Legends Of Telugu Cinema, NTR and ANR Options

[Abdur Rehman]

I am starting a new post on the Legends of Telugu Cinema NT Rama Rao and A Nageswar Rao. I know the foot fall of this post will be few but still I want to complete my collection and sharing the albums available with me of these two legends. These two need no introduction as far as Telugu Cinema is concerned. They were fortunate enough to have reigned the Golden Period of Telugu Cinema accompanied my Ghantasala's music. Here is the brief biography of these two stars followed by their filmography.

[swarapriya]

(NTR) Rechukka (1954)

Ghantasala Balaramayya, who made many hit films and the man who introduced Nageshwara Rao in “Seetha Rama Jananam” in 1942 wrote the story and was producing and directing this movie. But he passed away with only a quarter of the movie completed. His son Krishna Murthy took over the reins and signed P. Pullayya to finish the rest of the movie. Pullayya not only agreed to direct the rest of the movie but also invested his own money into the production when the producer ran into financial problems. The movie was based on a 1951 Hollywood hit, “The Prince Who Was a Thief”, that starred Tony Curtis in the lead role.

“Rechukka” introduced a new heroine to the Telugu screen. Pramila, who played the princess, was a daughter of the famous Raghupathi Venkayya Naidu who was a photographer, film producer and director. He was mainly active during the silent film era. Pramila later changed her name to Devika and acted in a number of Telugu and Tamil films.

“Rechukka” when it was released became a hit with several songs from it becoming popular. It was later made in Tamil as “Nattutara”. The Tamil film also was a hit.

I am uploading songs from this album from a DVD. The quality of these songs is better than average. Here are these…