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Buddhimantudu
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Bapu
Screenplay by	Bapu
Story by	Mullapudi Venkata Ramana
Produced by	N. S. Murthy
Starring	Akkineni Nageswara Rao Vijaya Nirmala Sobhan Babu Krishnam Raju
Cinematography	S. Venkataratnam
Edited by	A. Sanjeevi
Music by	K. V. Mahadevan
Production company	Chitra Kalpana
Release date	20 September 1969 (1969-09-20)
Running time	176 minutes
Country	India
Language	Telugu

manikyam Anna rc pur (transl. Good Boy) is a 1969 Indian Telugu-language drama film directed by Bapu. It stars Akkineni Nageswara Rao, Vijaya Nirmala, Sobhan Babu and Krishnam Raju, with music composed by K. V. Mahadevan. The film was remade in Tamil as Manidhanum Dheivamagalam (1975) and in Hindi by the same director as Paramaatma (1994).

Plot

In a village, Madhavacharya, an ardent devotee of the god Krishna, works as a temple priest, and everyone in the village admires him. Madhavaiah too gets mystic experiences whenever he views Krishna's statue whereas, his younger brother, Gopi a riff-raff who spends life as the frolic. Nevertheless, he is kind at heart and struggles for the welfare of the villagers. Seshadri, the village head is a baseness person who creates many atrocities to which Gopi stands as a barrier while Madhavaiah believes he is wise and respects him. Meanwhile, Gopi falls in love with a charming girl Radha daughter of Seshadri's sister Kaveramma, in her acquaintance, Gopi reforms and turns into a straight arrow. Eventually, Krishna, son of Seshadri walks in his father's footsteps and traps the village School Teacher's daughter Kasturi. Now Gopi and Radha decide to pair up but they are afraid of their elders' casteism yet, stand strong.

At that time, Gopi's old friends' forcibly take him to carouse. Exploiting it, Seshadri poses Gopi as debauchery before Radha when she loathes him. Even Madhavaiah also necks out him on the provocation of Seshadri and gives their old ruined building as his share. Ahead, malevolent Seshadri scatters bad propaganda against Radha and denounces Gopi which leads to Kaveramma's death. Right now, Seshadri plans to perform Radha's marriage with Krishna to grab her property. Parallelly, Gopi renovates his building and transforms it into a school building to service the villagers. Due to this Seshadri removes Madhavaiah as the priest and handovers the keys. Distressed Madhavaiah goes into illusion and feels as if Krishna too accompanied him. Knowing it, furious Gopi revolts against Seshadri to get back the keys when Seshadri intrigues by stealing the temple ornaments and orders his henchmen Ramalingam to bury them in the Gopi's premises. But cunning Ramalingam double-crosses and snatches the jewelry. The next day, Gopi is indicted and when they are in search, a treasure of Madhavaiah and Gopi's ancestors is dug out where both the brothers argue to utilize it one for the temple and another for the school.

At that moment, Seshadri again ploys to capture the treasure, so, decides to conduct the elections, and both the parties strongly campaign. Here Gopi breaks out the secret of temple robbery through Ramalingam when Radha learns the virtue of Gopi. During that time, Krishna runs away with the treasure and kidnaps Radha when Gopi rescues and makes Krishna aware of his mistake. Then, Gopi's group without his knowledge challenges Madhavaiah to show a miracle by lifting the dome of the temple into the air if God exists which Madhavaiah accepts and Seshadri accuses him of the act. Disturbed Madhavaiah locks himself in the temple where Krishna also preaches to him that God will not respond to evildoers when Madhavaiah protests against Krishna. At that juncture, Gopi understands his brother will not survive until the miracle happens, so, he lifts the dome from the backside of the temple. Immediately, Madhavaiah cools down and when he spots Gopi, enlightens that Krishna performed the miracle through his brother and also realizes serving people is equivalent to offering God. At last, they utilize the treasure for the welfare of the people, and Seshadri gets arrested. The film ends with the marriage of Gopi and Radha.

Cast

• Akkineni Nageswara Rao as Madhavacharya and Gopi
• Vijaya Nirmala as Radha
• Sobhan Babu as Krishna
• Krishnam Raju as Krishna
• Gummadi as D.E.O.
• Nagabhushanam as Sheshadri
• Allu Ramalingaiah as Ramalingam
• Sakshi Ranga Rao as Achary
• Bhanu Prakash as Master
• Vijayachander as Gopi's friend
• Devadas Kanakala as Gopi's friend
• Suryakantham as Kanthamma
• Santha Kumari as Shantamma
• Rukmini as Kaveramma
• Meena Kumari as Meena
• Sandhya Rani as Kasthuri
• A. Sakunthala

Soundtrack

Music composed by K. V. Mahadevan. The song "Badilo Emundhi" was considered by M. L. Narasimham of The Hindu to sum up the essence of the film.

References

1. Arunachalam, Param. BollySwar: 1991–2000. Mavrix Infotech. p. 517. ISBN 978-81-938482-1-0.
2. "Buddhimanthudu (1969)-Song_Booklet". Indiancine.ma. Archived from the original on 9 April 2024. Retrieved 12 November 2022.
3. Narasimham, M L (3 April 2018). "An uphill task". The Hindu.

External links

• Buddhimantudu at IMDb

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• 1969 films
• 1960s Telugu-language films
• 1960s Indian films
• 1969 drama films
• Films directed by Bapu
• Films scored by K. V. Mahadevan
• Films with screenplays by Mullapudi Venkata Ramana
• Indian black-and-white films
• Indian drama films
• Telugu films remade in other languages