Songs of the Week (Feb 2006 - Jan 2007)

01/18/07

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#	Select	Song	Movie	Music Director	Lyricist	Lyrics	Comments
100		chitram.. bhaLArE vichitram	DVS karNa	Pendyala Nageswara Rao	C Narayana Reddy		Released on Jan 14, 1977 and the movie produced/directed by the great NTR. The song written by Dr. C. Narayana Reddy and picturized as a dream song on NTR and Prabha. This four hour plus long movie was completed in a record time of 43 days. Saluri Rajeswara Rao was the initial music director and he even composed the song, "E talli ninu kannadO" song and later Pendyala stepped in and composed the rest of the songs in the movie.
99		jayeebhavA.. vijayeebhavA	DVS karNa	Pendyala Nageswara Rao	C Narayana Reddy		This song was sung by SP Balu and G Anand. Earlier (almost ten years before this movie), there is a similar introductory song "swAgatam.. suswAgatam", sung by P Suseela and P Leela in "Sree Krishna pAnDaveeyam", which was again produced/directed by NTR.

01/11/07

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#	Select	Song	Movie	Music Director	Lyricist	Lyrics	Comments
98		abhinava SaSirEkhavO..	gruha pravESam	Sathyam	n/a		Released in 1982 and the movie directed by B. Bhaskara Rao. The song was picturized on Raja (who died a few years ago) and Jaya Sudha and this dream song comes following their engagement. The actual hero is Mohan Babu. Mohan Babu, who gets insulted by Jaya Sudha rapes her just before her planned wedding with Raja and then she is forced to marry Mohan Babu instead. The rest of the story is about how she reforms him. This is one of the best, but ignored melodies from Sathyam during a period when he started slipping into oblivion in the wake of the domination of Chakravarthi and Ilaya Raja songs in the Telugu films. You can clearly see his default "dholak stamp" in this melodious song.
97		kuhu kuhU..kUsE kOyila	Dabbu-Dabbu-Dabbu	Shyam	n/a	link	Released in 1983 and the song picturized on Radhika. Murali Mohan is the hero and Pratap Pothan acts as a mentally retarded person. I guess during this period only Radhika and Pratap Pothan got married. I did not watch this movie and dont know much about the story and other details.

01/04/07

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#	Select	Song	Movie	Music Director	Lyricist	Lyrics	Comments
96		neelAla ningilO.. mEgAla tErulO	jEbu donga	Chakravarthi	Acharya Athreya	link	Released in 1975 and directed by Veeramachaneni Madhusudhana Rao (who gave many superhit movies to Sobhan Babu in the 60s and 70s). This beautiful song was picturized on Sobhan Babu and Manjula. The movie is about father-son relation and how the father (Rao Gopala Rao) re-unites with his long-lost son (Sobhan Babu) and about how a petty thief gets reformed. In his pre-mutyAla muggu days, I guess this is one of the very few movies that have a full lenghth role for Rao Gopala Rao. Rao Gopala Rao once reminisced that he had got this role bacause of his parichayam with Mullapudi Ramana, the writer for this movie.
95		gajje ghallumanTunTE	siri siri muvva	KV Mahadevan	Veturi		Released in 1976 and directed by Kasinadhuni Viswanadh. The song picturized on Chandra Mohan and Jaya Prada. I guess this is the first movie in the classical movie series (based on nATyam) from K Viswanadh. The context of the song is as follows - the hero wants to buy "gajjelu" for the heroine and she wants to buy medicines for his medical treatment (as the hero is in the early stages of TB) and both, unknowing to each other, end up on the stage as performers.

12/28/06

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#	Select	Song	Movie	Music Director	Lyricist	Lyrics	Comments
94		punnami lAgA vachhi pommani	jaDa ganTalu	Puhalendi	n/a	link	Probably released in 1984 and the song picturized on Suresh and Vijaya Santhi. The story goes like this - Suresh has urban background and Vijaya Santhi is from rural and conservative background. After they get married, the hero realizes the greatness of Indian traditional values (after his visit from US), but the heroine becomes westernized and the rest of the story is about how they unite back.
93		UgisalADake manasA..	kotta neeru	Ramesh Naidu	Arudra	link	Released in 1981 and the song picturized on Deepa. It is the last movie of Kovelamudi Surya Prakasa Rao, the father of K Raghavendra Rao. Deepa is unhappy with her oafish and rustic husband, Chandra Mohan. Mohan Babu comes to their village as an officer and he eyes on Deepa. This song comes as a backdrop song on Deepa, whose mind is split between the loyalty toward her innocent husband and the lusty initiatives by Mohan Babu.

12/21/06

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#	Select	Song	Movie	Music Director	Lyricist	Lyrics	Comments
92		sannajAjiki gunnamAviki peLLi kudirindi	mutyAla pallaki	Sathyam	C Narayana Reddy		Released in 1976 and the song picturized on Narayana Rao and Jaya Sudha. Sathyam used to be called "Dholak Sathyam", when he was working as an assistant to TV Raju and Aadi Narayana Rao and you can see his fabulous dholak stamp in this melodious song.
91		pUlu gusagusa lADEnani	SreevAru-mAvAru	GK Venkatesh	C Narayana Reddy		Released in 1973 and the song was picturized on Krishna. Vanisree is the heroine in this movie. Asha Bhonsle sang the original complicated tune (of RD Burman), "Daiya yeh main kahan phasi" in the Jeetendra starrer, Caravaan (and you can listen to this song in Jeetendra section on the Hindi Songs page). But GK Venkatesh made the song more hilarious with simplifying the tune in Telugu.

