Missamma

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Missamma

Missamma (మిస్సమ్మ) is a classic Telugu movie, released in the year 1955. This is a beautifully made comedy which never seems to lose its charm. This hugely successful movie features NTR and ANR, two of the greatest actors ever in Telugu cinema.

Missamma is the name of the leading lady of the film. Savithri played the title role of Missamma to perfection in the film. The film catapulted her into fame and she never looked back from then on. Missamma is the movie adaptation of Yotish Banerjee's classic Bengali comedy Manmoyee Girls School.

The dialogues and song lyrics penned by the master craftsman Pingali Nagendra Rao are some of the best ever written for Telugu cinema. Pingali's lyrics combined with the legendary voices of A. M. Raja, P. Leela and P. Susheela - the result can only be one thing: a masterpiece. The songs remain extremely popular to this day, casting a magical spell over the listeners. Live wire performances by Savithri, NTR and ANR make this movie a thorough entertainer. This film is one of the few super hit classic films in telugu which were made without songs sung by legendary Ghantasala. The other such films include Vipranarayana, Pelli Kanuka.

The story is about Missamma(Savithri) who is the daughter of S.V.Rangarao. She gets disappeared in her childhood and brought up by Christians and named Mary. There she is tortured by a Ramana reddy to marry him as she has to pay some money. Then she meets NTR who is in search of job. NTR one day finds in paper an advertisement given by S.V.Rangarao for two music teachers who are wife and husband. NTR puts forth a proposal for Savithri saying we will apply as wife and husband. Initially Savithri will not accept but finally she accepts. Along with NTR & Savithri goes Relangi as the mediator between them. The rest of the story is how they survive there and how the hosts find out Savithri is their lost daughter.