Songs of the Week (2010)


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Srini's Choice of Songs this week (03/12/2010)

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 22 ee andam.. ee paruvam prEma lEkhalu Sathyam Mailavarapu Gopi   Released in 1977, produced by D Madhusudana Rao (Annapoorna Pictures) and directed by K Raghavendra Rao. The song was picturized on Anantha Nag and Jaya Sudha. Anant Nag, Murali Mohan, Jaya Sudha and Deepa play the lead roles in the movie. Anant Nag is a big womaniser and traps the innocent Jaya Sudha. She comes to know his real intentions when he refuses to marry her. Later it so happens that she is married to none other his cousin, Murali Mohan. Anant Nag starts black-mailing her with the love letters (hence the movie title, "prEma lEkhalu") that they have written to each other and creates misunderstandings between the couple. In the climax, Anant Nag accidentally gets killed. Annapurna pictures always had S Rajeswara Rao for their earlier movies and this was the first movie they chose Sathyam for music composition and they were very happy with Sathyam`s work.
 21 E rAgamO.. idi E tALamO amara deepam Sathyam Acharya Athreyal_link  Released in 1977, produced by Krishnam Raju and directed by K Raghavendra Rao. The song was picturized on Murali Mohan and Jayasudha. This successful movie is a triangular story with Krishnam Raju at a sacrificial end. Krishnam Raju starts loving Jayasudha and comes to know that Murali Mohan and Jayasudha love each other and he sacrifies his love after knowing that Murali Mohan is none other than his long lost younger brother. Krishnam Raju even commits suicide in the end to prove that he is not a hinderance in the middle of their love. Krishnam Raju once quoted that he loved the style of Raghavendra Rao after watching his debut movie, bAbu (1975), a Sobhan Babu starrer and roped him in as the movie director. This movie has one of the very rare combinations of Raghavendra Rao and Sathyam (the other two being prEmalEkhalu (1978) and madhura swapnam (1982), again another Krishnam Raju`s movie)














Songs from the Previous weeks




03/05/10

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 20 ammammammO.. telisindilE lakshmi kaTAksham SP Kodandapani N/A V_link Released in 1970 and directed by B Vithalacharya. The song was picturized on NTR and KR Vijaya. Rajasri, Sathyanarayana and Balayya play other vital roles in this super hit jAnapadam movie. The movie has all exciting Vithalacharya mark ingredients.
 19 kOnaseema lO kongulEsina.. seetamma peLLi SP Balu Veturi   Released in 1984 and directed by Bapu. The song was picturized on Revathi, Muccherla Aruna and Mohan Babu. This is a brother-sister sentimental movie with Mohan Babu and Revathi in those roles respectively. Murali Mohan plays another important role as Revathi`s husband. SP Balu himself told me that he was awe-struck by Veturi`s pada prayOgAlu, "aaku paccha chandamAma, pasupu paccha chandamAma", while fondly reminiscing this song`s context.



02/26/10

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 18 kalisina hrudayAla lOnA prEma-paga S Rajeswara Rao Dasaradhi   Released in 1978, produced by Mannava Balayya (character actor) and directed by BV Prasad. The song was picturized on Roopa (daughter of Eelapata Raghuramayya and popularly known as "nA lAgA endarO" Roopa) and Chakrapani (Roja Ramani`s husband). Murali Mohan and Latha are the hero and heroines, with Balayya in an important character in the movie. Sathyanarayana`s first wife is Savitri and Balayya is their son. Sathyanarayana runs away from his family responsibilities and end up marrying another rich girl. Now he is rich and responsible and have two kids (Murali Mohan and Roopa) from his second wife. Roopa is born blind and falls in love with her music teacher, Chakrapani. On the other hand, Balayya wants to take revenge on his father, who deserted them in stark poverty. When he runs into his father, he realizes that his father always repents for his irrseponsibility on his first wife and son. An opportunistic and evil relavite, Prabhakar Reddy kills Sathyanarayana and imputes the murder allegation on Balayya. Finally, Murali Mohan finds out the real murderer.
 17 rAnElA vasantAlE Dance Master Ilaya Raja Veturil_linkV_link Released in 1986 and directed by K Bala Chandar. The song was picturized on Kamal Hassan and Rekha in this dubbed movie. The Tamil orginal is Punnagai Mannan. Kamal plays duel roles with Rekha, Revathi and Sri Vidhya in the female lead roles.



