Seetamalakshmi is a 1978 Telugu film written and directed by K. Viswanath. Talluri Rameswari won Nandi Award  in her debut film. It is made into Hindi as Sitara in 1980 starring Mithun Chakraborty

Mithun Chakraborty

Mithun Chakraborty is an Indian film actor, social activist, and entrepreneur, who has won three National Film Awards. He made his acting debut with the arthouse drama Mrigaya , for which he won his first National Film Award for Best Actor....

 and Zarina Wahab

Zarina Wahab

Zarina Wahab is an Indian actress and former model, who was critically acclaimed for starring roles, such as in Chit Chor and Gopal Krishna in the 1970s.-Early life:...

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The plot

Kondayya (Chandramohan) and Seetalu (Rameshwari) works in a touring theatre in a village Kurabalakota

Kurabalakota

Kurabalakota is a village and a Mandal in Chittoor district in the state of Andhra Pradesh in India. -Geography:Kurabalakota is located at . It has an average elevation of 673 meters .main productions tamarind,tamato,groundnuts and silk....

. They watch movies played there daily and loves each other. They learn to recite the film dialogues and songs. A film producer who comes to the village and makes a false promise to make Seetalu as heroine in the films. Seetalu goes to Hyderabad along with Kondayya. After facing many difficulties, with the help of painter Sridhar, Seetalu finally becomes a heroine. Her success brings her relatives for want of her money. Kondayya slowly realizes that he cannot fit in that cine urban culture. He returns to the village. How the young lovers unite is the rest of the drama.

Cast

• Talluri Rameshwari as Seetalu
• Chandra Mohan as Kondayya
• Sridhar
• Vankayala Satyanarayana as Railway Station Master
• Eashwara Rao
• Dubbing Janaki
• Master Tulasiram as Pallavi
• Master Hari
• Pallavi
• P. L. Narayana
  P. L. Narayana
  P. L. Narayana or P. Lakshmi Narayana is a famous South Indian actor and playwright. He has acted in many character roles particularly those of downtrodden people and those in misery....
  
  
• 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

• Director: K. Vishwanath
• Assistant Director: Nanduri Vijay
• Producers: Murari - Naidu
• Production Company : Yuva Chitra
• Story: K. Vishwanath
• Dialogues: 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...
  
  
• Screenplay: K. Vishwanath, Jandhyala and K. Murari
• Art Director: Thota Tharani
• Director of Photography: U. Rajagopal
• Film Editing : G. G. Krishna Rao
• Music Director: K. V. Mahadevan
  K. V. Mahadevan
  Krishnankoil Venkatachalam Mahadevan was a South Indian music composer.-Career:K.V.Mahadevan was born in Tamil Iyer family in 1918 in Krishnancoil, Kanyakumari district. A contemporary of M. S. Viswanathan, T. K. Ramamoorthy, KVM has scored music for over 600 films, spanning four decades, after...
  
  
• Assistant Composer: Puhalendi
• Lyrics: Devulapalli Krishnasastri
  Devulapalli Krishnasastri
  Devulapalli Venkata Krishnasastri was a Telugu poet, playwright and translator. He is famously known as Andhra Shelley.-Early life:Krishnasastri was born in East Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh, India...
  
   and Veturi Sundararama Murthy
• Playback singers: S. P. Balasubramanyam, P. Susheela
  P. Susheela
  Pulapaka Susheela is an Indian playback singer. In a career spanning more than four decades, she has recorded songs in many Indian languages including Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, Hindi, Bengali, Oriya, Sanskrit, Tulu, Badaga and Sinhalese.-Personal life:She is the daughter of Pulapaka...
  
  , G. Anand, Vani Jayaram
  Vani Jayaram
  Vani Jayaram , the unmatched nightingle of India, is a prominent Indian female playback singer. She has recorded more than 8,000 songs in 14 different languages including Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Marathi and Hindi...
  
   and Vijayalakshmi Sarma

Soundtrack

• Chalu Chalu Ee Virasalu (Lyrics: Devulapalli Krishnasastri
  Devulapalli Krishnasastri
  Devulapalli Venkata Krishnasastri was a Telugu poet, playwright and translator. He is famously known as Andhra Shelley.-Early life:Krishnasastri was born in East Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh, India...
  
  ; Singers: G. Anand and Vijayalakshmi Sarma
• Kokoroko Koruko Em Kavalo Koruko (Lyrics: Veturi Sundararama Murthy; Singers: P. Susheela
  P. Susheela
  Pulapaka Susheela is an Indian playback singer. In a career spanning more than four decades, she has recorded songs in many Indian languages including Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, Hindi, Bengali, Oriya, Sanskrit, Tulu, Badaga and Sinhalese.-Personal life:She is the daughter of Pulapaka...
  
   and S. P. Balasubramanyam)
• Maavi Chigugu Tinagane Koyila Palikena (Lyrics: Devulapalli Krishnasastri
  Devulapalli Krishnasastri
  Devulapalli Venkata Krishnasastri was a Telugu poet, playwright and translator. He is famously known as Andhra Shelley.-Early life:Krishnasastri was born in East Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh, India...
  
  ; Singers: P. Susheela and S. P. Balasubramanyam)
• Nuvvitta Nenitta Kookunte Inketta (Lyrics: Veturi Sundararama Murthy; Singers: P. Susheela and S. P. Balasubramanyam)
• Pade Pade Padutunna Padina Pate (Lyrics: Veturi Sundararama Murthy; Singer: P. Susheela; Cast: Tulasi)
• Seetalu Singaram Malakshmi Bangaram (Lyrics: Veturi Sundararama Murthy; Singers: P. Susheela and S. P. Balasubramanyam)
• Ye Pata Ne Padanu Bratuke Pataina Pasivadanu (Lyrics: Veturi Sundararama Murthy; Singers: P. Susheela, Vani Jayaram and Vijayalakshmi Sarma)

External links

• Seetamalakshmi film at IMDb.