12/14/06

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#	Select	Song	Movie	Music Director	Lyricist	Lyrics	Comments
90		suprabhAta sundari neevu	sAhasavantuDu	KV Mahadevan	Veturi		Released in 1978 and the song picturized on NTR and Vanisree. The movie has some Nepal-backdrop scenes.. NTR tries to prove the innocence of his dad, Jaggaiah, who is branded as a traitor.
89		tUrupu telatela vaarakanE	SreevAri muchhaTlu	Chakravarthi	Dasari Narayana Rao		Released in 1980 and this ANR home production movie was directed by Dasari. The song was picturized on both heroines. ANR loves Jaya Prada, but is forced to marry his maradalu, Jaya Sudha.. but with an approval from Jaya Sudha, he marries Jaya Prada too. It was the period when Dasari used to come up with a different concept for each movie and surprisingly, majority of those concepts used to gel with the Telugu audiences very well.

12/07/06

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#	Select	Song	Movie	Music Director	Lyricist	Lyrics	Comments
88		kalalOni UrvaSi.. kalagAni prEyasi	viyyAla vaari kayyAlu	Sathyam	n/a		Released in 1979 and the song picturized on Krishna and Jaya Prada. The movie is a family drama with misunderstandings between the in-laws and the couple as well. I watched this movie in my middle school days and I dont recall the whole movie now, but I remember one scene.. Jaya Prada defeats Krishna in Tennis game when they are in college and after their wedding, Krishna takes a sweet revenge by defeating her in the table tennis game in their bedroom on the first night.
87		mrOgindi veeNa	zamindaaru gAri ammAyi	GK Venkatesh	n/a		Released in 1975 and directed by Singeetham Srinivasa Rao. The song was picturized on Sarada. Ranganadh and Sarada play the hero and heroine roles in the movie.

11/30/06

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#	Select	Song	Movie	Music Director	Lyricist	Lyrics	Comments
86		kanureppa pADindi	jaya sudha	Ramesh Naidu	Dasari Narayana Rao	link	Released in 1980 and the song was picturized on Murali Mohan and Jaya Sudha. The male singer is P Jaya Chandran (not KJ Yesudaasu, as many people are mistaken with their similar voices). I have not seen this movie. For more details on this movie, refer to the 22nd song on this page.
85		idE nA modaTi prEmalEkha..	Swapna	Sathyam	n/a		Released in 1980 and directed by Dasari. Dasari introduced Raja (who died a few years ago) and the hindi heroine, Swapna as hero and heroine with this movie. It was the best period for Dasari, as he was directing all top Telugu stars as well as introducing some new faces at the same time with a high success rate. It is amazing to see how some of his movies (in the late 70s and in the early 80s) have some of the best Telugu melodies, though he used to direct more than 10 movies per year during that phase.

11/23/06

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#	Select	Song	Movie	Music Director	Lyricist	Lyrics	Comments
84		nannu evarO tAkiri	sattekAlapu satteyya	MS Viswanathan	n/a	link	Released in 1969 and the song was picturized on Sobhan Bablu and Rajasri. Chalam dons the title role and I guess Sobhan Babu is a guest star in the movie. I have not seen this movie, but I recall that the movie goes around Chalam and a kid, played by Baby Roja Ramani.
83		malle pandiri neeDa lOna	mAyadAri malligADu	KV Mahadevan	Acharya Athreya	link	Released in 1973 and directed by Adurthi Subba Rao. The song was picturized on Jayanthi (Krishna and Manjula in the back-drop), who plays as a sister to Krishna in a widow role. Krishna works as a palEru for Nagabhusham. Padmanabham, a fake swamiji gets Nagabhushnams widow sister pregnant and in retatiliation, Nagabhushanam kills him and frames Krishna in the murder case. In the end, Krishna gets acquitted, when Anjali confesses in the court that her husband is the real murderer.

11/16/06

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#	Select	Song	Movie	Music Director	Lyricist	Lyrics	Comments
82		chinuku chinuku paDutU vunTE	iddarU asAdhyulE	Sathyam	n/a	link	Released in 1979, produced by Saradhi studios and directed by KSR Das. The song was picturized on the lead pair, Krishna and Geetha. Tasting a super success with "annadammula savAl" with a combination of Krishna-Rajani Kanth earlier, the producers came up with this movie repeating the same hero-duo and the same movie and music directors (but I guess the movie was an average movie). I consider this song to be one of the best romantic, melodious rain songs.
81		manishE maNideepam..	manchu pallaki	Rajan-Nagendra	Sri Sri		Released in 1982 and it is a directional debut for Vamsi, who until then used to be an assistant to K Viswanadh. The movie was picturized on Chiru, Suhasini and other supporting actors. Yandamuri provided the screen-play to this movie and the association between Chiru and Yandamuri started with this movie and continued for the next ten years or so. Suhasini is a heart patient in the movie, who dies in the end.

11/09/06

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#	Select	Song	Movie	Music Director	Lyricist	Lyrics	Comments
80		andagADA.. andavErA.	Raju-Rani-Jackie	Rajan-Nagendra	n/a		Released in 1984 and produced by Navatha Krishnam Raju. Radhika plays double roles (good and negative) and Chandra Mohan is the hero in the movie. This teasing song was picturized on Radhika (in the negative role) and Chandra Mohan. Though the movie was a commercial fiasco and it went unnoticed, it has a few good songs.
79		oka mATundi..	I Love You	Sathyam	n/a	link	Released in 1979 and the song picturized on Suvarna and Chiru. Chiru plays as a womanizer, who later meets with an accident that confines him to a wheel chair and is destined to marry one of the girls he has used and thrown. The rest of the movie is about how Chiru gets remorseful for his past deeds and how the heroine gets him back to normal. We often think that Chiru has musical hits only with Chakravarthi and Ilaya Raja until the late 80s. But surprisingly, he has a handful of melodies with Sathyam as well in the beginning of his career and the last movie in their combination is "mahA nagaramlO mAyagADu", released in 1984.

