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-language film, produced by N. Sambasiva Rao under the Rajendra Arts Productions banner and directed by B. Vittalacharya. It stars

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, with music composed by Ghantasala.

Plot

The film begins in a prosperous village Ratnapura, which is the border of two kingdoms Vijethapuram & Visalapuram. Ratnapura is officially given to Vijethapuram three generations ago by Visalapuram with a written charter. But at the present generation, Visalapuram's King Narendra Varma (Mukkamala) tries to grab the village because the entire grain required for the country is supplied by this village. During the time of harvest season, Visalapuram soldiers try to loot the grain when a young dynamic guy Pratap (N. T. Rama Rao) revolts against them and saves the village. After that, Pratap starts for Vijethapuram to negotiate with the king Vishnuvardhana Maharaja (Mikkilineni). On the way, Pratap saves Padmini Devi (B. Saroja Devi), the princess of Vijethapuri in disguise and takes her to the palace. Vishnuvardhana appreciates Pratap's loyalty and keeps the responsibility of safeguarding Ratnapuri to him. Pratap trains all the villagers as soldiers. At the same time, he falls in love with Padmini. Meanwhile, Vishnuvardhana sends their chief commander Ajay Simhudu (Satyanarayana) to Ratnapuri but Narendra Varma bribes him and sends his spy to Ratnapuri by the name Sippai Chinnaiah. In the village, Ajay traps Pratap's sister Madhavi (Devika) and marries her. After some time, when Madhavi becomes pregnant Ajay leaves for the capital. Parallelly, Vishnuvardhana dies, handing over the charter to Padmini. Ajay tries to snatch it along with Padmini and the kingdom. Eventually, Pratap moves to the capital along with Madhavi to meet Ajay, leaving Madhavi at choultry and reaching the fort. Ajay senses it, so, he takes Madhavi to a waterfall and throws her down. Fortunately, she was saved by Ajay's mother (Santha Kumari). After knowing of his sister's death, Pratap becomes depressed when Padmini consoles him and pleads with him to save her kingdom. Meanwhile, Ajay makes a conspiracy to grab the kingdom and also plans to give away the charter to Nagendra Varma. Padmini escapes and reaches Pratap, both will somehow get back the charter. Once Ajay visits his house where he is surprised to see Madhavi with a baby boy. Here Ajay's ploy makes Madhavi get a charter from Pratap and also kidnaps Padmini. Ajay's mother learns it, as her husband is a true royal soldier, she stands for piety and reaches towards the fort along with Madhavi when Ajay is making the crowning ceremony. At that time, Pratap attacks the fort with the villagers, protects Padmini, and reveals the charter to the public that Ratnapuri belongs only to Vijethapuram. In the final battle, people stamps out Narendra Varma, when Pratap is about to kill Ajay, Madhavi obstructs his way, but Ajay tries to backstab him, unfortunately, his mother comes between and dies. Then Ajay realizes his mistake and asks Pratap to punish him, he leaves judgment to Padmini who gives him lifelong imprisonment at Ratnapuri as a protector. Finally, the movie ends on a happy note with the marriage of Pratap & Padmini.

Cast

as Pratap *

as Padmini Devi * Satyanarayana as Ajay Simhudu * Mikkilineni as Vishnuvardhana Maharaju * Mukkamala as Nagendra Varma * Sridhar as Papanna *

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as Sainyasi *

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as Suprabhatham *Jagga Rao as Ranadheer *

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as Madhavi *

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as Ajay's mother *

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as Dancer *Meena Kumari as Parijatham

Soundtrack

Music composed by Ghantasala.

References

External links

* {{IMDb title, 1510855 Films based on folklore Films scored by Ghantasala (musician)