Aadarsa Kutumbam
Adarsa Kutumbam | |
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Directed by | K. Pratyagatma |
Written by | Acharya Aatreya (dialogues) |
Screenplay by | K. Pratyagatma Acharya Aatreya |
Story by | K. Pratyagatma |
Produced by | A. V. Subba Rao |
Starring | Akkineni Nageswara Rao Jayalalitha |
Cinematography | P. S. Selvaraj |
Edited by | J. Krshna Swamy Balu |
Music by | Saluri Rajeswara Rao |
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Distributed by | Navayuga Films |
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Running time | 175 mins |
Country | India |
Language | Telugu |
Adarsa Kutumbam (English: Ideal Family) is a 1969 Telugu drama film, produced by A. V. Subba Rao under the Prasad Art Productions banner and directed by K. Pratyagatma. It stars Akkineni Nageswara Rao, Jayalalithaa in the lead roles and music composed by Saluri Rajeswara Rao.[1]
Plot
The film deals with a joint family, Raghavendra Rao (Chittor V. Nagaiah) & his wife Rajyalakshmi (Hemalatha) are paterfamilias who has four sons and a daughter. The elder son Pattabhi (Gummadi) and his wife Janaki (Anjali Devi) look after the house finances and agricultural work. The second son Prakasam (Nagabhushanam) is involved in village politics, wastes time & money therein, and his wife Jaya (S. Varalakshmi) is a shrew who doesn’t contribute anything to the welfare of the family. The third son Pratap (Bheemaraju) is a bodybuilder who is obsessed with diet & fitness and not bothered about his wife Rama (Geethanjali). The youngest one Prasad (Akkineni Nageswara Rao) studies in the city where he falls in love with a beautiful girl Saroja (Jayalalithaa) a doctor. The only daughter is Chandra (Anitha), her husband Suryam (Padmanabham), suffers from night blindness. He doesn’t do any work and passes time lazily by living in his in-law's house. To make things worse, his mother Durgamma (Suryakantham) always visits the house and creates rifts in the family. Pattabhi & Janaki’s goodwill is mistaken as inability and all these people make use of their innocence. Meanwhile, Prasad marries Saroja at this juncture, she enters the family when everybody is in a mess with unnecessary expenditures, arguments, and cheatings. So, Prasad & Saroja decide to separate the family and they do so by cheating. The rest of the story is how they reunite the affections and relations between family members.
Cast
- Akkineni Nageswara Rao as Prasad
- Jayalalithaa as Saroja
- Chittor V. Nagaiah as Raghavendra Rao
- Gummadi as Pattabhi
- Nagabhushanam as Prakasam
- Padmanabham as Suryam
- Ramana Reddy as Damodaram
- Sakshi Ranga Rao as Appaiah Panthulu
- Bheemaraju as Pratap
- Anjali Devi as Janaki
- S. Varalakshmi as Jaya
- Suryakantham as Durgamma
- Hemalata as Rajyalakshmi
- Geethanjali as Rama
- Vijaya Lalitha as Sunita
- Surabhi Balasaraswathi as Rajaki
- Anitha as Chandra
Crew
- Art: G. V. Subba Rao
- Choreography: Chinni - Sampath, Chopra
- Screenplay: K. Pratyagatma, Athreya
- Dialogues: Acharya Aatreya
- Lyrics: Kosaraju, Athreya, C. Narayana Reddy
- Playback: Ghantasala, P. Susheela, Jayadev
- Music: Saluri Rajeswara Rao
- Cinematography: P. S. Selvaraj
- Editing: J. Krishna Swamy, T. V. Balu
- Producer: A. V. Subba Rao
- Story - Director: K. Pratyagatma
- Banner: Prasad Art Productions
- Release Date: 6 June 1969
Soundtrack
Aadarsa Kutumbam | ||||
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Film score by | ||||
Released | 1969 | |||
Genre | Soundtrack | |||
Length | 26:15 | |||
Producer | Saluri Rajeswara Rao | |||
Saluri Rajeswara Rao chronology | ||||
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Music composed by Saluri Rajeswara Rao. Music released on Audio Company.
No. | Title | Lyrics | Singer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Hello Saru" | C. Narayana Reddy | Ghantasala, P. Susheela | 3:36 |
2. | "Bidiyamela O Cheli" | C. Narayana Reddy | Ghantasala, P. Susheela | 3:02 |
3. | "Cheyi Cheyi" | Acharya Aatreya | Ghantasala, P. Susheela | 3:53 |
4. | "Kaligajja Kanlanamma" | Acharya Aatreya | P. Susheela | 3:43 |
5. | "Surya Vamsamu" | Kosaraju | Ghantasala | 4:47 |
6. | "Edukondala Venkateswara" | Kosaraju | Ghantasala | 3:21 |
7. | "Yei Yeira Chostavera" | C. Narayana Reddy | Ghantasala, P. Susheela | 3:53 |
Awards
References
- ^ "Aadarsa Kutumbam (1969) - Telugu Movie | Chitralu.com". Telugu.chitralu.com. Retrieved 21 April 2014.
- ^ "17th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 26 September 2011.