Iddaru Mitrulu (1961 film)

The film begins on two strangers Ajay & Vijay (both Akkineni Nageswara Rao) who lookalike meets in an accident and start sharing their miseries. Ajay is a multi-millionaire, studying abroad and returns back knowing regarding his father's death. During that plight, his malevolent & sly manager Bhanoji Rao (Gummadi) who counterfeits as a loyalist, throws him into huge debts to usurp his wealth. On the other side, Vijay is a graduate belongs to a poor family, suffering from unemployment, his sister Meena (Sarada) is discarded by her in-laws for dowry and his innocent devotional father Ramadasu (Ramana Reddy) does not support them. Right now, both of them decides to exchange places for a year with a mutual agreement. Ajay is very happy with affection & family bondage at Vijay's place. But Vijay is caught by Ajay's blind paternal aunt (G. Varalakshmi) through her senses and rages on Vijay. However, after knowing the reality from Ajay she too aids them. There onwards, Vijay foils Bhanoji Rao's plots when he also finds out he has the jewelry of Ajay's mother and also created a duplicate legitimate that Ajay has to compulsorily marry his only daughter Sarala (Raja Sulochana). To get rid off these puzzling situations and expose the falsity of Bhanoji Rao Vijay moves close with Sarala but after understanding her virtue he truly falls for her. Parallelly, Ajay joins as a mechanic for livelihood and falls in love with colleague Prakash's (Nanduri Muralikrishna) sister Padma (E. V. Saroja).

Moreover, Ajay could not witnesses the agony of Meena, so, he threatens his coward brother-in-law Bujji (Padmanabham) to turn back his wife. Terror-stricken Bujji secretly visits his in-law's without knowledge of his avaricious father Parandhamaiah (Relangi). After some time Meena becomes pregnant when neighbors heckle and suspect her chastity. So, Ajay immediately meets Parandhamaiah but he refuses to accept Meena until Vijay pays the dowry amount. To make it decisive Ajay approaches Vijay, unfortunately by the time, Vijay leaves to a picnic with Sarala and breaks out the mystery behind the stolen treasure. Here helpless Ajay forges his own signature, draws the required amount, sends Meena to her in-law's house but he was caught and taken into custody. Meanwhile, Bhanoji Rao learns about the agreement between Ajay & Vijay so, he ploys to hasten the marriage of Sarala with Vijay to gain authority over Ajay's Property. Subsequently, Vijay astutely gives a check to Bhanoji Rao and confesses him. At last, Vijay is about to leave the house when Ajay stops him and shares half of his property with him. Finally, the movie ends on a happy note with the marriages of Ajay with Padma and Vijay with Sarala.

• Akkineni Nageswara Rao as Ajay Babu & Vijay Kumar (Dual role)
• Raja Sulochana as Sarala
• E. V. Saroja as Padma
• Relangi as Parandhamaiah
• Ramana Reddy as Ramadasu
• Gummadi as Bhanoji Rao
• Padmanabham as Bujji
• Allu Ramalingaiah as Seshavataram
• Suryakantham as Suramma
• G. Varalakshmi as Ajay's aunt
• Sharada as Meena

• Art: G. V. Subba Rao
• Choreography: Heeralal, Pasumarthi Krishna Murthy
• Dialogues: Korrapati Gangadhara Rao
• Lyrics: Sri Sri, Aarudhra, Kosaraju, Dasarathi
• Playback: Ghantasala, P. Susheela, P. B. Sreenivas, Madhavapeddi Satyam
• Music: Saluri Rajeswara Rao
• Cinematography: P. S. Selvaraj
• Editing: M. S. Mani
• Associate Director: K. Viswanath
• Producer: D. Madhusudhana Rao
• Screenplay - Director: Adurthi Subba Rao
• Banner: Annapurna Pictures
• Release Date: 29 December 1961

Music composed by Saluri Rajeswara Rao. All songs are blockbusters. Music released on Audio Company.

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