Paradesi or Poongothai is a 1953 Indian Telugu-Tamil bilingual romance film, produced by P. Adinarayana Rao under the Anjali pictures banner and directed by L. V.

[3] The film begins at a hill station, Sitagiri, where a benevolent florist girl, Lakshmi, resides with her disabled father, Rangaiah.

Realizing this, Chandram's friend Raghu entrusts his wife Susheela, and son Anand to him before breathing his last.

Hearing it, Lakshmi is aghast and aims to guard her kid from these fake hearts of Paradesi.

They decided to remake Raj Rani, a 1950 Hindi film directed by Satish Nigam and bought the rights.

Prasad, however, did not make a direct copy of the Hindi original; he made subtle changes to the screenplay to suit the audience.

[4] P. A. Perumal Chettiar, a leading film distributor suggested Sivaji Ganesan to Anjali Devi and her husband.

[4] Perumal, the film's producer made a request to Anjali Devi that Parasakthi be released before Paradesi.

[7] In November 2013, M. L. Narasimham of The Hindu noted that the film would be "remembered as the launch pad for Sivaji Ganesan".