Director: P. Pullaiah; Writer: V.S. Khandekar, Chakrapani; Producer: Mageed; Cinematographer: S.K. Pai; Cast: Shantakumari, P. Bhanumathi, Peddappuram Raju, Lakshminarasimha, Hemalatha, Hanumantha Rao, Akkineni Nageswara Rao, Adinarayanaiah, Achari, Himam
Summary: Elaborate melodrama with several typical
Khandekar characters: the good prostitute, the
irredeemably evil man, the vacillating youth. The
prostitute Sridevi, charged with looking after the
orphaned Radha, arranges for Radha’s marriage to
Mohan. The evil Ananda Rao, who covets Radha,
reveals Sridevi’s past to Mohan’s father and the
wedding is called off. Mohan marries the
independent-minded Uma, and when he is framed
for murder by Ananda Rao it is Uma who
eventually brings the original couple together. Shot
in Kolhapur for a Bombay-based film company, the
film derives from e.g. Marathi cinema’s Huns Pics,
adapted into Telugu by scenarist Chakrapani
(making his film debut). It is also remembered as
Telugu superstar A. Nageshwara Rao’s first film, as
a teenage actor.
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