Pic 1 Devulapalli Krishna Shastri with producer Navata Krishnam Raju on the muhurtam day of the film America Ammayi - 1976

 Pic 2 is the great Cinematographer Balu Mahendra with the hero Sridhar during the maing of this film

 Pic 3 is French actress Annick Chaymotty rechristened as Devayani for this film with producer Navata Krishnam Raju & Director Singeetam Srinivasa Rao during the Making of this film 
Krishna. She was learning Kuchipudi dance from  Vempati Chinna Satyam at that time. 




Shastri garu wrote the hit song " Paadana Telugu pata" sung by P Suseela and composed by G K Venkatesh . Gollapudi Maruti Rao wrote the dialogues for this film. He gave a complete make over to this tamil original Melnaattu Marumagal  and it was more hit in telugu than in Tamil. My dad's fave dialogue in this film was Kanta Rao saying even I want an America Ammayi as my daughter in law....

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