Actress Lakshmi and Director Singeetam Srinivasa Rao attended a private screening of the 1974 hit movie Dikkatra Parvathi today. Based on a C Rajagopalachari story, the movie was mostly shot at Thorapalli, his birthplace. It was bankrolled with the help of the Film Finance Corporation of India (now National Film Development Corportation).
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Legend has it that then Chief Minster MG Ramachandran stepped in and helped the Dikkatra Parvathi’s producer pay a loan, clearing the way for the film’s release in 1974. The movie went on to have a successful theatrical run.
According to a spokesperson, the original reel was damaged and recently a reel was found in the archives of the Poona Film Institute. Singeetham Srinivasa Rao, actress Lakshmi and YG Mahendra obtained the copy and arranged a screening at Prasad Lab forty years after it was originally released.