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drama film In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super-g ...

, produced by Kadaru Venkateswara Rao under the Sri Raja Rajeswari Film Company banner and directed by

C. S. Rao Chittajallu Srinivasa Rao (1924 – 8 December 2004) was an Indian actor, writer and director. He was the son of film director Chittajallu Pullayya. He directed around 65 films in the Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam and Oriya languages. He garnered ...

. It stars

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Sowcar Janaki Sankaramanchi Janaki (born T. Janaki; 12 December 1931), popularly known as Sowcar Janaki (Tamil) or Shavukaru Janaki (Telugu) or Sahukar Janaki (Kannada), is an Indian actress who has appeared in over 300, films, predominantly in Tamil, Telug ...

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Jaggayya Kongara Jaggayya (31 December 1928 – 5 March 2004) was an Indian actor, littérateur, journalist, lyricist, dubbing artist and politician known for his works predominantly in Telugu cinema and Telugu theatre. He was known as ''Kanchu Kantham J ...

, with music composed by Ashwatthama.

Plot

Madhava Rao (A. V. Subba Rao) & Nageswara Rao (Mukkamala) are a sibling. Madhav Rao leads a happy family life with his wife Shantamma (Malathi) and son Ravi (Master Balu) whereas Nageswara Rao is a spoilt brat that's why his brother has ostracized from the family. But when Madhava Rao is on his deathbed he returns, cleverly slaughters his brother, and grabs their property by cheating his sister-in-law. After that, he plans to eliminate Ravi too, listening to it, Shantamma runs out and falls asleep after reaching the outskirts. At that time, a thief notices jewelry on Ravi for which he kidnaps and throws him on the road. A couple passing on notices the kid and rears him. After waking up Shantamma goes into shock due to misplacing of Ravi, a church father Joseph (K.V.S.Sarma) guards her and she realizes she is pregnant. Ranganna (Koteswara Rao) a loyal servant of Shantamma is in search of her, surprisingly, he finds Ravi at his sister's house. On the other side, Shantamma gives birth to a baby boy Rajendra (Master Seshagiri), and works as a gardener in the church. Once Brahmanandam spots Shantamma orders his henchmen to get her, they trap and take her to a secluded place. Fortunately, the police arrive, to abscond they throw a dead body and indict Shantamma for which she has been sentenced. Father Joseph joins Rajendra in an orphanage in Madras for higher studies. Years roll by, and Ravi (N. T. Rama Rao) is raised by Ranganna along with his niece Padma (Girija) and Rajendra (Jaggayya) becomes a solicitor. Nageswara Rao also settles in Madras with his girlfriend Vajram (Rajasulochana) and assistant Brahmanandam (Chadalavada). After release, Shantamma also reaches the same town and faints on the road, spotting her Rajendra gives her shelter and treats her as his mother. Rajendra loves Rani (Sowcar Janaki), the daughter of Purushottama Rao (Mikkilineni) who works as a clerk at Nageswara Rao. Nageswara Rao is erotic towards Rani, but Purushottama Rao performs Rani's marriage with Rajendra by confronting Nageswara Rao for which Nageswara Rao is begrudged. Meanwhile, Brahmanandam traps Padma and takes her to Vajra Vilas where Nageswara Rao tries to molest her to escape she commits suicide, before dying, she reveals the truth to Ravi. Furious Ravi reaches Vajra Vilas, at the same time, Vajram also quarrels with Nageswara Rao about his misdeeds. Nageswara Rao murders Vajram and accuses Ravi, but he flees. Once Father Joseph recognizes Shantamma and reveals Rajendra as her son. Parallelly, Rani also goes into the ploy of Nageswara Rao when Ravi protects her and knockouts Nageswara Rao. Now Ravi is apprehended, in court, Rajendra is in a judge position when Shantamma learns Ravi is also her own and requests Rajendra to leave his brother. But he stands for justice and sentences Ravi. Finally, Ravi appreciates his brother's honesty and moves to jail leaving their mother's responsibility to Rajendra.

Cast

as Ravi *

as Rani *

as Rajendra * Relangi as Uppalanaiadu *

R. Nageswara Rao Rajanala Nageswara Rao ( te, రాజనాల నాగేశ్వరరావు) (1928–1959) was an Indian actor known for his works in Telugu cinema, and was one of the lead actors of his time. He is best known for his works in award-wi ...

as Inspector * Mikkilineni as Purushothama Rao * Mukkamala as Nageswara Rao * Chadalavada as Brahmandam *

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as Cook *K. V. S. Sarma as Father Joseph *A. V. Subba Rao as Madhava Rao *

Rajasulochana Chittajallu Rajeevalochana (15 August 1935 – 5 March 2013), better known as Rajasulochana, was an Indian classical dancer and actress. She has acted in more than 300 Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam and Hindi language films. Early life She w ...

as Vajram * Girija as Padma *Malathi as Shantamma *Ch. Prabhavathi as Kamakshi *Kamala as Chenchulakshmi *Nalla Ramamurthy

Soundtrack

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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 ...

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Samudrala Jr. Samudrala Venkata Ramanujacharyulu, better known as Samudrala Jr. (1923 – 31 May 1985) was an Indian screenwriter and lyricist known for his works in Telugu cinema. He is the son of screenwriter Samudrala Raghavacharya, better known as Sa ...

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P. B. Sreenivas Prathivadhi Bhayankara Sreenivas (22 September 1930 – 14 April 2013) widely known as P. B. Sreenivas was an Indian playback singer, composer, harmonium player, lyricist, littérateur, and poet known for his works in South cinema, and Bollyw ...

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Jikki Pillavalu Gajapathy Krishnaveni (3 November 1935 – 16 August 2004), more famously known as Jikki, was an Indian playback singer from Andhra Pradesh. She sang around 10,000 songs in Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, Hindi, and Sinhalese languag ...

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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 ...

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K. Jamuna Rani K. Jamuna Rani (born 17 May 1938 in Andhra Pradesh, India) is an Indian playback singer who has sung over 6,000 songs in Sinhalese, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam lnguages. Life and career Rani was born to K. Varadarajulu and violinist K ...

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References

1950s Telugu-language films