| Thoorpu Padamara | |
| Director: | Dasari Narayana Rao |
| Screenplay: | Dasari Narayana Rao |
| Producer: | K. Raghava |
| Starring: | Narasimha Raju Srividya Madhavi Kaikala Satyanarayana |
| Cinematography: | K. S. Mani |
| Editing: | K. Balu |
| Music: | Ramesh Naidu |
| Studio: | Pratap Art Productions |
| Country: | India |
| Language: | Telugu |
Thoorpu Padamara [1] is a 1976 Indian Telugu-language romantic drama film written and directed by Dasari Narayana Rao. A remake of the Tamil film Apoorva Raagangal (1975), it revolves around a rebel (Narasimha Raju) who falls in love with a much older woman (Srividya) while the woman's daughter (Madhavi) is drawn to the rebel's father (Kaikala Satyanarayana). The rest of the story revolves around the four characters and their problems. The film was released on 23 October 1976 and became a commercial success.
Suryam, a young rebel, is nursed back to health by a lonely classical singer Shivaranjani, who is significantly older than him. Though the two fall in love and want to be together, they find many obstacles in their paths.
Thoorpu Padamara, a remake of K. Balachander's Tamil film Apoorva Raagangal (1975), was written and directed by Dasari Narayana Rao. It was produced by K. Raghava under Pratap Art Productions, photographed by K. S. Mani and edited by K. Balu.[3] Srividya and Nagesh reprised their roles from the Tamil original.
Thoorpu Padamara, like Narayana Rao's other films, explores "human relation dynamics". According to Sridhar Sattiraju of Telugu360, the entire story can be summed in one of the film's dialogues which translates to: "Why the ‘Twain shall never meet, conveyed the essence of what happens when improbable relationships exist between say, a father-in-law and a daughter-in-law or say, a mother-in-law and son-in-law".
The soundtrack was composed by Ramesh Naidu, and the lyrics were written by C. Narayana Reddy.[4] [5] Instead of reusing the songs from Apoorva Raagangal, Naidu was given freedom by Narayana Rao to compose original songs.
Thoorpu Padamara was released on 23 October 1976, and became a commercial success.[6]