Monagallaku Monagadu

<p>Ramesh, an engineer, impresses Madhava Rao, a businessman, with his plan to build a factory. Madhava Rao’s daughter Geetha falls in love with Ramesh. Partners in crime Bhujangam and Mala loot a bank. With some of the looted money, Mala travels in a bus in which Ramesh also happens to be seated. Their suitcases get interchanged, and Ramesh, now suspected of committing the bank robbery, is arrested. To avoid his own arrest, the actual culprit, Bhujangam hires Kathula Rathaiah, an assassin, to kill Ramesh. Geetha had earlier saved Rathaiah, who has since considered her his sister. After learning of her love for Ramesh, he promises to help Ramesh to clear his name. After a few disguises by both Ramesh and Rathaiah and many more incidents, Bhujangam and Mala are brought to justice. After the commercial success of , the remake of the film (1963), its producer Rama Sundaram decided to remake the film in under the same banner, . S. D. Lal was signed on to direct the remake, titled , and his brother S. S. Lal was signed as cinematographer, while Pinisetty wrote the dialogues. L. Balu worked as editor. , who made a guest appearance as a dancer in , was chosen to reprise the role in . The soundtrack was composed by . The song “Nenunnadi Neelone” is based on “Sau Baar Janam Lenge” from . was released on 14 January 1966, and became a commercial success.</p>