Nelavanka is a 1983 Telugu film directed by Jandhyala.

Story

Srirama Raju (Gummadi) is the zamindar of the village. Raheem (J.V. Somayajulu), his classmate and a friend, also works as his carriage-driver. The zamindar has two daughters Savitri (Rajyalakshmi) and Lalitha (Tulasi) and a son Ravi (Eswara Rao). Savitri is a born mute, while Tulasi goes to college. Tulasi meets Kiran (Kiran) who traps her in the name of love and later marries Savitri for money. Raheem's son Saleem (Rajesh) rescues Lalitha from Kiran. A couple of villagers who had grudges on Raheem create Hindu-Muslim clashes between the otherwise peaceful villages. How all issues were resolved and what price they had to pay to regain peace in the village as well as in their lives forms the rest of the story.

Cast

Actor	Character
Gummadi Venkateswara Rao Gummadi Venkateswara Rao Gummadi Venkateswara Rao popularly known as Gummadi was a popular Telugu film character actor. Though he began to act in films much later than famous artistes like N.T.Rama Rao and Akkineni Nageswara Rao he had through the course of his career acquired a niche for himself vis a vis the character...	Srirama Raju
J. V. Somayajulu J. V. Somayajulu J. V. Somayajulu was an Indian theatre and film actor. His most notable role was as Sankar Sastry in the Telugu movie Shankarabharanam he has won Filmfare Best Actor Award ....	Raheem
Rajesh (debut)	Saleem
Kiran (debut)	Kiran
Tulasi	Lalita
Rajyalakshmi	Savitri
Master Ali	Ali
Muddali Susheela	Rameswari
C. Rammohana Rao	Brother of Srirama Raju
K. Sambasiva Rao	Servant Seshayya
Prameela Rani	Srirama Raju's wife
Potti Prasad	Gurrala Guravayya
Eswara Rao	Ravi
Sutti Velu	Ayurveda doctor Dongre Sastry
Sutti Veerabhadra Rao	Dongre Sastry's compounder
Gangarathnam	Raheem's mother
Sakshi Ranga Rao Sakshi Ranga Rao Sakshi Ranga Rao was a Character actor in Theater arts and South Indian Cinema.He was born to Lakshmi Narayana and Ranganayakamma as Rangavajhula Ranga Rao of Kondiparru village near Gudivada. He began his career as a stenographer in Andhra University, Visakhapatnam. He showed passion for theater...

Crew

• Producer: A.S. Anjaneyulu, M. Narasimha Rao
• Story, Screenplay and Direction: Jandhyala
  Jandhyala
  Jandhyala Veera Venkata Durga Siva Subramanya Sastry was an Indian film Screenwriter, Director and Actor from Telugu Cinema. He is revered as a Comic genius and has directed several successful comedy movies in Telugu...
  
  
• Co-Director: U.V. Pani
• Associate Directors: E.V.V. Satyanarayana, B.S. Nishtala
• Assistant Directors: Battula Ramakrishna, J. Pullarao
• Editing: Gautham Raju
• Assistant Editor: Mutyala Naani
• Art: Thota Tarani
• Lyrics: Indraganti Srikantha Sarma, Udaybhaskar Rao
• Playback Singers: S.P. Balasubrahmanyam, S. Janaki
  S. Janaki
  S. Janaki is an Indian female playback singer. Renowned for her voice modulation abilities, she has sung in many Indian languages, most frequently in Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, and Hindi. Throughout a career spanning more than five decades, she has won four National Film Awards and 35...
  
  , Prakash Rao, Jitmoham Mitra, Ramola
• Camera: S. Gopala Reddy
• Associate Cameraman: M.V. Raghu
• Assistant Cameramen: Diwakar, Srinivas Reddy
• Music Director: Ramesh Naidu
  Ramesh Naidu
  Pasupuleti Ramesh Naidu was a South Indian music director. His major works were in Telugu films in the 1970s and 1980s. The music he did for the film Megha Sandesham is consideredas his best score.-Biography:...
  
  

Lyrics

• enta cheppinaa vinavEmiraa

(Playback singers: Ramola , Jitmohan Mitra, Prakash Rao)

• gO gummaDi gO gummaDi

(Playback singers: S. P. Balasubrahmanyam

S. P. Balasubrahmanyam

Sripathi Panditaradhyula Balasubrahmanyam is a multilingual Indian playback singer, actor, music director, voice actor and a film producer. He is referred to as S. P. B. or Balu by the media. He has won the National Film Award for Best Male Playback Singer six times closely following K. J. Yesudas...

, S. Janaki

S. Janaki

S. Janaki is an Indian female playback singer. Renowned for her voice modulation abilities, she has sung in many Indian languages, most frequently in Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, and Hindi. Throughout a career spanning more than five decades, she has won four National Film Awards and 35...

, Jitmohan Mitra)

• mehfil mE aaj dhoom uThii

(Playback singers: S. Janaki, S.P. Balasubrahmanyam)

• sogasari bomma kOyilallO

(Playback singer: S.P. Balasubrahmanyam)

• kanubommala pallakilOna kanne siggu vadhuvayindi

(Playback singers: S.P. Balasubrahmanyam, S. Janaki)

• Edi matam, Edi hitam ?

(Playback singer: S.P. Balasubrahmanyam)

• sutti Song

(Playback singer: S.P. Balasubrahmanyam, Prakash Rao)

External links

• Nalavanka film at IMDb.
• Nelavanka film review at Telugu Cinema.com