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Mayamalai (1951)

Mayamalai poster
Genre
fantasy film
Country
India

How it feels

This is an Indian adventure fantasy from 1951 shot in two languages. A swashbuckling hero and his love interest face magical or mysterious obstacles involving a mystic chain. The film became a box-office disaster.

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What happens

Tilottama is a 1951 Indian swashbuckling adventure fantasy film, produced and directed by Raja Saheb of Mirzapur under the Sobhanachala Pictures banner. It stars Akkineni Nageswara Rao and Anjali Devi, with music composed by P. Adinarayana Rao. The film was simultaneously shot in Telugu and Tamil, with the latter being titled Mayamalai (transl. Mystic Chain). Tilottama was a box-office disaster. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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