The Girl Next Door) is a 1960 Indian Tamil-language romantic comedy film[1] directed by Vedantam Raghavayya and written by Thanjai N. Ramaiah Dass.

It is a remake of the Bengali film Pasher Bari (1952), itself based on the namesake short story by Arun Chowdhury.

[4] The film was produced by Anjali Devi (who also starred as the female lead) and her husband P. Adinarayana Rao, who also composed the music.

[8] Although the opening credits of Adutha Veettu Penn acknowledge the source film Pasher Bari,[3] Saritha Rao Rayachoti (writing for Scroll.in) opines that it has some similarities with Edmond Rostand's play Cyrano de Bergerac, in which the male lead Cyrano loves his cousin Roxane but feels he is not worthy of her due to his large nose; so he romances her by proxy, i.e. he writes her love letters for which another man, Christian de Neuvillette, claims credit at Cyrano's request.

[8] A review from the magazine Ananda Vikatan, dated 27 March 1960, called the film a must-watch for the comedy and dance sequences which were in colour.

[20] According to historian Randor Guy, it was a major commercial success primarily because of its full-length situational comedy, then a rarity in Indian cinema and more so in Tamil.