Ramudu Bheemudu

Ramudu Bheemudu
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Directed by	Tapi Chanakya
Produced by	D. Rama Naidu
Written by	D. V. Narasa Raju
Starring	N.T. Rama Rao Jamuna L. Vijayalakshmi Relangi Venkata Ramaiah Girija S.V.Ranga Rao Rajanala Ramana Reddy Suryakantham
Music by	Pendyala Nageswar Rao
Cinematography	Annayya
Edited by	Marthand
Production company	Suresh Productions
Release dates	1964
Country	India
Language	Telugu
Box office	₹ 2 Crores

Ramudu Bheemudu is a 1964 Telugu film directed by Tapi Chanakya. It was the first movie of D. Rama Naidu as a producer. N.T. Rama Rao played the dual role as "Ramudu" and "Bheemudu". It was remade into Tamil as Enga Veettu Pillai (1964) With M. G. R, into Hindi as Ram Aur Shyam (1967) starring Dilip Kumar and in Malayalam as Ajayanum Vijayanum (1976) with Prem Nazir.

Plot

Ramudu (N.T. Rama Rao) is an innocent young man in the guardianship of his uncle Panakala Rao (Rajanala), who is both crooked and wicked. The uncle is ready to usurp his property, and is just waiting for an appropriate opportunity. Ramudu is made to attend to all the domestic chores; unable to bear the torture, he runs away from home.

Bheemudu (N.T. Rama Rao) is interested in staging plays which his mother strongly disapproves. After he comes back home from a stage play, he is taken to task by his mother. In order to escape the wrath of his mother, Bheemudu flees his home and lands in the nearby city.

Both of them enter the same hotel and unexpectedly interchange their places. Thus Ramudu, entering the house of Bheemudu, falls in love with Santhi (L. Vijayalakshmi); Bheemudu, who now takes the place of Ramudu, falls in love with Leela (Jamuna). Bheemudu, who is in the place of Ramudu, now understands that he has to bring Panakala Rao to senses so that the property that really belongs to Ramudu, should be restored to him. Ramudu, now in the role of Bheemudu, starts enjoying the love and affection of the new family members. However, Panakala Rao comes to know of this change of places and attempts to take advantage of this situation. At the end Ramudu and Bheemudu turn out to be twins who got separated during the Godavari Pushkarams. All ends well in the film with Ramudu marrying Santhi and Bheemudu with Leela.

Soundtrack

The music and the background score of the movie was composed by Pendyala Nageshwara Rao.

• "Desammu Maarindoy Kaalammu Maarindoy" (written by Kosaraju Raghavaiah).
• "Undile Manchi Kaalam Mundu Mundunaa" (written by Srirangam Srinivasa Rao).
• "Thelisindile Thelisindile Nelaraja Neeroopu Thelisindile" (written by Dr. C. Narayana Reddy; Singers: Ghantasala and P. Susheela).
• "Ade Ade Naaku Antu Teliyakunnadi" (written by Dr. C. Narayana Reddy; Singers: Ghantasala and P. Susheela).
• "Saradaa Saradaa Cigarettu" (written by Kosaraju).
• "Thaguna Idi Mama" (written by Kosaraju).

Cast

Actor	Character
N. T. Rama Rao	Ramudu/Bheemudu (Lakshmanudu) (Dual role)
Jamuna	Leela
S. V. Ranga Rao	Ranganatham
Girija	Kamala
Relangi Venkataramaiah	Jayaram
Ramana Reddy	Sarabhaiah
Suryakantham	Sundaramma
Rajanala	Panakala Rao
L. Vijayalakshmi	Shanta
Santha Kumari

External links

• Ramudu Bheemudu at IMDb
• Nostalgia - Ramudu Bheemudu at CineGoer.