Prema Nagar
Prema Nagar | |
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Theatrical release poster | |
Directed by | K. S. Prakash Rao |
Produced by | D. Ramanaidu |
Written by |
Koduri Kausalya Devi K.S. Prakash Rao |
Starring |
Akkineni Nageswara Rao Vanisree Gummadi Venkateswara Rao Kaikala Satyanarayana |
Music by | K. V. Mahadevan |
Distributed by | Navayuga Films |
Release dates | 24 September 1971 |
Country | India |
Language | Telugu |
Premanagar or Prema Nagar (City of Love) is a 1971 Tollywood blockbuster, Drama film produced by D. Ramanaidu and directed by K. S. Prakash Rao. The story is based on the Prema Nagar novel written by Koduri Kausalya Devi. The film's cast includes Akkineni Nageswara Rao, Vanisree, Gummadi Venkateswara Rao, and Kaikala Satyanarayana.
The producer D. Ramanaidu made the same films in three languages. Tamil remake of this film was Vasantha Maligai released in 1972 and in Hindi was made as Prem Nagar released in 1974. In Tamil the pair was played by Sivaji Ganesan and Vanisri as well and in Hindi by Rajesh Khanna and Hema Malini.
Plot
Kalyan (Akkineni Nageswara Rao), the second son of a wealthy zamindar family, is a happy-go-lucky guy who enjoys his life with wine and women. He meets Lata (Vanisri) who works as an air hostess and runs her family. She later joins as a secretary to Kalyan and changes him to a nice human being. When Kalyan falls in love with her, his mother does not like a middle-class girl to be her daughter-in-law, which makes Latha to move away from Kalyan. How the lovers get united in the end is the rest of the interesting story.
Cast
- Akkineni Nageswara Rao as Kalyan
- Vanisri as Lata
- Kaikala Satyanarayana as Keshav
- Santha Kumari as Kalyan's mother
- S. V. Ranga Rao as Kalyan's father
- Gummadi Venkateswara Rao
- S. Varalakshmi as Keshav's wife
- Raja Babu as Kalyan's servant
- K. V. Chalam as Kalyan's servant
- Pushpalatha as Kalyan's Ayya who gets shot when Kalyan is young
- Master Venkatesh as young Keshav
Songs
All the lyrics are written by Acharya Aathreya.
- "Yevarikosam Yevarikosam Ea Premamandiram" - Ghantasala
- "Kadavettukochindi Kannepilla" - Ghantasala, P. Susheela
- "Theta Theta Thelugula Thellavari Velugula" - Ghantasala
- "Nee Kosam Velisindi Premamandiram" - Ghantasala, P. Susheela
- "Nenu Puttanu Lokam Mecchindi" - Ghantasala
- "Manasu Gati Inte Manishi Bratuk Inte" - Ghantasala
- "Le Le Le Naa Raaja" - Ghantasala, L. R. Eswari
- "Unte Ee Oollo Undu Pothe Nee Desham Pora" - P. Susheela
- "Evaro raavali" - P.Susheela