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Aadarsa Kutumbam
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Wikipedia article
'Aadarsa Kutumbam' is a 1969 Indian Telugu-language drama film, produced by A. V. Subba Rao under the Prasad Art Productions banner and directed by K. Pratyagatma. It stars Akkineni Nageswara Rao and Jayalalithaa, with music composed by S. Rajeswara Rao.
Plot
The film deals with a joint family, Raghavendra Rao (Chittor V. Nagaiah) & his wife Rajyalakshmi (Hemalatha) are paterfamilias who has four sons and a daughter. The elder son Pattabhi (Gummadi) and his wife Janaki (Anjali Devi) look after the house finances and agricultural work. The second son Prakasam (Nagabhushanam) is involved in village politics, wastes time & money therein, and his wife Jaya (S. Varalakshmi) is a shrew who doesn't contribute anything to the welfare of the family. The third son Pratap (Bheemaraju) is a bodybuilder who is obsessed with diet & fitness and not bothered about his wife Rama (Geethanjali). The youngest one Prasad (Akkineni Nageswara Rao) studies in the city where he falls in love with a beautiful girl Saroja (Jayalalithaa) a doctor. The only daughter is Chandra (Anitha), and her husband Suryam (Padmanabham), suffers from night blindness. He doesn't do any work and passes time lazily by living in his in-law's house. To make things worse, his mother Durgamma (Suryakantham) always visits the house and creates rifts in the family. Pattabhi & Janaki's goodwill is mistaken as inability and all these people make use of their innocence. Meanwhile, Prasad marries Saroja at this juncture, she enters the family when everybody is in a mess with unnecessary expenditures, arguments, and cheating. So, Prasad & Saroja decide to separate the family and they do so by cheating. The rest of the story is about how they reunite the affections and relations between family members.
Cast
*Akkineni Nageswara Rao as Prasad
*Jayalalithaa as Saroja
*Chittoor V. Nagaiah as Raghavendra Rao
*Gummadi as Pattabhi
*Nagabhushanam as Prakasam
*Padmanabham as Suryam
*Ramana Reddy as Damodaram
*Sakshi Ranga Rao as Appaiah Panthulu
*Bheemaraju as Pratap
*Anjali Devi as Janaki
*S. Varalakshmi as Jaya
*Suryakantham as Durgamma
*Hemalatha as Rajyalakshmi
*Geetanjali as Rama
*Vijaya Lalitha as Sunita
*Surabhi Balasaraswathi as Rami
*Anitha as Chandra
Soundtrack
Music composed by S. Rajeswara Rao.
Awards
* National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Telugu - 1969
* K. Pratyagatma won Nandi Award for Second Best Story Writer (1969) (in Telugu)
References
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