11/02/06

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#	Select	Song	Movie	Music Director	Lyricist	Lyrics	Comments
78		veeNa vENu vaina sarigama vinnavA?	inTinTi rAmAyaNam	Rajan-Nagendra	Veturi		Released in 1979, produced by Navatha Krishnam Raju and directed by Parvathaneni Sambasiva Rao (who is best remembered as the director of Krishna movie, "kUmAra rAjA"). This wonderful romantic song was penned down by Veturi and picturized on Ranganadh and Prabha. Teh music directors used the original Kannada tune in Telugu as well. Pl. refer to the song #14 on this page for more details on the movie.
77		andamaina lOkamani rangu rangulu unTAyani..	toli kODi kUsindi	MS Viswanathan	Acharya Athreya		Released in 1979 and directed by K. Bala Chandar. The song picturized on Seema and Saritha. Seema (who later married the Malayalam director, IV Sasi) plays the main role in the movie, while Madhavi, Sarath Babu and Saritha play the supporting roles. Seema helps out all hapless victims from the clutches of the evil people like Jeeva and Prasad Babu in this village back-dropped movie. Sarath Babu and Seema like each other in the beginning, but as Seema is busy helping out the people around and doesnt let Sarath Babu know that she loves him and becasue of her late response, she loses him to Madhavi, a widow.

10/26/06

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#	Select	Song	Movie	Music Director	Lyricist	Lyrics	Comments
76		adigO navalOkam	veerAbhimanyu	KV Mahadevan	Arudra	link	Released in 1965 and directed by Victory (Veeramachaneni) Madhusudhana Rao and this lovely song was picturized on Sobhan Babu and Kanchana. If I were to choose only one duet from the 60s, I would right away pick up this song with no second thoughts. NTR, Kantha Rao, Sobhan Babu and Kanchana play the roles of Krishna, Arjuna, Abhimanyu and Uttara respectively. Sobhan Babu is superb in the role of Veerabhimanyu and I can not imagine any one else in that role! Starting with this movie, Sobhan Babu (who until then was struggling with the second hero roles) established as a full-fledged hero and as a steady peer to Krishna. Madhusudhana Rao helped out Sobhan Babu in his critical periods with some other superhit movies like "manushulu mArAli" in the late 60s and "malle puvvu" in the late 70s.
75		sirimalle pUvA	padahArELLa vayasu	Chakravarthi	Veturi		Released in 1978 and directed by K Raghavendra Rao and the song was picturized on Sridevi. While Kamal Hassan and Rajani Kanth play the male lead roles in the original Tamil movie (directed by Bharathi Raja), Chandra Mohan and Mohan Babu play those roles in Telugu. Although the credit to this song should actually go to Ilaya Raja (the original composer), Chakravarthi came up with some original tunes for the rest of the songs in the movie. Sridevi became the most sensational Telugu glamorous heroine, starting with this movie.

10/19/06

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#	Select	Song	Movie	Music Director	Lyricist	Lyrics	Comments
74		abbO.. nErEDu paLLu	sommokaDidi.. sOkokaDidi	Rajan-Nagendra	Veturi		Released in 1978, directed by Singeetham Srinivasa Rao and the song picturized on Kamal Hassan and Jaya Sudha. Kamal plays double roles with Jaya Sudha and Roja Ramani as heroines. The movie was later remade by Tatineni Rama Rao as "Yeh To Kamaal Hogaya" in 1982.
73		nuvvEnA.. sampangi	guppeDu manasu	MS Viswanathan	Acharya Athreya		Released in 1979, directed by K Bala Chandar and the song picturized on Narayana Rao and Saritha (who were introduced to the cine field by Bala Chandar with antulEni katha and marO charitra movies respectively). The story is about a teenager (Saritha), who gets pregant by a man (Sarath Babu) of her uncle age under some unfortunate cimcumstances. Though it looks like a modern day TV Serial, it was a bold, novel, and poignant story narrated by Bala Chandar in the late 70s.

10/12/06

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#	Select	Song	Movie	Music Director	Lyricist	Lyrics	Comments
72		tanivi teeralEdE	gUDu puThANi	SP Kodandapani	Dasaradhi	link	Released in 1972 and the song picturized on Krishna and Subha (who played a mother role to Chiru in gharAnA moduDu). The movie is a family-suspense thriller. If I recall it correctly (which I saw in my 7th grade), Subha is a rich lady and her dayAdulu are after her money/property and to get rid of her, they hire a contract killer (Krishna), who eventually turns out to be a detective/cop that actually comes there to rescue the heroine from her evil relatives. I consider this song to be one of his top ten duets in the early 70s.
71		edutA neevE..edalOnA neevE	abhinandana	Ilaya Raja	Acharya Athreya		Released in 1988 and the song picturized on Karthik. The song penned down by Athreya. Interestingly, the same tune was used (but sung by S Janaki) by Ilaya Raja in anvEshana movie in 1985. This movie was recently remade by Boney Kapoor as "Bewafaa" with Akshay Kumar, Kareena Kapoor and Anil Kapoor in the roles of Karthik, Sobhana and Sarath Babu respectively.

10/05/06

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#	Select	Song	Movie	Music Director	Lyricist	Lyrics	Comments
70		EmayyindanTE nE chappa lEnu	mangaLa tOraNAlu	Ramesh Naidu	n/a	link	Released in 1979. I dont know much details about this movie except this song and that Chandra Mohan and Talluru Rameswari are hero and heroine. Ramesh Naidu shows his elegant melodious music stamp in this song.
69		EmiTidi... EdO teliyanidi	tUrpu veLLE railu	SP Balu	Arudra		Released in 1979 and directed by Bapu. The song written by Arudra and picturized on Jyothi. For other details on this movie, please refer to the song # 42 on this page.

09/28/06

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68		okkarAtri vocchipOrA	yuga purushuDu	KV Mahadevan	n/a		Released in 1978, produced by Chalasani Aswani Dutt and directed by Kovelamudi Bapaiah. The song was picturized on NTR and Jayaprada. NTR plays as a karate fighter in the beginning of the movie :-)
67		mabbE masakEsindilE	vayasu pilichindi	Ilaya Raja	Arudra	link	Released in 1978 and directed by Sridhar, a popular Tamil director. Picturized on Kamal Hassan and Jaya Chitra. It is a quardangular love story - Kamal Hassan loves Sri Priya, whom Rajani Kanth in turn loves. Jaya Chitra does the one-sided love with Kamal Hassan. Under some inevitable circumstances, "roop tEra mastAna" happens between Kamal Hassan and Jaya Chitra (while this song comes as a back-drop one during that scene).

