Akkineni Nageswara Rao as Gopi. Rajasulochana as Radha. Kantha Rao as Raju. Krishna Kumari as Ragini. Devika as Lakshmi. Relangi as Simhalu. Nagaiah as Ramadasu. K.V.S.Sharma as Seetapathi Rao.

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1. S.S. Rajamouli

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2. Sukumar

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3. Gunasekhar

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4. Trivikram Srinivas

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5. Sekhar Kammula

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6. Radha Krishna Jagarlamudi

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7. Chandra Sekhar Yeleti

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9. Puri Jagannadh

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10. Srinivas Avasarala

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Shanthi Nivasam (lit. House of peace) is a 1960 Indian Telugu-languagedrama film produced by Sundarlal Nahatha and T. Ashwadanarayana, and directed by C. S. Rao. It is an adaptation of Palagummi Padmaraju's Telugu play of the same name, which itself was based on B. S. Ramiah's Tamil language play Malliyam Mangalam. The film stars Akkineni Nageswara Rao, Rajasulochana, Kanta Rao, Krishna Kumari and Devika in lead roles.

Shanthi Nivasam was released on 14 January 1960. The film was a commercial success, running for over 100 days in several theatres. It was remade in Hindi as Gharana (1961), and dubbed in Malayalam as Shantinivas (1962).

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Plot[edit]

Ramadasu is a wealthy and mild-mannered man. Shanthamma is his aggressive, petty-minded and controlling wife who always ill-treats her daughters-in-law, the widowed Ramani and the devout Lakshmi, who is married to Shanthamma's second son Raju. Gopi, the youngest son, is a bachelor, and the daughter Chitti leaves her husband Simhalu, to live with her parents. Gopi falls in love with Radha, who has a vixen stepmother and an understanding father, lawyer Seetapathi Rao. A jealous Chitti creates suspicion in Raju about the relationship between Gopi and Lakshmi. Raju thinks that they are having an affair, he makes observations but is not ready to confront anyone. Raju's suspicions are not laid to rest even when Gopi marries Radha. Raju starts to drink and ends up getting friendly with a childhood friend, Ragini. Gopi, with the help of Simhalu and Radha, sets things right and brings peace to the abode.

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Production[edit]

Development[edit]

The actors Padmanabham and Vallam Narasimha Rao bought the Telugu rights of Tamil actor S. V. Sahasranamam's play Malliyam Mangalam, which written by B. S. Ramiah, for their first stage production made under the Rekha & Murali Arts banner. The Telugu version was written by Palagummi Padmaraju, who named it Shanthi Nivasam. The play, which starred Padmanabhan and Meenakumari, was an immense success, and caught the attention of producers Sundarlal Nahata, T. Aswathanarayana and director C. S. Rao, who saw 'immense potential' in it and bought the film rights.^[1]

Samudrala Ramanujacharya was hired to make changes, such as expanding the story, creating new characters and situations for the film adaptation, which was also titled Shanthi Nivasam and was produced under Sri Productions. He also worked as dialogue writer and lyricist. Cinematography was handled by Kamal Ghosh (with J. Sathyanarayana serving as 'operative cameraman'), editing by N. M. Shankar and C. Hari Rao.^[1]

Casting[edit]

Akkineni Nageswara Rao was chosen to play Gopi, reprising the role originally played by Padmanabham in the Telugu play. This role was rewritten for the film as the male lead, unlike the play where it was written as a supporting character. Rajasulochana was cast as Gopi's lover and eventual wife Radha, Kanta Rao as Gopi's older brother Raju, Krishna Kumari as Raju's childhood friend Ragini, and Devika as Raju's wife Lakshmi. Chittor V. Nagaiah played Gopi and Raju's father Ramadasu, Suryakantam was cast as his wife Shanthamma, Surabhi Balasaraswathi as their Chitti, Relangi Venkata Ramaiah as Chitti's husband Simhalu, Hemalatha as the widow Ramani, Mohana as Radha's stepmother, and K. V. S. Sharma as Radha's father Seetapathi Rao.^[1]

Filming[edit]

C. S. Rao, who used to enact scenes for his actors, accidentally slipped during one such exercise on the doormat in front of Krishna Kumari's house set while entering, but immediately managed to balance himself. Kanta Rao believed this was intentional and part of the story, and did exactly the same when filming the scene. After this, C. S. Rao told Kanta Rao, 'Any way, it now turned into a symbolic shot for the critics. For the first time you are entering into another woman’s house and the slip represents your fall and the balancing act symbolises your control.' Except for two songs which were shot at Brindavan Gardens, Mysore, the rest of the film was completed in a single schedule.^[1]

Soundtrack[edit]

The soundtrack was composed by Ghantasala, and the lyrics were written by Samudrala Ramanujacharya.^[2][3] Many of the songs were adapted from Hindi songs; 'Aasalu Theerchave' was based on 'Meethi Meethi Baton Se' from Qaidi No. 911, 'Chakkanidaana' was based on the title song of Dil Deke Dekho, 'Raave Radha Rani Raave' was based on 'Jhumta Mausam' from Ujala, and 'Come Come' was based on 'Tim Tim Tim' from Mausi. 'Sri Raghuram', 'Kalanaina Nee Valape' and 'Ragala Saragala' were original compositions.^[1]

Release and reception[edit]

Shanthi Nivasam was released on 14 January 1960. The film was a commercial success, running for over 100 days in several theatres.^[1] It was remade in Hindi as Gharana (1961),^[4] and dubbed in Malayalam as Shantinivas (1962).^[1]

References[edit]

1. ^ ^abcdefgNarasimham, M. L. (31 December 2015). 'Santhinivasam (1960)'. The Hindu. Archived from the original on 14 November 2018. Retrieved 14 November 2018.Cite uses deprecated parameter dead-url= (help)
2. ^'Santhi Nivasam (1960)'. Music India Online. Archived from the original on 14 November 2018. Retrieved 14 November 2018.Cite uses deprecated parameter dead-url= (help)
3. ^Shanthi Nivasam (songbook) (in Telugu). Sri Productions. 1960.
4. ^Krishnaswamy, S. (27 December 1964). 'The Tried Subject'. The Illustrated Weekly of India. p. 47.

External links[edit]

• Shanthi Nivasam on IMDb