Chinnari Papalu is a 1968 Telugu Drama film

Drama film

A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, infidelity, moral dilemmas, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, class divisions, violence against women...

 directed and produced by Mahanati Savitri. It was remade into Tamil language

Tamil language

Tamil is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly by Tamil people of the Indian subcontinent. It has official status in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu and in the Indian union territory of Pondicherry. Tamil is also an official language of Sri Lanka and Singapore...

 subsequently.

The film has set record in Telugu cinema field to have many women in the crew i.e. Savitri as main director, singer P. Leela

P. Leela

Porayathu Leela better known as P. Leela was a popular Indian playback singer. She was awarded Padma Bhushan posthumously in 2006.-Early life:...

 as the music director and Papa as Art director and Veeramachaneni Sarojini as writer and production executive. Rajasulochana was the choreographer.

Awards

• The film won Nandi Award for Best Feature Film from Government of Andhra Pradesh in 1968.