Laila Majnu is a Telugu film that released on 1 October 1949 starring A. Nageswara Rao and P. Bhanumathi. It was originally produced in Telugu

Telugu language

Telugu is a Central Dravidian language primarily spoken in the state of Andhra Pradesh, India, where it is an official language. It is also spoken in the neighbouring states of Chattisgarh, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Orissa and Tamil Nadu...

 and was dubbed in Tamil

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...

 by Bharani Pictures

Bharani Pictures

Bharani Pictures is a film production company in Chennai, India. It was established by P. S. Ramakrishna Rao and Bhanumathi Ramakrishna in 1947. They later established Bharani Studios in 1950. It is named after their son Bharani. Dr. Bharani Kumar, who presently taking care of the studios and...

. 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.

Production

Laila Majnu, an ancient epic of love, is an integral part of classic Sufi literature. Hashmet Shah has told it, so has Amir Khusro. Nizami Ganjavi’s 12th century version in scintillating verse filled with allegorical flourishes has been translated into numerous languages. Mian Mohammad Bakhsh’s interpretation of the epic is held as an acclaimed treatise in Pakistan till this day. The tragic tale of Majnoon and Laila is said to have its foundations in true events that occurred in the 7th century.

Plot

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.

Cast

Actor	Role
A. Nageswara Rao	Qaish
P. Bhanumathi	Laila
Mukkamala Krishna Murthy
C. S. R. Anjaneyulu
Sriranjani Sriranjani (junior) Sriranjani was Telugu and Tamil film actress. She is the younger sister of Sriranjani. She is known mainly for her tragedy roles particularly as the long-suffering wife.-Brief life:...
Kasturi Siva Rao
Arani Satyanarayana

Crew

• Producer: P. S. Ramakrishna Rao
  P. S. Ramakrishna Rao
  P. S. Ramakrishna Rao is a veteran Telugu film director and producer. He married Banumathi, a multi-talented film artist from South India, on 7 September 1945.-Filmography:...
  
   & P. Bhanumathi
• Pruduction Company: Bharani Pictures
  Bharani Pictures
  Bharani Pictures is a film production company in Chennai, India. It was established by P. S. Ramakrishna Rao and Bhanumathi Ramakrishna in 1947. They later established Bharani Studios in 1950. It is named after their son Bharani. Dr. Bharani Kumar, who presently taking care of the studios and...
  
  
• Director: P. S. Ramakrishna Rao
  P. S. Ramakrishna Rao
  P. S. Ramakrishna Rao is a veteran Telugu film director and producer. He married Banumathi, a multi-talented film artist from South India, on 7 September 1945.-Filmography:...
  
  
• Music: C. R. Subburaman
  C. R. Subburaman
  C. R. Subburaman also known as C. S. Ram was a famous South Indian film music composer and producer. He was born to Ramasamy Iyer at Chintamani village in Thirunelveli, in present-day Tamil Nadu. Music director Shankar of Shankar Ganesh duo is his younger brother...
  
  
• Lyrics: Samudrala Raghavacharya
  Samudrala Raghavacharya
  Samudrala Raghavacharya also known as Samudrala Senior, is a writer, producer, director and playback singer of Telugu films, Andhra Pradesh, India...
  
   (Telugu) & Kambadhasan (Tamil)
• Story: Samudrala Raghavacharya
  Samudrala Raghavacharya
  Samudrala Raghavacharya also known as Samudrala Senior, is a writer, producer, director and playback singer of Telugu films, Andhra Pradesh, India...
  
  
• Screenplay:
• Dialogues:
• Art Direction:
• Editing:
• Choreography: Vedantam Raghavaiah
  Vedantam Raghavaiah
  Vedantam Raghavaiah was veteran Telugu film actor, choreographer, director and producer.-Devadasu:He was the director and producer of Telugu film Devdas with music by C.R. Subburaman. The hero of Raghavaiah's Devadas, Akkineni Nageshwara Rao, became an overnight star...
  
