Santanam (1955)

Melodrama about a sister and two brothers who believe themselves to be orphans. They grow up doing odd jobs and the elder brother becomes the manager of a touring theatre group, the younger a wrestler and the sister a maid in a rich household. They eventually trace their father and the family is reunited. Lata Mangeshkar sang her first Telugu film song, Nidura pora thammuda. L.V. Prasad is credited with ‘direction supervision’.