Dharma Devatha

Dharma Devatha is a 1952 Indian film produced and directed by P. Pullaiah. The film stars Santha Kumari and Kaushik, with Mudigonda Lingamurthy, Mukkamala, Relangi, Baby Sachu and Girija in supporting roles. It was simultaneously shot in Tamil and Telugu languages.

Cast
List adapted from the database of Film News Anandan and The Hindu.


 * Santha Kumari as Kathyayini
 * Kaushik as Soorasen
 * Mudigonda Lingamurthy as King Veerasena
 * Mukkamala as Raghunatha Varma
 * Relangi as Ranganna
 * Baby Sachu as Swarna
 * Girija as Vasanthi
 * C. V. V. Panthulu
 * Appa K. Duraiswami as Dharmadhikari
 * Vangara Venkata Subbaiah as Duvva
 * B. N. R. as Sanjeevi
 * K. S. Angamuthu
 * Ganapathi Bhat
 * Master Mohan as Gopal


 * Dance
 * Lalitha as Bijlee
 * Padmini as Narthaki

Production
The film was produced by P. Pullaiah who also directed it under the banner of Ragini Films, which was owned by him. The choreography was co-performed by Pasumarthi Krishnamurthy, Lalitha and Padmini. The film was produced in Tamil and Telugu with the same title.

Soundtrack
The music for Dharma Devatha was composed by C. R. Subburaman. All the tunes for both languages are the same.

For Telugu version Gopichand wrote dialogues, lyrics were written by Samudrala Sr. and Gopalaraya Sarma. There are 11 songs in the film, of which Santha Kumari sang one herself.
 * Telugu track list

The lyrics for the Tamil songs were penned by Thanjai N. Ramaiah Dass, who also wrote the film's dialogues with Aluri Chakrapani.
 * Tamil tracklist

Reception
Film historian Randor Guy noted that the film had better box office success in Telugu than in Tamil.