Tahsildar (1944)
Synopsis: This film was a satire on Indian middle-class anglophilic pretensions. Soon after a low-level tax collector (Rao) marries the beautiful but unsophisticated village girl Kamala (Bhanumathi), he forces her to take a series of classes to learn to wear Western fashion and high heeled shoes and to learn to speak English. All this climaxes in a tea party hosted by the collector that leaves Kamala dispirited and humiliated. The collector dumps Kamala in favor of the slick and modern Rajani (Kamala Kotnis), who promptly has poor Kamala evicted. Soon the dark-hearted Rajani spends all of his money, forcing him to embezzle from his company.
Cast: YV Rao (Kamesam), Chadalavada Narayana Rao (Narasayya/DN Taral), BR Panthulu, P. Bhanumathi (Chittemma/Kamala), Balijepalli Lakshmikantha Kavi (Seethaiah and Panakalu), Kamala Kotnis (Rajani), MS Rama Rao (cameo), Bezawada Rajarathnam (Ramamma), Hemalatha (Parvathamma), Krishnaiah (Viswanatham)
Story: YV Rao
Dialogues and Lyrics: Balijepalli Lakshmikantha Kavi
Play-back: Bhanumathi, Jamuna Rani (debut), MS Rama Rao
Music: HR Padmanabha Sastry, V. Shankar
Cinematography: Purushottam
Director: YV Rao (Yaragudipati Varada Rao)
Banner: Jagadish Films
Trivia: This was the biggest hit and the only winner at the box-office in the year.
Cast: YV Rao (Kamesam), Chadalavada Narayana Rao (Narasayya/DN Taral), BR Panthulu, P. Bhanumathi (Chittemma/Kamala), Balijepalli Lakshmikantha Kavi (Seethaiah and Panakalu), Kamala Kotnis (Rajani), MS Rama Rao (cameo), Bezawada Rajarathnam (Ramamma), Hemalatha (Parvathamma), Krishnaiah (Viswanatham)
Story: YV Rao
Dialogues and Lyrics: Balijepalli Lakshmikantha Kavi
Play-back: Bhanumathi, Jamuna Rani (debut), MS Rama Rao
Music: HR Padmanabha Sastry, V. Shankar
Cinematography: Purushottam
Director: YV Rao (Yaragudipati Varada Rao)
Banner: Jagadish Films
Trivia: This was the biggest hit and the only winner at the box-office in the year.
Comments