Title: Moondram Pirai
Content:  Moondram Pirai was the first film produced by G. Thyagarajan and G. Saravanan's production banner, Sathya Jyothi Films. A. Ramaswamy and D. Vasu were in charge of art direction and editing respectively. In an interview with Anu Hasan on the talk show Koffee with Anu, director and cinematographer Balu Mahendra stated that Moondram Pirai was inspired by the suicide of his wife, actress Shoba; she was 17 years old at the time of her death in 1980. According to S. Shiva Kumar of The Hindu, the climax of the film was a clear allusion to how Shoba left Mahendra without warning. Kamal Haasan has stated that, when Mahendra narrated the story of Moondram Pirai to him, he listened to Mahendra for about twenty minutes before accepting the role of the male lead Cheenu. The role of Bhagyalakshmi / Viji was initially offered to Sripriya, who could not accept the role due to her prior commitments, before Sridevi was chosen for it. Poornam Vishwanathan was cast as the school headmaster, while Silk Smitha, who had done around 20 films by then and was considered only for performing item numbers, was cast as the headmaster's sexually excited wife.
Title: Moondram Pirai
Content: Kamal Haasan as R. Srinivas "Cheenu" ; Sridevi as Bhagyalaksmi / Vijaya "Viji" ; Y. G. Mahendran as Srinivas's friend ; Silk Smitha as Mrs. Viswanathan, the school headmaster's wife ; Ganthimathi as the brothel owner ; Poornam Vishwanathan as Mr. Viswanathan, the school headmaster ; S. R. Veeraraghavan as Vedachalam ; J. V. Ramana Murthi as the Ayurveda practitioner ; K. Natraj as Natarajan, the woodcutter 
Title: Moondram Pirai
Content:  music for the film was composed by Ilaiyaraaja, with lyrics written by Kannadasan, Vairamuthu and Gangai Amaran. It also featured the last song written by Kannadasan to be recorded before his death in 1981. Moondram Pirai was released on 19 February 1982 to positive critical reception. It was also a box office success and had a theatrical run of 329 days. The film won two National Film Awards: Best Actor for Haasan, and Best Cinematography for Mahendra. It also won the Best Director Award for Mahendra at the Filmfare Awards, and five Tamil Nadu State Film Awards, including Best Film (third prize), Best Actor (Haasan) and Best Actress (Sridevi). Mahendra remade the film in Hindi as Sadma (1983), with Haasan, Sridevi and Smita reprising their roles.
Title: Moondram Pirai
Content:  Moondram Pirai is a 1982 Indian Tamil-language romantic drama film written, directed and filmed by Balu Mahendra. The film stars Kamal Haasan and Sridevi, while Silk Smitha, Poornam Vishwanathan and Y. G. Mahendran play supporting roles. It revolves around a school teacher who rescues a woman suffering from retrograde amnesia, from a brothel, and protects her in his house located in Ketti. The rest of the film shows how the woman recovers her memory with the teacher's help. Moondram Pirai is based on Balu Mahendra's brief relationship with actress Shoba, who died in 1980, shortly after their marriage. The first film produced by G. Thyagarajan and G. Saravanan's Sathya Jyothi Films, it was predominantly shot in Ooty and Ketti, with further shooting also taking place in Bangalore. 
Title: Moondram Pirai
Content:  Moondram Pirai was given an "A" (adults only) certificate by the Central Board of Film Certification. According to Anand Mathew of The Quint, this was done so because of Smitha who "saunters into the film now and then striking Khajuraho inspired poses with Kamal." The film was released on 19 February 1982. It was a box office success and had a theatrical run of 329 days. According to Sathya Jyothi Films, Moondram Pirai received its highest distributor share in Chennai and Coimbatore. The film was also screened at FILCA, a Film Festival held at Thiruvananthapuram in September 2014. Moondram Pirai was dubbed into Telugu under the title Vasantha Kokila. The film was remade in Hindi as Sadma (1983), with Mahendra again directing while Haasan, Sridevi and Smitha reprised their roles.
Title: Moondram Pirai
Content:  "10 best Films of Kamal Haasan". In February 2014, Arundhati said she "would love to play a role like Sridevi’s in Moondram Pirai". Sridevi's performance in the film was included in The Times of Indias 2015 list, "Sridevi: 5 times the actress bowled us with her performance". Although no print of Moondram Pirai has survived, the film is still available on home video. Balki mentioned in an April 2016 interview with Indo-Asian News Service, that Moondram Pirai "tremendously influenced" him as a filmmaker. Writer K. V. Vijayendra Prasad stated that he got the idea to write the story of the Telugu film Simhadri (2003) while watching Moondram Pirai.
Title: Moondram Pirai
Content:  as his favourite film. In February 2015, Moondram Pirai topped Indumathy Sukanya of The New Indian Express ' list of "Top 5 Tamil Romances". Baradwaj Rangan opined that the film was "a superb example of how the presence of a commercially viable plot and the participation of commercially viable actors and technicians can result in art." In July 2011, Janani Iyer said she considered a role like Sridevi's character, Bhagyalakshmi, as "really challenging." In March 2013, S. Shiva Kumar of The Hindu compared the climax of Sethu... (1999) to the climax in Moondram Pirai. In November 2013, S. Saraswathi of Rediff included Moondram Pirai in her list of 
Title: Moondram Pirai (soundtrack)
Content:  The soundtrack of the Tamil film Moondram Pirai (1982) was composed by Ilaiyaraaja.
Title: Moondram Pirai
Content:  supervised Anuradha's dubbing session and taught her the methods to emote the dialogues for Smitha in the film. While the film was under production the team was scoffed at for making a film about a youth falling in love with an amnesiac, and that the film would not be a box office success. The film uses intense violin music in both its opening and closing credits. In April 2006, Mahendra said that the inclusion of the song "Ponmeni Uruguthey" in the film was "absolutely unnecessary", stating that the sole reason for its inclusion was the presence of Smitha in the song to help promote the film. The final length of the film was 3917.74 metres.
Title: Moondram Pirai
Content:  Moondram Pirai attained cult status in Tamil cinema for its "unique amalgamation of high emotional quotient and film-making style". The climax scene where Haasan's character, Cheenu, runs after Sridevi's character, Bhagyalakshmi, who has recovered her memory but forgets the incidents that occur between her accident and recovery completely, and Cheenu trying desperately to make Bhagyalakshmi remember the time he spend with him, to no effect, became popular and was parodied many times. The dialogue told by Smitha's character to Cheenu, "You haave a verrry strrong physique, you know", also attained popularity. A. P. Thiruvadi, in his obituary of Balu Mahendra, called him "The Moondram Pirai of Indian cinema". 

Question: Who was the screenwriter for Moondram Pirai?
Answer: Balu Mahendra.
Balanathan Benjamin.
Balu Mahendran.
Balanathan Benjamin Mahendran.