Rechukka

Rechukka is a 1954 Telugu film directed by Ghantasala Balaramaiah and P. Pullaiah and produced by Ghantasala Krishnamurthy. N. T. Rama Rao acted in the lead role as prince. Devika debuted in the film as Princess. The story was inspired by The Prince Who Was a Thief 1951 starring Tony Curtis.

The story is set in a kingdom. The chief minister wants his daughter to marry the Kings only son, the future prince. The King refused the idea, and the angry minister captures and arrests the King and runs the Kingdom. A loyal countryman Veeranna Nagabhushanam takes the Prince and leaves him in the forest away from the evil ministers hands, but gets captured himself. The Prince, grows up as the forest chiefs adopted son Kannayya N.T. Rama Rao. Veerannas daughter is Nana Anjali Devi. Both of them grows up as thieves. The old King escapes finally and stays at Nanas house. Nana steals the Princess Lalita Devis Devika necklace and Kannayya returns it to her. The princess falls in love with him. Nana also falls for the Kannayya too. He gets to know his true identity, defeats his enemies and gets back his Kingdom.The Rechukka film is an outcome of Ghantasala Balaramaiah, Telugu film producer of Pratibha Pictures and General Manager and Production Executive of the company Thopalli Venkata Sundara Shivarama Sastry better known as Pratibha Sastry. Sastry has seen the English film entitled A Prince Who Was a Thief in Mount Road. Balaramaiah prepared a story to suit local audience. The story was given to Malladi Ramakrishna Sastry, who wrote the screenplay, dialogues and lyrics for the film. ........

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