Ananda Bhairavi is a 1984 award winning Indian Telugu Film directed by Jandhyala. It starred Girish Karnad

Girish Karnad

Girish Raghunath Karnad is a contemporary writer, playwright, screenwriter, actor and movie director in Kannada language...

, Malavika, Rajesh

Rajesh (actor)

Rajesh is an Indian actor who has performed in Tamil, Malayalam films. He born in 1949 in a village called Anaikadu, in Thanjavur district near Pattukotai. He started his career as a teacher in Chennai. He worked as a secondary grade teacher for 7 years and entered into cinema. He acted in...

 and "Natyacharya" Bhagavathula Venkata Rama Sarma as Male classical dancer in this film.
Ramesh Naidu

Ramesh Naidu

Pasupuleti Ramesh Naidu was a South Indian music director. His major works were in Telugu films in the 1970s and 1980s. The music he did for the film Megha Sandesham is consideredas his best score.-Biography:...

 was the music director

Plot

This is a movie which gives you an idea about the origin of Kuchipudi

Kuchipudi

Kuchipudi is a Classical Indian dance form Andhra Pradesh, India. It is also popular all over South India. Kuchipudi is the name of a village in the Divi Taluka of Krishna district that borders the Bay of Bengal and with resident Brahmins practicing this traditional dance form, it acquired the...

 dance. It is about the people who considered a girl performing "Kuchipudi" dance an embarrassment and about a man who is fighting tooth and nail to pass on the heritage of "Kuchipudi". He finally manages to find a girl who he trains in "Kuchipudi". As, girls learning Kuchipudi was not accepted in that era he gets outcast from his caste, place and also the religious places.

Soundtrack

• "Brahmanjali" - S P Balu
  S. P. Balasubrahmanyam
  Sripathi Panditaradhyula Balasubrahmanyam is a multilingual Indian playback singer, actor, music director, voice actor and a film producer. He is referred to as S. P. B. or Balu by the media. He has won the National Film Award for Best Male Playback Singer six times closely following K. J. Yesudas...
  
  
• "Pilichina Muraliki" - S P Balu, S. Janaki
  S. Janaki
  S. Janaki is an Indian female playback singer. Renowned for her voice modulation abilities, she has sung in many Indian languages, most frequently in Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, and Hindi. Throughout a career spanning more than five decades, she has won four National Film Awards and 35...
  
  
• "Koluvaitiva Ranga Saayi" - S P Balu, S Janaki
• "Chaitramu Kusumaanjali" - S P Balu
• "Ra Ragamai" - S P Balu

Awards

• Nandi Award for Best Feature Film - Gold - 1983
• Nandi Award for Best Director
  Nandi Award for Best Director
  The Nandi Award for Best Director winners:...
  
   - Jandhyala