original. It was based on a Bengali story "Pasher Bari” by Arun Chowdhury, which was first adapted in Bengali in 1952. It was made in Telugu as Pakkinti Ammayi (1953) starring Anjali Devi , Relangi , and singer A. M. Rajah , in Kannada as 'Pakkadamane Hudugi' (2003) starring Raghavendra Rajkumar