Charana Daasi (1956)

Original title

చరణ దాసి

Directed by

Tatineni Prakash Rao

Genre

drama film

Country

India

Runtime

3h 16m

Rating

8.5 of 10 from 2 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This Indian Telugu-language drama is about family relationships and mistaken identities. It follows characters caught in a complex web of duty and love.

melodramaticemotionalromanticsentimentalmusicalfamily-centeredtragic

What happens

Charana Daasi (transl. Wife) is a 1956 Indian Telugu-language drama film written by Vempati Sadasivabrahmam and directed by T. Prakash Rao. It stars N. T. Rama Rao, Akkineni Nageswara Rao, Anjali Devi and Savitri, and music composed by S. Rajeswara Rao. The film is a remake of Naresh Chandra Mitra's 1947 Bengali film Noukadubi, which itself is based on Rabindranath Tagore's 1906 eponymous novel. It was simultaneously made in Tamil as Mathar Kula Manikkam (1956). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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