Karthika Deepam | |
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Directed by | Lakshmi Deepak |
Screenplay by | Lakshmi Deepak |
Story by | M. Prabhakar Reddy |
Produced by | G. Radhadevi Gupta A. Krishnaiah |
Starring | Sobhan Babu Sridevi Sharada Geetha Gummadi M. Prabhakar Reddy |
Cinematography | J. Satyanarayana |
Edited by | K. Balu |
Music by | Chellapilla Satyam |
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Country | India |
Language | Telugu |
Box office | ₹1.5 crores(equivalent to ₹31 crores in 2019) |
Karthika Deepam is a 1979 Indian Telugu-language film directed by Laxmi Deepak and starring Sobhan Babu, Sridevi and Sharada. The music score by Chellapilla Satyam are memorable. Sobhan Babu won Filmfare Best Actor Award (Telugu). The film was declared a blockbuster at the box office.
The film was remade as Maang Bharo Sajana (1980) in Hindi directed by T. Rama Rao, [1] in Tamil as Karpoora Deepam (1985) and in Kannada as Sowbhagya Lakshmi (1987).
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Released | 1979 |
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