Missiamma
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| மிஸ்ஸியம்மா | |
| Directed by | L. V. Prasad |
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B. Nagi Reddy Aluri Chakrapani |
| Screenplay by | Thanjai N. Ramaiah Doss |
| Story by | Chakrapani |
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Manmoyee Girls School by Rabindranath Maitra Detective by Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay |
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| Music by | S. Rajeswara Rao |
| Cinematography | Marcus Bartley |
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179 minutes |
| Country | India |
| Language | Tamil |
Missiamma is a 1955 Indian Tamil-language romantic comedy film directed by L. V. Prasad, and produced by B. Nagi Reddy and Aluri Chakrapani. The film features Gemini Ganesan, Savithri, K. A. Thangavelu and Jamuna in the lead roles. It was simultaneously filmed in Telugu as Missamma, with an altered cast.
The Zamindar runs a school in the village Aandipettai. He wants to replace the existing teacher with someone with higher qualification. He decides to appoint a husband and wife couple as head master and wife. When he advertised in the papers, a Hindu young man who is looking for a job wants to apply for it. But he is not married. By circumstances he meets an unmarried young girl who is looking for a way to earn some money to set off a loan taken by her father. But she is a Christian. However, the young man and young woman come to an understanding and present themselves as husband and wife to the Zamindar. He appoints them as headmaster and teacher. The young woman also teaches music to the Zamindar's daughter.
Zamindar and his wife lost their elder daughter 15 years ago in a temple festival. In fact, he named the school after the lost child, Mahalakshmi. Now the young woman teacher reminds them of their elder daughter and they shower love on her.
A nephew of the Zamindar who is a self-styled detective, takes it upon himself to search and find the missing child.
After some confusion and much banter, it comes to light that the young woman teacher is actually the lost child of the Zamindar. The family re-unites. The young man and the young woman who came pretending as husband and wife marries each other and become real couple at the end.
B. Nagi Reddy and Aluri Chakrapani signed L. V. Prasad to direct a bilingual film for Vijaya Vauhini Studios. The film's script, by Chakrapani, was based on Rabindranath Maitra's Manmoyee Girls School and Sharadindu Bandhopadhyay's Detective. Chakrapani thought the plot of Manmoyee Girls School, about two unemployed young people who pretend to be married to gain employment and fall in love, was too limited for a full-length film. He added the basic storyline of Detective, in which an enthusiastic detective finds a missing woman and marries her. Prasad's relationship with Khan, a Muslim tailor near Kohinoor Studios in Bombay (now Mumbai), was the basis of the film's friendship between two men of different religions. The film was titled Missamma in Telugu and Missiamma in Tamil.
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