Godavari (Telugu: గోదావరి) is a 2006 Telugu musical, romantic film that was written and directed by Sekhar Kammula. G.V.G. Raju produced the film. Sumanth and Kamalinee Mukherjee played the lead roles. The film was a success at box office in addition to receiving several Nandi and Filmfare awards. Music of the film was composed by K.M. Radha Krishnan
Plot
Ram (Sumanth), an engineering student just returned from the United States of America, is an aspiring politician. However, people don't believe that he has a future in politics due to his idealism. Seetha Mahalakshmi (Kamalinee Mukherjee) is an independent woman who runs a clothing store. Due to the insistence of her parents, she agrees for marriage. She is however rejected by the potential groom, who cites her extreme independence as his reason.
Ram is in love with his cousin Raji (Neetu Chandra), who is already engaged to an influential and rich IPS officer Ravi. Ram tries hard to convince Raji's father to give his daughter's hand to him, but his efforts are in vain as her father is only interested in the rich and powerful, and Ram is neither. Ram cannot digest the fact that Raji agreed for marriage with Ravi. The family plans to go to Bhadrachalam for the wedding on a house boat along the river Godavari. Ram reluctantly agrees to go for the wedding upon Raji's insistence.
On the house boat, Sriram meets Seetha Mahalakshmi. Initially, both get into a lot arguments and debates. Seetha however starts to feel sorry for Ram upon disovering his feelings towards Raji. She gradually begins to spend time with Ram and they become friends. Both fall in love with each other eventually, not even realizing it.
Towards the end of the journey, Raji discovers the selfish nature of her fiance Ravi and develops cold feet. She changes her mind and tells Ram that she is willing to marry him now. Ram is unsure since her wedding with Ravi is only a day away. However, Seetha mistakenly thinks that Ram has agreed to marry Raji and is heart broken. Somehow she gets involved in helping Raji run away from her marriage with Ravi. Ram, however, does not show up at the place where he tells Raji to meet him at. Disappointed, Raji changes her mind about Ram and agrees to go ahead with her marriage to Ravi. Before the wedding, Seetha leaves abruptly for home without telling Ram, as she still thinks the worst of him. Ram desperately searches for Seetha meanwhile. A few days later, he finally manages to meet Seetha at her house in Hyderabad. He explains himself saying that he never intended to elope with Raji in the first place and that he just wanted to expose Raji's fickle nature. After clearing the misunderstanding, he expresses his love for Seetha. She accepts him and all ends well.
Uppongele Godavari (Singer: S. P. Balasubramanyam)
Andamgaa Lena Asalem Balena (Singer: Sunitha; Cast: Kamalini and Sumanth)
Manasa Gelupu (Singers: Shankar Mahadevan and K. S. Chitra)
Manasa Vacha (Singers: Unnikrishnan and K. S. Chitra)
Rama Chakani Sita (Singer: Gayathri)
Tippulu Tappulu (Singer: Shreya Ghoshal)
Daana Veera Soora Karna (Telugu: దాన వీర శూర కర్ణ) is a 1977 Telugu Hindu movie produced and directed by N. T. Rama Rao. He played three pivotal roles Karna, Duryodhana, and Krishna. One of his sons, Balakrishna played a short role of Abhimanyu, son of Arjuna, who in the later years became one of the popular movie actors in Telugu films. One of the other sons, Hari Krishna, played the role of Arjuna.
Production
The film was completed in 23 working days which was record, given that each of the three characters of NTR took at least three hours to put the makeup and two hours to remove it. NTR never used to see the rushes before the release, and thus they edited the film within days, without seeing the rushes. Kannappa, who earlier worked for NTR's Manashulanta Okkate worked for this film too. As there was no time for the work to be checked, one can notice the wire work in a couple of scenes, but the audience never bothered about that. Mayasabha work was not completed by the time of the shooting. So, NTR took close-ups while the paintings were done and long shots once the painting was all completed, in order to save time. However, this detail did not reflect on the screen. Harikrishna and Balakrishna also painted the sets along with the Art Department personnel (Courtesy: YVS Chowdary)
Characterization
Many films were based on Mahabharata in Telugu, but the difference between all those films and this one is the characterization of Duryodhana. While making the Sree Krishna Pandaveeyam itself, N.T.R projected Duryodhana as 'Suyodhana' with a positive touch to the role. In this film, he projected Duryodhana as a well-educated person who knew dharma and other things much better than anyone. Some people even say that the title of the movie could actually have been maanadhana veera suyodhana - such is the importance and characterization of Suyodhana in this movie!