02/19/10

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 16 ninnE ninnE talachukoni peLLi chUpulu KV Mahadevan Acharya Athreyal_link  Released in 1983 and directed by Parvathaneni Sambasiva Rao (who earlier directed movies like kumAra rAjA and inTinTi rAmAyaNam). The song was picturized on Chandra Mohan and Vijaya Santhi. Chandra Mohan falls in love with Vijaya Santhi from his neighboring village. Her father, Gummadi doesn`t believe in love marriages and wants to forcibly get her married to his mEnalluDu (Rajendra Prasad). An old man, Sathyanarayana help both the lovers. In the climax, Vijaya Santhi tries to commit suicide and then Chandra Mohan`s true love changes Gummadi`s hardened heart and Gummadi eventually approves their marriage. Rajendra Prasad plays a guest role of a promiscuous youth. This movie was later remade in Hindi by Bapu as "Mohabbat".
 15 suru chira sundaravENi muddula kRushNayya KV Mahadevan C Narayana Reddyl_linkV_link Released in 1986, produced by late S Gopala Reddy and directed by Kodi Ramakrishna. The song was picturized on Bala Krishna and Vijaya Santhi. As most of you know the movie details, I am not covering them. S Gopala Reddy hails from Nelluru dt and he expired the last year. He is one of the loyal producers for Bala Krishna in the 80`s. Except a couple of movies, Goapala Reddy always prefered mAma as his AshthAna music director.



02/12/10 (Ghantasala Vardhanthi <02/11> Special)

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 14 entO chinnadi jeevitam SreemantuDu T Chalapathi Rao Dasaradhi V_link Released in 1971 and directed by K Pratyagatma. The song was picturized on ANR and chorus. ANR and Jamuna are bAvA-maradaLLu. ANR plays as a spoilt rich kid and finally unites with her long-lost maradalu. T Chalapathi Rao came up with an awesome western tune (that is on par with Shakar-Jaikishen) for this song.
 13 evaru neevu.. nee rUpamEdi? prEmalu-peLLiLLu MS Viswanathan C Narayana Reddy   Released in 1974 and directed by V Madhusudana Rao. The song was picturized on ANR and Saarada. ANR is a doctor and falls in love with Jaya Lalitha and much against to his mother`s traditional wishes, he marries Jayalalitha. He gradually realizes that Jaya Lalitha is very headstrong, haughty, irresonsible and egoistic person, but he hopes that she would change her attitude after having the kids. Followed by a serious argument, she gives him divorce and walks out of his life, caring nothing for the kids. ANR then goes into a deep depression and comes back to his normal life with a caring and affectionate nurse, Saarada and then marries her. Now Jayalalitha realizes what she has missed, but when tries to come back to ANR, it is too late. In the climax, she dies by saving her kids in a quarry blasting accident.



02/05/10 (Chakravarthi Vardhanthi <02/03> Special)

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 12 rAdhA..andinchu nee lEta pedavi jEbu donga Chakravarthi Arudral_link  Released in 1975, produced by Chatterjee and directed by V Madhusudhana Rao. This beautiful song was picturized on Murali Mohan and Roja Ramani. Sobhan Babu and Manujula are the lead pair in this super hit movie. 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 has a full lenghth role for Rao Gopala Rao.
 11 vEyi paDagala meeda mundaDugu Chakravarthi Veturi V_link Released in 1983, produced by D Rama Naidu and directed by K Bapayya. The song was picturized as a climax song on two pairs (Sobhan Babu-Sridevi and Krishna-Jaya Prada). Amidst all his typical mass songs during his prime time, Chakravarthi always tried to do some different songs and this song can be one such example.



