Daasi (1952 film)

Daasi (English: Slave) is a 1952 Telugu film directed by C.V. Ranganatha Das and produced by actress C. Lakshmi Rajyam.^[1]

Plot

Ramaiah (NTR) is a horse-cart driver and his wife Lakshmi (Lakshmi Rajyam) works as a maid at the house of a wealthy man, Badrinath (S.V. Rangarao). The couple has a son, Subbadu. Badrinath, who is issueless, decides to remarry to have children and is in search of a bride. His wife Parvathamma (Santhakumari) is advised by her elder brother Ramarao (Srivatsa) to fake pregnancy. She reluctantly agrees. As Lakshmi is pregnant again, Ramarao’s idea is to show her baby as that of Parvathamma’s to Badrinath and dissuade him from a second marriage. Ramaiah suspects infidelity on the part of Lakshmi and sends her out of the house. She takes shelter in Parvathamma’s house, delivers a baby girl and is shocked to find Parvathamma and the baby missing from there. Ramaiah remarries Durgi (Kanakam), who elopes with a stage actor after throwing her step son Subbadu into a stream. Dejected Lakshmi, who decides to end her life by jumping into the stream, finds her son and saves him with the help of a doctor (Dr. Damodaram).

After Durgi leaves him, Ramaiah turns a sanyasi. Years go by. Lakshmi’s daughter Kamala (Vasantha), who is being brought up by Paravathamma, is now a young woman and is in love with Ramarao’s son, Premnath (Janardanam). But Premnath’s mother, who knows the truth, objects to her son marrying a maid’s daughter. Subbadu is now Subbarao (K.S. Chalam), a lawyer of repute. After the story takes a few more turns and twists from here on all ends up well. Ramaiah returns home and the family is reunited.

Crew

• Producer - C. Lakshmi Rajyam under Rajyam Pictures.
• Director - C.V. Ranganatha Das
• Music - S. Dakshinamurthy, C. R. Subburaman
• Story and Dailogues - Vempati Sadasivabrahmam
• Lyrics - Aatreya
• Camera - M.A. Rahman, N.C. Balakrishnan (Balu)
• Singers - P. Leela, Jikki, Pithapuram Nageswara Rao.

Cast

A still of N. T. Rama Rao in Daasi.

• Ramaiah - N. T. Rama Rao
• Lakshmi - C. Lakshmi Rajyam
• Badrinath - S. V. Ranga Rao
• Parvathamma - P. Santhakumari
• Ramarao - Srivatsa Venkateswara Rao
• Durgi - T. Kanakam
• Doctor - Dr. Damodaram
• Kamala - T.D. Vasantha
• Premnath - Janaradanam
• Subbarao - K.S.Chalam
• Relangi Venkata Ramaiah
• Suryakantham
• K. Sivarao
• Doraswamy
• Maddali Krishnamurthy
• A.L. Narayana
• Hemalathamma Rao
• Indira Acharya
• Bezawada Kanthamma

Soundtrack

• Chitti Thalli Navvave - P. Leela
• Jorse Chal Naa Raja Ghoda - Pithapuram Nageswara Rao
• Kalakallade Panduga - P. Leela , Jikki
• Maaraajula Chaakirichesi Dorasani Vachchave - Pithapuram Nageswara Rao, P. Leela

References

External links

• Daasi at the Internet Movie Database