Keechaka Vadham
Keechaka Vadham () is an Indian silent film produced, directed, filmed and edited by R. Nataraja Mudaliar. The first film to have been made in South India, it was shot in five weeks at Nataraja Mudaliar's production house, India Film Company. As the members of the cast were Tamils, "Keechaka Vadham" is considered to be the first Tamil film. No print of it is known to have survived, making it a lost film.

The screenplay, written by C. Rangavadivelu, is based on an episode from the "Virata Parva" segment of the Hindu epic "Mahabharata", focusing on Keechaka's attempts to woo Draupadi. The film stars Raju Mudaliar and Jeevarathnam as the central characters.

Released in the late 1910s, "Keechaka Vadham" was commercially successful and received positive critical feedback. The film's success prompted Nataraja Mudaliar to make a series of similar historical films, which laid the foundation for the South Indian cinema industry and led to his being recognised as the father of Tamil cinema. Nataraja Mudaliar's works were an inspiration to other filmmakers including Raghupathi Surya Prakasa and J. C. Daniel.
Q129286
Indian
MEDIA
Q226730
silent film
Concept
Q16067202
R. Nataraja Mudaliar
PER
Q542146
South India
LOC
Q173491
Tamils
Concept
Q926324
Tamil film
Concept
Q23807853
print
UNK
Q1268687
lost film
Concept
Q2588569
Virata Parva
MEDIA
Q1193297
Hindu epic
Concept
Q8276
Mahabharata
ORG
Q2382488
Keechaka
PER
Q1057886
Draupadi
MISC
Q19952568
historical films
Concept
Q7567541
South Indian cinema
UNK
Q3522904
J. C. Daniel
PER
Q6382675
Keechaka Vadham
MEDIA
Q6382675
Keechaka Vadham
MEDIA
Q6382675
Keechaka Vadham
MEDIA
1910-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
1910
DATE
country of origin
genre
director
filming location
significant event
main subject
country of citizenship
part of
characters
characters