  
• Cinematography: B. S. Ranga
  B. S. Ranga
  Bindinganavale Srinivas Iyengar Ranga was born in Magadi Village in the erstwhile princely state of Mysore . After an art-enriched childhood wherein he interacted with many stage personalities, B.S.Ranga entered the field of photography...
  
  
• Stunt:
• Dance: Padmini
  Padmini (actress)
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   & Ragini
  Ragini (actress)
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Tamil songs

• nee thaanE ennasai by Ghantasala
  Ghantasala (singer)
  Ghantasala Venkateswara Rao was a famous & popular Indian Playback Singer and music composer of Telugu films and many other languages such as Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, Tulu and Hindi. He is the recipient of the Padmashree award, India's fourth highest civilian award. For nearly a quarter of a...
  
   and P. Bhanumathi
• aaha palan vandhadhE by P. Bhanumathi
• iga vaazhvinil kaathal mahajOthiyE maarumaa by Ghantasala
  Ghantasala (singer)
  Ghantasala Venkateswara Rao was a famous & popular Indian Playback Singer and music composer of Telugu films and many other languages such as Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, Tulu and Hindi. He is the recipient of the Padmashree award, India's fourth highest civilian award. For nearly a quarter of a...
  
   & P. Bhanumathi
• jOthi minnum by Ghantasala
  Ghantasala (singer)
  Ghantasala Venkateswara Rao was a famous & popular Indian Playback Singer and music composer of Telugu films and many other languages such as Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, Tulu and Hindi. He is the recipient of the Padmashree award, India's fourth highest civilian award. For nearly a quarter of a...
  
   & P. Bhanumathi
• vaaraayO enai maRandhanaiyO by Ghantasala
  Ghantasala (singer)
  Ghantasala Venkateswara Rao was a famous & popular Indian Playback Singer and music composer of Telugu films and many other languages such as Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, Tulu and Hindi. He is the recipient of the Padmashree award, India's fourth highest civilian award. For nearly a quarter of a...
  
   & P. Bhanumathi
• unnai paarkka pOgiREnaa oru maasillatha kaif by P. Bhanumathi
• pRemaithaan polladhaa by P. Bhanumathi
• enadhu uyir urugum nilai solluvaai nee vaanmathi by Ghantasala
  Ghantasala (singer)
  Ghantasala Venkateswara Rao was a famous & popular Indian Playback Singer and music composer of Telugu films and many other languages such as Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, Tulu and Hindi. He is the recipient of the Padmashree award, India's fourth highest civilian award. For nearly a quarter of a...
  
   & P. Bhanumathi
• paRandhu sellum painkiLiyE by Ghantasala
  Ghantasala (singer)
  Ghantasala Venkateswara Rao was a famous & popular Indian Playback Singer and music composer of Telugu films and many other languages such as Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, Tulu and Hindi. He is the recipient of the Padmashree award, India's fourth highest civilian award. For nearly a quarter of a...
  
  
• veeN pazhi thaanE prabhO en mEl by R. Balasaraswathi Devi
  Raavu Balasaraswathi
  R. Balasaraswathi, Raavu Balasaraswathi or Rao Balasaraswathi Devi is famous singer and actress of 1930 to 1960s in Telugu and Tamil languages....
  
  

Telugu songs

• neevEnE naa chaduvu Ghantasala
  Ghantasala (singer)
  Ghantasala Venkateswara Rao was a famous & popular Indian Playback Singer and music composer of Telugu films and many other languages such as Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, Tulu and Hindi. He is the recipient of the Padmashree award, India's fourth highest civilian award. For nearly a quarter of a...
  
  , P. Bhanumathi & 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:...
  
  
• aaha pahliyanchega by P. Bhanumathi
• viri tAvula lOna by Ghantasala
  Ghantasala (singer)
  Ghantasala Venkateswara Rao was a famous & popular Indian Playback Singer and music composer of Telugu films and many other languages such as Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, Tulu and Hindi. He is the recipient of the Padmashree award, India's fourth highest civilian award. For nearly a quarter of a...
  
