A story of friendship and differences was screened on Thursday at Madhya Pradesh State Tribal Museum. The movie ‘Hum Bhi Kisi Se Kam Nahi’ was screened at the museum for the school children under the children film fest ‘Ullas’.
The movie originally named as ‘Engalallum Mudyam’, the movie was directed by T. Prakash Rao. The movie follows the story about two friends who later become competitors.
An institution for the handicapped is run on land belonging to a rich, but disinterested landlord. The landlord has two sons. The older Ramu is arrogant while the younger one is lame. After Ramu is defeated in a football match by a crippled inmate Ravi, he takes revenge by evicting the institution inmates from their property.
To add to his woes, the homeless Ravi is kidnapped by gangsters who want to use him as a beggar. With nothing going his way, Ravi wants to save himself. But the rich landlord sees the error of his ways and reinstates the institution. But Ravi proves, some people may be disabled, but they are no less than others.
T. Prakash Rao, a veteran film director who hails from Andhra Pradesh, has been in the forefront of film activities in southern India. His prodigious output covers over eighty feature films made in Telugu, Tamil and Hindi. Rao has also served on several film bodies and has been lauded and awarded at many international film festivals. He has made two children’s films, ‘Ganga Bhavani’ and ‘Engalallum Mudyam’. He died in 1992.