Gaali Medalu (1962)
Panakalu takes money from Naganna as loan, in exchange to make Lakshmi (Devika) as his daughter-in-law. Lakshmi who is in love with Krishna unaware that she needs to marry Mohan. Panakalu accuses Krishna of spoiling the marriage of Lakshmi with Mohan, which makes Krishna to leave the house. Meanwhile Mohan in the pretext of a millionaire meets Nimmi aka Nirmala (Jayanthi) who is Zamindar's (Rajanala) daughter and marries her. Lakshmi leaves the house in search of Krishna.
How Krishna meets his father Ranganath, and marries Lakshmi and brings changes in Panakalu and Mohan is the rest of the tear-jerking story.
Cast: NT Rama Rao (Krishna), Devika (Lakshmi), SV Ranga Rao (Panakalu), Jaggaiah (Mohan), Jayanthi (Nirmala), Rajanala (Zamindar), Balasaraswathi (Kanakam), Chittooru Nagaiah (Ranganatham), MV Rajamma (Kanthamma), Ramana Reddy
Story: LMS Solamalai
Dialogues: DV Narasaraju
Lyrics: Kosaraju, Ramchand, Samudrala Ramanujacharya, Eramakula Adisesha Reddy
Music: TS Lingappa
Play-back: Ghantasala, Madhavapeddi Satyam, P. Susheela, S. Janaki, PB Srinivas, Pithapuram Nageswara Rao, K. Rani, JV Raghavulu, Renuka
Cinematography: WR Subba Rao
Editing: R. Devarajan
Art: B. Jayaram
Producer and Director: BR Panthulu
Banner: Padmini Pictures
Release Date: 9 February
Trivia: The film is bilingual in Telugu and Kannada. Most of the Kannada actors did the lead roles in Telugu also. Kannada version is titled as 'Gaali Gopura' has Kannada Idol Rajkumar as hero. The film was hit in both the languages. This is one of the rare films where Kannada Music Director TS Lingappa worked in Telugu. The song 'Ee mooga choopela baava' was all time hit.
Popular Songs:
1. Ee mooga choopela baavaa maataadagaane raavaa
2. Navaraagaalu paadindeevela madi raagaalu aadindi chaalaa
3. Mamathalu leni manujulalonaa evariki evaro
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