ViSHWAMOHINI(1940)

CHITTURU V NAGAIAH

Banner:Jagdish Pics
Director:Y.V. Rao
Music:Ogirala Ramchandra Rao
Story:Y.V. Rao
Dialogues:Balijepalli Lakshmikanta Kavi
Lyrics:Balijepalli Lakshmikanta Kavi

Y V RAO

Cast:
Y.V. Rao,
Chittor V. Nagaiah,
Lalitha Devi,
Bezawada Rajarathnam,
Rangaswamy,
Kakinada Rajarathnam,
Doraiswamy,
Gangarathnam,
Sampurna,
Suryanarayana

Story: A love triangle satirising the film industry. Purshottam (Y.V. Rao) embezzles money from a firm of brokers owned by Padmanabham in order to get his son Mohan Rao married to Hemalatha, daughter of the millionaire Vishalakshamma (B. Rajarathnam). The now impoverished Padmanabham partially gets his own revenge when his daughter Sushila (Lalitha Devi) becomes the film star Vishwamohini, introduced by the Film producer Pashupati, brother of Vishalakshamma. The star Vishwamohini falls in love with Mohan Rao and her father agrees to their marriage provided Mohan can find a job. He pretends to have done so and the two get married. Hemalatha offers Vishwamohini money to go away and free Mohan, which, in an emotional scene, she refuses to do. The hit film continued director/star Y.V. Rao's trailblazing work at Jagdish (his earlier film for them. Malli Pelli, 1939, was also a hit) and includes long comedy sequences such as the satirical depiction of a film director (Nagaiah).