   & P. Bhanumathi
• chEra raavo by Ghantasala
  Ghantasala (singer)
  Ghantasala Venkateswara Rao was a famous & popular Indian Playback Singer and music composer of Telugu films and many other languages such as Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, Tulu and Hindi. He is the recipient of the Padmashree award, India's fourth highest civilian award. For nearly a quarter of a...
  
   & P. Bhanumathi
• raavO naanu marachitivO by Ghantasala
  Ghantasala (singer)
  Ghantasala Venkateswara Rao was a famous & popular Indian Playback Singer and music composer of Telugu films and many other languages such as Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, Tulu and Hindi. He is the recipient of the Padmashree award, India's fourth highest civilian award. For nearly a quarter of a...
  
   & P. Bhanumathi
• ninu bAsi pOvudana by P. Bhanumathi
• prEmE nEramounaa by P. Bhanumathi
• chelunigani nijamidani telupuma O jaabili by Ghantasala
  Ghantasala (singer)
  Ghantasala Venkateswara Rao was a famous & popular Indian Playback Singer and music composer of Telugu films and many other languages such as Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, Tulu and Hindi. He is the recipient of the Padmashree award, India's fourth highest civilian award. For nearly a quarter of a...
  
   & P. Bhanumathi
• payanamyE priyatama by Ghantasala
  Ghantasala (singer)
  Ghantasala Venkateswara Rao was a famous & popular Indian Playback Singer and music composer of Telugu films and many other languages such as Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, Tulu and Hindi. He is the recipient of the Padmashree award, India's fourth highest civilian award. For nearly a quarter of a...
  
  
• Ela pagAyE by R. Balasaraswathi Devi
  Raavu Balasaraswathi
  R. Balasaraswathi, Raavu Balasaraswathi or Rao Balasaraswathi Devi is famous singer and actress of 1930 to 1960s in Telugu and Tamil languages....
  
  
• ninugani manasuna by
• assaalaa malEkkum amta bagunnAAraa by Siva Rao
• manasu gadaa khudaa tOdai nilachu gadaa niratamu by Ghantasala
  Ghantasala (singer)
  Ghantasala Venkateswara Rao was a famous & popular Indian Playback Singer and music composer of Telugu films and many other languages such as Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, Tulu and Hindi. He is the recipient of the Padmashree award, India's fourth highest civilian award. For nearly a quarter of a...
  
  , Susarla Dakshinamurthy & M. Satyam
  Madhavapeddi Satyam
  Madhavapeddi Satyam was a renowned Telugu singer and stage-actor from the state of Andhra Pradesh, India. He entered into films as a singer-actor in Y.V. Rao's Tamil-Hindi Biligual movie Ramadas in the year 1946. He played the role of Kabir. However, he became more popular as a playback singer...
  
  
• aMdala chinna daana by Jikki
  Jikki
  Pillavalu Gajapathi Krishnaveni aka Jikki , was a popular film playback singer from South India. She sang over nearly 10,000 songs in Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, Hindi and Sinhala languages.-Early life:...
  
  
• eenaaTi mA pATa by Jikki
  Jikki
  Pillavalu Gajapathi Krishnaveni aka Jikki , was a popular film playback singer from South India. She sang over nearly 10,000 songs in Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, Hindi and Sinhala languages.-Early life:...
  
  
• tAneDanO by P. Bhanumathi

Trivia

• F. Nagoor also made the adaptation of Laila Majnu for Balaji Pictures, with T. R. Mahalingam
  T. R. Mahalingam (actor)
  Thenkarai Ramakrishna Mahalingam was a Tamil film actor, singer and music composer of the 1940s and 1950s. He was known for his melodious songs mostly based on romantic or devotional themes.-Early days:...
  
  and M. V. Rajamma playing the lead roles in 1949.