Swarna Manjari

Swarna Manjari
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Vedantam Raghavaiah
Produced by	P. Adinarayana Rao
Written by	Malladi Ramakrishna Sastry (dialogues)
Screenplay by	Vedantam Raghavaiah
Story by	Aditya Malladi Ramakrishna Sastry
Starring	N. T. Rama Rao Anjali Devi
Music by	P. Adinarayana Rao
Cinematography	Mahlee Irani Aadi Irani
Edited by	N. S. Prakasham
Production company	Anjali Pictures[1]
Release date	10 August 1962 (1962-08-10) [2]
Running time	156 mins
Country	India
Language	Telugu

Swarna Manjari is a 1962 Telugu, swashbuckling adventure fantasy film, produced by P. Adinarayana Rao under the Anjali Pictures banner^[3] and directed by Vedantam Raghavaiah.^[4] It stars N. T. Rama Rao and Anjali Devi in the lead roles,^[5] with music composed by P. Adinarayana Rao.^[6][7] Tamil it is Mangaiyar Ullam Mangatha Selvam

Plot

Once upon a time in a kingdom there lived a Prince Chandra Bhanu (N. T. Rama Rao). His teacher Mahendra Shakti (Rajanala) is a crooked person who has two faces, one as Rajaguru and another as a wizard in disguise. Swarna Manjari (Anjali), renowned dancer trained by her father Varma (Chittor V. Nagaiah) gives a dance performance on the birthday celebrations of the Prince and wins his heart, both of them start liking each other, while Rajaguru is also attracted towards Swarna Manjari. Chandra Bhanu orders to honor them in the appropriate mode, but Rajaguru necks them out. After that, Mahendra Shakthi plans to sacrifice Swarna Manjari to the goddess to acquire supernatural powers, so, he kidnaps her and tries to molest her, but she escapes. Meanwhile, Chandra Bhanu, with his friend Srimukha (Padmanabham) starts traveling around the country before the coronation. On the way, he comes to know about Swarna through her father, then he takes a vow that he will definitely protect Swarna and make her as his queen. In Search of Swarna, Chandra Bhanu and Srimukha reach a mysterious place where a musical tree carries them to a lake. A Mermaid named Yamini (Jayanthi) takes Chandra into the water and tries to attract him, but in vain.

On the bank of the lake, Srimukha is underwater in the control of a creeper woman named Latha (Meena Kumari) and they fall in love. After escaping from Mahendra Shakti, Swarna reaches this place and knows what happened, to rescue Chandra she goes underwater and prays to Lord Jalakanteshwara Swamy (Ramakrishna). With his blessing, she could rescue Chandra, but a mermaid follows them and cuts her head and hands and ask her to live like that, Chandra again goes to the lake and he pleads to the mermaid to give life to Swarna. She agrees with the promise that he should come back to her by full moon day, for which he agrees. Swarna gets her head and body, but without hands. In spite, Chandra takes her to his kingdom and marries her. On the full moon day, the mermaid takes away Chandra. Swarna gives birth to a baby boy. Raju Guru writes a letter like Chandra blaming character of Swarna and throws her out of the kingdom with the child. In the forest, both mother and child got separated. The child reaches to Swarna's father Varma and he recognizes the boy by the locket on his neck. There, the Mermaid asks Chandra to do some adventurous deeds so that she will get rid of her curses. Chandra agrees and succeeds, then she relieves him. Chandra gets back to his kingdom comes to regarding the letter, where Rajaguru kidnaps him and keeps him in his den. Meanwhile, in search of the child, Swarna saves Nagendra, King of snakes and with his boon, she gets back her hands. Finally, Swarna, Srimukha, Latha and Varma along with the child reaches to Rajaguru's den, Chandra stamps out Mahendra Shakti and the movie ends on a happy note.

Cast

• N. T. Rama Rao as Chandra Bhanu
• Anjali Devi as Swarna Manjari
• Rajanala as Mahendra Shakti
• Chittoor V. Nagaiah as Varma
• Ramakrishna as Lord Jalakanteshwara Swamy
• Padmanabham as Srimukhudu
• Peketi Sivaram as Danka
• Allu Ramalingaiah as Damaru
• Kannamba as Raja Maata Vasundhara Devi
• Jayanthi as Yamini
• Meena Kumari as Latha

Crew

• Art: Vaali, A. K. Shekar
• Choreography: Vempati, Heeralal
• Stills: Satyam
• Dialogues: Malladi Ramakrishna Sastry
• Lyrics: Samudrala Sr
• Playback: Ghantasala, P. Susheela, S. Janaki
• Story: Aditya, Malladi Ramakrishna Sastry
• Editing: N. S. Prakasam
• Cinematography: Mahlee Irani, Aadi Irani
• Presenter: Anjali Devi
• Music - Producer: P. Adinarayana Rao
• Screenplay - Direction: Vedantam Raghavaiah
• Banner: Anjali Pictures
• Release Date: 10 August 1962

Soundtrack

Music composed by P. Adinarayana Rao. Lyrics were written by Samudrala Sr. Music released by Audio Company.

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