Illarikam
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Director Tatineni Prakash Rao Release date May 1, 1959 (India) | 5.6/10 IMDb Genre Drama Duration Country India | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Writer Arudra , Kotayya Pratyagatma Release date May 1, 1959 Songs Chetulu kalasina chappatlu - manasulu kalasina mucchatlu Cast (Venu), (Radha), Relangi Venkatramaiah (Brahmanandam), Gummadi Venkateswara Rao (Zamindar), (Dharmayya) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Illarikam (Telugu: ఇల్లరికం) is a 1959 Telugu, comedy film, produced by A. V. Subba Rao on Prasad Art Pictures banner and directed by T. Prakash Rao. Starring Akkineni Nageswara Rao, Jamuna in the lead roles and music composed by T. Chalapathi Rao. The film is a Silver Jubilee recorded as Blockbuster at the box office.
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Illarikam literally means bridegroom goes to the bride family and lives permanently with them; as against the custom of the bride going into the groom family. This custom is observed in some rich families where the bride is the only child to their parents.
Plot
Venu (Akkineni Nageswara Rao) is an orphan brought up by his maternal uncle Dharmayya (Ramana Reddy). He falls in love with Zamindar's (Gummadi) daughter Radha (Jamuna). He married with a condition that Venu should live in their house called Illarikam. Due to status-conscious Sundaramma (Hemalatha), wife of Zamindar looks down on Venu and insults him indirectly. Govindayya (C.S.R. Anjaneyulu) cousin brother of Sundaramma and also manager of their mica factories creates problems between Venu and Radha. Because he plots to usurp the wealth. So, he brings his wayward son Seshagiri (R. Nageswara Rao) weaning away from Kanakadurga (Girija) whom he had secretly married. Venu spots Kanakadurga, his presumed to be dead sister while she was performing on stage. Not knowing they are siblings, Radha suspects Venu’s fidelity. The villains try to cash in on their rift. When things are getting worse Venu wears a Zorro-like guise, teaches Govindayya and his son a lesson and paves way for a happy family reunion.
Cast
Crew
Soundtrack
Music composed by T. Chalapathi Rao. All songs are evergreen blockbusters. Music released on Audio Company.
Production
After releasing the dubbed version of Tamil film Uthamaputhiran in Telugu, AV Subbarao dannounced his next project Illarikam with Nageswara Rao based on the story of Vemapti Sadasivabrahmam. Jamuna was selected to pair with ANR. The pair had earlier collaborated in Nirupedalu (1954). ANR suggested to remove the song – "Niluvave vaalu kanuladaana" as he felt the audience may not like the teasing song as by then the heroine had realised the truth but the producer and the director felt otherwise. After its release, seeing the audience response to that song, ANR conceded that he was wrong. Tatineni Ramarao started his career as an assistant director with Illarikam.
Remakes
Illarikam was remade in four other languages. L.V. Prasad produced the Hindi version titled Sasural (1961) with Rajendra Kumar and B. Saroja Devi in the lead. T. Prakash Rao directed it. A.V. Subbarao himself remade it in Kannada as Mane Aliya (1964), in Malayalam as Kalithozhan (1966) and Tamil as Maadi Veettu Mappilai – (1967). The Tamil and Kannada versions starred the present day Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalitha in the female lead, the Malayalam version starred the hit pair Prem Nazir and Sheela. All these versions were box office hits.
Others
References
Illarikam WikipediaIllarikam IMDb Illarikam themoviedb.org