''Andala Ramudu'' is a 1973

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-language

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film, film produced by N. S. Murthy under the Chitra Kalpana banner and directed by Bapu. It stars

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, Latha and music composed by

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. The film is based on

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's ''Janata Express'' (novel). The film is the debut to veteran artists

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and Latha. The film won two

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. The film has given enthusiastically drawing atmosphere and spirit to the movie ''

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'' (2006), directed by

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Plot

The film begins in the ''Panchavati'' colony where people of various mindsets reside. Seetarama Rao / Ramu is an orphan brought up by an old lady Seetamma, who also stays alone. Everyone in the colony holds Ramu dear, in turn, he too treats them as his family members. Once Ramu's briefcase is exchanged in the railway station with another containing a huge amount, belonging to a multi-millionaire JB Rao. JB is a marionette in the hands of his secretary who loathes the penniless. Ramu safely returns the briefcase to him when he is accused of thief, but Seeta the only daughter of JB Rao likes his ideologies of Ramu and falls for him. Meanwhile, Seetamma completes RamaKoti for the wealth of her son absconded in childhood and aspires to visit Bhadrachalam to submit it to the Lord. At the same time, Ramu is appointed as Deputy Collector at Bhadrachalam, but he wants to maintain secrecy regarding his job till the end of the destination. Meanwhile, the secretary's ploy with JB's nephew Giri spoils the mindset of JB and conspires to couple up Seeta with Giri at the same Bhadrachalam. Ramu starts his pilgrimage along with his entire colony in a Janatha Boat, JB and the party also accompany them in a luxury boat. Besides, a suspended Tahsaldar Ramalingam a sly person arrives with a Govt. boat for the Deputy Collector to pamper and get back his position. All the 3 are joined and the journey begins, which takes several twists and turns. In between an awful incident, Seetamma passes away when they try to stop the boats for the funeral, JB insults her to throws her into the river Godavari as it is a waste of time. Here, furious Ramu wants to teach a lesson to JB, so, he makes a play by hiding the boats and pretends as if they have been flooded away. Now, they make a halt on an island where Ramu arranges food for colony members. Eventually, JB's group is starving and no one comes forward to sell or share their food when JB realizes that money cannot do everything. So, he says sorry to Ramu and embraces all of them. Now, surprisingly it is revealed that JB is Seetamma's absconded, son. Knowing it, he repents and collapses when the secretary seeks to kill him and Giri tries forcibly to espouse Seeta when JB understands the nefariousness of his henchmen. At last, Ramu rescues Seeta, stops the baddies, and affirms that Ramu is the newly appointed Deputy Collector. Finally, the movie ends on a happy note with the marriage of Ramu & Seeta.

Cast

as Seetarama Rao / Ramu * Latha as Seeta * Nagabhushanam as J. B. Rao *

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as Teesesina Tahasildaru / Teeta / Ramalingaiah * Raja Babu as Appula Appa Rao *

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as Secretary * Mukkamala (guest appearance) *

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as Sarangu *

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as Subba Rao Mamagaru *

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as Dasu *

as Giri Babu *Kakarala as Bantrothu Bhadrayya *Venkateswara Rao *K. K. Sarma as Priest *Potti Prasad as Butler *

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as Samalamma *

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as Rani *Jhansi as Balanagamma *Master Visweswara Rao

Crew

*Art: G. V. Subba Rao *Choreography: Pasumarthi, Taara-Sundaram, Raju-Seshu *Story - Dialogues:

*Screenplay: Seetaramudu, Boodlumandi *Lyrics:

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C. Narayana Reddy Cingireddi Narayana Reddy (29 July 1931 – 12 June 2017), popularly known as CiNaRe, was an Indian Telugu-language poet and writer. Reddy had produced over eighty literary works including poems, prose-plays, lyrical plays, translations, a ...

Kosaraju Raghavaiah Kosaraju Raghavayya (23 June 1905 – 27 October 1987), known mononumously by his surname Kosaraju, was an Indian lyricist and poet known for his works in Telugu cinema. He wrote about 3,000 songs in 350 films. His lyrics are steeped in Telug ...

*Playback:

M. Balamuralikrishna Mangalampalli Balamuralikrishna (6 July 1930 – 22 November 2016) was an Indian Carnatic vocalist, musician, multi-instrumentalist, playback singer, composer, and character actor. He was awarded the Madras Music Academy's Sangeetha Kalanidhi in ...

, V. Ramakrishna, J. V. Raghavulu,

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Madhavapeddi Satyam Madhavapeddi Satyam (11 March 1922 – 18 December 2000) was an Indian playback singer and actor who predominantly worked in Telugu cinema. He entered films as a singer-actor in Y. V. Rao's Tamil-Hindi bilingual movie ''Ramadas'' in the year 194 ...

, Raghuram, Vijayalakshmi *Music:

*Editing: Akkineni Sanjeeva Rao, Mandapati Ramachandrayya *Cinematography:

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*Producer: N. S. Murthy *Director: Bapu *Banner: Chitra Kalpana *Release Date: 12 September 1973

Music

Music was composed by

. Music released on Audio Company.

Box office

The film ran for more than 100 days.

Awards

;

- 1973(in

) * Second Best Feature Film - Silver - N. S. Murthy * Second Best Story Writer -

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Andala Ramudu (1973 Film) Films directed by Bapu 1973 films 1970s Telugu-language films Films scored by K. V. Mahadevan