09/21/06

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#	Select	Song	Movie	Music Director	Lyricist	Lyrics	Comments
66		tanuvA.. harichandanamE	kadhA nayakurAlu	Akula Appala Raj	n/a	link	Released in 1970 and the song picturized on Sobhan Babu and Vanisree. It seems that it is a heroine-oriented movie and I have no idea about the film or the song details except that the music is by Aakula Appala Raju, who seems to have worked as an assistant to other music directors during the most of his career. Probably this is one of very few Telugu movies for which he was a main music director and I can recall only this song when his name springs to my mind.
65		tolisanje vELalO..	seetA rAmulu	Sathyam	Dasari Narayana Rao		Released in 1980, directed by Dasari and the song picturized on Krishna Raju. The movie is about the hero (Krishnam Raju) who brings a change in his arraogant wife (Jaya Prada, who is his boss at work). Dasari is the only one director, who experimented with a wide spectrum of music direcors from the mid 70s until the early 80s and he quotes that his favorite music directors are Sathyam and Ramesh Naidu.

09/14/06

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#	Select	Song	Movie	Music Director	Lyricist	Lyrics	Comments
64		EdO.. EdO cheppAlani..	sUrya chandrulu	Ramesh Naidu	n/a		Released in 1978, directed by Vijaya Nirmala and the song picturized on Chandra Mohan and Madhavi. Sathyanarayana and Chandra Mohan play the title roles. This song is the first duet song for SP Sailaja, who was then a teenager. Vijaya Nirmala always encouraged Ramesh Naidu and extracted a very melodious music out of him in most of her movies. Ramesh Naidu, an exceptional music director known for his melodious songs always used to take the lyrics first and then gave the tune to the lyrics. His last movie was a Chiru starrer, "swayam kRushi" in 1987.
63		EdO..EdO annadi	mutyAla muggu	KV Mahadevan	Arudra	link	Released in 1975, directed by Bapu and the song picturized on Sridhar and Sangeetha. This movie is a debut movie for the character actress, Sangeetha. I consider this song to be the best solo song from the singer, Rama Krishna.

09/07/06

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#	Select	Song	Movie	Music Director	Lyricist	Lyrics	Comments
62		ningee nElaa ... okaTAyenE	pUja	Rajan-Nagendra	n/a		Released in 1975 and picturized on Rama Krishna and Vanisri. While Vani Jayaram sings all the song, Balu just gives a beautiful AlApana. The movie story goes like this - Rama Krishna first loves Kannada Manjula and later is forced to marry Vanisri. He can not forget his first love and distances his wife, while the latter patiently awaits a positive change in him. When the hero comes to know that his first love is happily married and is enjoying her married life, he realizes his mistake and decides to get closer to his wife. For other details, refer to the song # 15 on this page.
61		priyatamA.. nA hrudayamA	prEma	Ilaya Raja	Acharya Athreya	link	Released in 1989, produced by Suresh banner and directed by Suresh Krishna (probably his debut movie in Telugu). Picturized on Venkatesh and the hospitalized heroine, Revathi. I guess this is the last movie for the great lyricist, Acharya Aathreya. Though it was released in 1989, Venkatesh got the best actor (Nandi) award for the year 1988.

08/31/06

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60		erra gulAbee virisindi	erra gulAbeelu	Ilaya Raja	n/a		Released in 1979 and directed by Bharathi Raja and the song was picturized on Kamal Hassan and Sridevi. Kamal plays as a anti-hero and as a serial killer in this movie. For other details, refer to the song # 11 on this page.
59		nA kOsamE neevunnadi	annadammula savAl	Sathyam	C Narayana Reddy	link	Released in 1978, directed by and KSR Dasu and produced by Saradhi studios. The song picturized on Krishna and Jaya Chitra. This is the first movie with Krishna-Rajani Kanth combination. The elder son of Krishna, Ramesh Babu plays as teenager Krishna in the movie. I consider this song to be one of the best (top five) "hushAru golipE pATalu" in the 70s/80s.

08/24/06

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#	Select	Song	Movie	Music Director	Lyricist	Lyrics	Comments
58		tolisAri muddivvamandi	edureeta	Sathyam	Veturi		Released in 1977 and directed by Veeramachaneni (Victory) Madhusudana Rao. Picturized on NTR and Vanisree. The movie is a remake of Hindi movie, Amaanush. The lyricist, Veturi says that this romantic song is one of his all-time favorites (among his thousands of songs).
57		kukukU..kOkilA..rAvE	sitAra	Ilaya Raja	Veturi		Released in 1984 and directed by Vamsi. Penned by Veturi and picturized on Suman and Bhanupriya. I guess this is the second movie for Vamsi, right after his debut movie, manchu pallaki.

08/17/06

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56		nA hrudayamA..	priya	Chakravarthi	Acharya Athreya	link	Released in 1981 and picturized on Chiru, Swapna and Radhika (Balu, Janaki and Suseela voices respectively). I would say that this is one of the best melodies in the early years of Chiru-Chakravarthi combination. This song is part of my selection of the best melodies of Chakravarthi (who is often underrated by the critics, because his mass tunes always eclipsed his melodies) on this section. This is a second movie for Chiru-Radhika, right after the hit movie, nyAyam kAvAli. This movie is a triagular love story between Chandra Mohan, Chiru and Radhika. Chiru is at the sacrificial end (by committing suicide after he unites the other two in the climax).
55		nee navvu cheppindi nAku	antam	RD Burman	Sirivennela	link	Released in 1992 and all of you know the film details. If I were asked which is the best song that is closest to my heart in the last 15 years, I would, without any second thoughts, pick up this song.

