Poongodhai (1953)
- Original title
- Poongothai
- Directed by
- L. V. Prasad
- Genre
- drama
- Country
- India
- Runtime
- 2h 51m
- Rated
- U
- Rating
- 8.0 of 10 from 1 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A man and a woman fall in love across cultural or social divides in this bilingual Telugu-Tamil romance. The film stars Akkineni Nageswara Rao and Anjali Devi as the central couple.
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What happens
Paradesi or Poongothai is a 1953 Indian Telugu-Tamil bilingual romance film, produced by P. Adinarayana Rao under the Anjali pictures banner and directed by L. V. Prasad. .This is actually the first film acted by Sivaji but Parasakthi came first.It stars Akkineni Nageswara Rao, Anjali Devi, and Sivaji Ganesan with music composed by P. Adinarayana Rao. The film is a remake of the Hindi movie Raj Rani (1950). Paradesi was an average grosser at the box office. No print of Poongothai is known to survive, making it a lost film. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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