Aaradhana
Anuradha Savitri loves Murali ANR in college, but keeps to herself. She becomes victim of her classmate Sarala Rajasris jealousy and trickery and complains about Murali to Principal Gummadi. The event results in hatred between them and Murali losing scholarship. Murali gets help from his uncle Lingaiah Ramana Reddy and goes to London for higher studies. Lingaiah in return plans to give his daughter Lakshmi Girija to Murali upon his return. Lingaiah appoints Anuradha as care taker of innocent Lakshmi. Anuradha comes to know about their plan and sacrifices her love for her cousin Lakshmi. Lakshmi has different plans She is in love with her brother in law Yoganandam Relangi and not interested in Murali. She asks Anuradha to write replies to Muralis letters on her behalf. Anuradha goes through lot of struggle in the process.Murali loses his eyes in a lab accident. Lingaiah loses interest in alliance. Anuradha pretends as Lakshmi and nurses Muarli, while he is blind. She prepares for his operation with the help of their common friend Sarathi Jagaiah and Principal. She plans to disappear after the eye surgery, but Murali recognises the difference and insists that he wants the Lakshmi that served him. Movie ends with the reunion of the lovers.The love between main characters is silent. The main characters do not have any duets. Apart from solo songs, all duets in movie are between Girija and Relangi.Banner - Jagapati Art ProductionsStar Cast - Akkineni Nageswara Rao, Savitri, Girija, Gummadi Venkateswara Rao, Kongara Jaggaiah, Relangi Venkatramiah, Ramana Reddy, Rajasri, Anita Dutt, JamunaCamera - C. Nageshwara RaoEditing - N.K. GopalLyrics - Acharya Atreya, Arudra, Sri Sri, Kosaraju Raghavayya ChowdhuryPlayback Singers - Ghantasala, P. Suseela, S. Janaki, Swarnalatha, Pithapuram Nageswara RaoBackground Music - Saluri Rajeswara RaoChoreography - Chinnilal SampathDialogues - Naarla Chiranjeevi, Acharya AtreyaStory - Sagarika Bengali FilmProducer - D. Ranga Rao, V.B. Rajendra PrasadDirector - V. Madhusudhan RaoRelease - 1962
Aaradhana
