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{{short description|1962 film by K. B. Tilak}}
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{{Infobox film
| name = Chitti Tammudu
| image = Chitti Tammudu.jpg
| image_size =
| caption =
| director = [[K. B. Tilak]]
| producer = Jetti Chandrasekhara Reddy Mungamuri Brothers
| writer = [[Kondepudi Laxminarayana]] (story and dialogues) [[Arudra]] (Lyrics) 
| narrator =
| starring = [[Master Venkata Ramana]] [[Kanta Rao]] [[Rajasulochana]] [[Jaggayya]] [[Devika]]
| music = [[Pendyala Nageswara Rao]]
| cinematography = Laxman Gore
| editing = C.H. Venkateswara Rao
| studio =
| distributor = Poorna Pictures
| released = 1962
| runtime =
| country = [[India]]
| language = [[Telugu language|Telugu]]
| budget =
}}
'''''Chitti Tammudu''''' is a 1962 Telugu [[drama film]] directed by [[K. B. Tilak]].

The film is based on the 1838 English novel ''[[Oliver Twist]]'' by [[Charles Dickens]].

==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"
|-
| [[Kanta Rao]] || Srihari, younger brother of Ramu
|-
| [[Rajasulochana]] ||
|-
| Master Venkata Ramana || Chiranjeevi, son of Ramu
|-
| [[Suryakantham (actress)|Suryakantham]] || Tayaramma, Hostel warden
|-
| [[Jaggayya]] || Ramu
|-
| [[Devika]] || Subhadra, wife of Ramu
|-
| [[Rajanala Kaleswara Rao]] ||
|-
| [[C. S. R. Anjaneyulu]] || Ansari
|-
| [[Ramana Reddy]] || Lawyer
|-
| Sandhya || Seeta, wife of Lawyer
|-
| [[Balakrishna]] ||
|-
| [[Ramakrishna]] ||
|-
| [[Raja Babu (actor)|Rajababu]] ||
|-
| K. V. S. Sharma ||
|-
| [[Chadalavada Kutumba Rao]] ||
|}

==Soundtrack==
There are about 7 songs in the film.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://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>
* "Adagali Adagali Adigedevaro Telali" (Singers: [[P. Susheela]], [[S. Janaki]] and group)
* "Ayyo Rama Ayyo Rama Lamba Rasta" (Singers: [[Madhavapeddi Satyam]] and [[Swarnalatha]])
* "Dikkuleni Vaariki Devude Dikku" (Singer: P. Susheela)
* "Maya Bazar Lokam Samiranga" (Singer: P. Susheela)
* "Merupu Merisindoyi Mava" (Singer: P. Susheela)
* "Neevu Nenu Jabili Muvvuramu Unnamuga" (Singers: P. Susheela and [[Ghantasala Venkateswara Rao]]; Cast: Devika and Jaggayya)
* "Yesko Naa Raja" (Singers: P. Susheela and Maddali)

==References==
{{reflist}}

{{Oliver Twist}}

[[Category:Telugu-language films]]
[[Category:Indian films]]
[[Category:1962 films]]
[[Category:Indian black-and-white films]]
[[Category:Films based on Oliver Twist]]
[[Category:Films scored by Pendyala Nageswara Rao]]
[[Category:Films directed by K. B. Tilak]]

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