Preminchi Choodu (1965 film)

Buchabbai is a millionaire with two daughters, Kanchanamala and Ratnamala. During their studies away from their hometown, Kanchana falls for a handsome guy, Srinivasa Rao / Vasu, the son of another bigshot Subbarayudu. After their return home, Kanchana and Ratna once squabble with Ranga Rao, the assistant manager of their estate. They persuade their father to sack him; hence Ranga declares a strike in front of their house when Ranga and Ratna are smitten.

Parallelly, Varahala Raju, son of Buchabbai, is passionate about directing a film for which he daily pesters his father. He also loves Meenakshi, the daughter of their manager, Yedukondalu. Right now, Ranga learns that Buchabbai wants to make a prosperous alliance with his daughters. So, he plans and disguises his close friend, neither Vasu, as his tycoon father, Srinivasa Bhupathi, and makes Buchabbai plead for his nuptials with the support of the girls. Besides, destiny made Subbarayudu and Buchabbai childhood friends, and they decided to knit Kanchana with Vasu.

At first, Vasu gets startled looking at his father therein but feels happy knowing about his wedding. Unfortunately, their play breaks out, so Subbarayadu and Buchabbai file a Police complaint. Being aware of it, Ranga makes a Plan B by posing himself as two. Soon, Buchabbai and Subbarayadu rush to amend their mistake, but it is too late as Ranga and Vasu are prisoned. After that, the story takes several comic twists and turns when Ranga and Vasu succeed in marrying their love interests by fooling Buchabbai.

• Akkineni Nageswara Rao as Ranga Rao
• Kanchana as Kanchanamala
• Rajasree as Ratnamala
• Jaggayya as Srinivasa Rao / Vasu
• Relangi as Buchabbai
• Gummadi as Subbarayudu
• Chalam as Varahala Raj Kapoor
• Allu Ramalingaiah as Manager Yedukondalu
• Dr. Sivaramakrishnayya as Veera Naidu
• Raavi Kondala Rao as Master
• K. V. Chalam as Inspector Subba Rao
• Jagga Rao as S.P.
• Santha Kumari as Santhamma
• Girija as Meenakshi / Laila

The film was a remake of Tamil film Kadhalikka Neramillai (1964), Rajasree reprised her role from the original.{{Cite news |date=17 March 2006 |title=Away from the arc lights |work=The Hindu |url=https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-fridayreview/away-from-the-arc-lights/article3217489.ece |access-date=16 August 2020 |archive-date=20 November 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181120180220/https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-fridayreview/away-from-the-arc-lights/article3217489.ece |url-status=live }}{{Cite news |date=16 June 2012 |title=The north-south non-divide |work=The Hindu |url=https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-metroplus/the-northsouth-nondivide/article3534068.ece |access-date=16 August 2020 |archive-date=20 November 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181120135913/https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-metroplus/the-northsouth-nondivide/article3534068.ece |url-status=live }}

Music was composed by Master Venu.{{Cite web |title=Preminchi Chudu (1965)-Song_Booklet |url=https://indiancine.ma/ |access-date=23 August 2021 |website=Indiancine.ma |archive-date=5 April 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130405060204/http://indiancine.ma/ |url-status=live }} Pullayya insisted Master Venu to retain the tunes from the original film in Telugu, which Venu was not okay with. He expressed his concern to Pullayya's wife Santhakumari who encouraged him having faith in talent. Except for the song "Vennela Reyi", other songs were retained from the original. "Vennela Reyi" was the replacement for the song "Naalam Naalam". This tune was retained despite Pullayya expressing his anger for using a new tune.{{Cite news |last=Narasimham |first=M. L. |date=24 September 2018 |title=Composer's choice: how Master Venu defied his producer to make his own tune for a song in 'Preminchi Choodu' |work=The Hindu |url=https://www.thehindu.com/entertainment/movies/master-venu-defied-his-producers-orders-to-make-his-own-tune-for-a-song-in-preminchi-choodu/article25028555.ece |access-date=16 August 2020 |archive-date=29 July 2019 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20190729162342/https://www.thehindu.com/entertainment/movies/master-venu-defied-his-producers-orders-to-make-his-own-tune-for-a-song-in-preminchi-choodu/article25028555.ece |url-status=live }}

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Category:1960s Telugu-language films

Category:1960s Indian films

Category:1965 films

Category:1965 romantic comedy films

Category:Films directed by P. Pullayya

Category:Indian black-and-white films

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Category:Telugu remakes of Tamil films

Category:Films scored by Master Venu

Category:Films about father–son relationships