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Pakkinti Ammayi
1953 164’ b&w Telugu d C. Pullaiah pc East India Films p Sushil Kumar Haldar st Arun Choudhury’s Pasher Bari dial/lyr: Muddukrishna c Biren De m Ashwathama lp Anjali Devi, V. Kamaladevi, Mohanakrishna, Shakuntala, Gangarathnam, Relangi Venkatramaiah, C.S. Rao, V.V. Tatachari, R.K. Rao, A.M. Raja, Addala Narayana Rao, Srinivasa Rao
Early Telugu version of a comic Bengali short story first filmed by Sudhir Mukherjee (1952) in Bengali though best known in its Hindi version, Padosan (1968). Anjali Devi plays the sexy neighbour of Venkatramaiah. The music helped assure its success with a rare on-screen performance by the singer A.M. Raja. It was also remade in 1981 with singer S.P. Balasubramanyam and composer Chakravarty playing the two rivals for the heroine’s affections.