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| Jamuna, ANR in Illarikam |
Prasad Art Productions
Illarikam (1959)
Technical:
35 mm
Black and White
Reels: 17
Duration: 2 hrs 32 minutes
Cast:
Akkineni Nageswara Rao ... Venu
Jamuna ... Radha
Gummadi Venkateswara Rao ... Zamindar
Relangi Venkatramayya ... Brahmanandam
Hemalatha ... Sundaramma, Zamindar's wife
C.S.R. Anjaneyulu ... Govindayya
R. Nageswara Rao ... Sadanandam/Seshagiri
Bala ... Savithri
Girija ... Kanakadurga
T.G. Kamala ... Zamindar's sister
Allu Ramalingaiah ... Panakalu
Ramana Reddy ... Dharmayya
Boddapati ... Dancemaster
Other cast: Peketi Sivaram, Vijayalakshmi, Surabhi Kamalabai, Lakshmi, Leelarani, Paladugu, etc.
Story: Vempati Sadasivabrahmam
Dialogues: Arudra
Music: T. Chalapathi Rao
Playback: Ghantasala Venkateswara Rao, P. Susheela, P.G. Krishnaveni (Jikki), Madhavapeddi Satyam
Lyrics: Arudra, SreeSree, Kosaraju Raghavayya Chowdary
Camera: A. Vincent
Editing: A. Sanjeevi
Associate Directors: K. Pratyagatma, Koganti Gopalakrishna
Assistant Director: Tatineni Rama Rao (debut)
Producer: Anumolu Venkata Subbarao
Screenplay, Direction: Tatineni Prakasha Rao
Songs:
aDigindaaniki cheppi eduraaDaka praSnanu vippi...
Playback: Ghantasala, P. Susheela
Lyrics: Kosaraju Raghavaiah Chowdary
Cast: A.N.R., Jamuna, and others
ekkaDi dongalu akkaDanE gapchip!...
Playback: Ghantasala
Lyrics: SreeSree
Cast: A.N.R., Jamuna
(The tune was based on Rafi's popular song tumsaa nahi dEkhaa... from the 1957 Hindi film Tumsa Nahi Dekha featuring Shammi Kapoor and Ameeta.)
chEtulu kalasina chappaTlu, manasulu kalasina mucchaTlu...
Playback: Ghantasala, Madhavapeddi Satyam, P. Susheela
Lyrics: Arudra
Cast: A.N.R., Jamuna, Relangi, and others
nEDu Sreevaariki mEmanTE paraakaa?
Playback: Ghantasala, P. Susheela
Lyrics: Arudra
Cast: A.N.R., Jamuna
madhupaatra nimpavOyii...
Playback: Jikki, Chorus
Lyrics: Arudra
Cast: Girija
bhalE chance-lE...
Playback: Madhavapeddi Satyam
Lyrics: Kosaraju Raghavayya Chowdary
Cast: Relangi, Peketi Sivaram
niluvavE vaalukanula daanaa!...
Playback: Ghantasala
Lyrics: Kosaraju Raghavayya Chowdary
Cast: A.N.R., Jamuna
Story:
Venu (Akkineni Nageswara Rao) completes his studies with the help of his maternal uncle. He falls in love with Radha (Jamuna), the daughter of a zamindar (Gummadi Venkateswara Rao) and gets married to her eventually and stays in their house. The zamindar's wife Sundaramma (Hemalatha) does not like all this happening and insults him a couple of times indirectly. Govindayya (C.S.R.) creates problems between Venu and Radha enough to separate them. How Venu solves all the problems is rest of the story.
About the film:
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This is the 74th film for Nageswara Rao, and the first straight Telugu film for the producer A.V. Subbarao. Being a good friend of the actor-director L.V. Prasad, he named the production house after his friend.
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K. Pratyagatma, and Koganti Gopalakrishna (of Lakshmana Rekha), were associate directors for the film and Tatineni Ramarao was a debutant assistant director for this film - all of them later earned appreciable popularity as directors later. L.V. Prasad's brother Sanjeevi was the editor for this film. Later, he too turned a director and made films like Akka Chellelu and Jai Jawan with ANR, and a critically acclaimed yet flopped Illaalu with Geethanjali in the lead.
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Surabhi Kamalabai, a popular stage artiste from the coveted 'Surabhi' theatrical troupe and erstwhile lead actress who also played NTR's mother in Pathala Bhairavi reappeared after a long time in this film.
