| 1 | '''Swati''' |
| 2 | |
| 3 | |
| 4 | aka The Pearl |
| 5 | 1984 144’ col Telugu |
| 6 | d/s Kranthi Kumar pc Shri Kranthi Chitra |
| 7 | dial Ganesh Patro lyr Veturi Sundara |
| 8 | Ramamurthy c Hari Anumolu m Chakravarty |
| 9 | lp Suhasini, K. Jaggaiah, Bhanuchander, |
| 10 | P.L. Narayana, Sarath Babu, Rajendra Prasad, |
| 11 | Subhalekha Sudhakar, Sharada, Samyuktha, |
| 12 | Ramaprabha, Anuradha |
| 13 | |
| 14 | |
| 15 | Kranthi Kumar’s directorial debut is an episodic |
| 16 | melodrama about an aggressive young woman, |
| 17 | Swati (Suhasini), who looks after her divorced |
| 18 | mother (Sharada) while defending herself |
| 19 | against predatory males in the street. Having |
| 20 | arranged her mother’s second marriage with an |
| 21 | old widower (Jaggaiah), Swati has problems |
| 22 | with her new stepsister. When one of Swati’s |
| 23 | friends is raped, local gossip blames the |
| 24 | victim’s husband for failing to prevent the |
| 25 | attack and the couple commit suicide. In the |
| 26 | end, Swati’s father turns up wanting to meet his |
| 27 | former wife once more before his death. He is |
| 28 | allowed only to see her from a distance, while |
| 29 | she is not told that he is still alive. One of Tamil |
| 30 | star Suhasini’s best-known Telugu films. The |
| 31 | director remade the film in Hindi in 1986 with |
| 32 | Shashi Kapoor, Sharmila Tagore and |
| 33 | Madhuri Dixit, with a score by Laxmikant- |
| 34 | Pyarelal. |
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| 36 | [[Film]] |