Poola Rangadu

Poola Rangadu is a 1967 Telugu, drama film, produced by D. Madhusudhana Rao on Annapurna Pictures banner and directed by Adurthi Subba Rao. Starring Akkineni Nageswara Rao, Jamuna, Shobhan Babu, Vijaya Nirmala in the lead roles and music composed by Saluri Rajeswara Rao. The film is based on loosely based on A. J. Cronin's Beyond This Place (Novel). The film was remade as Tamil movie En Annan and as Hindi movie Jeet. The film recorded as Super Hit at the box office.

Plot

Ranga Rao (Akkineni Nageswara Rao) is called 'Poolarangadu', because of his purity of life. His father Veerayya (Chittor V. Nagaiah) is a manager at a mill, and is framed for the murder of one of the partners, Purushotham. He is sent to jail for a crime he didn't commit. Rangadu works hard to get his sister Padma (Vijaya Nirmala) educated. She marries a Dr. Prasad (Shobhan Babu), who happens to be Purushotham's son. When he finds out she is Veerayya's daughter, he leaves her. Rangadu is enraged and beats the guy Narasimhulu (Chalam) who informs Prasad. Rangadu is sent to jail. There he meets his father, learns about his innocence and vows to get him out. Once Rangadu is released, he takes the help of Narasimhulu, who works at their house, and his lover Venkata Lakshmi to earn the goodwill of the other two partners and finally exposes them. They put fights between the partners which makes them reveal the past that they are the ones who killed Purushotham, while recording all that on a tape recorder. Veerayya is released, Rangadu marries his lover Venkata Lakshmi (Jamuna) and Prasad takes Padma back.

Cast

Akkineni Nageswara Rao as Ranga Rao

Jamuna as Venkata Lakshmi

Shobhan Babu as Dr. Prasad

Vijaya Nirmala as Padma

Chittor V. Nagaiah as Veeraiah

Gummadi as Dharma Rao

Allu Ramalingaiah as Police Mama

Padmanabham as Bujji

Chalam as Narasimhulu

Bhanu Prakash as Chalapathi

Suryakantham as Baby

Maalathi as Prasad's mother

Gitanjali as Lilly

Radha Kumari

Crew

Art: G.V.Subba Rao

Choreography: Tangappa, KS Reddy

Dialogues: Muppala Ranganayakamma

Lyrics: C. Narayana Reddy, Dasaradhi, Kosaraju

Playback: Ghantasala, P. Susheela, Madhavapeddi Satyam, Vasantha, Mohan Raju

Music: Saluri Rajeshwara Rao

Story: Mullapudi Venkata Ramana

Editing: T. Krishna

Cinematography: P. S. Selvaraj

Assistant Director: P. Chandra Shekar Reddy

Producer: D. Madhusudhana Rao

Screenplay - Director: Adurthi Subba Rao

Banner: Annapurna Pictures

Release Date: 24 November 1967

Soundtrack

Chigurulu vesina kalalannee (Lyrics: C. Narayana Reddi; Singers: P. Susheela and K.B.K. Mohan Raju)
Chillara rallaku mokkutu vunte (Lyrics: Kosaraju Raghavaiah; Singers: Ghantasala and Ch. Nagaiah)
Misamisalade chinadana (Lyrics: C. Narayana Reddy; Singers: Ghantasala and P. Susheela)
Nee nadumupaina cheyi vesi (Lyrics: C. Narayana Reddy; Singers: Ghantasala and P. Susheela)
Neetiki nilabadi nijayiteega (Lyrics: Kosaraju; Singer: Ghantasala)
Neevu raavu nidura raadu (Lyrics: Dasarathi Krishnamacharya; Singer: P. Susheela)

Box-office

The film ran for more than 100 days in 11 centers in Andhra Pradesh.The film was remade in Tamil as En Annan with MGR and became a super hit there also

Others

VCDs and DVDs on - VOLGA Videos, Hyderabad

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