About the film:

Dasari's art-house melodrama shows the influences of Sankarabharnam (1979) on Telugu film. It invents a legend recalling Der Blaue Engel (1930): an upright and much loved poet Ravindra Babu (Nageswara Rao) falls in love with the courtesan Padma (Jayaprada). He composes several poems praising her, proving to his wife (Jayasudha) that he needs Padma to survive as an artist.

Sacrificing herself to his talent, the wife urges her husband to move in with his lover. However, when the poet's daughter marries, Padma persuades him to go back to his wife. Over come with remorse, Ravindra Babu dies. Padma dies at the same time to confirm their profound unity.

It remains Dasari's best-known film out side AP. Apparently homage to the Telugu lyricist Devulapalli Krishna Sastry who died shortly before the film was made and whose songs (e.g. Akulo Akunai, Sigalo Avi Virulo, Mundu Telisena) were reset to music by Ramesh Naidu and became very popular.

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