08/10/06

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54		rAgam teesE kOyilA	nAgamalli	Rajan-Nagendra	Veturi	link	Released in 1980 and directed by Devadas Kanakala. Picturized on Chandra Mohan and Mallika. Chandra Mohan plays two roles (kOyavADu and a film star) in the movie. The former loves the heroine and the film star eyes on the heroine and tries all means to get her to his bed. Finally, the kOyavADu teaches the cine hero a lession and brings change in the latter.
53		sudhA.. rAga sudhA	muttaiduva	KV Mahadevan	Acharya Athreya		Released in 1979 and the song picturized on Krishna and Jaya Chitra. Nagabhushanam tries to conceal the fact his own daughter is a bAlya vitantuvu and makes the public believe that his niece, Jaya Chitra is the bAlya vitantuvu. The heroine grows up with an inferiority complex that she can never be married again and our hero, Krishna is after her. Finally, Krishna proves the facts and marries Jaya Chitra. I think this is the last movie for the veteran character actress, Santha Kumari (her husband, late Pasupuleti Pullaiah also acted in the movie as her husband).

08/03/06

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#	Select	Song	Movie	Music Director	Lyricist	Lyrics	Comments
52		chinni chinni kannayyA	bhadrakALi	Ilaya Raja	Dasaradhi		Released maybe in 1976 and the song picturized on Murali Mohan and Jaya Prada. I think this is the first major musical hit for Ilaya Raja in Telugu.
51		E divilO virisina (female)	kanne vayasu	Sathyam	n/a		Released in 1973 and the song picturized on Lakshmi Kanth and Roja Ramani. Interestingly, this song comes in two moods (happy and sad by male and female versions respectively) in the movie. This song was originally composed in Kannada by the same music director.

07/27/06

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50		nee kougililO taladAchi	kArteeka deepam	Sathyam	n/a		Released in 1979 and directed by Lakshmi Deepak (who also directed movies like panDanTi kApuram and dhairyavantuDu). The song picturized on Sobhan Babu and Sridevi. Starting with this movie, Sobhan Babu got an image of a stranded two-wives-husband role. In the movie, Sobhan plays dual roles (father and son) and Sarada, Sridevi and Geetha play the heroine roles.
49		okE kulam.. okE matam	mA daivam	KV Mahadevan	n/a		Released in 1976 and the song picturized on the great NTR. The movie is a remake of V Shantharam Hindi classic movie, "Do Ankhen aur Barah Haath" with Jaya Chitra as a heroine. NTR plays as a jail warden, who is also a gAndhEya vAdi. He tries to reform a bunch of hopeless renegades (khaidees) by taking them to a remote place and finally he changes them as hard-working and responsible people.

07/20/06

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48		kaliSE kaLLa lOnA	nOmu	Sathyam	Dasaradhi	link	Released in 1974 and produced by AVM Studios. The song picturized on Rama Krishna and Chandrakala. The hero is a rich guy and has Ophidiophobia (hatred for snakes) and the heroine is a staunch devotee of nAga dEvata and a snake comes to her rescue whenever she is in danger. Both are forced to spend a night together and then this song comes as a dream song. The hero marries her to save her from the avavAdu.
47		pallavinchavA nA gontulO	kOkilamma	MS Viswanathan	Acharya Athreya	link	Released in 1983 and directed by K Bala Chandar. I guess it is a remake of a Tamil movie. The song is picturized on Rajeev and Saritha. The hero is an opportunist and Saritha plays a sacrificial role in the movie. Interestingly, Rajeev later played as a villain in Chiru action movie, gUnDA in 1984 and as father for Chiru again in Big Boss in 1994.

07/13/06

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46		kuSalamA.. neeku kuSalamEnA	balipeeTham	Chakravarthi	n/a	link	Released in 1975 and directed by Dasari and the song picturized on Sobhan Babu and Sarada. The movie was inspired from a novel by Muppalla Ranganayakamma. This is one of the best 70s melodies from Chakravarthi.
45		ravi varmakE .. andani	rAvaNuDE rAmuDaitE?	GK Venkatesh	Veturi		Released in 1979 and directed by Dasari. The song penned down by Veturi and picturized on ANR and Jaya Chitra. Janaki gaari AlApana in the song is simply superb. Balu once mentioned that he wanted to sing this song in Telugu when he was listening to the original Kannada song, sung by PB Srinivas. Initially this song was supposed to be in the place of "sirimalle neevE" song in pantulamma movie, but later the producers had an issue with it and then Dasari took this tune and the same original music director for this movie. Though the movie was a flop, it is best remembered for three excellent songs in the movie.

07/06/06

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44		kurisenu hrudayamlO tEne jallulu	nEnu-nA dESam	Sathyam	Anisetti Subba Rao		Released in 1973 and picturized on Rama Krishna and Chandra Kala. Rama Krishna plays double roles (good and evil) and the movie has a patriotic theme. This is one of the best duet songs from KJ Esudaas during the Early 70s.
43		anurAga dEvata neevE	kumAra rAjA	KV Mahadevan	Veturi	link	Released in 1978 and directed by Parvathaneni Sambasiva Rao. The song penned by Veturi and picturized on Sr. Krishna and pregnant Jayanthi. Krishna plays three roles (father and two sons) and this movie was later remade in Hindi as Mahaan with Amitabh in three roles.

06/29/06

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42		toli valapE teeyanidi..	neeDa lEni ADadi	Sathyam	n/a	link	Released in 1974 and picturized on Narasimha Raju and Prabha. I guess this is the debut movie for both Narasimha Raju and Prabha. SP Balu once mentioned that Sathyam used to be called "Dholak Satyham" in the beginning of his career, as he was known for his mrudangam skills before he came a music director. And we can see his mrudangam stamp in this song. There is a sad version of the same song picturized on Narasimha Raju. Except these two songs, the whole movie is too boring to watch.
41		chuTTU chengAvi cheera kaTTAlE chilakammA..	tUrpu veLLE railu	SP Balu	Arudra		Released in 1979 and picturized on Mohan and Jyothi. The movie directed by Bapu and the song penned down by Arudra. This is a remake of a Tamil movie in which Sudhakar (pichha koTTuDu) played the original hero role. Balu gave all excellent tunes in this movie.

