Beedala Patlu

Movie Details

Actors

Chittor V Nagaiah, T S Balaiah, T S Dorairaj, N Shama, N Seetaraman, V Gopalakrishna, Kali N Ratnam, M R Swaminathan, S Peer Mohammad, T K Kalyanam, Lalita, Padmini, N Rajam, P S Gnanam, S R Janaki, Baby Meenakshi, Ragini, Thangam, Kalyani, Reeta

Overview

Based on Victor Hugo’s Les Miserables. Extraordinary melodrama held together by Nagaiah’s best-known film performance. This version of Sadanand Bharathi’s Tamil translation of Hugo’s novel (remade, unacknowledged, as Gnana Oli, 1972), opens with the petty thief Kandan (Nagaiah) in jail.

Writer

Sadananda Bharathi, Jawar Seetaraman, Victor Hugo, Arudra (Lyrics)

Director of Photography

K Ramnoth, N Prakash

Original Music Composer

S M Subbayya Naidu, Ashwathama Gudimetla

Producer

S M Sriramulu Naidu

Director

K Ramnoth

Release Date

9 December 1950

Genres

Drama

Runtime

3 h 17 min

Production

Pakshiraja Studios