Location
This is the first film shot in Ramakrishna Cine Studios in Hyderabad that was started on 7 June 1976 by Tamil superstar M. G. Ramachandran. On the same day, he clapped the muhurth shot for this film. Also, this is the 248th film for N. T. Rama Rao, 5th film for both Balakrishna and Harikrishna's, and the 3rd film on Ramakrishna Cine Studios banner.
While NTR was busy with the DVSK, Krishna was busy with the production of Kurusketram. While the former was completely made locally in Ramakrishna Cine Studios, Kurukshetram was shot in Mysore, Rajasthan, and other places with huge settings. Only three people who worked for both the films were C. Narayana Reddy, Kaikala Satyanarayana (Duryodhana in Kurukshetram), and Gummadi Venkateswara Rao (Dharmaraju in Kurukshetram).
Roles
Initially, NTR wanted ANR to play the role of Krishna as heilm Chankya Chandragupta if he was given a choice. NTR's original plan at that time was to make Chanakya Chandragupta with him in the role of Chanakya and Balakrishna in the role of Chandragupta. When ANR offered to do the role of Chanakya, NTR made changes accordingly and did the role of Chandragupta. However, the script of Chankya Chandragupta was not ready yet, and there was news that Krishna was planning the film Kurukshetram with a story line similar to Dana Veera Soora Karna (DVS Karna). Thus, NTR started DVS Karna immediately, with an intent to release the film for Sankranthi at any cost.
Sarada, who worked with NTR in the film Jeevita Chakram many years ago then, acted as Draupadi. She had a lot of doubts before agreeing to do the role. Most of all, she was nervous to work with NTR as she was aware of his strictness. On the first day of the shooting, she was so nervous that she took a lot of takes for her part. After the shooting for the day, NTR talked to her and made her more comfortable. After that film, she did many films with him. Actually her re-entry into the films in her second innings was with the NTR's Chandashasanudu.
Chalapathi Rao did three roles (Jarasandha, Atiratha, Indra) and also appears in two other getups as disguises of Indra, while Jayabhaskar did a dual role (Surya, Ekalavya) in the film. It was NTR who gave a chance to Dhulippala as Sakuni in the film Sree Krishna Pandaveeyam. For this film also, he was chosen for the same role for a remuneration of Rs. 1116/-!
Balakrishna played the role of Abhimanyu in the film, which got him very good recognition. Hariskrishna did the role of Arjuna. After Thatamma Kala, this was the second and the last film where all the three of them worked together. This was the only film in which you can see NTR's daughters, even for a second, on the screen in the dance scene of jaabili kante challanidi. Though the complete song was shot, ANR suggested that the scene should be deleted and NTR took out the song before the censor. However, one can still see his daughters on the screen for a moment.
Script and Dialogues
After much mulling over and asking around, they finally zeroed in on Kondaveeti Venkatakavi to write the script and dialogues for the film. At that time, he was the Principal of a Sanskrit college. Kondaveeti Venkatakavi (KVK) is an atheist, and he thus rejected the offer. When NTR personally went and requested, he was unable to say no and both NTR and KVK started working on the script. With this film, KVK got lot of name.
