''Madana Gopaludu'' is a 1987

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-language

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, produced by V. Ramakrishna and P. Surendra Nath Reddy under the Sri Sailaja Combines banner and directed by P. S. Krishna Mohan Reddy. It stars

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and

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, with music composed by Sivaji Raja.

Plot

Gopalam (Rajendra Prasad) was born into an Orthodox Brahmin family, his father Rama Chary (J. V. Somayajulu) is a most respectable person in a village who works as a temple priest. Gopalam leaves town for higher studies where he turns to debauchery, but he acts wisely before his parents. Gopalam is completely submerged in all sorts of vices and does not even have time to attend his mother's funeral. After some time, his father finds out the reality and takes him back. There, Gopalam is completely reformed as a Sath Brahmin and becomes the temple priest. Rama Chary fixes his alliance with his friend Ranga Chary's (Gollapudi Maruthi Rao) daughter Poornima (Rajyalakshmi). Thereafter, Gopalam's past friends reenter his life and try to get him back, but he does not yield. But Rama Chary misunderstands his son and commits suicide. After his death, the entire village ostracizes Gopalam, out of depression, Gopalam goes onto his deathbed. Gowri (Ramya Krishna), a scheduled caste girl who liked Gopalam from the beginning protects him. Meanwhile, Syedulu (Balaji), the village goon, publicizes badly Gopalam & Gowri, so, Gopalam decides to marry her. But shockingly, Poornima claims that Gopalam has spoiled her and village heads order him to marry her. Now Gopalam brings out the truth that Syedulu is the real culprit who has molested Poornima and he threatened her to throw the blame on him. At last, Poornima kills Syedulu and sacrifices her life to protect Gopalam. Finally, the movie ends with Gopalam leaving the village along with Gowri

Cast

as Gopalam *

as Gowri *

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as Ranga Chary *

J. V. Somayajulu Jonnalagadda Venkata Somayajulu (30 July 1920 or – 24 April 2004) was an Indian actor known for his works in Telugu cinema and a few Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada and Hindi films. In 1981, he received the Filmfare Award for Best Actor – Telugu ...

as Rama Chary * Suthi Veerabhadra Rao as Manmadha & Ramba (dual role) *Narayana Rao as Dasu *Balaji as Syedulu *Pucha Poornanandam as Bhushaiah * Rajyalakshmi as Poornima *

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as Ranga Chary's wife *Mamatha as Subba Lakshmi *

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as Seeta

Soundtrack

Music composed by Sivaji Raja. Lyrics were written by Acharya Aatreya.

References

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