Bahudoorapu Batasari

1983 Indian film

16 May 1983 (1983-05-16)

Running time

168 minsCountryIndiaLanguageTelugu

Bahudoorapu Batasari (transl. Distant Nomad) is a 1983 Indian Telugu-language drama film, produced and directed by Dasari Narayana Rao.^[2]^[3] It stars Akkineni Nageswara Rao, Sujatha^[4] with music composed by Ramesh Naidu.^[5] The film was recorded as a Super Hit at the box office.^[6] The film won two Nandi Awards.

Plot

The film begins with Prasad, a sincere police officer, who lives with his ideal wife, Prabha, two sons, Bhanu & Raja, and a deaf & dumb daughter, Suhasini. The couple sacrifices their basic needs to provide a better life for their children. As time passes, Prasad arranges marriages for them with their love interests: Raja with Geeta, Bhanu with Julie, and Suhasini with Narayana Rao, who shares the same disability and is the son of the wealthy Madhusudhan Rao. Parallelly, as a glimpse, Avataram Prasad's bestie perturbs his family, Sahastrakoti Suryaprabha & 3 sons, with his misery, who also forges his father's death. Meanwhile, Prasad seizes Madhusudhan Rao’s dark shade despite his menacing. Wheraat, his elder, Eeswar, is knocked out in a police encounter. Prasad's leg was also amputated in cross-firing and compulsorily retired. Now, he depends on children, but they abandon him, and her in-laws expel Suhasini. Things get worse as Prasad is submerged in debt and seeks aid from his kids. Here, the ungrateful children want to split with their parents. Then, enraged, Prasad boots them and decides to start a new life. During that plight, Prasad rescues a richer Satyanarayana who invests in Prasad. Soon, with his hardship, Prasad becomes a tycoon. Besides, Avataram's children detect their grandfather and teach a lesson to their father. Following this, Prasad revives Suhasini's marital life when his sons try to patch with him for the wealth, but in vain. As a last attempt, they play a suicide drama. Knowing it, Prabha rushes, whom Prasad bars, gazing at them when she chucks with him. Later, she is conscious of actuality and detests them. She backs up when distressed Prasad quits as a distant nomad, entrusting totality to her. At last, Prabha accompanies him when Avataram reforms their children, who arrive and plead pardon. Finally, the movie ends with Prasad & Prabha continuing their journey, affirming the children that they should return to self-reliance.

Cast

Akkineni Nageswara Rao as Prasad
Sujatha as Prabha
Dasari Narayana Rao as Avataram
Gummadi as Prasad's father
Prabhakar Reddy as Madhusudhan Rao
Jaggayya as Prabha's father-in-law
Allu Ramalingaiah as Avataram's father
Bhanu Chander as Bhanu
Ramakrishna as Prabha's brother-in-law
Peketi Sivaram as Siva
Narayana Rao as Murali Krishna
Raja as Raja
Eeswar Rao as Eeswar Rao
Vanakayala Satyanarayana as Satyanarayana
R. Narayana Murthy as Avataram's elder son
Chitti Babu as Avataram's younger son
Sumalatha as Julie
Suhasini as Subhashini
Rama Prabha as Sahastrakoti Suryaprabha
Jayamalini as Ananda Bhairavi
Pushpalata as Prasad's mother
Mamatha as Mangatayaru
Krishnaveni as Saraswathi

Crew

Art: Bhaskar Raju
Choreography: Prakash, Surekha
Stills: Mohanji -Jagan
Playback: S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, P. Susheela
Music: Ramesh Naidu
Story: Paalagummi Padma Raju, R. K. Dharma Raju
Editing: B. Krishnam Raju
Cinematography: V. S. R. Swamy
Dialogues - Lyrics - Screenplay - Producer - Director: Dasari Narayana Rao
Banner: Taraka Prabhu Films
Release Date: 16 May 1983

Soundtrack

Bahudoorapu Batasari

Film score by

Ramesh Naidu

Released

1983

Genre

Soundtrack

Length

23:37

Label

ACE Audio

Producer

Ramesh Naidu

Ramesh Naidu chronology

Megha Sandesham
(1983)

Bahudoorapu Batasari
(1983)

Rendu Jella Seeta
(1983)

Music composed by Ramesh Naidu. Lyrics were written by Dasari Narayana Rao. Music released on ACE Audio Company.

S. No.	Song Title	Singers	length
1	"Pampanadhi Theerana"	S. P. Balasubrahmanyam	4:49
2	"Evaru Evaro"	S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, P. Susheela	5:55
3	"Meghama"	P. Susheela	4:40
4	"Alamatinchi Pothunanu"	S. P. Balasubrahmanyam,Vani Jayaram	4:35
5	"Ekkadi Thalupulu"	S. P. Balasubrahmanyam	3:38

Awards

Nandi Awards - 1983 ^[7]

Best Male Playback Singer - S. P. Balasubrahmanyam
Best Story Writer - Palagummi Padmaraju & R.K. Dharma Raju

Other

VCDs and DVDs on - SHALIMAR Video Company, Hyderabad

References

^ "Bahudoorapu Batasari (Overview)". IMDb.
^ "Bahudoorapu Batasari (Direction)". Spicy Onion.
^ "Bahudoorapu Batasari (Banner)". Know Your Films.
^ "Bahudoorapu Batasari (Cast & Crew)". gomolo.com. Archived from the original on 19 September 2018. Retrieved 4 October 2016.
^ "Bahudoorapu Batasari (Music)". Filmiclub.
^ "Bahudoorapu Batasari (Review)". The Cine Bay.
^ "నంది అవార్డు విజేతల పరంపర (1964–2008)" [A series of Nandi Award Winners (1964–2008)] (PDF). Information & Public Relations of Andhra Pradesh. Retrieved 21 August 2020.(in Telugu)