Dialogues of the film became very popular. The film's dialogues were released as LP and audiocassettes and were sold very well . HMV, the company that released the audio, claims that there are considerable sales of the cassettes, and CDs, even now). Particular scenes such as the first meeting of Karna and Suyodhana, Sakuni's encouragement to Suyodhana to go to the raajasUya yaagam, the Mayasabha scene and the subsequent mental upset of Suyodhana, the scene that precedes Draupadi's vastraapaharaNam, and the raayabaaram scene are all famous for their lengthy and complicated dialogues.
The dialogues were immensely popular even though they were in chaste bookish Telugu (graanthikamu). Notable is the "positive spin" that the dialogues give to Suyodhana's character without changing the original story any much, particularly in scenes such as vastraapaharaNam and raayabaaram, where he projects himself as the good guy and Pandavas and Krishna as crooked minds. While most mythological and folkloric movies since the 1950s were all in more or less colloquial tongue (vaaDuka bhaasha), this movie from the 1970s used graanthika bhaasha completely.
Audio
Most of the verses in the film are taken from Paandavodyoga Vijayam and Sree Krishna Raayabaram by the famous poet duo Tirupati Venkata Kavulu. Pundareekakshayya had got the rights for these while making the film Sreekrishnaavataaram in the past. Krishna wanted to use them for Kuruskshetram and gave a blank cheque to Pundareekakshayya, who refused the offer and gave the rights to NTR for free.
S. P. Balasubrahmanyam and Peesapati Raghuramayya (who was famous on the stage for the role of Krishna) sang the Raayabaram verses initially, but NTR was not satisfied with that. He even thought of using the verses that originally rendered by Ghantasala for the film Sri Krishnavataram. It was Saluri Rajeswara Rao who suggested to use V. Ramakrishna for the verses. Once the film was released, Ramakrishna got a lot of name.
Padmalaya Studios got the rights of Ghantasala's Bhagavadgeeta audio after his death and used those verses in Kurukshetram, while DVS Karna has "prosaic" Bhagavadgeeta for the most part.
Initially, Saluri Rajeswara Rao was the music director for the film. The songs Ye talli ninu kannado and the verses were all set to music by him. While he recorded the songs, rest of them were done by Pendyala Nageshwara Rao. However, the title card shows only Pendyala's name. The film has ten songs and 35 verses. This might be the only film which has so many singing items (Lavakusa, maybe?). This was the last movie for Pendyala.
Release
The film was censored on 12 January 1977 and was released on 14 January. (The film was released with 30 prints in all, but Gemini was unable to print all 30 prints in the short time given, and thus the film was released in 14 centers on the first day and in 16 centers the next day). The film ran for 100 days in 9 centers and 250 days in Hyderabad Shanti Theatre. The film's cost was less than ten lakhs. It earned more than one crore in the first run itself! Another record of the film was that it was sold for 60 lakhs for the repeat run in 1994 with 30 prints and earned more than one crore in the repeat run too! (The distributors invested ten thousand per area and got a one scope print per district from Gemini Labs).
The film can be claimed to be the one of the lengthiest films in Telugu film industry and even in the Indian film industry on the whole! It's running time is 4 hrs 17 minutes. Out of this, NTR can be seen on the screen for nearly four hours, which is also a record! (Though Raj Kapoor's magnum opus Mera Naam Joker runs for 4 hrs 24 minutes, the film was later trimmed by forty mintues.) A Russian cultural group that visited India at that time saw the film and was wonderstruk with the film, and NTR's abilities that sustained and entertained a lengthy film!
Box office performance
The film had a 100-day run in 9 centres.[1]
The film had a 250 day run in Hyderabad.[2]
The film collected huge amounts in its time and even in repeat runs.
