{{short description|1962 film by K. B. Tilak}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2015}} {{Use Indian English|date=November 2015}} {{Infobox film | name = Chitti Tammudu | image = Chitti Tammudu.jpg | caption = | director = [[K. B. Tilak]] | producer = Jetti Chandrasekhara Reddy<br>Mungamuri Brothers<ref>{{cite web |title=Chitti Tammudu |url=https://www.primevideo.com/detail/Chitti-Tammudu/0JXOBZWKJFXOVJIFZHEIPS8E1T}}</ref> | writer = Kondepudi Laxminarayana <small> (story and dialogues)</small> <br>[[Arudra]] <small> (Lyrics) </small> | narrator = | starring = [[Jaggayya]] <br/>[[Master Venkata Ramana]]<br/>[[Kanta Rao]]<br>[[Rajasulochana]]<br/>[[Devika]] | music = [[Pendyala Nageswara Rao]] | cinematography = Laxman Gore | editing = C.H. Venkateswara Rao | studio = | distributor = Poorna Pictures | released = {{Film date|1962}} | runtime = | country = [[India]] | language = [[Telugu language|Telugu]] | budget = }} '''''Chitti Tammudu''''' is a 1962 Telugu [[drama film]] directed by [[K. B. Tilak]] and produced by Jetti Chandrasekhara Reddy.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Chitti Tammudu {{!}} Rotten Tomatoes |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/chitti_tammudu |access-date=2025-07-18 |website=www.rottentomatoes.com |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=చిట్టి తమ్ముడు నటీనటులు-సాంకేతిక నిపుణులు {{!}} Chitti Tammudu Cast & Crew Details in Telugu - Filmibeat Telugu |url=https://telugu.filmibeat.com/movies/chitti-tammudu/cast-crew.html |access-date=2025-07-18 |website=telugu.filmibeat.com |language=te}}</ref> The film is based on the 1838 [[English novel]] ''[[Oliver Twist]]'' by [[Charles Dickens]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Farina |first=William |url=https://www.google.co.in/books/edition/Screening_Charles_Dickens/gjyVEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=manik+(1961+film)+oliver+twist&pg=PA205&printsec=frontcover |title=Screening Charles Dickens: A Survey of Film and Television Adaptations |date=2022-10-17 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-1-4766-8567-0 |language=en}}</ref>
==The plot== The story is about the problems faced by children in [[orphanage]]s, irregularities by the management and the related consequences.
Ramu (Jaggayya) and Subhadra (Devika) love one other. Ramu urgently leaves to Kashmir, and returns home to find that his beloved Subhadra is pregnant, and that her father had died of that insult. She delivers a boy in a mission hospital and dies. The boy is admitted to an orphanage and named Chiranjeevi. Hostel warden Tayaramma (Suryakantam) feeds the orphans with insufficient food and they are starving.
Ramu has an elder sister Seetha (Sandhya) and younger brother Srihari (Kanta Rao). Seetha is wife of a lawyer (Ramana Reddy). Ramu dies of chronic cough and mental agony, leaving the property in charge of his brother-in-law.
==Cast== {| class="wikitable" |- |[[Jaggayya ]] || Ramu |- | [[Kanta Rao]] || Srihari, younger brother of Ramu |- | [[Rajasulochana]] || |- | Master Venkata Ramana || Chiranjeevi, son of Ramu |- | [[Suryakantham (actress)|Suryakantham]] || Tayaramma, Hostel warden |- |- | [[Devika]] || Subhadra, wife of Ramu |- | [[Rajanala Kaleswara Rao]]<ref>{{Cite web |last=FilmyFocus |title=Rajanala : Biography, Age, Movies, Family, Photos, Latest News |url=https://filmyfocus.com/celebs/rajanala |access-date=2025-07-18 |website=Filmy Focus |language=en}}</ref>|| |- | [[C. S. R. Anjaneyulu]] || Ansari |- | [[Ramana Reddy]] || Lawyer |- | Sandhya || Seeta, wife of Lawyer |- | [[Nandamuri Balakrishna]] || |- | [[Ramakrishna]] || |- | [[Raja Babu (actor)|Rajababu]] || |- | K. V. S. Sharma || |- | [[Chadalavada Kutumba Rao]] || |}
==Soundtrack==
{{Track listing | headline = Track listing <ref>{{Cite web |url=https://ghantasalagalamrutamu.blogspot.com/2009/05/1962_12.html |title=Lyrical details of Chitti Tammudu film at Ghantasala Galamrutamu. |access-date=2 August 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110925082755/http://ghantasalagalamrutamu.blogspot.com/2009/05/1962_12.html |archive-date=25 September 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref> | all_music = [[Pendyala Nageswara Rao]] | all_lyrics = [[Aarudra]] | extra_column = Singer (s) | title1 = Adagali Adagali Adigedevaro Telali | extra1 = [[P. Susheela]], [[S. Janaki]], Chorus | title2 = Ayyo Rama Ayyo Rama Lamba Rasta | extra2 = [[Madhavapeddi Satyam]], Swarnalatha | title3 = Dikkuleni Vaariki Devude Dikku | extra3 = P. Susheela | title4 = Maya Bazar Lokam Samiranga | extra4 = P. Susheela | title5 = Merupu Merisindoyi Mava | extra5 = P. Susheela | title6 = Neevu Nenu Jabili Muvvuramu Unnamuga | extra6 = P. Susheela, [[Ghantasala (musician)|Ghantasala]] | title7 = Yesko Naa Raja | extra7 = P. Susheela, Maddali }}
==References== {{reflist}}
{{Oliver Twist}}
[[Category:1962 Telugu-language films]] [[Category:1962 Indian films]] [[Category:1962 drama films]] [[Category:Indian black-and-white films]] [[Category:Indian drama films]] [[Category:Films based on Oliver Twist]] [[Category:Films scored by Pendyala (composer)]] [[Category:Films directed by K. B. Tilak]]