Premanagar or Prema Nagar (Telugu

Telugu language

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: ప్రేమనగర్) is a 1971 Tollywood blockbuster

Blockbuster

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, Drama film

Drama film

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 produced by D. Ramanaidu

D. Ramanaidu

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 and directed by K. S. Prakash Rao. The story is based on the Prema Nagar novel

Novel

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 written by Koduri Kausalya Devi. The film's cast includes Akkineni Nageswara Rao

Akkineni Nageswara Rao

Akkineni Nageswara Rao , also known as ANR, is a Telugu cinema actor from Gudivada, Andhra Pradesh. Nageswara Rao has worked in several genres of films in his 70-year acting career, including mythological, social, and drama films...

, Vanisree, 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...

, and Kaikala Satyanarayana

Kaikala Satyanarayana

Kaikala Satyanarayana , a versatile Telugu cine actor, was born on 25 July 1935 to Kaikala Laxmi Narayana couple at Kautaram village in Krishna district. Having completed his primary and intermediate education in Gudivada and Vijayawada, Satyanarayana graduated from Gudivada College...

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The producer D. Ramanaidu

D. Ramanaidu

Daggubati Ramanaidu is an Indian movie producer. In 2010, He was conferred with the Dadasaheb Phalke Award, India's highest award in cinema by the Government of India for lifetime contribution to Indian cinema. The Guinness Book of Records lists him as the most prolific producer with 130 films...

 made the same films in three languages. Tamil remake of this film was Vasantha Maligai

Vasantha Maligai

Vasantha Maligai is a 1972 Tamil film, directed by K.S. Prakash Rao. It is a remake of the hit Telugu film, Prem Nagar. It ran for nearly 750 days in the theatres and Sivaji Ganesan and Vanisri were both praised well for their acting. The producer D. Ramanaidu made the same films in three languages...

 released in 1972 and in Hindi was made as Prem Nagar released in 1974. In Tamil the pair was played by Sivaji Ganesan

Sivaji Ganesan

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 and Vanisri

Vanisri

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 as well and in Hindi by Rajesh Khanna

Rajesh Khanna

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 and Hema Malini

Hema Malini

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. The film completed 40 years of its release.

Story

Kalyan (ANR), the second son of a wealthy zamindar family, is a happy-go-lucky guy who enjoys his life with wine and women. He meets Latha (Vanisree) who works as an air hostess and runs her family. She later joins as a secretary to Kalyan and changes him to a nice human being. When Kalyan falls in love with her, his mother does not like a middle-class girl to be her daughter-in-law, which makes Latha to move away from Kalyan. How the lovers get united in the end is the rest of the interesting story.

Songs

All the lyrics are written by Acharya Aathreya

Aathreya

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