Director: E.V.V. Satyanarayana; Writer: Irukapalli Mohana Rao; Producer: Kantipudi Satyanarayana, C.H. Satyanarayana; Cinematographer: Adusumilli Vijayakumar; Cast: Jagapati Babu, Ramya Krishna, Ooha, Satyanarayana, Allam Veerappa, Brahmanandam, Kota Srinivasa Rao, A.V.S.
Duration: 02:36:11; Aspect Ratio: 1.778:1; Hue: 334.763; Saturation: 0.090; Lightness: 0.481; Volume: 0.183; Cuts per Minute: 29.407
Summary: A successful example of the popular Telugu
melodrama associated with Shobhan Babu’s
70s-80s work, in which a man has a
relationship with two women. Suryam (Jagapati
Babu) falls in love with Ramya (Ramya)
mistaking her to be the author of an
anonymous love letter actually written by her
younger step-sister Ooha (Ooha). When Ramya
abandons Suryam on the day of their marriage
for a career in show business, he marries Ooha
instead to save both himself and her family
from a scandal. However, she refuses to
consummate the marriage in protest. Ramya
then returns and accuses her step-sister of
having stolen her lover. She camps in the
couple’s home and tries to seduce Suryam.
Despite the havoc caused by Ramya, the
married couple is eventually reunited after
Ooha attempts to kill herself. The film’s main
narrative pivot is the symbolic space occupied
by Ooha, who, on the one hand, as the
embodiment of modernity, refuses a
subservient role in the marriage, but who
nevertheless is forced to also play the
sacrificing woman: a contradiction in most
conventional narratives that this film
specifically sets out to resolve in its
characterisation.
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