The National Film Archive of India (NFAI) has added more than 450 glass slides of films to its collection. The acquisition films like V V Rao’s trendsetting social drama about widow remarriage “Malli Pelli” (1939), B N Reddi’s “Vande Mataram” (1939), starring Chittor V Nagaiah, and popular swashbuckling hit “Keelu Gurram” (1949) featuring Akkineni Nageshwara Rao and Anjali Devi, another hit N T Rama Rao starrer “Daasi” (1952), critically acclaimed adaptation of Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay’s classic Devdas Vedantam Raghavaiah’s “Devadasu” (1953) starring Akkineni Nageswara Rao, Savitri and Lalitha in the central roles and many more.
All these glass slides are in black and white covering 70 Telugu films from 1939 to 1955.
Source: NFAI acquires over 450 rare glass slides of early Telugu cinema – Hindustan Times