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Viswa Mohini is a film directed by Yaragudipati Varada Rao with Chittor V. Nagaiah
Viswa Mohini (1940)
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Directed by Yaragudipati Varada Rao
Viswa Mohini (Telugu:విశ్వమోహిని) is a 1940 Telugu, romance film directed by Y. V. Rao. The film written by Balijepalli Lakshmikanta Kavi is touted to be the first film on the Indian motion picture world.
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Purushottam (Y.V. Rao) embezzles money from a firm of brokers owned by Padmanabham in order to get his son Mohan Rao married to Hemalatha, daughter of the millionaire Visalakshamma (B Rajaratnam). The now impoverished Padmanabham partially gets his own revenge when his daughter Sushila (Lalitha Devi) becomes a film star Viswa Mohini.Actors
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