Gundamma Katha

aka Manithan Maravillai 1962 166’ b&w Telugu/Tamil? d K. Kameshwara Rao[Te]/Chakrapani[Ta) pc Vijaya co-p B. Nagi Reddy co-p/st Chakrapani dial D.V. Narasaraju lyr Pingali Nagenda Rao c Marcus Bartley m Ghantasala Venkateshwara Rao lp N.T. Rama Rao[Te]/Gemini Ganesh[Ta], A. Nageshwara Rao, S.V. Ranga Rao, Savitri, Vijayalakshmi, Jamuna, Relangi Venkatramaiah

The old woman Gundamma has a son, an exploited stepdaughter and a spoilt daughter for whom she hopes to get a ‘resident’ son-in- law who can also look after the rest of the family. She gets two: the brothers Anji and Raja, who teach the old woman a lesson. Producer Chakrapani credited himself with the direction of the film’s Tamil version Manithan Maravillai but it was a failure, unlike the major success of the original Telugu. Regarded as the last film of Vijaya’s ‘golden age’.

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