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Mayabazar is a 1957 Indian bilingual fantasy film directed by Kadiri Venkata Reddy. It tells the story of Krishna and Ghatotkacha trying to reunite Arjuna's son Abhimanyu with his love, Balarama's daughter. The film was a milestone for its producers and had a cast and crew of over 400. Though the lead actor was reluctant at first, his portrayal of Krishna was acclaimed. Mayabazar was critically and commercially successful, with a 100-day run in theaters. It is considered a landmark film in Telugu and Tamil cinema despite the limitations of technology at the time.

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Mayabazar (English: Market of Illusions) : - It Revolves Around The Roles of

Mayabazar is a 1957 Indian bilingual fantasy film directed by Kadiri Venkata Reddy. It tells the story of Krishna and Ghatotkacha trying to reunite Arjuna's son Abhimanyu with his love, Balarama's daughter. The film was a milestone for its producers and had a cast and crew of over 400. Though the lead actor was reluctant at first, his portrayal of Krishna was acclaimed. Mayabazar was critically and commercially successful, with a 100-day run in theaters. It is considered a landmark film in Telugu and Tamil cinema despite the limitations of technology at the time.

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Mayabazar (English: Market of Illusions)[3] is a 1957 Indian bilingual epic fantasy film[4] directed

by Kadiri Venkata Reddy. It was produced by B. Nagi Reddy and Aluri Chakrapani under their
banner, Vijaya Vauhini Studios. The film was shot in both Telugu and Tamil with the same title, but
with a few differences in the cast. The story is an adaptation of the folk tale Sasirekha Parinayam,
which in turn is based on the epic Mahabharata. It revolves around the roles of Krishna (N. T. Rama
Rao) and Ghatotkacha (S. V. Ranga Rao), as they try to
reunite Arjuna's son, Abhimanyu (Telugu: Akkineni Nageswara Rao, Tamil: Gemini Ganesan), with
his love, Balarama's daughter (Savitri). The Telugu version features Gummadi Venkateswara
Rao, Mukkamala, Ramana Reddy, and Relangi Venkata Ramaiah in supporting roles, with D.
Balasubramaniam, R. Balasubramaniam, V. M. Ezhumalai, and K. A. Thangavelu playing those parts
in the Tamil version.

The first mythological film produced by their studio, Mayabazar marked a milestone for Nagi Reddy
and Chakrapani. In addition to the technical crew, 400 studio workers including light men,
carpenters, and painters participated in the development of the film. Director Reddy was
meticulous with the pre-production and casting phases, which took nearly a year to complete.
Though Rama Rao was initially reluctant to play the lead role, his portrayal of Krishna received
acclaim and yielded more offers to reprise the same role in several unrelated films. [a] The soundtrack
features twelve songs, with most of the musical score composed by Ghantasala. Telugu lyrics were
written by Pingali Nagendrarao and Tamil lyrics were written by Thanjai N. Ramaiah Dass. Four of
the songs were composed by S. Rajeswara Rao prior to his unexplained departure from the project.
One of them was accompanied by the first illusion of moonlight in Indian cinema, shot by
cinematographer Marcus Bartley.

Mayabazar had a final film-reel length of 5,888 metres (19,318 ft). The film's Telugu version was
released on 27 March 1957; the Tamil version was released two weeks later, on 12 April. Both were
critically and commercially successful, with a theatrical run of 100 days in 24 theatres, and it became
a silver-jubilee film. Mayabazar was also dubbed into Kannada. The film is considered a landmark in
both Telugu and Tamil cinema, with praise for its cast and technical aspects, despite the limitations of
technology at the time. Mayabazar was screened at the Public Gardens in Hyderabad for its 50th
anniversary on 7 April 2007. Raavi Kondala Rao novelised the film's script based on Venkata
Reddy's screenplay. A May 2013 CNN-News18 poll listed Mayabazar as the greatest Indian film of
all time.

Mayabazar became the first Telugu film to be digitally remastered and colourised, at an estimated
cost of 75 million (valued at about US$1.7 million in 2010), after a Hyderabad-based company
Goldstone Technologies acquired world negative rights to fourteen films including that
of Mayabazar in late November 2007. The updated version was released on 30 January 2010 in 45
theatres in Andhra Pradesh. It was a commercial success that generated mostly positive reviews,
one critic only expressing a preference for the original.

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