Poongothai

<p>The film begins at a hill station, where a benevolent florist girl, Lakshmi, resides with her disabled father, Rangaiah. Chandram is the son of an industrialist who died of bankruptcy. Realizing this, Chandram’s friend Raghu entrusts his wife Susheela, and son Anand to him before breathing his last. Thus, to oversee them, he strives hard and sickens. At the suggestion of his Doctor, Chandram goes to to unwind. He endears Lakshmi’s pure soul therein, and the two are covertly knit in the temple. Next, Lakshmi conceives and informs Rangaiah about her splice with a Then, he rebukes and coerces Lakshmi to get him. By hard luck, Chandram must suddenly pack up without notifying Lakshmi. It throws her into severe misery and leads to Rangaiah’s death. Now, Lakshmi delivers a baby girl, Taara, facing societal music. Plus, Rajulu, a malice who lusts for her, sets fire to her house and is declared dead. However, two bangle sellers, Devaiah & Bapaiah, shield her, and she stays stealthily at the hilltop. After setting everything up, Chandram rushes and gets devastated, conscious of Lakshmi’s demise and back. Years roll by, and Lakshmi rears Taara to tunes of affection. Besides, Anand graduates and Susheela forwards him to to accomplish her vow, where the romantic novel restarts again between Anand & Taara. Hearing it, Lakshmi is aghast and aims to guard her kid from these fake hearts of The rest of the story is about what happens. After splitting out from Aswini Pictures, Anjali Devi and her husband Adinarayana Rao formed their own production house and named it Anjali Pictures. They decided to remake , a 1950 Hindi film directed by Satish Nigam and bought the rights. They decided to shoot the film in two languages—Telugu and Tamil, and appointed as the director. Prasad, however, did not make a direct copy of the Hindi original; he made subtle changes to the screenplay to suit the audience. The producers were looking for a new actor to play the second lead role. P. A. Perumal Chettiar, a leading film distributor suggested to Anjali Devi and her husband. Ganesan, who was a prominent theatre artist acquired the prefix “Sivaji” after he played in a stage play. Ganesan was immediately chosen for the role and had a screen test for the first time. It was during this time that was made. Perumal, the film’s producer made a request to Anjali Devi that be released before . Anjali and Rao, the producers agreed and hence became Ganesan’s first released film. wrote the dialogues while and wrote the lyrics for the Tamil film . Music composed by . Lyrics were written by Malladi Venkata Krishna Sharma. One song , was written by and all others were penned by . The film released on 14 January 1953. Both the versions did well in the run. The Tamil version received positive response from the critics. In November 2013, M. L. Narasimham of noted that the film would be “remembered as the launch pad for Sivaji Ganesan”. Film critic and Telugu film director in his described, “Paradesi is about urbanites” and not the conventional village-based subject. He also noted that the screenplay was very fast.</p>