Prema Pusthakam

<p>Sreekar and Charitra are college students. They are expelled from their college. They find themselves homeless and unemployed. They decide to marry. On the eve of the marriage, a rich old man tries to disrobe Charitra with the intention of raping her. Charitra prevents him from disrobing and raping her. She stabs him to death with a thick piece of glass. The next day, she marries Sreekar. Seconds after the wedding, police enter the marriage hall and arrest Charitra on charges of murdering the old man. Even after this incident, Sreekar neither hates her nor does he abandon her. The court finds Charitra guilty of murder and sentences her. The film was written by Gollapudi Srinivas, son of noted director , on the basis of the 1989 film . In early 1992 and was signed on to feature in the lead role. Shooting for the film began on 2 August 1992. However, during the ninth day of the shoot, the debutant director died after succumbing to injuries suffered during a water accident on sets in , . The death led to creation of the , with the director’s father Gollapudi Maruthi Rao giving the award to promising debutant directors to continue his son’s legacy. The film was duly delayed and later completed by Srinivas’s father and only released in 1993. The songs were composed by . The film has been described by commentators as an “eminently forgettable” debut for , due to the problems faced during production. The film was reviewed by . It was later dubbed and released in as in 1997. A reviewer of the dubbed version wrote “The screenplay could have been better as the story flow seems to be discontinuous at times. In spite of this, the director has shown some flashes of talent in some scenes, especially scenes involving Ajit and Kanchan”.</p>