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Laila Majnu is a film of genre Drama released in USA on 30 september 1949 with Akkineni Nageswara Rao
Laila Majnu (1949)
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Add to a movie listLaila Majnu is a Telugu film that released on 1 October 1949 starring A. Nageswara Rao and P. Bhanumathi. It was originally produced in Telugu and was dubbed in Tamil by Bharani Pictures. The film was a box office hit and is considered one of the best film adaptations of the classic Sufi legend of Laila and Majnu.
Synopsis
Qais Ibn Al Mulawwa, son of Shah Amri is sent to Damascus to pursue his education. There he meets and falls in love with the beautiful Laila, daughter of the Najd chieftain. Though Laila reciprocates his love in equal measure, her father opposes this match and keeps her confined in the house. Heartbroken at this separation, Qais loses his mental faculties and wanders aimlessly, always uttering the name of Laila. He is soon known far and wide as Majnoon, the obsessed. Laila is forcibly married off to Bakht, a scion of the royal family of Iraq. But she refuses to let Bakht touch her. Overwhelming misery and wretchedness of her circumstances lead to her death and hearing of her demise, the grief-stricken Qais falls dead too. The lovers unite in death.Actors
Akkineni Nageswara Rao
(Qais)
Bhanumati Ramakrishna
(Laila)
Mukkamala Krishnamurthy
Lalitha
(Dancer)
Padmini Ramachandran
(Dancer)
Mohammed Rafi
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