The film’s cast had many heavyweights of South Indian cinema. And the Kannada version was dubbed from the Telugu original a few years later. It was simultaneously made in Tamil and was released a few weeks later on Tamil New Year’s day. The movie was a blockbuster and more importantly a trailblazer for many generations to come. It had a story already well known to south Indian audiences, an ace technical crew that conjured magic on the screen, an ensemble cast made of all-time greats of south Indian cinema, a language close to the common man, mellifluous music, and great dance. The opening credits rightly begin with this trio. The movie had everything coming together, starting with a great production house in Vijaya Productions, a genius in the writer Pingali Nagendra Rao and another genius in director K V Reddy who also did the screenplay. Voted the best movie in the CNN-IBN poll conducted on the occasion of 100 years of Indian cinema, the legacy of this film only gets bigger with time and is unparalleled even in Bollywood. Every line has been dissected, every frame analysed, with many even having all the dialogues memorised. It may not be a hyperbole to say that this is the most discussed Indian movie. But a Telugu-movie lover always has a personalised take on this masterpiece. Much has been written about this classic, puranic, comedy-entertainer that spans many books and articles in print and online it has also been novelised. Almost six generations of Telugu and Tamil speaking people must have seen this film.
The Telugu original was first released on this day in 1957. The iconic film Mayabazar turns sixty on 27 March.
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