''Manushulu Mamathalu'' () is a 1965 Indian Telugu-language

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 ...

produced by A. V. Subba Rao under the

Prasad Art Productions Prasad Art Productions or Prasad Art Pictures Private Limited is a movie production house in South India. They produced about 20 films, mostly in Telugu. The company headed by Anumolu Venkata Subba Rao. Their first film was '' Pempudu Koduku' ...

banner and directed by K. Pratyagatma. It stars

Akkineni Nageswara Rao Akkineni Nageswara Rao (20 September 1923 – 22 January 2014), widely known as ANR, was an Indian actor and producer, known for his works majorly in Telugu cinema. He starred in many landmark films in his seventy five-year career, and became on ...

, Nissankara Savitri Guruvaiah and

Jayalalithaa Jayaram Jayalalithaa (24 February 1948 – 5 December 2016) was an Indian politician and actress who served as Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu for more than fourteen years over six terms between 1991 and 2016. From 9 February 1989 to 5 December 2 ...

, with music composed by

T. Chalapathi Rao Tatineni Chalapathi Rao (22 December 1920 – 22 February 1994) was an Indian music composer who worked in Telugu cinema. His career spanned more than three decades from early 1950s, till 1980s. He was the cousin of T. Prakash Rao. Early life ...

. T. Rama Rao worked as associate director for this film. This picture is also remembered to be Jayalalithaa's Telugu debut as a leading actress (having previously worked as a child artiste in mostly song sequences). This was the first Telugu film to ever receive an

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from the Censor Board.

Plot

Rajarao is a rich man and has a daughter Radha. Radha's mother has died during her childhood and her father has looked after her ever since. At that time, Rajarao allows his sister Kanakamma and her son Venu to stay in his house. Venu's father died in the Godavari floods. Venu has witnessed this sad incident and dreams of becoming an engineer to curb such calamities by constructing dams. He studies very hard and shares a good friendship with Radha since childhood. While Venu considers Radha to be a good friend, Radha falls in love with Venu after growing up. One fine day, Radha proposes to Venu, but the latter rejects her politely saying he always looked at her as a friend and also says that he would never want to marry in life, but settle down as a good engineer and work for the nation. A sensible Radha understands his ambition and respects his decision. Meanwhile, Rajarao has a nephew Seshu who is a

spoiled brat A spoiled child or spoiled brat is a derogatory term aimed at children who exhibit behavioral problems from being overindulged by their parents or other caregivers. Children and teens who are perceived as spoiled may be described as "overindulged ...

. He has an affair with a prostitute Vani and plans to marry Radha for the sake of her property. But Radha hates him. Rajarao's friend Gopala Rao is a chief engineer who lives in the city and has a daughter Indira. His brother's son Bhaskar is a B.A. Graduate, but idle in life. In a friendly word, Rajarao gets Radha married to Bhaskar. At the same time, Venu gets a seat in an engineering college and arrives in the town. Gopala Rao offers Venu to study in the college by staying at his place. The jovial Indira falls for Venu and tries to gain his attention in various ways. Venu realizes her intentions and tries to stay away. The more he distances himself from her, the more she tries. Gopala Rao also wants Venu to become his son-in-law. Meanwhile, Seshu plans to break Radha's marriage out of anger that he couldn't marry her. He takes the help of Vani and they both trap Bhaskar. When Venu realizes that Radha's life is in trouble, he arrives on the scene and repairs the broken relationship between Bhaskar and Radha with the help of Indira.

Cast

as Venu * Savitri as Radha *

as Indira *

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 ...

as Bhaskar * Gummadi as Raja Rao *

Ramana Reddy Ramana Reddy (1 October 1921 – 11 November 1974) was an Indian character actor, comedian and producer known for his works predominantly in Telugu cinema. In a career spanning 24 years, he acted in more than 200 movies. Ramana Reddy and Relangi ...

as Gopalam * Prabhakar Reddy as Seshu * Rajasree as Vani *

Hemalatha Hemalatha, often credited as Hema, is an Indian actress and dancer. She is acclaimed for her roles as Raghavi in the popular soap opera '' Kana Kaanum Kaalangal'' on STAR Vijay and as Deepa in the superhit Tamil drama serial on Sun TV ''The ...

Soundtrack

The music was composed by

Accolades

The film won the

National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Telugu The National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Telugu is one of the National Film Awards presented annually by the Directorate of Film Festivals, the organisation set up by Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, India. It is one of several ...

References

External links

* {{National Film Award Best Feature Film Telugu 1960s Telugu-language films 1965 films Films directed by Kotayya Pratyagatma Films scored by T. Chalapathi Rao