The Same Eyes) is a 1967 Indian Tamil-language mystery thriller film written and directed by A. C. Tirulokchandar.
It focuses on a girl's family being stalked by a masked murderer, and her lover's attempts to apprehend him.
Athey Kangal was produced by A. V. Meiyappan under Balasubramanian & Co, a subsidiary of his company AVM Productions.
There lives her younger paternal uncles Kamalanathan and Vimalanathan, aunt Vasantha, butler Appukutty Nair and a regular visiting Siddha doctor Vedamurthy.
Despite tight security, she is killed by the murderer, who later makes frequent calls to Susi and threatens that she will be his next target.
She is revealed to be Kamalanathan's lover Mala, who was rescued some years back by him when she attempted suicide.
As a part of investigation, Baskar asks everyone in the house to stay out for a night, to lure the murderer.
[6] The script was completed in one week, and took inspiration from various Hindi horror/thrillers such as Bhoot Bungla (1965), Bees Saal Baad (1962) and Gumnaam (1965).
[14][15] The song "Ethanai Azhagu" is based on "Pedal Pusher" by The Ventures,[16] and was recorded using 60 instruments.
[18] For the song "Pombale Oruthi Irundaalaam", singers A. L. Raghavan and T. M. Soundararajan came up with lines in their first language Saurashtra.
The words "Sodija" and "Daakara" in the song are presented as gibberish that Nagesh's character uses to frighten Kanchana's, but they actually mean "Leave me and go" and "I am afraid" in Saurashtra.