Punarjanmam is an India

India

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n Malayalam film starring Prem Nazir

Prem Nazir

Abdul Khader , better known by his stage name Prem Nazir , was an Indian film actor. He is considered one of the all time super stars in Malayalam cinema...

 and Jayabharathi

Jayabharathi

Jayabharathi is a popular Malayalam film actress who started her career in late 1960s. She is a two-time winner of the Kerala State Film Award for best actress....

. It is the first erotic psychic thriller

Erotic thriller

The erotic thriller is a film and literary sub-genre which consists of a mixture between erotica and thriller. The genre increased in North American popularity from the mid-1980s through the early 1990s, before declining in marketability.-1980s:...

 in the history of Indian cinema. The film is directed by K. S. Sethumadhavan

K. S. Sethumadhavan

K. S. Sethumadhavan is an Indian director of Malayalam films. He has also directed films in Hindi, Tamil and Telugu. Since the early 1960s he has directed over 60 movies...

 based on a case history published by famous atheist and psychiatrist A. T. Kovoor

Abraham Kovoor

Abraham Thomas Kovoor was an Indian professor and rationalist who gained prominence after retirement for his campaign to expose as frauds various Indian and Sri Lankan "god-men" and so-called paranormal phenomena...

 in Mathrubhumi

Mathrubhumi

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weekly. The film as well as Prem Nazir's performance won immense critical acclaim. The film was remade in Tamil as Maru Piravi

Maru Piravi

Maru Piravi is an Indian Tamil film starring Muthuraman and Manjula in the lead roles. The film was a remake if the 1971 Malayalam film Punarjanmam.-External links:*...

with Muthuraman

R. Muthuraman

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 and Manjula

Manjula Vijayakumar

Manjula Vijayakumar is a South Indian actress. She has acted in more than 100 films in South Indian languages like Tamil, Telugu and Kannada. She and actor Vijayakumar married shortly after they fell in love on the sets of Unnidam Mayanguhiren...

 in the lead.

Plot

Aravindan, a college lecturer, falls in love with his student Radha and later marries her. Aravindan had lost his mother at an early age itself. He tries to find his mother in Radha. He didn't even touch his wife with a feeling of lust for this reason. This creates severe problems in his married life. Later, a psychiatrist helps him to return to a normal life.

Cast

• Prem Nazir
  Prem Nazir
  Abdul Khader , better known by his stage name Prem Nazir , was an Indian film actor. He is considered one of the all time super stars in Malayalam cinema...
  
   as Aravindan
• Jayabharathi
  Jayabharathi
  Jayabharathi is a popular Malayalam film actress who started her career in late 1960s. She is a two-time winner of the Kerala State Film Award for best actress....
  
   as Radha
• Bahadoor
  Bahadoor
  Bahadoor , born P. K. Kunjalu, was a Malayalam film comedian who, along with Adoor Bhasi, redefined the way in which comedy and funny scenes were perceived in Malayalam cinema. They made a significant contribution toward establishing comedy as the predominant genre of Malayalam cinema...
  
  
• Adoor Bhasi
  Adoor Bhasi
  Adoor Bhasi was an Indian film actor and film director from Kerala. Adoor Bhasi was almost always cast as the man who stands next to the hero. His hilarious actions and roles became the cynosure of comic scenes in the Malayalam films of the 1950s, 60s, 70s and 80s. He is also famous for his...
  
  
• Sankaradi
  Sankaradi
  Sankaradi was an Indian actor. He was a veteran Malayalam comedian and character artiste, who had over 700 Malayalam films to his credit....
  
  
• Muthukulam Raghavan Pillai
  Muthukulam Raghavan Pillai
  Muthukulam Raghavan Pillai was a Malayalam dramatist, poet, screen play writer and actor. He was born on 1900 in Muthukulam, a small village in Alappuzha District, Kerala, India...
  
  
• Paravoor Bharathan
  Paravoor Bharathan
  Paravoor Bharathan is an Indian actor of Malayalam films who started his career in movies during 1960s. Bharathan is known as a versatile actor as he has acted in a variety of roles including negative roles, character roles and comedy roles.- Biography :...
  
  
• Master Raghu
• Sujatha
  Sujatha (actress)
  Sujatha was a popular South Indian actress who has performed in Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu, Kannada and Hindi language films, and was best known for restraint and subtlety in portrayal of varied emotions. Sujatha was introduced to the Tamil film industry by veteran director K. Balachander as a...
  
  
• Prema
• Khadeeja

External links

• Punarjanmam at the Malayalam Movie Database