About the film:
The film is a remake of super hit Hindi film Anamika (1973 - produced by Tahir Hussain and directed by Raghunath Jalani) with Jaya Badhuri doing the title role, while Sanjeev Kumar played the role of writer. The film has memorable music by R.D. Burman (Remember the song baahOn mein chalE aa..., which is favorite to Lata Mangeshkar and who can forget the title song of Anamika... beautifully rendered by Kishore Kumar).
Chakravarthy, who had not yet fallen into the commercial trap then, had given evergreen hit songs for the Telugu version - like vadalanuraa ninu raghuraamaa... (P. Susheela) and one of the G. Anand's career-best song dikkulu chooDaku raamayyaa.... He used the original tune for the title song Kalpana..., still succeeding to a great extent in his own effort!
Nuthan Prasad was credited in the film with his original name (Varaprasad), though he changed his name to Nuthan Prasad two years before this film, when he acted in Muthyala Muggu. Also, for an actor whose voice was known to be uniquely different, his voice was dubbed in this film by Chakravarthy, thus marking probably the only film in which his voice was dubbed. Jayamalini (Helen in the original) gets her voice dubbed by Dubbing Janaki. Giribabu did a pretty good job as Seshu, which was originally played by Ramesh Behl. Rao Gopal Rao appears in a guest role whenever Kalidas (Allu Ramalingaiah) tries to write a story he appears as a main lead in the story and troubles Kalidas and makes him scrap the story.
K.S. Prakash delivered a very good camera work, using highly appreciable shadows and lighting in creating various moods.
The film was a decent hit, though it was naturally affected by Raghavendra Rao's own "bigger" blockbuster film, Adavi Ramudu which was released a week (on April 28, 1977) after the film Kalpana (on April 22, 1977); the film Adavi Ramudu created records (which are still not broken in some areas). Actually, 1977 was one of the best years for Raghavendra Rao, as he gave some of the best films in his career - Kalpana (April 22, 1977), Adavi Ramudu (April 28, 1977), Prema Lekhalu (September 09, 1977), Amara Deepam (September 29, 1977), Aame Katha (November 19, 1977) - all of which had different subjects and were all hits! Surprisingly enough, he had no other film release in the next eight months, until Simhabaludu (August 11, 1978), despite delivering a row of hits in the previous year!
Readers Info : Executive producer Prasad recently passed away, Rohini prasad his daughter who played the role of Papa in the film also passed away some years back.
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