Galatta Kalyanam

Galatta Kalyanam
Directed by	C. V. Rajendran
Produced by	Sivaji Ganesan
Written by	Chitralaya Gopu
Screenplay by	Chitralaya Gopu
Story by	C. V. Sridhar Chitralaya Gopu
Starring	Sivaji Ganesan Jayalalitha K. A. Thangavelu Nagesh A. V. M. Rajan Manorama
Music by	M. S. Viswanathan
Cinematography	P. N. Sundaram
Edited by	N. M. Shankar
Production company	Ramkumar Films
Distributed by	Ramkumar Films
Release date	12 April 1968
Running time	148 mins
Country	India
Language	Tamil

Galatta Kalyanam is a 1968 Indian Tamil-language Romantic Comedy - Drama film starring Sivaji Ganesan, Jayalalitha, K. A. Thangavelu, Cho Ramaswamy, A. V. M. Rajan, Nagesh, V. Goplakrishnan, V. S. Raghavan, Senthamarai, Sachu and Manorama. The film was remade in Malayalam as Snehikaan Samayamilla with Jayan and in Kannada as Aliya Devaru.

Madan (Sivaji Ganesan) and Lalitha (Jayalalitha) are in love with each other. She is the second daughter of a businessman, Dharmalingam (Thangavelu). While seeking her hand in marriage, Dharmalingam lays down a condition that all his daughters’ weddings are to be held simultaneously thereby entrusting Madan with the unenviable task of finding suitable grooms for his other daughters. Madan seeks the help of his friend, Chandran (Nagesh) in his mission. Madan, however, soon realizes that he has a Herculean task ahead of him – the eldest daughter Rathna (Manorama) is averse to marriage. The others have their own tastes and preferences. After encountering a lot of difficulties, they manage to find grooms for all of them. However, on the wedding eve, one of the grooms goes missing. After tracing the gang, Madan fights them to rescue the groom and finally all pairs get married.

Galatta Kalyanam was the adaptation of stage play written by Chitralaya Gopu which was staged in a star night organised for donations during the Chinese Aggression. Gopu completed the script within two days. After seeing the positive response the play has received, Sivaji expressed interest in adapting the play into a feature film. This was the first film which had Gopu working outside the banner of Chitralaya and the film was directed by Sridhar's cousin C. V. Rajendran.