Amara Deepam (1956 film)

Amara Deepam
Theatrical release poster
Directed byT. Prakash Rao
Screenplay byT. Prakash Rao
Story byC. V. Sridhar
Produced byS. Krishnamoorthy
T. Govindarajan
C. V. Sridhar
StarringSivaji Ganesan
Savitri
Padmini
CinematographyKamal Ghosh
A. Vincent
Edited byN. M. Sankar
Music byT. Chalapathi Rao
G. Ramanathan
G. N. Balasubramaniam
Production
company
Venus Pictures
Distributed bySivaji Films[1]
Release date
  • 29 June 1956 (1956-06-29)
Running time
162 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageTamil

Amara Deepam (transl. The Eternal Lamp) is a 1956 Indian Tamil-language romantic drama film directed and co-written by T. Prakash Rao. A remake of the 1942 American film Random Harvest, it stars Sivaji Ganesan, Savitri and Padmini. The film, produced by Venus Pictures, was released on 29 June 1956. It was remade in Hindi as Amardeep (1958).[2][3]

  1. ^ "Amara Deepam". The Indian Express. 23 June 1956. p. 1. Retrieved 30 August 2021 – via Google News Archive.
  2. ^ Rajadhyaksha & Willemen 1998, p. 344.
  3. ^ Rangarajan, Malathi (1 September 2006). "And now... scaling heights in Delhi". The Hindu. Archived from the original on 7 December 2014. Retrieved 30 August 2021.