Soundtrack
Annaa Devudu Ledhanaa (Lyricist: C. Narayana Reddy; Singers: S. Janaki)
Chithram Bhalaare Vichitram (Lyricist: C. Narayana Reddy; Singers: S. P. Balasubramaniam, P. Susheela)
Idhira Dhora Madhiraa (Lyricist: C. Narayana Reddy; Singer: S. Janaki
Jayeebhava Vijayeebhava (Lyricist: C. Narayana Reddy; Singers: S. P. Balasubramaniam, G. Anand)
Kalagantino Swamy (Lyricist: Dasarathi; Singers: P. Susheela and M. Ramesh)
Raa Raa Itu Raa Raa (Lyricist: C. Narayana Reddy; Singer: S. Janaki)
Thelisenule Priyaa Rasikaa (Lyricist: C. Narayana Reddy; Singers: P. Susheela and S. Janaki)
Ye Thalli Ninu Kannadho (Lyricist: C. Narayana Reddy; Singer: P. Susheela)
Yela Santhaapammu (Lyricist: C. Narayana Reddy; Singer: V. Ramakrishna)
Trivia
It was the first Telugu film to collect more than Rs.10 Crores in those days with second and third release.[2]
In the first twenty years after its release, this movie sold the highest number of tickets beating all the new releases for the year in 13 different years. Lava Kusa is the only other movie with re-run value beyond three releases. Given the arrival of dvd's etc., It is unlikely that any movie ever made will sell as many tickets as DVS Karna did an un-imaginable 15 Crore tickets. (currently higher than the next highest ticket selling 19 movies put togeather !!)
Subhalekha is a 1982 Telugu film which stars Chiranjeevi in the lead role and was made by K. Viswanath. It was the first time they worked together; after this success they went on to make two more movies: Swayamkrushi in 1987 and Aapathbandhavudu in 1992. The film was made at a time when Chiranjeevi had started getting lead actor roles and followed the immensely successful film Intlo Ramaiah Veedhilo Krishnaiah. After making Saptapadi, in which he dealt with the social stigma of caste system, K. Viswanath followed up with this film in which he dealt with the social malady of the dowry system.
Synopsis
Narasimha Murthi (Chiranjeevi) is a multi-talented person who works as a waiter in a star hotel since he is unable to pass his B.A. exams. He meets Sujatha (Sumalatha), a lecturer who works in a college run by councillor Ankela Adiseshayya (Kaikala Satyanarayana). Mohan (Girish), who is an engineer and elder son of Adiseshayya, comes to Sujatha's place with his father for a marriage proposal. During this Sujatha stands up and has an argument with Adiseshayya when the latter demands exorbitant amounts as dowry. This creates a rift between Sujatha and her parents who fear that this act of Sujatha might ostracize them from society. Adiseshayya also dismisses Sujatha from her job.
During this difficult phase, Murthi, as a friend, provides solace to Sujatha; their relationship is mistaken as an affair and Sujatha is forced to leave her home. Murthi creates a big ruckus during the felicitation function of Adiseshayya and humiliates him. Adiseshayya retaliates by hiring goons to beat up Murthi and also gets him dismissed from his job.
Left with no choice, Murthi takes Sujatha to Hyderabad and meets Rao (Arun) whom he had met during the latter's stay in the hotel where Murthi worked. Rao, who is in a senior post in Allwyn, hires Sujatha. Back home, Lakshmi (Tulasi), younger sister of Sujatha, falls in love with Murali (Subhalekha Sudhakar) who is the younger son of Adiseshayya. Murali threatens his father with suicide and forces his father to let him marry Lakshmi. Left without a choice, Adiseshayya who had dreamed of getting a lot of dowry since his son is a doctor, accepts the proposal with very little dowry. After marriage Lakshmi leaves to Sujatha's place where Murthi arranges for a marriage between Sujatha and Rao. Lakshmi with consent from her husband files a suit against Adiseshayya to surrender his son, Murali to her since she paid for him during her marriage to teach Adiseshayya a lesson. Seeing this notice, Adiseshayya, his son, and Laskhmi's parents come to Hyderabad just before Sujatha's marriage. The climax deals with how Adiseshayya is taught a lesson and also ends with the marriage of Murthi and Sujatha as per the wishes of the latter. Adiseshayya returns home to find that his elder son Mohan had married the widowed cousin of Murthi.
