23 Facts About Gundamma Katha

Partially inspired by William Shakespeare comedy The Taming of the Shrew, Gundamma Katha is an official remake of the Kannada film Mane Thumbida Hennu.

Gundamma Katha is the story of Gundamma, a rich widow who ill-treats her selfless step-daughter Lakshmi, who is reduced to working as a maid.

Gundamma Katha is a rich widow who ill-treats her stepdaughter Lakshmi, a selfless person who is reduced to working as a maid.

Gundamma Katha has a half-brother Ghantayya, a cunning but weak milk vendor.

Ghantayya wants Gundamma Katha to marry off Saroja to his criminal son Bhoopati, who is in prison.

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Gundamma Katha decides to marry off Lakshmi to a vagabond and Saroja to the son of Ramabhadrayya, a wealthy man living in a faraway town.

Ramabhadrayya knows out about Saroja through a marriage broker and goes to Gundamma Katha's home after finding that her late husband was a friend of his.

Ramabhadrayya writes a letter to Gundamma Katha opposing the marriage of Raja and Saroja upon the former's instructions, and Anji conducts their marriage against Ghantayya's wishes.

Gundamma Katha's meets Lakshmi on the way and learns about Raja's plans and that Ramabhadrayya is her father-in-law.

The film ends with Gundamma Katha staying with her daughters in Ramabhadrayya's house.

Production phase of Gundamma Katha lasted nearly a year, with one of the reasons being that both Rama Rao and Nageswara Rao had delays in giving bulk dates for the project.

Gundamma Katha is based partially on William Shakespeare's play The Taming of the Shrew.

Gundamma Katha was a profitable venture for Vijaya Productions; it completed a 100-day run in 17 theatres across Andhra Pradesh, and completed a silver-jubilee run at the Durga Kalamandir, Vijayawada.

Gundamma Katha was remade in Tamil as Manithan Maravillai by Vijaya Productions.

Manithan Maravillai was Nageswara Rao's 100th film as an actor; Gundamma Katha became a notable film for both Rama Rao and Nageswara Rao as they completed 100 films as actors with two versions of the same film.

Rama Rao's son Nandamuri Balakrishna and Nageswara Rao's son Nagarjuna, who established themselves as actors in Telugu cinema, planned to remake Gundamma Katha but withdrew after failing to find a suitable replacement for Suryakantham.

Gundamma Katha added that G Nageswara Reddy would direct the remake which he would announce after acquiring the rights.

The remastered and colourised version of Mayabazar, released in January 2010, was commercially successful but Goldstone Technologies decided not to remaster the remaining 13 films, including Gundamma Katha, saying most of the producers who sold the rights to the negatives to television channels lost control over them.

Gundamma Katha is regarded as the last film of Vijaya Productions' "Golden Age".

Gundamma Katha is a notable film in the careers of Suryakantham and Ramana Reddy; Nagi Reddi said the latter played a key role in the film's success.

Seethamma Vakitlo Sirimalle Chettu, which was rumoured to be a remake of Gundamma Katha, adapted the style of its opening credits—use of images rather than text to credit its principal cast.

Story and treatment of Gundamma Katha inspired many other Telugu films, resulting in stereotypes in narration.

Reddy stated that Gundamma Katha had good dialogue and production design but lacked a proper story to narrate.