Director: Raghupati Surya Prakash; Writer: Muttaneni Venkata Chennakesavulu; Producer: Mirjapuram Raja; Cinematographer: Kamal Ghosh; Cast: P. Kannamba, Vemuri Gaggaiah, Bellari Raghava, Lalitha Devi, Peddapuram Raju, Arani Satyanarayana, Puvvula Ratnamala
Summary: The forthright Chandika (Kannamba) plans to kill
villainous womaniser Giriraju (Gaggaiah). Although
she decides to do so on principle, she attempts the
deed only when he tries to molest her. He is
rescued by Veeramallu (Raghava) who has him
jailed. Unusual melodrama loosely derived from
Dumas’s
The Three Musketeers and set in an
undefined feudal era where royalty survives amid
democratic state institutions. Although rehearsing
the usual pieties about Hindu women, the film is
remembered for its unorthodox heroine.
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