Swarnakamalam
Swarnakamalam English The Golden Lotus is a 1988 Telugu dance film, written and directed by K. Viswanath. The film starred Venkatesh, Bhanupriya in the lead roles and music composed by Ilayaraja. The song sequences demanded locations that were spread across Puri, the Himalayas, the Valley of Flowers National Park, the stupa at Dhauli Odisha, and Visakhapatnam.
Meenakshi Bhanupriya and Savitri Devilalita are daughters of a Kuchipudi doyen, Seshendra Shastry. While a highly accomplished artiste in his field, Seshendra Shastry is not welloff and has not been able to afford his daughters a conventional education. Both of them have achieved a respectable degree of proficiency Savitri in Carnatic classical music and Meenakshi in classical dance.Savitri is grateful for her knowledge and interest and looks forward to a life that will require her to hone her skills in the same art. Meenakshi, on the other hand, is bitter about the lack of opportunity that she feels in the field of classical dance in India and resolves to make a simpler and more pleasurable life for herself as soon as possible, while confiding her ambitions only to her sister. ........
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