Bangaru Papa (1954)

Banner: Vauhini
Director: B.N. Reddi
Music: A. Rama Rao
Story: Palagummi Padmaraju from George Eliot's Silas Marner
Screenplay: B.N. Reddi ,Palagummi Padmaraju
Lyrics: Devulapalli Krishna Sastry
Cinematography: B.N. Konda Reddy
Cast:
S.V. Ranga Rao,
K, Jaggaiah,
Jamuna,
Krishnakumari,
Ramasarma,
Vidyavati,
Ramana Reddy,
Jayalakshmi,
Hemalatha
Story: The rich Manohar (Jaggaiah) marries poor Shanta (Jamuna), neglecting to inform his conservative and tyrannical father. The father forces him to marry a girl of his choice, even as Shanta dies in a storm leaving an infant daughter behind- The daughter is rescued by the criminal Kotaiah (Ranga Rao) who, while raising her, becomes a reformed character. Manohar suffers, unable to declare the woman to be his daughter. The melodrama is remembered for Ranga Rao's performance. A commercial flop though a success among the urban upper class.

Mangala(1951)

Banner:Gemini
Director:Chandru
Music:M.D. Parthasarathy
Story:Gemini Story Dept
Dialogues:Tapi Dharma Rao
Lyrics:Tapi Dharma Rao
Producer:S.S. Vasan

Cast:
Bhanumathi,
Ranjan,
Suryaprabha,
T.R. Ramchandran,
Narayana Rao,
Doraiswamy,
Kolatthu Mani,
Surabhi Kamalabai,
Vijayarao

Story: A remake of Gemini's hit Mangamma Sapatham (1943), to follow their successful trilingual Apoorva Sahodarargal/Nishan (1949) starring Bhanumathi and Ranjan. Vasan again claimed directorial credit for the Hindi version. Mangala (Bhanumathi), the daughter of a rich farmer, chases her pet pigeon into a strange land whose prince (Ranjan) instantly falls in love with her. When she resists his advances, he threatens to marry and imprison her for the rest of her life. She responds by threatening that, should they marry, their son would grow up to whip his father. Dressed as a Carmen Miranda gypsy dancer she seduces him, gets pregnant and bears a son who eventually fulfils her prophecy.

Bangaru Panjaram (1965)

SOBAN BABU

Banner: Vauhini
Director: B.N. Reddi
Music: Saluri RaJeshwara Rao, B. Gopalam
Story: Palagummi Padmaraju
Lyrics: Devulapalli Krishna Sastry, Sri Sri
Cinematography: B.N. Konda Reddy, C.A.S. Mani, Madhav Buibule

VANISREE

Cast:
Shobhan Babu,
Vanisree,
Geetanjali ,
Sriranjani Jr,
Ravi Kondala Rao,
Pushpavalli

B.N.REDDY

Story: Marital melodrama. Hero Venu (S. Babu) marries the poor Neela (Vanisree) despite his crooked employer Rangaiah who tries to prevent the marriage. Venu's uncle Ramakoti and Ramakoti's daughter Padma, who loves Venu, plant the maid Mangamma in Venu's house- Mangamma spreads rumours that lead to marital discord and Neela is forced to leave home. RAVIKONDALA RAO

She is in a train accident and her husband believes her to be dead although she finds shelter in the house of a doctor. When Venu fails ill he is taken to that very doctor and husband and wife are reconciled. Reddi's and the old Vauhini production unit's last film was not a commercial aucce.ss though it-included .some popular music such as S. Janaki's Pagalai the doravera.

Ardhangi (1955)

AKKINENI NAGESWARA RAO

Banner: Ragini Films
Director: P, Pullaiah
Music: B. Narasimha Rao
Story: Manilal Gangopadhyay'.s Bengali novel Swayamsiddha
Lyrics: Acharya Athreya
Cinematography: Madhav Bulbule

SAVITRI

Cast:
A. Nageshwara Rao,
K Jaggaiah ,
Savitri,
Surabhi Balasaraswathi,
Shantakumari,
S.V. Ranga Rao,
Gummadi Venkateshwara Rao,
Chittor V. Nagaiah

GUMMADI VENKATESWARA RAO

Story: A hit Telugu and Tamil melodrama (the Tamil is technically a remake). P.SANTHA KUMARI
The heroine (Savitri, in the film that established her reputation as an actress) is forced to marry a mentally retarded man S.V.RANGA RAO

(Nageshwara Rao/ Ganesh) whom she eventually nurses back to health while teaching a lesson to her scheming mother-in-law (Shantakumari) and brother-in-law (Jaggaiah/Ganesan).

