---
title: 'Ambikapathy (1937)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Ellis R. Dungan'
released: '1937-01-01'
genres:
  - 'Romance'
countries:
  - 'British Raj'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/ambikapathy-1937'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0214470/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Ambikapathy (1937)

1937 · Romance · British Raj

Original title: அம்பிகாபதி

## Synopsis

Ambikapathy is a 1937 Indian Tamil musical period film directed by American film director Ellis R. Dungan. It starred M. K. Thyagaraja Bhagavathar, M. R. Santhanalakshmi, Serugulathur Sama, T. S. Balaiya, N. S. Krishnan, T. A. Madhuram and P. G. Venkatesan. Ambikapathy is regarded as one of the greatest hits of pre-independence Tamil cinema. Ambikapathy, along with Chintamani were the greatest hits of 1937 and made critics regard Bhagavathar as the "first superstar of Tamil cinema". This was the first Tamil film to name a music director in its credits.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Ellis R. Dungan](https://cinepixo.com/people/ellis-r-dungan)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Papanasam Sivan](https://cinepixo.com/people/papanasam-sivan)

## Cast

- [T. A. Madhuram](https://cinepixo.com/people/t-a-madhuram)
- [T. S. Balaiah](https://cinepixo.com/people/t-s-balaiah)
- [Serugulathur Sama](https://cinepixo.com/people/serugulathur-sama)
- [M. K. Thyagaraja Bhagavathar](https://cinepixo.com/people/m-k-thyagaraja-bhagavathar)
- [N. S. Krishnan](https://cinepixo.com/people/n-s-krishnan)

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