Ramu and Swapna are fellow medical students who love each other. But when neither of them reveal it, Swapna marries Anand, a doctor from London. Soon, Swapna realizes that Anand is already married. Meanwhile, Ramu meets Padma and falls in love with her.
Acting
Sobhan Babu's suffering in silence is physically painful to watch
Direction
Dasari Narayana Rao weaponizes dramatic irony like a sadist
Director
Dasari Narayana Rao
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This film exemplifies 1970s Telugu cinema's obsession with 'sacrifice' as the highest form of love — a cultural narrative that punished direct communication.
Dasari Narayana Rao directed over 150 films and was notorious for making audiences weep; this was one of his most commercially successful emotional devastations.
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