National Film Archive of India acquires 450 glass slides of early Telugu cinema
The Hindu
In a major acquisition, the National Film Archive of India (NFAI) has added more than 450 glass slides that represent the pictorial history of early Telugu cinema from the late 1930s to the mid-1950s,
In a major acquisition, the National Film Archive of India (NFAI) has added more than 450 glass slides that represent the pictorial history of early Telugu cinema from the late 1930s to the mid-1950s, to its collection. All of them are in black and white covering 70 Telugu films, according to an official release. These glass slides include several important films like V.V. Rao’s trendsetting social drama about widow remarriage Malli Pelli (1939), B.N. Reddi’s Vande Mataram (1939) starring Chittor V. Nagaiah, popular hit Keelu Gurram (1949) featuring Akkineni Nageswara Rao and Anjali Devi, N.T. Rama Rao starrer Daasi (1952) and critically acclaimed adaptation of Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay’s classic Vedantam Raghavaiah’s Devadasu (1953) starring Akkineni Nageswara Rao, Savitri and Lalitha in the lead roles and many more.More Related News
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