Tehsildar(1944)

Y.V.RAO

Banner: Shri Jagadish Films
Director:Y.V. Rao
Music:H.R. Padmanabha Sastry
Story:Y.V. Rao
Dialogues:Balijepalli Lakshmikanta Kavi
Lyrics:Balijepalli Lakshmikanta Kavi
Cinematography:Purshottam

CH.NARAYANA RAO

Cast:
Y.V. Rao,
Ch. Narayana Rao,
Balijepalli Lakshmikanta Kavi,
Rangaswamy,
Krishnayya,
Natesayya,
B.V.K. Acharya,
M.S. Rama Rao,
B.R. Panthulu,
Kamala Kotnis,
P. Bhanumathi,
Hemalatha,
BezwadaRajarathnam,
Krishnakumari,
Tripurasundari,
Soudamini

HEMALATHA

Story:Y.V. Rao's best-known film as actor is a satire on the mania for Westernisation among India's lower-level bureaucrats. A minor tehsildar (revenue collector) (Y.V. Rao) marries the naive, rural Kamala (Bhanumathi) and instantly wants her to adopt Western fashions, learn English and walk in high-heeled shoes. This leads to ludicrous situations and at a tea party hosted by the collector she feels publicly humiliated. The tehsildar rejects Kamala in favour of Rajani (Kotnis), a 'modern' lady who first has Kamala evicted from the house and then goes on to ruin the Tehsildar financially, causing him to be arrested for embezzlement. With, e.g. Grihapraveshom (1946), L.V. Prasad later continued the satires on blind Westernisation.