Chitti Tammudu

Chitti Tammudu
Directed by	K. B. Tilak
Produced by	Jetti Chandrasekhara Reddy Mungamuri Brothers
Written by	Kondepudi Laxminarayana (story and dialogues) Arudra (lyrics)
Starring	Master Venkata Ramana Kanta Rao Rajasulochana Jaggayya Devika
Music by	Pendyala Nageswara Rao
Cinematography	Laxman Gore
Editing by	C.H. Venkateswara Rao
Distributed by	Poorna Pictures
Release date(s)	1962
Country	India
Language	Telugu

Chitti Tammudu (Telugu: చిట్టి తమ్ముడు) is a 1962 Telugu Drama film directed by K. B. Tilak.

The film is based on the English novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens.

The plot

The story is about the problems faced by children in Orphanages, irregularities by the management and the related consequences.

Ramu (Jaggayya) and Subhadra (Devika) loves each other. Ramu urgently left to Kashmir. He returns home to know that his beloved Subhadra was pregnant at that time. Her father died of that insult. She delivers a boy in a mission hospital and dies. The boy was admitted in an orphanage and named Chiranjeevi. Hostel warden Tayaramma (Suryakantam) feeds them with insufficient food and they were starving.

Ramu has an elder sister Seetha (Sandhya) and younger brother Srihari (Kanta Rao). Seetha is wife of a Lawyer (Ramana Reddy). Ramu dies of chronic cough and mental agony leaving the property in charge of his brother-in-law.

Cast

Actor / Actress	Character
Kanta Rao	Srihari, younger brother of Ramu
Rajasulochana
Master Venkata Ramana	Chiranjeevi, son of Ramu
Suryakantham	Tayaramma, Hostel warden
Jaggayya	Ramu
Devika	Subhadra, wife of Ramu
Rajanala Kaleswara Rao
C. S. R. Anjaneyulu	Ansari
Ramana Reddy	Lawyer
Sandhya	Seeta, wife of Lawyer
Balakrishna
Ramakrishna
Rajababu
K. V. S. Sharma
Chadalavada Kutumba Rao

Soundtrack

There are about 7 songs in the film.^[1]

• Adagali Adagali Adigedevaro Telali (Singers: P. Susheela, S. Janaki and group)
• Ayyo Rama Ayyo Rama Lamba Rasta (Singers: Madhavapeddi Satyam and Swarnalatha)
• Dikkuleni Vaariki Devude Dikku (Singer: P. Susheela)
• Maya Bazar Lokam Samiranga (Singer: P. Susheela)
• Merupu Merisindoyi Mava (Singer: P. Susheela)
• Neevu Nenu Jabili Muvvuramu Unnamuga (Singers: P. Susheela and Ghantasala Venkateswara Rao; Cast: Devika and Jaggayya)
• Yesko Naa Raja (Singers: P. Susheela and Maddali)

References

1. ^ Lyrical details of Chitti Tammudu film at Ghantasala Galamrutamu.

External Links

• Watch the complete Chitti Tammudu movie at Teluguone.com