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Viswanathan Velai Venum

1985 Tamil film directed by Raghuram

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 27, 2026
Entity authorityQ19898166 ↗
Source-derived summary

Viswanathan Velai Venum (transl. Viswanathan, I want work) is a 1985 Indian Tamil language film directed by Raghuram in his debut. The film stars Karthik and Anand Babu in lead roles. It was released on 27 July 1985. The film's title is based on a line from the song "Maadimele" from Kadhalikka Neramillai (1964).

Plot

Cast

Karthik as Ashok

Anand Babu as Kumar

Jeevitha as Sujatha

Anitha Reddy as Janani

Thengai Srinivasan as Vishwanathan

Y. G. Mahendran

Nalinikanth

Kallapetti Singaram

Soundtrack

The soundtrack was composed by Shankar–Ganesh.

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“Viswanathan Velai Venum” enters the record as 1985 Tamil film directed by Raghuram. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Viswanathan, Velai and Venum can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1985, 1964—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1985. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Viswanathan, Velai and Venum.
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Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 27, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q19898166. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1985 and 1964.

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This entry incorporates text from “Viswanathan Velai Venum” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.