Awards
Chiranjeevi won the 2nd Filmfare Best Telugu Actor Award
The movie did very well at the box office and perhaps would have done even better if it had been released a bit later: It was released within five weeks of Intlo Ramaiah Veedhilo Krishnaiah which was running very successfully at that time.
Was remade into Hindi as Subhkaamnaa (1983) by actor Rakesh Roshan who played the role played by Chiranjeevi in the direction of K. Viswanath. Rakesh Roshan had earlier remade Subhodayam into Hindi as Kaamchor.
K. Viswanath known for showing the great lyrics of Annamayya and Tyagayya in his movies. A lilting title music and song is excellent.
One of landmark movies in Chiranjeevi film career. showing shows his hidden talent.
Sirivennela is a Telugu movie based on Indian Classical Music and was released in India in 1986. The movie was directed by K. Viswanath who is known for his presentation in the Classical Arts of the current societal status of India.
Plot
The movie revolves around the role of Pandit Hari Prasad, a blind flautist (played by Sarvadaman Banerjee) and a painter(Played by Suhasini) who is mute. The casting includes Moon Moon Sen as Jyotirmayi.
The movie (one of the most celebrated musical masterpieces in Telugu) abounds in classical music composed by K. V. Mahadevan with flute renditions by the renowned flautist Hariprasad Chaurasia.[1] The movie saw the debut of Sirivennela Sitaramasastri as a lyricist,who wrote all of the songs. Because of "the wonderful songs", rich in meaning, he penned for the movie, Sitarama Sastry has taken the name of the movie, Sirivennela, as a prefix to his own name. Each of the songs is remembered to this day as a part of landmark Telugu film-music.
A particular highlight of the movie is the song Vidhata Thalapuna, sung by S. P. Balasubrahmanyam and P. Susheela. The song is about Aum, the most sacred syllable in Hinduism, from which the Veda traditions originated. Other notable songs include Adibhikshuvu Vadinedi Koredhi and Ee gali Ee Nela.
In the movie, Hari Prasad, an ordinary blind flutist lives along with his only sister in a village which has some tourist attraction. He earns money by playing flute and entertaining the tourists. His life changes dramatically once Jyothirmayi(Moon Moon Sen) comes there and sees his talent in playing the flute. She helps him reach high standards in classical music.
Years pass by and Hari Prasad becomes one of the greatest flutists in India and he develops in himself a great love towards Jyothirmayi for whom he dedicates all his albums.
Cast
Sarvadaman Banerjee
Suhasini
Moon Moon Sen
Ramana Murthi J.V.
Meena
S. K. Misro
Sakshi Ranga Rao
Eashwara Rao
Subhalekha Sudhakar
Varalakshmi
Swayamkrushi is a Telugu movie released on 3 September 1987 . It was made on Poornodaya Movie Creations by Edida Nageshwara Rao and directed by Kasinadhuni Viswanath and had Chiranjeevi act in Kasinadhuni Viswanath's direction for the second time after Subhalekha. It also had Vijayashanti, Sumalatha and others. The film was a vehicle for Chiranjeevi to show his acting prowess and to return to classical movies genre as a change from his then prevailing action hero image. The movie was critically well acclaimed and a moderate success at box-office and always mentioned as a movie which showcased Chiranjeevi's acting ability. It also won him a Nandi Award for Best Actor. This film was screened at the Russian Film festival.[1]
Swayam Krushi is rated as the 6th best film of K.Vishwanath by Telugu movie website Fresh and Rotten
Synopsis
Sambaiah (Chiranjeevi) is a cobbler who raises his dead sister's son Chinna (Arjun/Sirish) while also financing the education of the orphaned Sharada (Sumalatha). He also nurses a love crush and intends to marry her someday.
In a turn of events, Sharada marries Bhaskar (Sarvadaman Banerjee) and Ganga (Vijayashanti) who has also nursed a love towards Sambaiah, has a tubectomy in order to marry Sambaiah. She does it so that she would be a completely dedicated mother to Chinna. After initial struggles, Ganga and Sambaiah become wealthy.
