East and West)[1] is a 1976 Indian Telugu-language romantic drama film written and directed by Dasari Narayana Rao.

A remake of the Tamil film Apoorva Raagangal (1975), it revolves around a rebel (Narasimha Raju) who falls in love with a much older woman (Srividya) while the woman's daughter (Madhavi) is drawn to the rebel's father (Kaikala Satyanarayana).

Suryam, a young rebel, is nursed back to health by a lonely classical singer Shivaranjani, who is significantly older than him.

Thoorpu Padamara, a remake of K. Balachander's Tamil film Apoorva Raagangal (1975), was written and directed by Dasari Narayana Rao.

[5] According to Sridhar Sattiraju of Telugu360, the entire story can be summed in one of the film's dialogues which translates to: "Why the ‘Twain shall never meet, conveyed the essence of what happens when improbable relationships exist between say, a father-in-law and a daughter-in-law or say, a mother-in-law and son-in-law".