In his book " Popular Cinema and Politics in South India : The Films of MGR and Rajinikanth ", S . Rajanayagam compared " Paava Mannippu " to two other Sivaji Ganesan-Bhimsingh films : " Pasamalar " ( 1961 ) and " Paarthaal Pasi Theerum " ( 1962 ) as the three films " sentimentalised the family-based fraternal, filial and paternal love . " Writing for " The Hindu ", S . S . Vasan made a thematic comparison of " Vantha Naal Muthal " to Hemanta Mukherjee's song " Din Raat Badalte Hain " from " Naya Sansaar " ( 1959 ).