06/22/06

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40		kOrukonnAnu.. ninnE chErukunnAnu	magADu	KV Mahadevan	C Narayana Reddy	link	Released in 1976 and the song was picturized on Rama Krishna and Latha. It is a remake of Amitabh starrer, Deewaar. NTR, Rama Krishna, Manjula, Latha and Anjali Devi played the original roles of Amitabh, Shashi Kapoor, Parveen Babi, Neetu Singh and Niroopa Roy.
39		gAlikadupu lEdu	idi katha kAdu	MS Viswanathan	Acharya Athreya	link	Released in 1979 and picturized on Jaya Sudha and Sarath Babu and the movie directed by K Balachandar. It is a remake of a Tamil movie. While Kamal played the hero role in both versions, Rajani Kanth and Chiru played the role of sadistic, ex-husband of the heroine in Tamil and Telugu respectively.

06/15/06

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38		neelO virisina andAlanni..	manushulu-maTTibommalu	B Sankar (Ghazal Sankar)	n/a	link	Released in 1974 and picturized on Krishna and Jamuna. It is a remake movie, based on a Shantha Ram movie in Hindi, Boond Jo Bangaye Moti. It is one of the string of sixteen flops for Krishna in between two superhit movies, allUri seetArAmarAju and pADi panTalu.
37		entO rasikuDu dEvuDu	rAjA ramEsh	KV Mahadevan	n/a		Released in 1977 and directed by V Madhusudana Rao. Picturized on ANR and Vanisree. ANR is a zamindar and a poet/womanizer and then he falls in love with Vanisree, a poor girl. He gets cheated by Jaggayya, who tries to kill ANR and usurp his zamindari estate and his wife as well. In the end, ANR becomes a saint.

06/08/06

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36		okaTE kOrikA..ninnu chErAlani	dongalaku donga	Sathyam	Mailavarapu Gopi		Released in 1977 and picturized on Krishna and Jaya Prada. This movie is a remake of Shashi Kapoor starrer, fakira. guruvu gAru, Sathyam gave all excellent melodious tunes that are as good as in the original movie (by Ravindra Jain).
35		oka udayamlO.. nA hrudayamlO	kalpana	Chakravarthi	Veturi	link	Released in 1977 and picturized on Murali Mohan and Jaya Chitra. This is also a remake of a Hindi movie, Anaamika, a Sanjeev Kumar starrer. This song too is equally as melodious as the original, "Meri bheegi bheegi si" song. This song is one of the many meldious ones given by Chakravarthi in the late 70s.

05/31/06

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34		lEta chaligAlulu..	mUDu muLLu	Rajan-Nagendra	Jyothirmayi	link	Released in 1983 and picturized on Chandra Mohan and Radhika. It is a remake of a Tamil movie, a Bhagya Raja starrer. Rajan-Nagendra did not copy the tunes from the original movie, but came up all five excellent tunes in the movie instead.
33		Sivaranjani..navarAgiNi	tUrpu-paDamara	Ramesh Naidu	C Narayana Reddy		Released in 1976 and picturized on Narasimha Raju and Sri Vidya. Directed by Dasari and the lyrics penned by Dr. C. Narayana Reddy. It is is also a remake of a Tamil movie, a Bala Chander movie (with a story of an young man fantasizing a middle-aged woman). Kamal Hassan acted in the original version and then in the Early 80s, he acted in the Hindi version too (with Hema Malini in Sri Vidya role).

05/25/06

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32		mAma kUturA neetO mATunnadi	mana Uri katha	JV Raghavulu	Mailavarapu Gopi		Released in 1976 and the song was picturized on Krishna and Jaya Prada. Except this song, I dont recall much about this village-backdrop based movie.
31		ee geetam..sangeetam	mahA lakshmi	Sathyam	n/a		Released in 1980 and the song was picturized on Sobhan Babu, Vanisree and Subhashini. The story is very similar to ANR starrer, vichitra jeevitam, which in turn is a remake of Rajesh Khanna movie, Daag. I guess this could be one of those last couple of movies for Vanisree after her marriage and before her re-entry with a Chiru starrer, attaku yamuDu-ammAyiki moguDu in 1989.

05/18/06

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30		vandanAlu.. valapula hari chandanAlu	jEganTalu	KV Mahadevan	Veturi	link	Released in 1981 and directed by Singeetam Srinivasa Rao. Picturized on Ramji and Muchherla Aruna. The hero and the heroine are "bAvA, maradaLLu" and the story is about how they fall in love and how they unite inspite of the elders disapporvals. I dont think it was a hit movie, but it has very good melodies. Puhalendi, the "mAnasa putruDu" of KV Mahadevan always wanted to remain as an assistant to his guruvu gAru all his life, albeit he had some opportunities as a solo music director at the peak of his career. Though both are Malayalis and dont have a good grip on Telugu language, the duo composed THE BEST melodies incessantly for three decades in the Telugu film history.
29		sirimalle neeVe	pantulamma	Rajan-Nagendra	Veturi		Released in 1977 and directed by Singeetam Srinivasa Rao. Picturized on Ranganadh and penned by Veturi. Ranganadh, once in an interview, told that the movie did not help him much, as the movie was a commercial failure inspite of having all excellent melodies that haunt us forever.

05/11/06

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28		veeNa naadi.. teega needi	kaTakaTAla rudrayya	JV Raghavulu	Veturi	link	Released in 1978 and directed by Dasari. Picturized on the lead pair, Krishnam Raju and Jaya Sudha. Dasari got stardom to Krishnam Raju with this movie. I dont know much about JV Raghavulu (an under-rated music director) except the facts that he was an asisstant to Ghantasala and joined his voice with Ghantasala toward the end of the evergreen, etenral song, "Siva Sankari.. SivAnanadalahari" song in "jagadEka veeruni katha" and that Dasari & Kodi Rama Krishna encouraged him a lot during the late 70s and the Early 80s. Pl. send me his details, if you know more about him.
27		idi toli pATa	kanyA kumAri	SP Balu	n/a	link	Probably released in 1977 and directed by Dasari. This movie is best remembered for this song and for the fact that it is a debut movie for SP Balu as the music director.

