vasantha). The hero and villain clash in a furious clang-whang sword duel.