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Bala Nagamma (1942)

Bala Nagamma poster
Original title
బాలనాగమ్మ
Directed by
C. Pullaiah
Genre
fantasy film
Country
British Raj
Runtime
2h 18m
Rating
10.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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This film tells a story from a popular Telugu folk performance called Burrakatha. It follows the events involving a central female character named Bala Nagamma.

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What happens

Bala Nagamma is a 1942 Telugu-language film directed by C. Pullayya and produced by S. S. Vasan. The story Bala Nagamma was one of the most popular Burrakathas. It was one of the successful early films made by Gemini Studios in Telugu which was not remade in Tamil. Gemini Studios remade the film in Hindi titled Bahut Din Huwe (1954), starring Madhubala . The film was remade in Telugu in 1959 with the same name under the direction of Vedantam Raghavayya. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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