Thoorpu Padamara

Thoorpu Padamara is a 1976 Indian Telugu-language romantic drama film written and directed by Dasari Narayana Rao. A remake of the Tamil film Apoorva Raagangal, it revolves around a rebel who falls in love with a much older woman while the woman's daughter is drawn to the rebel's father. The rest of the story revolves around the four characters and their problems. The film was released on 23 October 1976 and became a commercial success.

Plot

Suryam, a young rebel, is nursed back to health by a lonely classical singer Sivaranjani, who is significantly older than him. Though the two fall in love and want to be together, they find many obstacles in their paths.

Cast

Narasimha Raju as Suryam
Srividya as Sivaranjani
Madhavi as Kalyani
Kaikala Satyanarayana as Suryam's father
Mohan Babu as Sivaranjani's ex-husband
Nagesh as Sivaranjani's family doctor
C. Narayana Reddy as himself
Murali Mohan as himself

Production

Thoorpu Padamara, a remake of K. Balachander's Tamil film Apoorva Raagangal, was written and directed by Dasari Narayana Rao. It was produced by K. Raghava under Pratap Art Productions, photographed by K. S. Mani and edited by K. Balu. Srividya and Nagesh reprised their roles from the Tamil original.

Themes

Thoorpu Padamara, like Narayana Rao's other films, explores "human relation dynamics". According to Sridhar Sattiraju of Telugu360, the entire story can be summed in one of the film's dialogues which translates to: "Why the ‘Twain shall never meet, conveyed the essence of what happens when improbable relationships exist between say, a father-in-law and a daughter-in-law or say, a mother-in-law and son-in-law".

Soundtrack

The soundtrack was composed by Ramesh Naidu, and the lyrics were written by C. Narayana Reddy. Instead of reusing the songs from Apoorva Raagangal, Naidu was given freedom by Narayana Rao to compose original songs.

Release

Thoorpu Padamara was released on 23 October 1976, and became a commercial success.