ANR's version on Ban on Jamuna:
The issue started while doing the film Bhookailaas (released on March 20, 1958). Ramarao gaaru and I were sitting with complete makeup, waiting for Jamuna. She came two hours late and didn't even mention any reason or apologies, and simply went to the director straight, and I was thus upset with her. We were her seniors in the industry then her and I felt she needed to be taught a lesson and I told the same to Ramarao gaaru. We took a decision to not cast her in our films after that. As we already agreed to do some films at that time and did not want our producers to have problems with that, we completed those films without making it an issue. Chakrapani gaaru later made a compromise to work for Gundamma Katha and everything went fine after that.

Trivia:

• Ushakiran is mother of Tanvi Azmi who did a film called Pyaari Behnaa (remake of Bapu's Seethamma Pelli). Tanvi fell in love with cameraman Baba Azmi during the film's shoot and later married him. (Baba Azmi is the brother of popular actress Shabana Azmi and did many Telugu films for Bapu.)
• Pelli Kaanuka is a remake of the Tamil film Kalyana Parisu directed by C.V. Sridhar. ANR did a guest role in the Tamil version that had Gemini Ganesan as the main male lead. In the Hindi version Nazraanaa, Gemini Ganesan did the role that ANR played in Tamil.
• Jamuna's first Hindi film was Nayaa Aadmi (NTR's only direct Hindi film, later made in Telugu as Santosham) which was a super hit and then came Miss Mary, the Hindi version of Missamma. Jamuna did 22 films in Hindi and most of them went on to become super hits!

Interview: Sri Atluri
Edited by: NaChaKi