Nine Planets) is a 1970 Indian Tamil-language comedy drama film written and directed by K. Balachander.

[2] Nine people living as a joint family in a house have amongst them varied characters with weird idiosyncrasies.

A thief and orphan, Baalu, enters the house and uses this to his advantage playing one family member against another.

He then realises that he is the son of Somu, the patriarch of the house, and then sets to reunite the family only to be thrown out by all of them in the end.

[4][5] Manorama was supposed to play the love interest of Nagesh but was dropped at the latter's insistence causing a permanent rift between them.