Madras to Pondicherry is a 1966 Indian Tamil-language road comedy thriller film directed by Thirumalai–Mahalingam and written by Usilai Somanathan.
The story follows Mala, an aspiring actress who witnesses a shooting by thugs and subsequently jumps onto a bus traveling from Madras to Pondicherry to escape them. She faces danger when the same thugs hire an assassin on her bus. A man named Baskar boards the vehicle and voluntarily saves her life during this perilous encounter.
The film stars Ravichandran and Kalpana, and was released on December 16, 1966. It became a commercial success and later inspired the Hindi remake Bombay to Goa in 1972.