✗ SKIP — Not worth it
Thangapadumai
1959 · 3h 4m · Drama
IMDb
6.0
Skip it. A 6.0 IMDb score signals a plodding melodrama that hasn't aged well, and while Sivaji Ganesan is a legend, even his talent can't save a creaky plot about a princess "enslaving" a married physician. Unless you're a completist of classic Tamil cinema, your evening hours are better spent elsewhere.
Plot
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.