The movie ‘Pratibimbalu’ started in 1981 under the direction of Singeetham Srinivasa Rao with Natasamrat Akkineni Nageswara Rao as the hero. Jayasudha played the heroine in this movie. However, the movie was stopped when Akkineni Nageswara Rao suffered a heart attack during this shooting. After his recovery, Jayasudha became busy with other films and the dates issue came up… Due to many problems like this, director Singeetham Srinivasa Rao left the film.
With this, K. Raghavendra Rao’s father K.S. The shooting of the movie ‘Pratibimbalu’ directed by Prakash Rao has been completed. After the shooting was completed, the film was not released due to financial reasons. A few hundreds of films like this could not come to the theaters after completing the shooting. But Radhakrishna Murthy, the producer of ‘Pratibimbalu’, is determined to bring this movie to theaters.
So finally on the occasion of Akkineni Nageswara Rao’s birthday on September 20, 2022, ‘Pratibimbalu’ hit the theaters. DTS sound system along with DI color correction has also been done for today’s generation. At the time of release Akkineni Nageswara Rao who acted as the hero in the movie ‘Pratibimbalu’ along with director K.S. Prakash Rao also passed away. Also, Chakraborty, who composed the music for this movie, also passed away many years before its release. Also, the movie ‘Pratibimbalu’, which was released after 40 years in the history of Telugu cinema, could not collect much in theaters.