Kanchanamala starrer, 'Malapilla' was considered to be the first Telugu film which was touted as a revolutionary and message oriented entertainer. This movie broke the collection records of all the previous Telugu movies and stood as an industry hit of tollywood then. More details of this movie are as follows.
* 'Malapilla' was released on 25 September. 1938.
* Then number one heroine of tollywood and dream girl of male youth, Kanchanamala did the protagonist of the movie.
* Govindarajula Subbarao, Suribabu, Sundaramma played other lead roles in the film.
* 'Malapilla' was the love story of a Brahmin boy and a Harizan girl.
* Bheemavarapu Narasimha Rao scored the music of the movie while Goodhavalli Ramabrahmam directed this movie.
* 'Malapilla' was the first ever movie of tollywood to have released with eight prints. Till the release of 'Malapilla', movies were released with only four prints.