DAASI(1952)

N.T.RAMA RAO

Banner: Rajyam Pics
Director: C.V. Ranganatha Das
Music:S. Dakshinamurthy,C.R. Subburaman
Cinematography:M.Rehman

S.V.RANGA RAO

Cast:
N.T. Rama Rao,
Lakshmirajyam,
S.V.Ranga Rao,
Relangi Venkatramaiah
K. Siva Rao,
Srivatsava,
Doraiswamy,
Shantakumari,
Kanakam,
Vasanthi

KASTHURI SIVA RAO

Story: Telugu melodrama unusually derived from the Bengali literary idiom. A childless zamindar (Ranga Rao) wants to marry again but his wife (Shantakumari) then feigns pregnancy and adopts her maid's (Lakshmirajyam) child. The film deals with the problems of the maid, and then those of the child (Vasanthi) who discovers her real mother.

SATYABHAMA(1942)

Banner:Jagdish Films
Director:Y.V. Rao
Music:Gotu Narayana lyer
Dialogues:Sivayankara Sastry, S.G. Acharya
Lyrics:Daita Gopalam

Cast:
Y.V. Rao,
Addanki Sreerama murthy,
Pushpavalli,
Sthanam,
Purmma,
Kasturi

Story:Y.V. Rao also plays the lead, Krishna, in this mythological derived from the Mahabharata. Krishna restores the Syamantak gem from the bear-king Jambavanta to Shatrujit, receiving in return the hand of Sliatrujil's daughter in marriage. The film is sometimes presented as an early example of the introduction of low Tamil comedy into Telugu cinema.

PATNI(1942)

GUDAVALLI RAMBRAMHAM

Banner: Sarathi Films
Director:Gudavalli Ramabrahmam
Music: Kopparapu Subba Rao
Lyrics:Tapi Dharma Rao
Cinematography:Sudhish Ghatak

Cast:
K.S. Prakash Rao,
Surabhi Kamalabai,
Rushyendramam,
Hemavathi,
Vangara,
Kocherlakota Satyanarayana

Story:Ramabrahmam (Mala Pilla, 1938; Raitu Bidda, 1939) departs radically from his earlier style, adapting the Kannagi legend (cf. Kannagi, 1942) of Silapathikaram with Rushyendramani in the title role and future director Prakash Rao as her husband Kovalan. Given Ramabrahmam's political inclinations, this version may have addressed the colonial present more directly than Jupiter Pies' version.

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.

APOORVA SAHODARULU(1950)

Banner:Gemini
Director:C. Pullaiah
Music:Saluri Rajeshwara Rao,M.D. Parthasaralhy, Balkrishna Kalla, R. Vaidyanath
Story: Alexandre Dumas's The Corsican Brothers
Dialogues:Gemini Story Dept
Lyrics:Kothamangalam Subbu
Cinematography:Kamal Ghosh

Cast:
P. Bhanumathi,
R. NagendraRao,
B.S. Saroja,
D. Bala,
V,P,S. Mani,
Stunt Sona
Story: Vasan's sequel to the smash hit ChandraLekha (1948) adapted the Douglas Fairbanks Jr version of the Dumas novel, directed by Edward Small (1942). Made as a trilingual, its nearly identical Tamil (Apoorva Sahodarargat) and Telugu (Apoorua Sahodarulu) versions were nevertheless credited to different directors, while M.K, Radha, who plays the double role of the separated twins in Tamil is replaced by his Chandralekha co-star Ranjan for the Hindi film. The villain Zoravar Singh (Nagendra Rao) defeats [he rival kingdom of Bhawanigarh and ihe good doctor Shankar (Casshyap) manages to rescue the twins Vijay and Vikram (Radha/Ranjan), heirs to the throne. Vijay is raised in the city and Vikram in the forest. They grow up to take revenge on Zoravar. Both brothers love the same girl, Ranjana (Bhanumathi), causing a rivalry that generates further intrigues: Zoravar kidnaps the girl as bait to get the two heroes to reveal themselves. The Hindi version was less successful than the Tamil one, which broke several records.