Haridas is a 1944 Tamil language film directed by Sundar Rao Nadkarni and starring M. K. Thyagaraja Bhagavathar, T. R. Rajakumari and N. C. Vasanthakokilam. It held the record of being the longest-running Tamil film at a single theatre for 784 days, which was only beaten over 60 years later by Chandramukhi (2005)which is not true actually compared to haridass film continuously neared 2.5 years chandramukhi ran not full shows after 100 days . IBN Live included Haridas in its list of 100 greatest Indian films of all time. The film was initially released in black and white with just one scene in colour, which was manually colored by studio technicians. The film was re-released with full colour in 1946. It was the last film of M. K. Thyagaraja Bhagavathar before his two year imprisonment due t