Vishwa
Mohini (1940)
Duration: 3 hours 14 minutes
Format: Black n White
Banner: Jagadish Pictures
Direction - Story: YV Rao
Dialogues - Lyrics: Balijepalli Lakshmikantha Kavi
Music: Ogirala Rama Chandra Rao
Cast: YV Rao, Chittor V Nagaiah, Lilitha Devi, Bejawada Rajaratnam,
Rangaswamy, Kakinada Rajaratnam, Dorai Swamy, Gangaratnam, Sampurna,
Surya Narayana. |
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About
the film:
This
film is a love triangle satirizing the film industry. Purushottam
(YV Rao) embezzles money from a firm of brokers owned by Padmanabham
in order to get his son Mohan Rao married to Hemalatha, daughter
of the millionaire Vishalakshamma (B Rajaratnam). The now impoverished
Padmanabham partially gets his own revenge when his daughter Sushila
(Lalitha Devi) becomes a film star Vishwa Mohini. The film producer
Pashupati, brother of Vishalakshamma, introduces her. The star Vishwa
Mohini falls in love with Mohan Rao and her father agrees to their
marriage provided Mohan can find a job. He pretends to have done
so and the two get married. Hemalatha offers money to Vishwa Mohini
to go away and free Mohan, which, in an emotional scene, she refuses
to do.
This
hit film continued director/star YV Rao's trailblazing work at Jagadish
(his earlier film for them, Malli Pelli, 1939, was also a hit) and
includes long comedy sequences such as the satirical description
of a film director (Chittoor V Nagaiah).
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