Preminchi Choodu


Preminchi Choodu is a 1965 Telugu comedy film, produced by V. Venkateswarlu under the Padmasri Pictures banner and directed by P. Pullaiah. It stars Akkineni Nageswara Rao, Jaggaiah, Rajasree, Kanchana with music composed by Master Venu. The film is a remake of the Tamil movie Kaadhalikka Neramillai which was remade in Hindi as Pyar Kiye Jaa, in Kannada as Preethi Madu Thamashe Nodu and in Marathi as Dhoom Dhadaka.

Plot

Buchabbai the proprietor of an estate, has two daughters Kanchanamala & Ratnamala and a son Varahala Raju, whose life ambition to direct a movie. In the city, Kanchanamala loves a handsome guy Srinivasa Rao / Vasu, son of a big contractor Subbarayudu. After completing their studies Kanchana & Ratna returns back when they have a petty quarrel with a young guy Ranga Rao, who works as an assistant manager in their estate. So, they influence Buchabbai to terminate him from the service. Distressed, Ranga starts a strike in front of Buchabbai's bungalow in a tent. After a few comic scenes, Ranga & Ratna fall in love when Ranga learns that Buchabbai wants to make a rich alliance to his daughters whereas he is an ordinary school teacher's son. Therefore, Ranga plots, call his best friend who is none other than Vasu and poses him as his father Srinivasa Bhupathi a multi-millionaire, in disguise. Now they make Buchabbai plead for the marriage. After some time, Ranga & Vasu reveal the truth before the girls when they too join the play. Parallelly, a sidetrack runs, Varahala Raju always teases & suffers his father to finance his film, he selects their manager Yedukondalu's daughter Meenakshi as the heroine and trains her when they love each other. Meanwhile, Subbarayudu lands at Buchabbai's estate, surprisingly, they are childhood friends and in the conversation, they fix the alliance of Vasu & Kanchana. Here Vasu gets shocked looking at his father but feels happy knowing that his match has fixed with Kanchana. But unfortunately, once, Subbarayadu accidentally gets acquaintance with Ranga's father when he finds out the reality, informs Buchabbai, both of them give a Police complaint and also give instructions to Ratna & Kanchana to be careful but they make known to their fiancée. Immediately, Ranga plans by making everyone believe that he is two and confuses them. Soon, Buchabbai & Subbarayadu rushes to get back the complaint but by the time, it is too late and Ranga & Vasu get arrested. There onwards, the story talks so many humorous twists & turns when Ranga & Vasu fool's Buchabbai and succeeds in marrying their love interests.

Cast

Music composed by Master Venu. Pullaiah insisted Master Venu to retain the tunes from the original film in Telugu, which Venu was not okay with it. He expressed his concern to Pullaiah's wife Santhakumari who encouraged him having faith in talent. Except for the song "Vennela Ray", other songs were retained from the original. "Vennela Ray" was the replacement for the song "Naalam Naalam". This tune was retained despite Pullaiah expressing his anger for using a new tune.
S. No.Song TitleLyricsSingerslength
1"Medameeda Meda Katti"Mullapudi VenkataramanaP. B. Srinivas5:49
2"Andale Thongi Choose"DasaradhiP. Susheela, L. R. Eswari, Basaveshwari4:09
3"Dorikeru Doragaru"C. Narayana ReddyGhantasala, P. Susheela3:04
4"Kalakalalade Kannulu"ArudraL. R. Eswari, M. S. Raju3:39
5"Adi Oka Idile"AathreyaP. B. Srinivas, P. Susheela5:04
6"Mee Andala Chetulu"ArudraP. B. Srinivas4:54
7"Preminchi Choodu Pilla"AathreyaGhantasala4:07
8"Vennela Reyi"DasaradhiP. B. Srinivas, P. Susheela3:34

Production

The film was a remake of Tamil film Kadhalikka Neramillai, Rajashree reprised her role from the original.