Released · Telugu film · 1987
Samsaram Oka Chadarangam
సంసారం ఒక చదరంగం
Samsaram Oka Chadarangam release date: 14 January 1987 (theatres). Directed by S. P. Muthuraman; starring Gollapudi Maruti Rao, Sarath Babu and Suhasini Maniratnam.
- Film release
- 14 January 1987 · All 1987 films
- Director
- S. P. Muthuraman
- Music
- K. Chakravarthy
- Production
- AVM Productions
- Writing credits
- S. P. Muthuraman
- Runtime
- 156 min
- Language
- Telugu
OTT release
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Film release: 14 January 1987 · all 1987 Telugu films.
Source: the film’s Wikipedia article, checked 25 September 2026. It does not name a streaming platform or date; this page says so rather than guessing.
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Samsaram Oka Chadarangam (“Family, a Game of Chess”) is a 1987 Telugu family drama directed by S. P. Muthuraman and produced by M. Saravanan and M. Balasubramanian of AVM Productions. It is the studio’s own remake of its Tamil film Samsaram Adhu Minsaram (1986). Gollapudi Maruthi Rao, Sarath Babu, Suhasini, Sowcar Janaki and Rajendra Prasad lead the cast, with music by Chakravarthy. It was released on 14 January 1987 and runs 156 minutes.
What the story is about
Appala Narsayya is a simple clerk who lives with his wife Godavari, their four grown children and Chilakamma, a bold, long-serving maid who is almost one of the family. The eldest son Prakash, a junior officer, is a tight-fisted man who counts every rupee and sees his contribution to the joint family as a burden; his wife Uma, by contrast, is warm and loved by everyone. The second son Raghava is a mechanic, the daughter Sarojini a proud stenographer, and the youngest, Kalidasu, keeps failing his tenth-class exams. When the children’s marriages start piling up costs and frictions, the quarrel between Prakash and his father over money comes to a head, and the film follows a household that has to decide what it owes itself.
Cast and crew
- Gollapudi Maruthi Rao as Appala Narsayya
- Annapoorna as Godavari
- Sarath Babu as Prakash
- Suhasini as Uma
- Rajendra Prasad as Raghava and Mucherla Aruna as Vasantha
- Sowcar Janaki as Chilakamma
- Kalpana as Sarojini and Master Haja Sheriff as Kalidasu
- Nutan Prasad as Edmund Samuel
Director: S. P. Muthuraman. Producers: M. Saravanan and M. Balasubramanian (AVM Productions). Music: Chakravarthy, with lyrics by Veturi. Story: Visu.
Awards
The film won three Nandi Awards: Best Story Writer for Visu; Best Supporting Actress for Sowcar Janaki as the maid Chilakamma; and Best Child Actor for Master Sravan Kumar. We have no box-office figures for it from a named outlet.
Where to watch Samsaram Oka Chadarangam
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Sources: the Wikipedia article on Samsaram Oka Chadarangam; our own cast and crew records.
Cast of Samsaram Oka Chadarangam (1987)
- Gollapudi Maruti Rao as Appala Narsayya
- Sarath Babu as Prakash
- Suhasini Maniratnam as Uma
- Sowcar Janaki as Chilakamma
- Rajendra Prasad as Raghava
Additional cast
Further acting credits recorded for this film; voice-only and dubbing credits are excluded.
- Annapoorna as Godavari
- Nutan Prasad as Edmund Samuel
- Aruna Mucherla as Vasantha
Also in the cast (TMDB): Hemasundar as Jagannatham, Master Haja Sheriff as Kalidasu, Dilip as Peter, Juttu Narasimham as Neelakantham, Potti Veerayya as Washerman, Ilavarasi as Sarojini.
Character names as listed on TMDB, checked 10 Oct 2026.
Source record: Q7410321 on Wikidata. Dates are those on record and can change; this is not a studio announcement. Spotted an error? Send a correction.