''Daasi'' () is a 1952 Indian

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, produced by C. Lakshmi Rajyam under the Rajyam Pictures banner and directed by C. V. Ranganatha Das, while

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has taken care of supervision. It stars

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, C. Lakshmi Rajyam and S. V. Ranga Rao, with music composed by

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& Susarla Dakshina Murthy. The film was later remade in

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Velaikari Magal ''Velaikari Magal'' () is a 1953 Indian Tamil-language drama film directed by C. V. Ranganatha Das and starring N. T. Rama Rao, C. Lakshmi Rajyam, and S. V. Ranga Rao. The film is a remake of the 1952 Telugu film '' Daasi''. Cast * N. T. ...

'' by the same banner and director.

Plot

Ramaiah is a horse-cart driver and his wife Lakshmi works as a maid at the house of a wealthy man, Badrinath. The couple has a son, Subbadu. Badrinath, who is issueless, decides to remarry to have children and is in search of a bride. His wife Parvathamma is advised by her elder brother Ramarao to fake a pregnancy. She reluctantly agrees. As Lakshmi is pregnant again, Ramarao's idea is to show her baby as that of Parvathamma to Badrinath and dissuade him from a second marriage. Ramaiah suspects infidelity on the part of Lakshmi and sends her out of the house. She takes shelter in Parvathamma's house, delivers a baby girl, and is shocked to find Parvathamma and the baby missing from there. Ramaiah remarries Durgi, who elopes with a stage actor after throwing her stepson Subbadu into a stream. Dejected, Lakshmi, who decides to end her life by jumping into the stream, finds her son and saves him with the help of a doctor. After Durga leaves him, Ramaiah turns into a sanyasi (ascetic). Years go by. Lakshmi's daughter Kamala, who is being brought up by Parvathamma, is now a young woman and is in love with Ramarao's son, Premnath. But Premnath's mother, who knows the truth, objects to her son marrying a maid's daughter. Subbadu is now Subbarao, a lawyer of repute. After the story takes a few more turns and twists from here on all ends up well. Ramaiah returns home and the family is reunited.

Cast

as Ramaiah * C. Lakshmi Rajyam as Lakshmi * S. V. Ranga Rao as Rama Rao * Relangi as Narayana *

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*Srivatsa Venkateswara Rao as Badrinath *Doraswamy as Premnath *

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as Parvathamma * Suryakantham as Dr. Sarala *

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as Durgi *T. D. Vasantha as Kamala * Pushpavalli

Soundtrack

Music composed by

& Susarla Dakshinamurthi. Lyrics were written by Acharya Aatreya.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Daasi 1952 films 1950s Telugu-language films Films scored by Susarla Dakshinamurthi Telugu films remade in other languages Indian drama films 1952 drama films Indian black-and-white films Films scored by C. R. Subbaraman