Missamma - Telugu - 1955 - NTR, Savitri, Jamuna

Missamma - Telugu, 1955 Director: L.V. Prasad Music Director: Saluri Rajeswara Rao Lyrics: Pingali Nagendra Rao, Thyagaraja Kruthi Playback: Raja A.M., Leela P., Ghantasala Venkateswara Rao, P. Susheela, Relangi Venkatramaiah Cast: N.T. Rama Rao ... M. T. Rao (as Taraka Rama Rao Nandamuri) Savitri ... Mary / Mahalakshmi Akkineni Nageshwara Rao ... A.K. Raju S.V. Ranga Rao ... Gopalam Relangi Venkatramaiah ... Devayya Jamuna ... Sita Rushyendramani ... Gopalam's wife Allu Ramalingaiah ... Musali Panthulu Ramana Reddy ... David Doraiswamy ... Mary Pempudu thandri Gummadi ... Employer (guest role) English subtitles included. The Encyclopedia of Indian Cinema says this about Missamma: Hit comedy about a village zamindar (Ranga Rao) who advertises for a married couple to run a school set up in memory of his long-lost daughter. The unemployed Rao (NTR) and Mary (Savitri) pretend to be married to get the job. Annoyed by Rao’s interest in the zamindar’s other daughter (Jamuna in her debut), Mary starts teaching music to an amateur detective and the zamindar’s future son-in-law (Nageshwara Rao). Mary feigns pregnancy while the zamindar tries to convert her to Hinduism. Eventually Mary turns out to be the zamindar’s lost daughter and she marries Rao. The Ghantasala/P. Susheela duet Varaya vennilave was especially popular. The film adapts Jyotish Bannerjee’s classic Bengali comedy Manmoyee Girls’ School (1935). Prasad remade his own version at the AVM Studio in Hindi as Miss Mary (1957) starring Meena Kumari. Anant Mane also did a Marathiversion of the story, Jhakli Mooth (1957). This film is utterly charming. If you don't understand Telugu (as I don't), then watch it with the English subtitles turned on. The 1957 Hindi remake - Miss Mary - is found in this channel here:    • Miss Mary -  Meena Kumari, Gemini Ganeshan   Here's a playlist of the 13 songs in the film:    • Missamma - Telugu - 1955 - All Songs   TOOLS USED FOR THE FILM: AviSynth for the video editing Audacity for the audio work. Aegisub and Subtitle Edit for the subtitles COPYRIGHT INFORMATION: The Indian copyright law: http://copyright.gov.in/Documents/Cop... INDIAN COPYRIGHT ACT, 1957 CHAPTER I Preliminary (f) "cinematograph film" means any work of visual recording on any medium produced through a process from which a moving image may be produced by any means and includes a sound recording accompanying such visual recording and cinematograph shall be construed as including any work produced by any process analogous to cinematography including video films.” "CHAPTER V Term of Copyright 26.Term of copyright in cinematograph films. In the case of a cinematograph film, copyright shall subsist until sixty years from the beginning of the calendar year next following the year in which the film is published." My words: Indian film copyright (including video, dialog, music, lyrics, songs) lasts for sixty years and any film and its songs released more than sixty years ago is in the public domain. No extensions, no renewals, no exceptions. This film is no longer protected by copyright.