Bhagya Lakshmi(1943)

P.PULLAIAH

Banner:Renuka Films
Director:P. Pullaiah
Music:B. Narasimha Rao
Dialogues:Samudrala Raghavacharya
Lyrics:Samudrala Raghavacharya
Cinematography:M.A. Rehman
Producer:Chittor V. Nagaiah

CHITTURU V NAGAIAH

Cast:
Chittor V. Nagaiah,
Doraiswamy,
Umamaheshwara Rao,
Giri,
Raghavan,
Gauripathy Sastry,
N.S. Krishnan,
T.A. Mathuram,
Malathi,
T. Suryakumari,
Kamala Kotnis

TANGUTURI SURYA KUMARI

Story:Melodrama about unrequited love. The music teacher Srinivasa Rao (Nagaiah) loves Bhagya Lakshmi (Malati) but her parents arrange for her to marry another man, Vishwanatha Rao (Giri). When the lovesick hero spurns the vamp Kamakshi, she starts a rumour suggesting Srinivasa Rao is having a sexual affair with Bhagya Lakshmi, causing the heroine to be thrown out of her home. Eventually the hero patches up the marriage between Bhagya Lakshmi and Vishwanatha Rao. Nagaiah hired Pullaiah to direct his first independent production designed to refurbish the star's heroic screen image after playing second leads and Saint films at Vauhini. The film had one classic Nagaiah song hit, Asha nirasha. According to V.A.K. Ranga Rao, this was the first time in Telugu cinema that a playback singer, R. Balasaraswathi, received an explicit credit for her Kamala Kotnis songs, acknowledging that actors did not always sing their songs.