Shobha
On her fifth birthday, little Sobha, the only child of the wealthy widow Sitamma, is given a locket by her uncle Shankaram, who hopes she will one day marry his son Raja. That same night a gang of tribal robbers raids the house and carries off the jewel-laden girl. She grows up in their hamlet under the name Rani. Years later Raja sees Rani dancing in the street and falls for her, with no idea who she really is. The romance stirs up trouble on both sides: Lala, a young man of the hamlet, wants Rani for himself and attacks Raja, while Shankaram refuses to let his son marry a girl from the tribe. N. T. Rama Rao plays Raja and Anjali Devi plays Rani, supported by Relangi, Ramana Reddy, Mukkamala and Rajasulochana. Kamalakara Kameswara Rao directed this adaptation of the 1949 Hindi film Dulari, and the songs were the first film score by composer A. M. Rajah. It is a classic separated-in-childhood romance from the golden age of Telugu cinema, built around the pairing of NTR and Anjali Devi.