Andala Ramudu (1973 film)


Andala Ramudu is a 1973 Telugu, comedy drama film, film produced by N. S. Murthy under the Chitra Kalpana banner and directed by Bapu. It stars Akkineni Nageswara Rao, Latha in the lead roles and music composed by K. V. Mahadevan. The film is based on Mullapudi Venkata Ramana's Janata Express. The film is the debut to veteran artists Nutan Prasad and Latha. The film won the Nandi Award for Best Feature Film in 1973. The film has given enthusiastically drawing atmosphere and spirit to the movie Godavari, directed by Sekhar Kammula.

Plot

Seetarama Rao / Ramu is an orphan brought up by an old lady Seetamma who also stays alone and both of them live in a middle-class colony Panchavati. Everyone in the colony holds dear Ramu inturn he too treats them as his family members. Once Ramu's briefcase is exchanged in the railway station with another containing a huge amount, belongs to a multi-millionaire J.B.Rao. Actually, J.B.Rao is an innocent person, marionette in the hands of his Secretary and loathes the poor folks. Ramu safely returns the briefcase to J.B.Rao when he is accused as a thief, but Seeta the only daughter of J.B.Rao likes the ideologies of Ramu and falls for him. Meanwhile, Seetamma completes RamaKoti for the wealth of her absconded son in the childhood and aspires to visit Bhadrachalam to submit it to Lord. At the same time, Ramu is appointed as Deputy Collector at Bhadrachalam but he wants to maintain secrecy regarding his job till the end of the destination. Parallelly, Secretary ploys with J.B.Rao's nephew Giri, spoils the mindset of J.B.Rao and complies to couple up Seeta with Giri at the same Bhadrachalam. Ramu starts his pilgrimage along with his entire colony in a Janatha Boat, J.B.Rao & party also accompanies them in a luxury boat. On the other side, a suspended Tahsaldar Ramalingam a sly person, arrives with a Govt boat for the Deputy Collector to pamper and get back his position. All the 3 are conjoined and the journey begins which takes several twits & turns. In between an awful incident, Seetamma passes away when they try to stop the boats for the funeral, J.B.Rao insults her to throw into river Godavari as it is a waste of time. Here furious Ramu wants to teach a lesson to J.B.Rao, so, he makes a play by hiding the boats and pretends as if they have been flooded away. Right now, they make a halt in an island where Ramu arranges food for colony members. Eventually, J.B Rao's group are starving and no one comes forward to sell or share their food when J.B.Rao realizes that money cannot do everything. So, he says sorry to Ramu and embraces all of them. At that point in time, surprising it is revealed that J.B.Rao is only Seetamma's absconded, son. Knowing it, he repents & collapses when Secretary seeks to kill him and Giri tries forcibly marry Seeta when J.B.Rao understands nefarious of his henchmen. At last, Ramu rescues Seeta ceases the baddies and affirmed that Ramu is the new appointed Deputy Collector. Finally, the movie ends on a happy note with the marriage of Ramu & Seeta.

Cast

Music composed by K. V. Mahadevan. Music released on Audio Company.
S. NoSong TitleLyricsSingerslength
1"Paluke Bangaramayera"AarudhraM. Balamuralikrishna, Madhavapeddi Satyam4:10
2"Edagadanikendukura"AarudhraV. Ramakrishna4:26
3"Abbosi Chinnamma"AarudhraV. Ramakrishna, P. Susheela4:21
4"Maa Thalli Godavari"Kancherla GopannaV. Ramakrishna, J. V. Raghavulu8:38
5"Chakirevu Baana Emandi"AarudhraV. Ramakrishna, J. V. Raghavulu2:04
6"Ramudemannadoi"AarudhraV. Ramakrishna5:02
7"Bhajana Chese Vidhamu"KosarajuV. Ramakrishna, Vijayalakshmi4:18
8"Kurise Vennello"C. Narayana ReddyV. Ramakrishna, P. Susheela4:20
9"Mamu Brovamani Cheppave"C. Narayana ReddyV. Ramakrishna4:19
10"Shudha Brahma"Kancherla GopannaV. Ramakrishna1:39
11"Samooha Bhojanammu"KosarajuV. Ramakrishna4:08
12"Adigo Bhadradri"Kancherla GopannaV. Ramakrishna1:00
13"Sri Shankara"SlokamM. Balamuralikrishna0:57

Box office

The film ran for more than 100 days.