Sankarabharanam rajalakshmi biography of mahatma

Latest News on Rajyalakshmi. Upcoming Celebs Birthdays. Directed by: Akhil Paul, Anas Khan. Directed by: Padmavathi Malladi. Directed by: Chandoo Mondeti. Directed by: Laxman Utekar. Directed by: Venu Sriram. Directed by: Vishwa Karun. Directed by: Ram Narayan. Directed by: RVS Nikhil. Directed by: Mohana Krishna Indraganti. Once the deal was struck, the man raped Tulasi.

Seeing a photo of Sastri in Tulasi's room, he breaks it and taunts her by saying that she is now free to be the old Sastri's mistress. The enraged Tulasi stabs her rapist with a shard of glass from the broken frame of Sastri's photo, killing him. At the subsequent murder trial Sastri engages a close friend, a lawyer, to defend Tulasi. Tulasi's mother is sent to jail for engaging in prostitution, while Tulasi goes free but finds herself homeless.

When Sastri takes Tulasi to his own house, the rumour spreads that Tulasi has become Sastri's mistress. Engaged to sing at a temple, everyone, including Sastri's musical accompanists, leaves on seeing Tulasi. Feeling responsible for this public insult to the man she reveres, Tulasi leaves Sastri's home. Over time, while pop music is on the ascendant, the popularity of classical music wanes, Sastri loses his audience and, with them his comfortable lifestyle.

Ten years later, Sastri is living in a small house with his daughter, who has grown into sankarabharanam rajalakshmi biography of mahatma. Meanwhile, Tulasi has inherited her mother's property after her mother's demise. Tulasi has a ten-year-old son, the result of her rape, and desires that he become Sastri's student. She intends to make her son, the outcome of an evil, an ornament to adorn Shankara Sastri as his disciple, just as how a venomous snake becomes an ornament of Lord Shiva Shankara - Shivaaabaranam- ornament and therefore, Shankara's aabharanam - Shankarabharanam.

Tulasi gets her son to pretend to be homeless, entering Sastri's household as a servant. Tulasi is content to watch from a distance as her son gradually becomes Sastri's musical protege. Pamulaparti Venkata Kameswara Rao, a schoolteacher by profession but a dilettante singer at heart, falls in love with Sarada. Although Sastri rejects the alliance at first, he agrees after hearing the man sing at the village temple.

Tulasi arranges for a concert on the day of Sarada's wedding, in a new auditorium which she named for her mentor. Sastri sings at the concert but suffers a heart attack part-way through it. His disciple, Tulasi's son, takes over from the sidelines and continues singing the song. As Sastri watches his student with pride, he also sees Tulasi at the side of the hall and realizes that the boy is Tulasi's son.

A doctor is brought to attend to Sastri, but Sastri waves him off, knowing that his end is near. As Tulasi's son completes the song, Sastri symbolically anoints the boy as his musical heir by giving his "aabharanam" his leg bracelet, or "Ganda Penderam"once bestowed by society to honor him and effectively became a part of him, to him and dies. Tulasi comes running to her guruand dies at his feet.

The film ends on this tragic but uplifting note, as Sastri's newly-wed daughter and son-in-law take charge of Tulasi's son. After hearing the plot, the producers were initially taken aback due to the parallel cinema tone to the subject matter, but finally Edida Nageswara Rao agreed to produce the film. Viswanath wanted Sivaji Ganesan to perform the role, but couldn't approach him for various reasons and also wanted Krishnam Raju for the role, but later refused as Viswanath felt his image as a star would ruin the role and he chose a debutant J.

Somayajulua stage artist for the role. Viswanath scripted and directed the film, while Jandhyala gave the dialogues. Balu Mahendra performed the cinematography while the film is edited by G. Krishna Rao. Thota Tharani worked as the film's production designer. Vamsywho went on to direct films like SitaaraAnveshana and Ladies Tailor was one of the assistant directors in the film.

The shooting of the film was completed in 60 days. The music, largely Carnatic based, was composed by K. Balamuralikrishna was the original choice for the male playback singer, due to the heavy classical content of the compositions. Since M. Balamuralikrishna was not so much inclined to sing in the movie, K. Mahadevan, having faith in the mettle of S.

Balasubrahmanyaminsisted on him taking up this challenge. The soundtrack has lyrics by Veturi and vocals by S. Balasubrahmanyam, S. Janaki and Vani Jayaram. All music is composed by K. Released on 2 Februarythe film was released in only a very few theatres and opened to almost empty halls.

Sankarabharanam rajalakshmi biography of mahatma

However, in a week through positive reviews and word of mouth theatres were packed. The film was dubbed into Malayalam and released in New Theatre, Thiruvananthapuram and Kavitha Theatre, Ernakulam on 12 Septemberwhere it ran successfully for over days. The Tamil dubbed version of the film was rereleased on 13 March Suganth of The Times of India wrote that "This film is a textbook example of how music and storytelling can go hand-in-hand to create a brilliant film".

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