Chinna's biological father Govind (Charan Raj) who is a criminal returns from prison and teams up with Ganga's father (a no-good father, role with villain shades) to make a series of demands on Sambaiah and to claim Chinna's guardianship.
Eventually, Chinna rebels against his father and both he and Sambaiah return to latter's modest original profession of cobbler.
Swathi Muthyam (1985) is a Telugu film directed by K. Viswanath,dubbed and released in tamil as Sippikul Muthu. starring Tamil actor Kamal Haasan and Raadhika. The movie won accolades at the International Asian Film Festival in both "Best Film" and "Best Actor" categories.[1] The movie is about an autistic person who defies existing social customs and traditions for a good cause. The movie was the first and only Telugu movie till date which was submitted to the Oscars in 1986.[2]
The film is musical hit with soundtrack composed by Ilaiyaraaja including a Harikatha disposition. film had silver jubilee run in all major centers of Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka.
Synopsis
Kamal Haasan plays the role of an autistic person and all he is good at is obeying what his trusted grandmother says. In an attempt to do good to the life of a widow (with a 5-year old son), he marries her during an auspicious village festival much to the shock of villagers who in turn try to harm Kamal as this act of his stands against the traditional societal norms. The widow who is now married (played by Raadhika) tries to save her husband (Kamal) and moves to city for a better living. With an able support from few of their fellow villagers settled in the city and from Raadhika's erstwhile music guru, the family settles down and life for them from then on looks good and promising.
The director takes the course of this story in a very touching and matured way. He takes every care not to over indulge in any of the human emotions and feelings and at the same time puts in everything that is needed for the story's success. Each and every sequence is a very fine mix of human emotion with a touch of humor.
The movie is remembered for some stellar performances from male and female protagonists i.e., Kamal Haasan & Raadhika and also for the great work done by the director K.Vishwanath. Other actors in their respective roles lend their hand quite efficiently in making this movie a success.
The music director Ilaiyaraaja provided music.
The film was later remade in Hindi as Eeshwar with Anil Kapoor essaying the role portrayed by Kamal Hassan in the original.[3]
Credits
Cast
Kamal Hassan ... Sivayya
Raadhika ... Lalitha
Deepa
Edida SriRam
Gollapudi Maruthi Rao
Dubbing Janaki
J. V. Somayajulu
Mallikarjuna Rao
Nirmalamma
Sarath Babu
Varalakshmi[disambiguation needed]
Suthi Veerabhadra Rao
Vidyasagar
Y. Vijaya
Crew
Director: K. Vishwanath
Story and Screenplay: K. Vishwanath
Dialogues: Sainath
Producers: Edida Nageshwara Rao and Edida Raja
Production Company: Poornodaya Movie Creations
Original Music: Ilayaraja
Cinematography: M. V. Raghu
Playback Singers: S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, S. Janaki, S. P. Sailaja and P. Susheela
Lyricists: Dr. C. Narayana Reddy, Athreya, Seetharama Shastry
Awards
The film won National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Telugu.
The film won Nandi Award for Best Feature Film.
Soundtrack
Swathi Muthyam
Soundtrack album by Ilaiyaraaja
Released1985
LanguageTelugu
ProducerEdida Nageshwara Rao
Chinnari Ponnari Kittayya! (Lyricist: Athreya; Singers: S.P. Balasubrahmanyam, S. Janaki)
Dharmam Saranam Gacchaami (Lyricist: Athreya; Singers: S.P. Balasubrahmanyam, S. Janaki)
Laali Laali (Lyricist: Dr. C. Narayana Reddy; Singer: P. Susheela)
Manasu Palike (Lyricist: Sirivennela Seetarama Shastry; Singers: S.P. Balasubrahmanyam, S. Janaki)
Pattuseera Testanani (Lyricist: Athreya; Singers: S.P. Balasubrahmanyam, S. Janaki)
Raama, Kanavemiraa! (harikatha) (Lyricist: Athreya; Singers: S.P. Balasubrahmanyam, S. Janaki)
Suvvi Suvvi! (Lyricist: Dr. C. Narayana Reddy; Singers: S.P. Balasubrahmanyam, S. Janaki)
Sagara Sangamam is a National Award–winning 1983 Telugu film directed by K. Viswanath and produced by Edida Nageshwara Rao, starring Kamal Haasan, Jayaprada, Geetha, Sarath Babu, S. P. Sailaja and Chakri Toleti. The movie was dubbed into Tamil as Salangai Oli. The film was also dubbed later into Malayalam.
