Jagadeka Veeruni Katha is a 1961 Telugu Drama film

Drama film

A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, infidelity, moral dilemmas, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, class divisions, violence against women...

 directed and produced by Kadiri Venkata Reddy under the banner of Vijaya Pictures. It is subsequently dubbed into Tamil language entitled Jagathala Prathapan (1961) and Kannada, Bengali, Oriya and Hindi languages.

It is a Musical film

Musical film

The musical film is a film genre in which songs sung by the characters are interwoven into the narrative, sometimes accompanied by dancing. The songs usually advance the plot or develop the film's characters, though in some cases they serve merely as breaks in the storyline, often as elaborate...

 with music score composed by Pendyala Nageswara Rao

Pendyala Nageswara Rao

Pendyala Nageswara Rao was a popular drama actor, singer and music director in Telugu Film Industry for over 25 years from early 1950s to late 1970s. He has composed music for many successful Telugu movies during that period.-Early life:He was born at Vanukuru near Vijayawada and later shifted to...

 and songs penned by Pingali Nagendra Rao. The melodious song Shivashankari Shivanandalahari by Ghantasala Venkateswara Rao is often chosen for singing competitions.

The Plot

Udayagiri king (Mukkamala) has two sons. The elder son is Pratap (N T Ramarao) and younger son Jagajjit. Pratap dreams of marrying Devakanyas and happily enjoying the life. Knowing this, the angered father expels him from the country. He continues his journey in search of Devakanyas and reaches a pond wherein they bath regularly. He secretly observes them. He was cursed by Jayanthi (Saroja Devi) to become a statue. He regains his body by the pious activity of his mother Maharani (Rushyendramani). Meanwhile Indraputri was also cursed by a Muni to stay in Manavaloka and marry a person who steals her dress. Knowing about the curse, Pratap steals her dress and runs away without looking backwards. He reaches home to know that his father is suffering from cancer. He leaves the country to procure Medicine and meanwhile marry Naga Kanya and Varuna Kanya. They reach Kamakuta Rajya and live happily. Cheating their Mother-in-law Jayanthi procures her saree back and all the devakanyas leaves to heaven. However they could not forget him. Pratap goes in search of Devakanyas reaches heaven and Indrasabha. Indra and other devas tests his efficiency and love towards their daughters. He succeeds and gets the Devakanyas to Earth and rules the kingdom happily.

Cast

Actor/Actress	Character
Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao	Yuvaraju Prathap
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Rajanala Kaleswara Rao	Jagajjit
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Kannamba	Parvathi Devi
Jayanthi Jayanthi (actress) Jayanthi is an Indian actress. She has appeared in over 500 films, including films in the Kannada, Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, Hindi and Marathi languages. In Kannada movies, she was honored with the title Abhinaya Sharade....	Varuna Kumari
L. Vijayalakshmi	Naga Kumari
Bala	Agni Kumari
Relangi Venkataramaiah	Renduchintalu
Mukkamala Krishna Murthy	Maharaju
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Girija Girija (actress) Girija is an early Telugu film actress and comedian of 1950 and 1960s. Her first movie is Kasturi Sivarao's Paramanandayya Shishyula Katha . She acted in many films with Relangi Venkataramaiah and became famous hit comedian pair...	Ekasa
Nalla Rama Murthy
Jaggayya

Soundtrack

There are 14 songs and poems in the films.

• Aasha Ekasa Nee Needanu Medalu Kattesa
• Lyrics: Pingali Nagendra Rao
• Singers: Ghantasala Venkateswara Rao, Swarnalatha
  Swarnalatha
  Swarnalatha was a Indian playback singer. From 1987 onward, she rendered nearly 7000 songs in many languages including Tamil, Kannada, Telugu, Hindi, Malayalam, Urdu, Bengali, Oriya, Punjabi and Badaga....
  
  
• Adilakshmi Vanti Attagarivamma
• Lyrics: Pingali Nagendra Rao
• Singers: P. Leela
  P. Leela
  Porayathu Leela better known as P. Leela was a popular Indian playback singer. She was awarded Padma Bhushan posthumously in 2006.-Early life:...
  
   and P. Susheela
  P. Susheela
  Pulapaka Susheela is an Indian playback singer. In a career spanning more than four decades, she has recorded songs in many Indian languages including Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, Hindi, Bengali, Oriya, Sanskrit, Tulu, Badaga and Sinhalese.-Personal life:She is the daughter of Pulapaka...
  
  
• Ainadedo Ainadi Priya Ganamede Preyasi
• Lyrics: Pingali Nagendra Rao
• Singers: Ghantasala and P. Susheela
• Cast: NTR and Saroja Devi
• Jalakalatalalo Kalakala Patalalo Emi Hayile Hala
• Lyrics: Pingali Nagendra Rao
• Singers: P. Leela, P. Susheela and others
• Cast: B. Saroja Devi, Jayanthi, L. Vijayalakshmi and Bala
• Jaya Jaya Jaya Jagadeka Pratapa
• Lyrics: Pingali Nagendra Rao
• Singers: P. Susheela and others
• Koppuninda Poovuleme Kodala Kodala
• Singers: Madhavapeddi Satyam
  Madhavapeddi Satyam
  Madhavapeddi Satyam was a renowned Telugu singer and stage-actor from the state of Andhra Pradesh, India. He entered into films as a singer-actor in Y.V. Rao's Tamil-Hindi Biligual movie Ramadas in the year 1946. He played the role of Kabir. However, he became more popular as a playback singer...
  
   and Swarnalata
• Manoharamuga Madhura Madhuramuga
• Lyrics: Pingali Nagendra Rao
• Singers: Ghantasala and P. Susheela
• Nanu Dayaganava Naa Moravinava
• Lyrics: Pingali Nagendra Rao
• Singer: P. Leela
  P. Leela
  Porayathu Leela better known as P. Leela was a popular Indian playback singer. She was awarded Padma Bhushan posthumously in 2006.-Early life:...
  
  
• Cast: Rushyendramani
• O Sakhi Oho Cheli Oho Madeeya Mohini
• Lyrics: Pingali Nagendra Rao
• Singer: Ghantasala
• Cast: N T Ramarao and Devakanyas
• Raara Kanaraara Karunamalinara Priyatamalara
• Lyrics: Pingali Nagendra Rao
• Singer: Ghantasala
• Shivashankari Shivanandalahari
• Lyrics: Pingali Nagendra Rao
• Singers: Ghantasala Venkateswara Rao
• Cast: N. T. Rama Rao (in 5 different characters)
• Varinchi Vachina Manava Veerudu Emainadani Vicharama
• Lyrics: Pingali Nagendra Rao
• Singers: P. Susheela and others
• Cast: B. Saroja Devi, Jayanthi, L. Vijayalakshmi and Bala

Boxoffice

• The film has celebrated 100 days in 30 centres. The Centenary celebrations were held at Naaz theater in Guntur
  Guntur
  Guntur , is a city and a municipal corporation in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, located to the north and west of the Bay of Bengal. It is approximately to the south of the national capital, New Delhi and south east of state capital, Hyderabad. Guntur is the fourth largest city in Andhra...
  
  city. The film unit felicitated an individual who saw the movie 100 times. The film ran well even in each of the subsequent releases.

External links

• Jagadeka Veeruni Katha film at IMDb.
• Listen to Jagadeka Veeruni Katha songs at Raaga.com