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Buddhimantudu
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Wikipedia article
'Buddhimantudu' is a 1969 Telugu-language drama film, produced by N. S. Murthy under the Chitra Kalpana banner and directed by Bapu. It stars Akkineni Nageswara Rao, Vijaya Nirmala, Sobhan Babu, Krishnam Raju and music composed by K. V. Mahadevan. The film was remade in Tamil as 'Manidhanum Dheivamagalam' (1975) and in Hindi as 'Paramaatma' (1994). The film was recorded as a 'Super Hit' at the box office.
Plot
The film begins in a village, where Madhavacharya (Akkineni Nageswara Rao) an ardent devotee of Lord Krishna (Sobhan Babu) works as a temple priest, everyone in the village admires him as they believe that he encounters the Lord. Madhavaiah too gets mystic experiences whenever he views Lord's statue whereas, his younger brother, Gopi (again Akkineni Nageswara Rao) a riff-raff who spends life as the frolic. Nevertheless, he is kind at heart and struggles for the welfare of the villagers. Seshadri (Nagabhushanam), the village head is a baseness person who creates a lot of atrocities to which Gopi stands as a barrier while Madhavaiah believes him as a wise person and respects him. Meanwhile, Gopi falls in love with a charming girl Radha (Vijaya Nirmala) daughter of Seshadri's sister Kaveramma (Rukmini), in her acquaintance, Gopi reforms and turns into a straight arrow. Eventually, Krishna (Krishnam Raju) son of Seshadri walks in his father's footsteps and traps the village School Teacher's (Bhanu Prakash) daughter Kasturi (Sandhya Rani). Now Gopi & Radha decide to pair up but they are afraid of their elders' castism yet, stand strong.
At that time, Gopi's old friends' forcibly take him to carouse. Exploiting it, Seshadri poses Gopi as debauchery before Radha when she loathes him. Even Madhavaiah also necks out him on the provocation of Seshadri and gives their old ruined building as his share. Ahead, malevolent Seshadri scatters bad propaganda against Radha and denounces Gopi which leads to Kaveramma's death. Right now, Seshadri plans to perform Radha's marriage with Krishna to grab her property. Parallelly, Gopi renovates his building and transforms it into a school building to service the villagers. Due to this Seshadri removes Madhavaiah as the priest and handovers the keys. Distressed Madhavaiah goes into illusion and feels as if Lord Krishna too accompanied him. Knowing it, furious Gopi revolts against Seshadri to get back the keys when Seshadri intrigues by stealing the temple ornaments and orders his henchmen Ramalingam (Allu Ramalingaiah) to bury them in the Gopi's premises. But cunning Ramalingam double-crosses and snatches the jewelry. The next day, Gopi is indicted and when they are in search, a treasure of Madhavaiah & Gopi's ancestors is dug out where both the brothers argue to utilize it one for the temple and another for the school.
At that moment, Seshadri again ploys to capture the treasure, so, decides to conduct the elections, and both the parties strongly campaign. Here Gopi breaks out the secret of temple robbery through Ramalingam when Radha learns the virtue of Gopi. During that time, Krishna runs away with the treasure and kidnaps Radha when Gopi rescues and makes Krishna aware of his mistake. Then, Gopi's group without his knowledge challenges Madhavaiah to show a miracle by lifting the dome of the temple into the air if God exists which Madhavaiah accepts and Seshadri accuses him of the act. Disturbed Madhavaiah locks himself in the temple where Lord Krishna also preaches to him that God will not respond to evildoers when Madhavaiah protests against Lord. At that juncture, Gopi understands his brother will not survive until the miracle happens, so, he lifts the dome from the backside of the temple. Immediately, Madhavaiah cools down and when he spots Gopi, enlightens that Lord performed the miracle through his brother and also realizes serving people is equivalent to offering God. At last, they utilize the treasure for the welfare of the people, and Seshadri gets arrested. Finally, the movie ends on a happy note with the marriage of Gopi & Radha.
Cast
*Akkineni Nageswara Rao as Madhavacharya & Gopi (Dual role)
*Vijaya Nirmala as Radha
*Sobhan Babu as Lord Krishna
*Krishnam Raju as Krishna
*Gummadi as D.E.O.
*Nagabhushanam as Sheshadri
*Allu Ramalingaiah as Ramalingam
*Sakshi Ranga Rao as Achary
*Bhanu Prakash as Master
*Vijayachander as Gopi's friend
*Devadas Kanakala as Gopi's friend
*Suryakantham as Kanthamma
*Santha Kumari as Shantamma
*Rukmini as Kaveramma
*Meena Kumari as Meena
*Sandhya Rani as Kasthuri
Chalapathi Rao
Soundtrack
Music composed by K. V. Mahadevan. Music released on Audio Company. The song 'Badilo Emundi' summing up the essence of the film was an instant hit
Other
* VCDs and DVDs on - VOLGA Videos, Hyderabad
References
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