'''Swati'''


aka The Pearl
1984 144’ col Telugu
d/s Kranthi Kumar pc Shri Kranthi Chitra
dial Ganesh Patro lyr Veturi Sundara
Ramamurthy c Hari Anumolu m Chakravarty
lp Suhasini, K. Jaggaiah, Bhanuchander,
P.L. Narayana, Sarath Babu, Rajendra Prasad,
Subhalekha Sudhakar, Sharada, Samyuktha,
Ramaprabha, Anuradha


Kranthi Kumar’s directorial debut is an episodic
melodrama about an aggressive young woman,
Swati (Suhasini), who looks after her divorced
mother (Sharada) while defending herself
against predatory males in the street. Having
arranged her mother’s second marriage with an
old widower (Jaggaiah), Swati has problems
with her new stepsister. When one of Swati’s
friends is raped, local gossip blames the
victim’s husband for failing to prevent the
attack and the couple commit suicide. In the
end, Swati’s father turns up wanting to meet his
former wife once more before his death. He is
allowed only to see her from a distance, while
she is not told that he is still alive. One of Tamil
star Suhasini’s best-known Telugu films. The
director remade the film in Hindi in 1986 with
Shashi Kapoor, Sharmila Tagore and
Madhuri Dixit, with a score by Laxmikant-
Pyarelal.

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