Plot
Balu, short for Balakrishna, (Kamal Haasan) is an economically disadvantaged but multi-talented dancer, adept at the Indian classical dances of Kuchipudi, Bharatanatyam, Kathak etc. His simple and honest soul does not permit him to attain professional success in the commercial world that requires a certain level of moral laxness. Madhavi (Jayaprada), a wealthy young woman and a patron of the dances, notices his talent and acts as his benefactress, helping him secure his life-long opportunity of participating in a high-level classical dance festival. Prior to the fulfillment of this ambition, Balu's aging mother passes away from the afflictions of poverty just two days before the performance. Balu, who was very attached to her, is emotionally devastated and as a result fails to participate in the dance festival. Madhavi nevertheless gives him support and encouragement and sets him on the mend. Balu, on the other hand, gradually develops a fondness for Madhavi as their relationship grows. Balu however hides his love for her, but eventually picks up the courage to express it, and discovers that while Madhavi shares his feelings, she is an already-married woman separated from her husband. The husband later returns to unite Madhavi and Balu, but Balu decides to sacrifice his love showing respect for the institution of marriage. The years pass by, and Balu, a disappointed man, had become an inconsolable alcoholic and a newspaper journalist/art critic. Meanwhile, Madhavi's husband dies, and she hears about Balu's condition as a desolate and ailing alcoholic. In a bid to revive his will to live and his passion for his art, she tends to his medical needs, through his friend, Raghu (Sarath Babu) and solicits Balu to be the dance master for her daughter, Sailaja (SP Sailaja). The film ends with Madhavi's daughter's stage performance with Balu watching her in a wheelchair, his health having completely deteriorated. While watching the performance, he passes away. Raghu and Madhavi are seen taking him away quietly, without interrupting the performance, back to the hospital.
Cast
Kamal Haasan ... Balakrishna Jaya Prada ... Madhavi Sarath Babu ... Ragupathy S. P. Sailaja ... Sailaja Sakshi Ranga Rao Potti Prasad Jit Mohan Mitra ... Film choreographer Manju Bhargavi Geetha ... Dancer
Crew
Director : K. Vishwanath Writers: Jandhyala (dialogue) and K. Vishwanath (story) Lyrics: Veturi Sundararama Murthy Producer : Edida Nageshwara Rao Original music : Ilaiyaraaja Cinematography : P. S. Nivas Film editing : G. G. Krishna Rao Art direction : Thota Tharani Makeup department : Babu, R. Sundara Moorthy, M. Sathyam, Venkateswara Rao Assistant director : N. V. Vijay Sound : Raghawachari, Ramaswamy Camera and electrical department : K. Satyanarayana Costume and wardrobe : Surya Rao Music department : S. P. Balasubramaniam, S. Janaki, S. P. Sailaja Associate directors : Velagapudi Chandrasekar, Geetha Krishna Publicity designer : Gangadhar, Panni, Soma Choreographer : V. Seshu Parupalli Production company : Poornodaya Movie Creations
Awards
Asian Film Festival It also received accolades at the Asian Film Festival in both the "Best Movie" and "Best Actor" (Kamal Haasan) categories. National Film Awards Ilaiyaraaja - National Film Award for Best Music Direction S. P. Balasubramaniam - National Film Award for Best Male Playback Singer National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Telugu. Filmfare Awards South Filmfare Award for Best Actor - Telugu - Kamal Haasan Filmfare Award for Best Actress - Telugu - Jayaparada
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