POLITICS● LOW1h ago · Oct 22, 2026, 6:05 AM

How Tamil actor M.R. Radha got away with staging a ‘banned’ play in 1959

The Hindu · south asia

The Madras Government, in April 1959, banned popular actor M.R. Radha’s Tamil play Thooku Medai. He submitted the script of another drama Kathal Bali to the Madras Commissioner of Police and obtained a licence to perform it. On noticing that the play was similar to the banned Thooku Medai, the police registered a case.

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