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directed by Boyina Subba Rao and produced by D. Rama Naidu. The film stars Laya and

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with

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, and

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in supporting roles. The plot follows Meena (Laya), a blind girl who is abandoned by her mother (Lakshmi) and grows up to be an independent woman. The film was showcased among the Indian panorama section at the 2001

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. The film won five

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Plot

Meena (Laya) is a college girl who was born blind. She is a confident and independent individual, and overcomes the hurdle of blindness. She lives like a normal person with the display of her extraordinary control over the other four senses. She meets Suresh (Sai Kiran) by an accident and their friendship starts growing. His impression for Meena increases when he knows that she is blind. Dolly (Roopa) is a cousin of Suresh. She is in deep love with him. Her father (Kota) encourages his daughter to marry very rich Suresh. Meena completes her studies by getting the state first rank. She takes up the profession of a lawyer. Vasu (Murali Mohan), father of Meena, decides to marry his daughter to Suresh after coming to know their love story. When Vasu goes to Suresh's house with the marriage proposal, he realizes that the aunt of Suresh is none but his divorced wife Kousalya (Lakshmi). In the flash-back, Vasu and Kousalya have differences when they realized that their baby girl is blind. Vasu is in favor of accepting her and Kousalya wants to get rid of her daughter by keeping the baby in an orphanage. The couple get divorced and Vasu takes the baby and raises her to the present position. Rest of the film is about how Meena, in spite of being blind, takes on her mother Kousalya and gets the entire family united.

Cast

* Laya as Meena, confident blind girl *

as Suresh, a rich man with kind heart * Roopa as Dolly, Suresh's cousin *

as Vasu, Meena's father *

as Kousalya, Meena's estranged mother *

Kota Srinivasa Rao Kota Srinivasa Rao (born 10 July 1942) is an Indian character actor known for his work primarily in Telugu cinema and Telugu theatre. He has also starred in a few films in Tamil, Hindi, Kannada and Malayalam. As a former politician, Rao has s ...

as Dolly's father *

Rajitha Rajitha is an Indian actress who works in Telugu films. She has been active since the late 1980s. Career Rajitha made her debut in film industry at the age of 18 with the Telugu movie, ''Brahma Rudrulu'' in which she portrayed Akkineni Nage ...

Soundtrack

* "24 Carat Golden Babu Na 24x36 Neede Babu" (Singers:

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and

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) * "Hai Amma Hai Hai Amma" (Singers: S. P. Balasubrahmanyam and K. S. Chitra) * "Kantene Amma Ani Ante Ela Karuninche Prati Devatha Amme Kada" (Lyrics:

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 ...

; Singers: S. P. Balasubrahmanyam and K. S. Chitra) * "Maa Gundelalo Nindina Devatha" - S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, K. S. Chithra * "Nooru Kotla Andhrula" (Singers: S. P. Balasubrahmanyam and K. S. Chitra) * "Swagatham Yuva Premikulaku Swagatham" - S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, K. S. Chithra * "Tolisari Ninu Choosi Preminchina Manasichinanamma Priyanestama" (Singers: S. P. Balasubrahmanyam and K. S. Chitra)

Awards and honours

References

External links

* 2001 films 2000s Telugu-language films Films about blind people in India Indian drama films Suresh Productions films {{2000s-Telugu-film-stub