Chitti Tammudu
Chitti Tammudu is a 1962 Telugu drama film directed by K. B. Tilak and produced by Jetti Chandrasekhara Reddy. The film is based on the 1838 English novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens.
The plot
The story is about the problems faced by children in orphanages, irregularities by the management and the related consequences.Ramu and Subhadra love one other. Ramu urgently leaves to Kashmir, and returns home to find that his beloved Subhadra is pregnant, and that her father had died of that insult. She delivers a boy in a mission hospital and dies. The boy is admitted to an orphanage and named Chiranjeevi. Hostel warden Tayaramma feeds the orphans with insufficient food and they are starving.
Ramu has an elder sister Seetha and younger brother Srihari. Seetha is wife of a lawyer. Ramu dies of chronic cough and mental agony, leaving the property in charge of his brother-in-law.