West Side Story (film) Wise's dazzling direction, Leonard Bernstein's score, and Stephen Sondheim's lyrics, "West Side Story" remains perhaps the most iconic of all the Shakespeare adaptations to visit the big screen." The film earned $19,645,000 in North American rentals. Because of profit participation, United Artists earned a profit of $2.5 million on the film. Its ten Academy Awards make it the musical film with the most Academy wins, including Best Picture. Three other films ("Ben-Hur", "Titanic" and "") won 11 Oscars, but they were not musical films. Awards American Film Institute lists: The film's cast appeared and was honored at the 50th anniversary
Bala Nagamma (1959 film) T. V. Raju. Lyrics were written by Samudrala Jr. Music released by Audio Company. "Bala Nagamma" was remade from the 1942 film of the same name. Relangi Venkata Ramaiah and Lanka Satyam, who appeared in the 1942 film, returned in the remake. The soundtrack of the film was composed by Thotakura Venkata Raju, while the lyrics were written by Samudrala Ramanuja Charya. Bala Nagamma (1959 film) Bala Nagamma is a 1959 Telugu swashbuckling adventure fantasy film, produced by D. N. Raju, B. S. Raju and P. Venkatapathi Raju under the Sri Venkataramana Films banner and directed by Vedantam Raghavaiah. It