How Tamil actor M.R. Radha got away with staging a ‘banned’ play in 1959
The Hindu · 22 October 2026
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 obtain…
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