01/27/10 (Gummadi Vardhanthi <01/27> Special)

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 10 evarO vastArani.. edO chEstArani bhUmi kOsam Pendyala Nageswara Rao Sri Sri   Released in 1974 and directed by KB Tilak. The song was picturized on Gummadi, who acts as a frustrated teacher. Ashok Kumar (Hindi actor) plays a guest role as an arrogant zamindaaru, who always tries to suppress the peasants. Jaggayya is his son and an abyudayavAdi and he leaves his home to pursue his socialistic dreams. The movie starts off in the pre-independence era and then moves to the 60`s era. Jamuna is the elder sister of Jaggayya. After 20 years or so, Jaggayya returns to his home along with his grown-up daughter, Prabha and the peasant movement still goes on. Chalam is a revolutionary in the peasant movement and works against the zamidaars and the government.
 9 navvula nadilO puvvula paDava marmayOgi Ghantasala Arudra V_link Released in 1964 and directed by BA Subba Rao. The song was picturized on Gummada and a character actress. NTR and Krishnakumari are the hero and heroines in this jAnapadam movie.



01/18/10 (NTR Vardhanthi <01/18> Special)

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 8 Aku chATu pinde taDise vETagADu Chakravarthi Veturil_linkV_link Released in 1979, produced by Roja movies Arujuna Raju and directed by K Raghavendra Rao. The song was picturized on NTR and Sridevi. As all of you know the movie details, I am not going over them. This song is one of the Telugu rainy cult songs.
 7 nee illu bangAram gAnu gaja donga Chakravarthi Veturi V_link Released in 1981, produced by the character actor, Kaikala Sathyanarayana and directed by K Raghavendra Rao. The song was picturized on NTR and Jayamalini. NTR appears in twin roles with Sridevi and Jayasudha as heroines. As all of you know the movie details, I am not going over them.



01/15/10 (Sobhan Babu BDay <01/14> Special)

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 6 ennenni vompulu.. ennenni sompulu bAbu Chakravarthi Acharya Athreyal_link  Released in 1975 and directed by K Raghavendra Rao. The song was picturized on Sobhan Babu and Lakshmi. Vanisree plays the main heroine role. Sobhan Babu is a grand son of a zamindaaru (Gummadi), but grows up as an poor kid right from his childhood. Sobhan`s father (a guest role by Murali Mohan) marries a poor Muslim girl and walks out and both parents die leaving the infant Sobhan as an orphan. Sathyanaraya, an opportunist manager working as a diwaan for Gummadi awaits a right time to usurb his aasti. Lakshmi is an innocent, but illigetimate daughter of Sathyanarayana works as a school teacher and falls in love with Sobhan. But Sobhan loves Vanisree, who turns out to be his long-lost childhood friend. Gummadi accepts Sobhan as his heir.In the climax, Lakshmi dies (Sathyanarayana intends to kill Vanisree, but Lakshmi ends up dying) and Sobhan and Vanisree unite. This movie was an official directional debut for K Raghavendra Rao, though he was involved with the films as an assistant/associate director since the days of pAnDava vanavAsam movie.
 5 sannagA sana sannagA deepArAdhana Chakravarthi Dasari Narayana Rao V_link Released in 1981 and directed by Dasari Narayana Rao. The song was picturized on Sobhan Babu and Jayaprada. Murali Mohan and Mohan Babu play the other important characters in this family melodrama.



