Seetharamaiah Gari Manavaralu

Seetharamaiah Gari Manavaralu
Directed by Kranthi Kumar
Produced by V. Doraswamiraju
Written by Ganesh Patro, Kranthi Kumar
Starring Akkineni Nageswara Rao
Meena
Rohini Hattangadi
Tanikella Bharani
Kota Srinivasa Rao
Murali Mohan
Music by M. M. Keeravani
Cinematography K. S. Hari
Edited by Sreekar Prasad
Production
company
VMC Pictures
Release dates
 11 January 1991
Running time
 131 min.
Country India
Language Telugu

Seetharamaiah Gari Manavaralu (English: Seetharamaiah's Granddaughter) is a 1991 Telugu drama film directed by Kranthi Kumar.[1] Akkineni Nageswara Rao played the role of Seetharamaiah, and Meena played his granddaughter Seeta. The film was show cased among the Indian panorama section at the 1991 International Film Festival of India.[2] The film was made under the banner VMC Productions. The film won three South Filmfare Awards and four Nandi Awards. The plot was developed from a Telugu novella, Navvina Kanneelle, written by Manasa.[3]

It was remade in Malayalam as Sandhwanam in November 1991. The movie was also remade in Kannada as Belli Modagalu, directed by K. V. Raju, in 1993; it was a blockbuster hit. Malashri played the grand daughter role with Doddanna as grandfather and Ramesh Aravind as the heroine's cousin and love interest. It was remade in Hindi as Udhaar Ki Zindagi in 1994. Kajol played the lead role.

Plot

The plot revolves around an Indian family with close family relationships shot in a village near Godavari river.

Seetharamaiah (ANR) is a landlord in Sitarampuram village. His wife is Janakamma (Rohini) and son is Srinivas Murthy (Raja). There are differences between the father and Son regarding the Son's marriage. Unable to deceive Sumathi (son Srinivas Murthy's love), Srinivas Murthy marries her and leaves the village as Seetharamaiah wanted to convey his unhappiness to his son by not speaking with him.

After a gap of 20 long years, his daughter Seeta (Meena) arrives in the village to attend a marriage function. Though Sitaramayya still carries the pain of his son's denial on the marriage proposed by him, he likes his son a lot, he develops a liking for his grand daughter, but doesn't express openly. Where as Janakamma expresses her love openly.

After seeing the affection and the love she is receiving from her grand parents, and how much her grand parents are looking forward to meet their son (seeta's father Srinivas Murthy), Seeta could not able to convey the message of his father & Mother's death (due to road accident) to Sitaramaiah & Janakamma.

Meanwhile, a friend of Srinivas Murthy (Muralimohan) comes to the village and meets Seetharamaiah, and understanding the reason why Seeta did not reveals their son and daughter-in-law had death, he conveys to Seetharamaiah and Rohini that their son would be coming to their home soon.

After performing Seetharamaiah's Shasthipurthi (Family event on completion of 60 years), Janakamma dies, and Seetharamaiah feels depressed on not having his son attending to his mother's funeral. Out of the pain he asks Seeta to leave the house.

What happens next and how Seeta convey's message of his son's death is the story line.

Cast

Actor/Actress Character
Akkineni Nageshwara Rao Seetharamaiah
Meena Seeta, granddaughter
Rohini Hattangadi Janakamma, wife
Tanikella Bharani Son-in-law
Dasari Narayana Rao Subbaraju
Kota Srinivasa Rao Veerabhadraiah
Murali Mohan Friend of Srinivasa Murthy
Raja Srinivasa Murthy
Telangana Shakuntala Wife of Veerabhadraiah
Sudhakar Son of Veerabhadraiah

Soundtrack

The music and background score was composed by M. M. Keeravani. All songs were written by Veturi Sundararama Murthy.

Awards

Filmfare Awards
Nandi Awards

References

  1. ↑ Seetharamaiah Gari Manavaralu film review at Navatarangam.com
  2. ↑ http://iffi.nic.in/Dff2011/FrmIP1991Award.aspx?PdfName=IP1991.pdf
  3. ↑ "సీతారామయ్య గారి మనవరాలు". navatarangam. Retrieved 10 April 2015. |first1= missing |last1= in Authors list (help)

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