{
  "id": 16010927,
  "title": "How Tamil actor M.R. Radha got away with staging a ‘banned’ play in 1959",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/22/how-tamil-actor-m-r-radha-got-away-with-staging-a-banned-play-in-1959",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-10-22T06:05:10.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Hindu",
    "slug": "the-hindu",
    "url": "https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/how-tamil-actor-mr-radha-got-away-with-staging-a-banned-play-in-1959/article71604457.ece"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "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 obtained a licence to perform it. On noticing that the play was similar to the banned Thooku Medai, the police registered a case.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}