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