05/04/06

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26		navami nATi vennela neevu	Sivaranjani	Ramesh Naidu	Veturi		Released in 1978 and produced/directed by Dasari. Picturized on Hari Prasad and Jaya Sudha and penned by Veturi. A Hindi movie, "mast" (released in 1999), directed by Ram Gopal Varma has striking similarities with this movie.
25		chEtiki gAjullA.. kaLLaku kATukalA	rAdhA kalyANam	KV Mahadevan	n/a		Released in 1981 and directed by Bapu. Mama, KV Mahadevan was at his best with all excellent tunes in this movie. Picturized on Chandra Mohan and Radhika. I guess this is the second movie for the pair after "Priya". It is a triangular love story with Sarath Babu at the sacrificial end. It was a remake of a Tamil movie by Bhagya Raja and then again was remade by Bapu himself into Hindi as "Woh saath din", an Anil Kapoor starrer in the mid 80s. Another Hindi movie, "Hum dil de chuke sanam" (released in 1999) again has striking similaries with this movie with the same theme.

04/27/06

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24		evaree chakkanivADu	khaidee kALidAsu	Chakravarthi	Mailavarapu Gopi	link	Released in 1977 and picturized on Sobhan Babu and Deepa. It is a remake of Shatrughan Sinha/Subhash Ghai starrer, "kALee charan". Kommineni Appa Rao (a.k.a. Chakravarthi) hails from Tadikonda, Guntur Dt. Albeit he got a tag of "Dappu daruvu" music director for most of his average-rated tunes in the 80s, he in fact gave a few of the excellent melodies that came in the mid and late 70s (at the beginning of his career, for most of Sobhan Babu movies) and this song is one of them. I want to bring forward all those eclipsed melodies (amidst his plenty of Dappu songs) of Chakravarthi on this site.
23		oka vENuvu vinipinchenu	America ammAyi	GK Venkatesh	Mailavarapu Gopi		Released in 1976 and directed by Sangeetam Srinivasa Rao and produced by Navatha Krishnam Raju. Devayani (a.k.a. Anne Chaymotty, a French woman) played the title character and the song was picturized on Sridhar and Devayani. I somewhere read that the surname of GK Venkatesh is "Gurajaada" (as in Gurajaada Appa Rao). I am not sure how far it is true.

04/20/06

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22		idE idE nEnu kOrukundi	andamE Anandam	Sathyam	C Narayana Reddy		Released in 1977 and directed by Singeetham Srinivasa Rao. Picturized on Ranganadh and Jayaprada. For more details on this movie, refer to 18th song on this page.
21		gOruvechhani sUreeDammA	jaya sudha	Ramesh Naidu	n/a	link	Probably released in 1980 and directed by Dasari. Picturized on Jaya Sudha. Murali Mohan and Jaya Sudha are hero and heroine in the movie. Dasari, in the late 90s, quoted that "Ramesh Naidu, Sathyam tOpATE Telugu Melody kUDa chachhi pOyindi (Ramesh Naidu and Sathyam passed away in 1987 and 1989 resepectively)". When I read that comment, I thought that it was a little exaggerative statement. But after I started working on this site and collecting the melodious songs, I have truely realiazed how great Sathyam and Ramesh Naidu are as the music directors and I can now see the 100% verity in the statement given by Dasari.

04/13/06

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20		chiru navvula tolakarilO	chANakya chandragupta	Pendyala Nageswara Rao	C Narayana Reddy	link	Released in 1977 and the song was picturized on NTR and Jaya Prada. The song, "kyA khUb lagtee hO" from Feroz Khan starrer, "dharmAtma" was the inspiration for the pallavi of this beautiful song. This movie was produced and directed by NTR.
19		Emani pilavAli?	bhuvanESwari	Sathyam	n/a		Released in 1979 and the song was picturized on Chandra Mohan and some unfamiliar actress, who dies in the first half of the movie. The another pair is Narasimha Raju and Sumitra (who is doing mom roles these days). Chandra Mohan does a sacrificial role in the movie.

04/06/06

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18		hE.. chUSAnu poddantA	cheekaTi velugulu	Chakravarthi	n/a		Released in 1975 and directed by KS Prakasa Rao. It is one of those fifteen flops for Krishna in between his two superhits, Alluri Seetharama Raju and pADi panTalu. The song was picturized on Krishna and Padma Priya and the story-line is somewhat similar to "pavitra bandham", an ANR movie in 1971 (Krishna loses his memory, then marries Vanisree and then again regains his old memory and leaves Vanisree and goes to his maradalu, Padma Priya and eventually the couple unites again). This song is one of some marvellous melodies from Chakravarthi during his Early years.
17		madhumAsa vELalO	andamE Anandam	Sathyam	Veturi	link	Released in 1977 and directed by Singeetham Srinivasa Rao (who is actually a kannaDiga, but grew up in Nellore). Picturized on Ranganadh, Deepa and Jaya Prada. The movie is about Ranganadh bringing a change in superstitious and very conservative-minded wife, Jaya Prada. Sathyam gave two excellent tunes for this movie, the other one being, "idE idE nEnu kOrukundi.. ilA ilA kAvAlani vundi".

03/30/06

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16		ennennO janmala bandham	pUja	Rajan-Nagendra	Dasaradhi	link	Released in 1975. Picturized on Rama Krishna and Kannada Manjula. The movie is a remake of a Kannada movie, a Raj Kumar starrer. It seems to me that Rajan-Nagendra re-entered the Telugu film industry with this movie after their initial stint in the mid 60s with the movies like "aggi-piDugu", "khaidee kannayya" etc. Their last movie in Telugu might be "appula appA rAo" or "prEma khaidee", if I am not mistaken. Starting from pUja until mUDu muLLu, they showered the Telugu Film musical world with some of the best melodies in the late 70s and Early 80s.
15		jOru meedunnAve tummedA	Sivaranjani	Ramesh Naidu	Dasam Gopala Krishna		Released in 1978 and the song penned by Veturi. Picturized on Hari Prasad (who is best remembered as a roommate to Chiranjeevi in their film institute days) and Jaya Sudha. Ramesh Naidu was from Kondapalli, Krishna dt and he married a Bengali. His re-entry into Telugu Films in the Early 70s (he initially composed music for some Telugu movies in the late 50s and then went to Bombay and stayed there until 1970) was definitely one of the greatest happenings to the Telugu Melodies.

