[Lava Kusa Tamil Dubbed Movie
Amancio Mccrae
T he two masters of Telugu cinema, besides having a similar name, also shared the distinction of tasting huge success by remaking their earlier box office hits. While Poludasu Pullaiah remade his 1939 big hit, Sri Venkateswara Mahatmyam in 1960, his contemporary Chithajallu Pullaiah came up in 1963, with the remake of his 1934 blockbuster hit, Lava Kusa. Interestingly both the remakes starred N.T. Ramarao in the lead.
Just two years earlier, NTR had won the audience hearts as Ravana in Sita Rama Kalyanam and with Lava Kusa he was literally worshipped by many as Lord Rama with his picture from the film adorning their puja room. Like Sr. Sriranjani who played Sita in the 1934 film, Anjali Devi too was held in reverence and was offered harati by womenfolk wherever she went. Master Nagaraju, a popular child actor, was cast as Lava. Master Subrahmanyam from Kakinada was chosen to play Kusa, after watching his performance in the play Lava Kusa . He was nine years old then and by the time the movie was released he was 14. The result, in some scenes the boys looked short and in some scenes tall. However the audience did not mind the jumps as they were immersed in their extraordinary performance.
Sankara Reddy also produced Lava Kusa in Tamil retaining NTR, Anjali Devi, Nagaiah, Kannamba, Sandhya and S. Varalakshmi and replacing Tamil actors for the other characters. The roles of Lava and Kusa were played by Baby Uma and Master Murali.
Released on March 29, 1963, Lavakusa, the first full length colour film in Telugu, broke all previous box office records. It won the silver medal as the best Telugu film at the National Film Awards. Its Tamil version, released on April 19, 1963 was also a massive hit. The dubbed Hindi version of Lavakusa too fared well.
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Uttara Kanda has the mentions of Lava Kusa of how they met their father and returned back to Ayodhya. It is the last Book of the great epic Ramayana and it deals with the return of Rama to Ayodhya and his coronation to the throne. This Kanda also gives a description of the birth of Lav and Kush, the two sons of Rama in the hermitage of Valmiki and the episode ends with the description of the last days of Rama in the world.
So, Valmiki took a grass (Kusha), cut it off (lava) into two parts and sanctified it with mantras. He instructed the women there to rub the upper part to the elder boy and the lower part to the younger boy. That is how they came to be known as Lava and Kusha. [7.66.4-7]It is known in some folk-lores that some probably take that ritual that Valmiki did to save the new born twins from the effect of ghosts, demons etc. as a cloning process, but it is not. As evident from the scripture, Sita gave birth to two sons, there were no clones made by Valmiki.
After some time when Muni looked for the child who was supposed to be with him, he could not find Luv. Muni was not aware of the fact that Sita herself had taken Luv with her. Muni was concerned what he would say when Sita wil return and ask for her kid.