With scenes like Hema seeing her engagement bangles as handcuffs, and Hema cleaning the front yard at dawn while raaga bhoopaala plays on flute, this film is true poetry on celluloid as each scene is carefully crafted to make it authentic and appealing. With memorable dialogues between Somayajulu and Allu Ramalingayya, and all through the film, Jandhyala shines as a writer even those this film has very few dialogues like Viswanath-Jandhayala combination Sankaraabharanam.įlute by Nanjappa is a major plus for the film, particularly highlighting scenes such as the one in which Hema ties the toy cradle to the tree while DOlaayaam… plays on the flute.

The film is one of the very best ones for Allu Ramalingayya he had wonderful dialogues in the film about caste and religion. Today’s popular character artiste Sivaparvathi plays a minuscule role as sixth daughter of Allu Ramalingayya. Master Ravishankar who also appears in the song – the boy who mediates between Hema and Haribabu – is Dialogue King Saikumar’s brother, and is a leading dubbing artiste (better known as “Bommali” Ravishankar after the stupendous success of Arundhati) and character artiste today. Jitmohan Mitra and his daughter Vamsi Krishna (a.k.a Lalita Subbalakshmi) appear in the song gOvullu tellana… Lalita Subbalakshmi, who completed her Masters program in Human Resources, now lives in Philadelphia, USA with her family. While Ravikanth later acted in Sobhan Babu-Vijayashanti starrer Devaalayam, Sabita did not act in any other movies after Saptapadi. The film marked the debut of Ravikanth and Sabita Girish acted in Nelavanka and Subhalekha earlier. Real life brothers Somayajulu and Ramana Murthy act as father and son in this film. Though we observe the love between Haribabu and Hema, the film didn’t have a single word to propose love, and they also don’t touch each other (except in a scene where Haribabu washes Hema’s anklets). The film’s heroine probably had three or four dialogues in the whole film, it seemed. Subbulakshmi’s “vEnkaTESwara suprabhaatam” while showing a sunrise on the river Krishna, shot beautifully by cameraman Kastoori.

When I saw the film on TV for the first time, I was bowled over the photography, the music, and the narration of the film.

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