03/23/06

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14		kalakAlam idE pADanee..	Captain Krishna	SP Balu	Veturi	link	Released in 1979 and the song was picturized on Krishna and Kavitha. The movie is best remembered for this song (with an excellent music by SP Balu).
13		mallelu pUsE..	inTinTi rAmAyaNam	Rajan-Nagendra	Veturi		Released in 1979 and the song penned by Veturi. Picturized on Ranganadh and Prabha. Half of the story-line is similar to the ANR starrer, Alu magalu (with the mis-understandings between a doctor husband and a housewife).

03/16/06

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12		edalO.. toli valapE	erra gulAbeelu	Ilaya Raja	n/a		Released in 1979 and the song was picturized on Kamal Hassan and Sridevi. I guess that this is the first movie for KS Rama Rao as a producer and SP Balu started dubbing for Kamal Hassan with this movie. This film has only two songs, the other one being "erra gulAbee virisindi.." and both songs are excellent melodies and it was the time when Ilaya Raja started winning the hearts of Telugu audiences with a series of dubbed melodies. This is one of the earliest Telugu (though it is a dubbed one) movies with a concept of hero having the psychopathic instincts.
11		merisE mEghamAlika	deeksha	Pendyala Nageswara Rao	C Narayana Reddy	link	Released in 1974 and the song penned by Dr. C. Narayana Reddy. I did not watch this movie, but all I know about this movie is that NTR was bitten by a snake during the film shooting.

03/09/06

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10		alivENi..ANimutyamA	mudda mandAram	Ramesh Naidu	Veturi	link	Released in 1981 and the directional debut of Jandhyala. Picturized on Pradeep and Purnima (who were also the first-timers). A love story with the concepts of rich/poor conflicts and hero/heroine elopement, the film was a harbinger for teenage-love-story based Telugu movies. The talent of Ramesh Naidu was best utilized by Dasari, Vijaya Nirmala and Jandhyala.
9		kalahamsa naDaka dAnA	samAdhi kaDutunnAm.. chandAlivvanDi	JV Raghavulu	n/a	link	Released in 1980. I guess that the movie was based on a play (with the same title) by Paruchuri Venkateswara Rao. I am not aware of the story or the star cast of the movie. It seems that the pallavi of this song was inspired by a hit Hindi song, "tErE nAm kA deewAnA.. terE ghar kO DhUnDtA hai" from a Sanjeev Kumar starrer, "sUraj aur chAnd" in Early 70s and the original tune composed by Lakshmikanth-Pyarelal and sung by M. Rafi.

03/02/06

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8		kanulalO nee rUpam..	rAvaNuDE rAmuDaitE?	GK Venkatesh	C Narayana Reddy		Released in 1979 and directed by Dasari. Dasari wants us to see on venDitera what would happen if rAvaNuDu (ANR) became rAmuDu. ANR first infatuates with Jaya Chitra, who in turn loves Murali Mohan. ANR finally settles down with Latha, who loves him. The song was picturized on ANR and Latha.
7		ahO.. andAla rAsi	angaDi bomma	Sathyam	Acharya Athreya		Released in 1978. I am not aware of any other details of this movie except that it is the first movie of Malayali actress, Seema and heroes are Narasimaha Raju and Narayana Rao.

02/23/06

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6		sipAyee..O.. sipAyee..	akbar-saleem-anArkali	C. Rama Chandra	C Narayana Reddy		Released in 1979. Picturized on Bala Krishna and Deepa. Penned by Dr. C. Narayana Reddy. NTR made (produced and directed) this periodical movie, which was unfortunately a commercial failure. NTR leaves his mark (with his penchant for good melodies) in this movie too.
5		vanita..lata..kavita..	kAnchana ganga	Chakravarthi	Veturi		Released in 1984. Comes as a back-drop song during the titles. Chandra Mohan and Swapna are hero and heroine. Penned by Veturi. This is one of the rare melodies from Chakravarthi in mid 80s, when he was the most successful music director with his commercial/mass tunes.

02/16/06

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4		idi teeyani vennela rEyi	prEma lEkhalu	Sathyam	Arudra	link	Released in 1977. The song was picturized on Anantha Nag and Jaya Sudha. Annapurna pictures always had S Rajeswara Rao for their earlier movies and this was the first movie they chose Sathyam for music composition and he certainly exceeded the producer expectations with the excellent music (as per one of the "pADutA teeyagA" episodes by Balu).
3		O chandramA.. okanATi priyatamA	vichitra jeevitam	Chakravarthi	n/a	link	Released in 1978. This movie is a remake of daag (Rajesh Khanna and Sharmila Tagore). When Vanisree learns that her husband, ANR is going to marry another woman, she sings this song with heart-wrenching anguish.

02/09/06

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2		rASAnu prEmalEkhalennO	SreedEvi	GK Venkatesh	Dasaradhi	link	Released in 1970. The lyrics were penned by Dasaradhi. The song was picturized on Haranadh and KR Vijaya in the movie. Ilaya Raja was an assistant to GK Venkatesh then and SP Balu once told in a program of "pADutA teeyagA" that Ilaya Raja had played the violin in this song composition.
1		nEnoka prEma pipAsini	indra dhanussu	KV Mahadevan	Acharya Athreya	link	Released in 1978. The lyrics were penned by Acharya Athreya. The song was picturized on Krishna and Sarada in the movie. Sarada plays the double role- first one dies and Krishna tries to persuade the second one with his love in this song.

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