Missamma - Telugu - 1955 - NTR, Savitri, Jamuna

Описание: Missamma - Telugu, 1955
Director: L.V. Prasad
Music Director: Saluri Rajeswara Rao
Lyrics: Pingali Nagendra Rao, Thyagaraja Kruthi
Playback: Raja A.M., Leela P., Ghantasala Venkateswara Rao, P. Susheela, Relangi Venkatramaiah
Cast:
N.T. Rama Rao ... M. T. Rao (as Taraka Rama Rao Nandamuri)
Savitri ... Mary / Mahalakshmi
Akkineni Nageshwara Rao ... A.K. Raju
S.V. Ranga Rao ... Gopalam
Relangi Venkatramaiah ... Devayya
Jamuna ... Sita
Rushyendramani ... Gopalam's wife
Allu Ramalingaiah ... Musali Panthulu
Ramana Reddy ... David
Doraiswamy ... Mary Pempudu thandri
Gummadi ... Employer (guest role)

English subtitles included.

The Encyclopedia of Indian Cinema says this about Missamma:

Hit comedy about a village zamindar (Ranga
Rao) who advertises for a married couple to
run a school set up in memory of his long-lost
daughter. The unemployed Rao (NTR)
and Mary (Savitri) pretend to be married to get
the job. Annoyed by Rao’s interest in the
zamindar’s other daughter (Jamuna in her
debut), Mary starts teaching music to an
amateur detective and the zamindar’s future
son-in-law (Nageshwara Rao).
Mary feigns pregnancy while the zamindar tries
to convert her to Hinduism. Eventually Mary
turns out to be the zamindar’s lost daughter
and she marries Rao. The Ghantasala/P.
Susheela duet Varaya vennilave was especially
popular. The film adapts Jyotish Bannerjee’s
classic Bengali comedy Manmoyee Girls’ School
(1935). Prasad remade his own version at the
AVM Studio in Hindi as Miss Mary (1957)
starring Meena Kumari. Anant Mane also did a
Marathiversion of the story, Jhakli Mooth (1957).

This film is utterly charming. If you don't understand Telugu (as I don't), then watch it with the English subtitles turned on.

The 1957 Hindi remake - Miss Mary - is found in this channel here:
   • Miss Mary -  Meena Kumari, Gemini Ganeshan  

Here's a playlist of the 13 songs in the film:
   • Missamma - Telugu - 1955 - All Songs  

TOOLS USED FOR THE FILM:
AviSynth for the video editing
Audacity for the audio work.
Aegisub and Subtitle Edit for the subtitles

COPYRIGHT INFORMATION:
The Indian copyright law:
http://copyright.gov.in/Documents/Cop...

INDIAN COPYRIGHT ACT, 1957 CHAPTER I Preliminary (f)
"cinematograph film" means any work of visual recording on any medium produced through a process from which a moving image may be produced by any means and includes a sound recording accompanying such visual recording and cinematograph shall be construed as including any work produced by any process analogous to cinematography including video films.”

"CHAPTER V Term of Copyright 26.Term of copyright in cinematograph films.
In the case of a cinematograph film, copyright shall subsist until sixty years from the beginning of the calendar year next following the year in which the film is published."

My words:
Indian film copyright (including video, dialog, music, lyrics, songs) lasts for sixty years and any film and its songs released more than sixty years ago is in the public domain. No extensions, no renewals, no exceptions. This film is no longer protected by copyright.