Gorantha Deepam

1978 154’ col Telugu d Bapu pc Chitrakalpana Films st Nerella Ramalakshmi sc Mullapudi Venkatramana lyr C. Narayana Reddy, Arudra, Dasarathi c Ishan Arya m K.V. Mahadevan lp Sridhar, Mohan Babu, Ravu Gopala Rao, T.L. Kantha Rao, Allu Ramalingaiah, Vanisree, Suryakantam, G. Varalakshmi

Telugu melodrama about feudal marital life. The young bride Padmavati (Vanisree, in one of her best-known performances) is sent to her new home with injunctions to regard her husband as father, god, teacher and so on and always to ‘earn’ her keep. What she finds is an exploitative mother-in-law, an uncaring husband and a family friend who tries to rape her. However, her exemplary virtuousness eventually transforms everyone.

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