Idhu Namma Aalu (1988)

Name: Idhu Namma Aalu
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1988-08-05

2h 25m

Running Time

Plot.

Gopalsamy, a poor graduate, travels to Madras to financially provide for his mother's eye surgery. Struggling to earn money, he encounters a Brahmin priest who coaxes him to impersonate a Brahmin to sell food in the neighboring agraharam. Being a non-Brahmin from a backward caste, Gopal finds it morally reprehensible to wear the sacred thread, but with no other options in sight, he sets off to perform Ganapati homam with three other priests..

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Cast & Crew.

K. Bhagyaraj

Original Music Composer / Writer

Shobana

Banu

Manorama

Somayajulu J V

Kumarimuthu

A. P. Manivannan

Editor

K. Rajpreeth

Director of Photography

Balakumaran

Director

Details.

Release Date
August 5, 1988

Original Name
இது நம்ம ஆளு

Status
Released

Running Time
2h 25m

Genres
Comedy

Last updated: 2025-02-12

Wiki.

Idhu Namma Aalu (lit. 'He is our man'; contextual: He is from our caste) is a 1988 Indian Tamil-language comedy film written by K. Bhagyaraj and directed by Balakumaran in his debut. It was released on 1 August 1988. The film was remade in Telugu as Adirindhi Alludu (1996), and twice in Kannada: as Aliya Alla Magala Ganda (1997) and Ravi Shastri (2006).