Karpukkarasi
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	A. S. A. Sami
Written by	A. S. A. Sami Aru. Ramanathan Siva-Sundaram
Screenplay by	A. S. A. Sami Aru. Ramanathan
Story by	Siva-Sundaram
Produced by	M. Somasundaram
Starring	Gemini Ganesan Savitri M. N. Nambiar M. K. Radha G. Varalakshmi K. A. Thangavelu
Cinematography	P. Ramasamy
Edited by	K. Govindasamy
Music by	G. Ramanathan
Production company	Jupiter Pictures
Distributed by	Jupiter Pictures
Release date	14 June 1957 (1957-06-14) [1]
Running time	137 minutes
Country	India
Language	Tamil

Karpukkarasi is a 1957 Indian Tamil-language swashbuckler film directed by A. S. A. Sami and produced by M. Somasundaram under Jupiter Pictures. The story and screenplay were written by A. S. A. Sami and Aru. Ramanathan. The dialogues were written by Siva-Sundaram. The film stars Gemini Ganesan, M. N. Nambiar, R. Balasubramaniam, and K. A. Thangavelu, with G. Varalakshmi, M. K. Radha, Savitri E. V. Saroja and M. Saroja in supporting roles.^[2]

Cast

Production

One scene required Ganesan to throw a knife at Nambiar. He did so, but the director had not called for "action" when Nambiar saw something come straight at him like a "bat out of hell". Nambiar had only one second to turn his head as the knife grazed his eye and impaled itself on the wall, leaving Nambiar with a permanent black spot on the eye. Ganesan had thrown the knife long before the shot was supposed to roll, only to impress two women who had walked on to the set.^[4]

Soundtrack

Music was by G. Ramanathan and lyrics were written by Pattukkottai Kalyanasundaram, Kannadasan, A. Maruthakasi and Udumalai Narayana Kavi.^[3]