Aadarsa Kutumbam

Aadarsa Kutumbam is a 1969 Indian Telugu-language drama film directed by K. Pratyagatma. It stars Akkineni Nageswara Rao and Jayalalithaa, with music composed by S. Rajeswara Rao. It was produced by A. V. Subba Rao under the Prasad Art Productions banner. The film won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Telugu for the year 1969.

Plot
The film deals with a joint family; Raghavendra Rao and his wife Rajyalakshmi are paterfamiliases with four sons and a daughter. The elder son, Pattabhi, and his wife, Janaki, look after the house finances and agricultural work. The second son Prakasam is involved in village politics and wastes time & money therein, and his wife, Jaya, is a shrew who doesn't contribute anything to the welfare of the family. The third son, Pratap, is a bodybuilder obsessed with diet & fitness and is not bothered about his wife Rama. The youngest one, Prasad, studies in the city, where he falls in love with a beautiful girl, Saroja, a doctor. The only daughter is Chandra, and her husband, Suryam, suffers from night blindness. He doesn't work and spends his time lazily living in his in-law's house. To make things worse, his mother, Durgamma, always visits the home, creating rifts in the family. Pattabhi & Janaki's goodwill misleads to inability, which remains misused. Meanwhile, Prasad marries Saroja at this juncture, and she enters the family when everybody is in a mess with unnecessary expenditures, arguments, and cheating. So, Prasad & Saroja decide to separate the family, and they do so by cheating. The rest of the story is about reuniting the affections and relations between family members.

Cast

 * Akkineni Nageswara Rao as Prasad
 * Jayalalithaa as Saroja
 * V. Nagayya as Raghavendra Rao
 * Gummadi as Pattabhi
 * Nagabhushanam as Prakasam
 * Padmanabham as Suryam
 * Ramana Reddy as Damodaram
 * Sakshi Ranga Rao as Appaiah Panthulu
 * Bheemaraju as Pratap
 * Anjali Devi as Janaki
 * S. Varalakshmi as Jaya
 * Suryakantham as Durgamma
 * Hemalatha as Rajyalakshmi
 * Geetanjali as Rama
 * Vijaya Lalitha as Sunita
 * Surabhi Balasaraswathi as Rami
 * Anitha as Chandra

Soundtrack
Music composed by S. Rajeswara Rao.

Awards

 * National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Telugu - 1969
 * K. Pratyagatma won Nandi Award for Second Best Story Writer (1969)