Manchi Manasulu

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Manchi Manasulu (“Good Hearts”) is a 1962 Telugu drama directed by Adurthi Subba Rao and produced by C. Sundaram under the Babu Movies banner, a remake of Subba Rao’s own Tamil film Kumudham (1961). Akkineni Nageswara Rao and Savitri star, with Sowcar Janaki and S. V. Ranga Rao, and K. V. Mahadevan composed the music. It was released on 11 April 1962 and runs 163 minutes.

What the story is about

In a village, the blacksmith Rangaiah works himself to the bone to put his younger brother Venu through college in Madras. Looking for cheap lodgings, Venu meets the kind-hearted public prosecutor Anand Rao, who lets him stay in his summer house for free, passing him off as a married man because his wife will not rent to bachelors; Anand Rao’s daughter Shanti sees through the story and falls for Venu. Back in the village, Shankaraiah has a dissolute son, Kumar, who is courting Rangaiah’s daughter Jaya, and a blind daughter, Radha. When Venu graduates and comes home to arrange his marriage to Shanti, his brother’s failing health and his family’s ties to Shankaraiah’s household force a choice that will shape all their lives.

Cast and crew

• Akkineni Nageswara Rao as Venu
• Savitri as Shanti
• Sowcar Janaki as Radha
• S. V. Ranga Rao as Ananda Rao and Suryakantham as his wife
• Gummadi as Rangaiah and Vasanthi as Jaya
• Ramana Reddy as Shankaraiah and Nagabhushanam as Kumar
• Allu Ramalingaiah, Vangara and Potti Prasad in supporting roles

Director: Adurthi Subba Rao. Producer: C. Sundaram. Music: K. V. Mahadevan.

Music

K. V. Mahadevan kept some songs from the Tamil original and composed new ones, including “Silalapai Silpaalu”, “Yemandoi Srivaru” and “Yentha Takkari Vaadu”. The song “Mava Mava” was later remixed in Big Boss (1995) and in Anveshana. We have no box-office figures or contemporary reviews for the film from a named outlet.

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Sources: the Wikipedia article on Manchi Manasulu; our own cast and crew records.