Navagraham

Navagraham is a 1970 Indian Tamil-language comedy drama film written and directed by K. Balachander. The film stars Nagesh, Srikanth, R. Muthuraman and Lakshmi, with Ragini, Sivakumar, Rama Prabha, Y. G. Mahendran (his film debut), V. Gopalakrishnan and G. Sakunthala in supporting roles. It was released on 3 September 1970.

Plot
Nine people living as a joint family in a house has amongst them varied characters with weird idiosyncrasies. A thief and orphan, Baalu, enters the house and uses this to his advantage playing one family member against another. He then realises that he is the son of Somu, the patriarch of the house, and then sets to reunite the family only to the thrown out by all of them in the end.

Production
Navagraham marked Y. G. Mahendran's acting debut in cinema. Manorama was supposed to play the love interest of Nagesh but was dropped at the latter's insistence causing a permanent rift between them.

Soundtrack
The soundtrack was composed by V. Kumar and lyrics were written by Vaali.