Paradesi (1953 film)

Paradesi in Telugu or Poongothai in Tamil is a 1953 bilingual film directed by L. V. Prasad. A remake of the 1950 Hindi film Raj Rani, Paradesi was jointly produced by Anjali Devi and her husband P. Adinarayana Rao under the newly formed banner Anjali Pictures. The film starred Akkineni Nageswara Rao and Anjali Devi in the lead. It launched the career of Sivaji Ganesan, who along with S. V. Ranga Rao, Pandari Bai and Vasantha played a prominent role. The film deals with incest relationship.

The films cinematography was handled by Kamal Ghosh. His idea to shoot a song sequence in slow motion was highly praised. The equipment to capture the sequence was lent by V. Shantaram. Dance choreography and film score were performed by Vedantam Raghavaiah and Adinarayana Rao respectively. The film had four different people T.V.S. Sarma, Vali, Thota Venkateswara Rao and A.K. Sekhar to look after the art direction.The film released on released onJanuary 1953. Both the versions did well in the run. The Tamil version Poongodhai received positive response from the critics. In November 2013, M. L. Narasimhan of The Hindu noted that the film would be remembered as the launch pad for Sivaji Ganesan. Film critic and Telugu film director K. N. T. Sastry in his L.V. Prasad a monograph described, Paradesi is about urbanits and not the conventional villagebased subject. He also noted that the screenplay was very fast. ........

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