01/08/10

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 4 aTu challani velugula jAbili vADE veeDu Sathyam Dasaradhi V_link Released in 1973 and directed by D Yoganand. The song was picturized on NTR and Manjula. NTR plays as a thief who gets seperated from his family in his childhood. Then he is brought back to the same family to act as the long-lost son. He then realizes that he himself is the original son and he then helps his sister`s family by bringing his bAva (Krishnam Raju) from a wrong track to a right one and also stops his mEna mAma, Nagabhooshanam (who has brought NTR as an imposter in to the family as a part of his cunning game) from usurping their aasti. This is one of the memorable movies in the rare combination of NTR-Ghantasala-Sathyam.
 3 vELA pALa lEdU.. abhilAsha Ilaya Raja Acharya Athreya V_link Released in 1983, produced by KS Rama Rao and directed by A Kodandarami Reddy. The song was picturized on Chiru and Radhika. Yandamoori once quoted that he wrote the novel in keeping the then-upcoming star, Chiru in mind. Ilaya Raja`s hawaa in the direct Telugu movies started with this movie.



01/01/10

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 2 sannajAjulOy..kannemOjulOy simhabaluDu MS Viswanathan Veturil_linkV_link Released in 1978, produced by DVN Raju (who later produced movies such as Chiru`s inTiguTTu) and directed by K Raghavendra Rao. The song was picturized on NTR and Jayamalini in this folklore (jAnapadam) movie. NTR is a son of a sEnApati, Sathyanarayana. Because of the villains` evil plot, NTR gets seperated from his parents when he is an infant and is brought up in a village as a normal person. Vanisree is an arrogant princess and when she runs into NTR, se starts changing her attitude towards the poor. Later NTR is captured as a slave and sent to a slavery island. Jayamalini is an in-charge in the slavery island and she treats all males as sex objects. When she sees the dauntless and masculine NTR, she lusts after NTR and this song comes in that back-drop. Later NTR leads a mutiny against the slavery system and the princess, Vanisree (in a disguise) herself helps him in the process. Now NTR starts loving the princess and then helps the princess in straightening out the kingdom administration by killing the treachery traitors such as Rao Gopala Rao and unites with his long-lost parents as well. I guess this is the only movie that has Raghavendra Rao/MS Viswanathan combination. I am not sure how well this movie fared at the box-office, but huge sets with grandeur showed up through out this movie (probably the most expensive jAnapadam movie until Krishna made simhAsanam movie in the same genre.
 1 erakkapOyi vachhAnu Alu magalu T Chalapathi Rao Veturi V_link Released in 1977, produced by Anumolu Venkata Subba Rao of Prasad Arts (I guess he is an ANR`s viyyankuDu) and directed by Tatineni Rama Rao. The song was picturized on ANR and Vanisri. The movie is about misunderstandings, suspicions (wife suspects husband here.. for a change :)), and uncompromising ego differences between the couple. Finally the couple realizes that children need both parents instead of a single parent and that the husband-wife bond is stronger than the parent-child bond. Dasaradhi was supposed to write this song initially, but he was not coming up with the right pallavi that would inspire the music director. Then up on Dasadahi`s recommendation, Veturi was pulled in.. even Veturi was not able to impress Tatineni Chalapathi Rao. After spending the whole day with a lot of pallavulu in vain, Veturi stood up and said "ayyA.. erakkapOyi vacchi mee daggara irukku pOyAnu.. pl. let me go now". Chalapathi Rao`s face brightened like a bulb with Veturi`s words and he asked Veturi to take the very same line as the pallavi and to develop the rest of the song. Balu recently quoted that T Chalapathi Rao is the one who encouraged him to imitate ANR`s voice in this song and starting with this movie, ANR started taking Balu as his permanent singer (in between 1972 to 1976, ANR used to prefer Rama Krishna over Balu, for the former`s voice was closer to Ghantasala`s). Interestingly, Chalapathi Rao`s original last name is Dronavalli and hails from Kapileswara Puram in Krishna dt. Because he was adopted by his mEnatta (who had no kids), he got their last name, Tatineni.


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