Overview
Maa Babu is a 1960 Indian Telugu-language drama film co-written and directed by T. Prakash Rao. The film stars Akkineni Nageswara Rao and Savitri, with music composed by T. Chalapathi Rao. It is a remake of the Hindi film Chirag Kahan Roshni Kahan (1959).
Plot
Dr. Anand is a well-known rectitude, his wife dies giving birth to a baby boy. Parallelly, a widowed pregnant lady Ratna Devi has a miscarriage, as Anand promised her to protect the child, he gives his own to her hiding the truth. After that, grief-stricken, Anand becomes a wanderer and returns after a few years. Due to affection for his son, he starts being frequent in their life which does not augur well with Ratna Devi's mother-in-law and sister-in-law who make her life miserable by attributing illicit relations between them and forcibly stopping Anand. Shortly thereafter, Anand marries a nurse, Maya who is a spendthrift does not get along with Anand, and he finds out that she cannot conceive. Eventually, Anand's dad passes away, and he leaves considerable wealth to Anand's child, including a monthly allowance of Rs.10,000. At that time, Maya learns the birth secret of Anand's child, so, she files a case in the court and wins. Therefore, Ratna Devi has to hand over the child to Maya, but the depressed child is not able to stay with Maya and runs away from home. At Present, everybody is in search of the child, and in that bedlam, Maya dies in an accident. Finally, the movie ends, with Anand giving back the child to Ratna Devi and continuing his journey on official duty by dedicating his life to the hospital.
Cast
Akkineni Nageswara Rao as Dr. Anand
Savitri as Ratnadevi
M. N. Rajam as Maya
Gummadi as Dr. Ashok
Relangi
Ramana Reddy
V. Nagayya
Mikkilineni
C.S.R
Chadalavada as Ramu
Allu Ramalingaiah
Kannamba
Honey Irani
M. Saroja
Nalla Ramamurthy
Soundtrack
Music composed by T. Chalapathi Rao.
From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).