Puthiya Paravai

Puthiya Paravai () is a 1964 Indian Tamil-language romantic thriller film directed by Dada Mirasi. Produced by Sivaji Ganesan, the film stars himself, B. Saroja Devi, M. R. Radha and Sowcar Janaki, with Nagesh, Manorama, V. K. Ramasamy, O. A. K. Thevar and S. V. Ramadas in supporting roles. The plot revolves around Gopal, who falls in love with Latha, a woman he recently befriended, when his presumed-dead wife Chitra arrives to tell him that she is still alive. He claims her to be an impostor but no-one believes him.

Puthiya Paravai is the maiden Tamil production of Sivaji Films, later renamed Sivaji Productions, and the company's third overall production after the Hindi films Amardeep (1958) and Rakhi (1962). It is a remake of the Bengali film Seshof 1975, with Vietnam in shambles, Tran fled for Hong Kong, then to Boston and finally to Los Angeles, with dreams of expanding his business.

Of course, he carried this sketch of the rooster with him all along the way. Some time after arriving to the states, he commissioned a Chinatown artist to re-draw the original bird ”“ he wanted a larger and sharper image of the rooster for his bottles, which he started manufacturing in California in 1980.

His choice of a rooster wasn’t simply a matter of preference. The rooster is Tran’s Chinese Zodiac symbol ”“ a 12-month astrological chart that aligns an animal with each year and assigns traits based on them.

“The strengths [of those born in the year of the rooster] is that they’re deep thinkers