Nellu

Name: Nellu
Director: Ramu Kariat
Released: 1974-01-01

1974 film by Ramu Kariat

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Released: 1974
Director: Ramu Kariat
Screenwriter: P. Valsala
Cast: Prem Nazir
, Jayabharathi
Genre: drama film
, romance film
Country of origin: India
Original language: Malayalam
Composer: Salil Chowdhury

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Nellu (transl. Paddy) is a 1974 Malayalam-language drama film directed by Ramu Kariat from a screenplay by K. G. George based on the 1972 award-winning novel of the same name by P. Valsala. It features an ensemble cast of Prem Nazir, Jayabharathi, Thikkurissy Sukumaran Nair, Sankaradi and Kottarakkara Sreedharan Nair. The film portrays the life of the Adiyar community, a tribe of the forests in the Wayanad hills of Kerala, through the eyes of an outsider.

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Director of photography: Balu Mahendra
Film editor: Hrishikesh Mukherjee
Title: നെല്ല്

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