Bhakta Jayadeva (1961)

Original title

భక్త జయదేవ

Directed by

P. Ramarao

Genre

biographical film

Country

India

Rating

4.0 of 10 from 2 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This film tells the life story of Jayadeva, a 12th century Sanskrit poet. It shows his devotion and his work as a poet.

biographicaldevotionalmelodicclassicalserenenostalgicearnest

What happens

Bhakta Jayadeva is a 1961 Indian Telugu-language biographical film, based on the life of 12th Century Sanskrit Poet Jayadeva, produced by Komaravolu Narayana Rao, G. Paramdhama Reddy under the Lalitha Kala Nikethan banner and directed by P. V. Rama Rao, while Ramakrishna took care of direction supervision. It stars Akkineni Nageswara Rao, Anjali Devi and music composed by Saluri Rajeshwara Rao. The same picture was already made Telugu in 1938 with the same title, which was produced by Andhra Cinetone at Visakhapatnam and directed by Bengali director Hiren Bose. It stars Surabhi Kamalabai, Santha Kumari, V. Venkateswarlu, Rentachintala Satyanarayana in pivotal roles. It was also dubbed into Bengali as Padmabati Joydeb and released in 1968. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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