Vilaiyattu Bommai
Poster
Tamil	விளையாட்டு பொம்மை
Directed by	T. R. Raghunath
Written by	A. L. Narayanan
Produced by	T. R. Mahalingam
Starring	T. R. Mahalingam Kumari Kamala K. Sarangapani B. R. Panthulu V. K. Ramasamy E. V. Saroja
Cinematography	R. Sampath
Edited by	R. Devarajan
Music by	T. G. Lingappa
Production company	Sri Sukumar Productions
Distributed by	Sri Sukumar Productions
Release date	14 May 1954 (1954-05-14) (India) [1]
Country	India
Language	Tamil

Vilaiyattu Bommai (transl. Playing toy) is a 1954 Indian Tamil language film directed by T. R. Raghunath. The film stars T. R. Mahalingam and Kumari Kamala.^[1]

Cast & Crew

The following lists of cast and crew were compiled from Film News Anandan's database.^[1]

Cast

Crew

• Producer: T. R. Mahalingam
• Director: T. R. Raghunath
• Dialogues: A. L. Narayanan
• Cinematography: R. Sampath
• Editing: Devarajan
• Art: Vardhukar
• Lab: Tamil Nadu Cine Lab

Production

Naam Iruvar was a successful film for T. R. Mahalingam. Sukumar was the name of his role in this film. He considered it to be a lucky name and named his son as Sukumar. In 1950, he launched a company Sri Sukumar Productions and produced a film titled Macha Regai. It was a failure. He produced Mohana Sundaram in 1951 that fared not so bad in the box-office. In 1952 he produced Chinna Durai that he himself directed. Again, it was a failure. All these 3 films had almost the same cast. T. R. Mahalingam was determined to produce a successful film. So he produced this film (Vilaiyattu Pillai was the original name) Vilaiyattu Bommai. He changed the cast and made the experienced T. R. Raghunath as director. However, this film also was a failure. After this, he started production of another film titled Theru Padagan and abandoned it half way. He lost all his wealth and became insolvent.^[2]
Though the films failed in box-office, most of the songs became popular.

Soundtrack

Music was composed by T. G. Lingappa while the lyrics were penned by Subramania Bharati, K. P. Kamatchisundaram and Thanjai Ramaiah Dass. Singer is T. R. Mahalingam. Playback singers are A. P. Komala, Soolamangalam Rajalakshmi and Jikki.^[3]