Padmalaya Movies
Ravikalamandir
Maayadaari Malli gaadu (1973)

Technical:
Reels: 16
Color
35 mm
Censor Date: September 07, 1973
Release Date: October 05, 1973
Duration: 2 hrs 30 minutes

Cast:
Krishna ... Mallanna
Manjula ... Chandirka
Jayanthi ... Pankajam
Nagabushanam ... Munasabu Gangaraju
Saakshi Rangarao ... Karanam
Rajababu ... Officer Aishwaryam
Prasanna Rani ... Sarada
Krishnam Raju ... Public Prosecutor (Guest)
Dhulipala ... Judge (Guest)
Rammohan ... Defence Lawyer (Guest)
Padmanabham ... Bala Brahmananda Swamy
K.V. Chalam ... Doctor Ramanayya
Ch. Krishmanurthy ... Constable Krishnarao
Other Cast: Kanta Rao (Guest), Chandramohan (Guest), Anjali Devi, Master Ramu, Mada Venkateswara Rao, Sarathi, etc.

Story: Adurti Kameswari Bala
Dialogues: P. Satyanand (Debut)
Lyrics: Acharya Atreya, Kosaraju Raghavayya Chowdary
Playback: S.P. Balasubrahmanyam, P. Susheela, Madhavapeddi Satyam, Ramakrishna
Music Director: K.V. Mahadevan
Asst. Music Director: Puhazhendi
Asst. Director: P. Satyanand
Camera: K.S. Ramakrishna
Editing: Adurti Harinath
Producers: Adurti Harinath, M.S. Prasad
Screenplay, Direction: Adurti Subbarao

Songs
turrupiTTaa, turrupiTTaa, tOTakostaavaa, naa tOdunTaavaa!
Playback: P. Susheela
Cast: Manjula

vastaa, veLLostaa! maLLeppuDostaa? rEpu sandELakostaa!
Playback: S.P. Balasubrahmanyam, P. Susheela
Cast: Krishna, Manjula

talaki neeLLOsukoni kurulaarabOsukoni niluchunTe, nuvvu niluchunTe
Playback: S.P. Balasubrahmanyam, P. Susheela
Cast: Krishna, Manjula

mallepandiri neeDa lOna jaabillii, tellavaaraneeyakOyi ee rEyi
Playback: P. Susheela
Cast: Jayanthi

rEpalle vaaDalO gOpaaluDE, nandagOpaaluDE
Playback: Madavapeddi Sathyam, Chorus
Cast: Chandramohan

navvutU batakaaliraa, tammuDU, navvutU chaavaaliraa!
Playback: S.P. Balasubrahmanyam
Cast: Krishna

manishiki maatram vasantamannadi lEdani toli vraasindevaru!
Playback: Ramakrishna

Story:

Munasabu Gangaraju (Nagabhushanam) is an evil man while his son Ramu (Master Ramu) is god-fearing and honest. Gangaraju kills Bala Brahmandanda Swamy (Padmanabham) and puts the blame on Mallanna (Krishna), but Ramu sees the murder. Now, Ramu is in a dilemma - if he tells the truth, his father will die, and if he does not, then an innocent Mallanna will die. This thus creates in the movie an interesting story line.

Satyanand talks about his debut film...

I am a nephew of Adurti Subbarao gaaru . So, since childhood, I saw stars and films and was always was fascinated by the glitz of the filmdom. After my graduation, I came to Chennai and started working with Adurti Subbarao. Actually he wanted to make a film like Sudigundaalu . The basic idea was that we teach children to tell the truth always, but we again ask them not to tell the truth at times. In such a situation, what'll be the child's mental state - this is the film's basic point. But, making a film wholly based on children is not commercially viable, and we thus started working on side characters, etc.