![]() ![]() degree, and later joined his brother in Bombay to work as his assistant and soon graduated to film direction. He began his life as a sound recordist after getting his M.A. The interesting story with many twists and turns was well narrated on screen by Raghunath, younger brother of well-known director Raja Chandrasekhar. The devoted wife faces many trials and tribulations before she and her son help her husband regain his original form. The princess marries the prince, but they are banished and live in a hut. He succeeds in getting it and the queen curses him to become an ugly man. The queen is attracted to the young man who pretends to be in love with her mainly to get the light. A young man (Gemini Ganesan) working in the palace and in love with the princess (Anjali Devi) undertakes the hazardous journey of going to the netherworld and getting the magic light from the hood of a snake in the custody of the serpent queen (Lalitha). This film narrated the story of a king who loses his sight and needs a ‘Nagi Jyothi' (‘serpent light'!) found in ‘Sarpaloka' (serpent world!). ![]() Susheela, the hiccups were hers! This was one of Susheela's early hits as a playback singer.) (Bhanumathi told this writer years later that in the song recorded with P. Susheela) is still fondly remembered by Tamil movie buffs. She was similarly cast in this film and a song filmed later on Lalitha, ‘Unnai kann theduthey.' was first rendered by Bhanumathi and the sequence was shot when she chose to walk out of the film. Reddi's Swargaseema entered Tamil cinema playing such roles in her first few films. Surprising, yet true.īhanumathi who made a splash way back in 1945 as a vamp in B. Not many are aware that she was brought on board after production commenced, as a substitute for P. (He took his bow in cinema as hero at 33 with Manam Pol Mangalyam in 1953). Gemini Ganesan by now established as a star played the lead opposite Anjali Devi. ![]() It had music by well-known Hindi film music composer Hemant Kumar and noted Telugu film music composer Addepalli Rama Rao. Srinivasan, (also a filmmaker sadly forgotten now). Raghunath, was rather like folklore, written by Sadasiva Bramham (he was so famous and successful in Telugu cinema that he was known as Katha Sivabramham!), Umachandran (Poornam Viswanathan's brother), and K. Kanavaney Kankanda Deivam, a Narayanan Company production directed by noted filmmaker of yesteryear T. ![]()
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