Akkineni Venkat Presents
Just Yellow Productions
Little Soldiers (1996)
Technical:
35 mm
Color
Reels: 14
Release date: February 02, 1996
Cast:
Master Y.S. Aditya (now Baladitya) ... Sunny
Baby Kavya ... Bunny
Ramesh Aravind ... Aravind
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Heera Rajagopal ... Anita
Kota Srinivas Rao ... Harischandra Prasad
Rohini Hattangadi ... Rajeswari Devi
Giribabu ... Seshagiri Rao
Sudhakar ... Seshagiri Rao's son
Brahmanandam ... Gun
Rallapalli ... Gopal
Benarjee ... Police officer
Music: Sri
Lyrics: sirivennela Seetharama Sastry
Camera: Rasool Ellore
Editing: Mohan Rama Rao
Playback: Deepika, Sreelekha, Vishnu, Sri, Ram Chakravarthy, Mano, Ravi
Producer: Gunnam Gangaraju
Story, Dialogues, Screenplay, Direction: Gunnam Gangaraju
Songs:
I am a very good girl said my old teacher, my dear brother!
Playback: S.P.B., Deepika (a 6 year-old), Vishnu (a 10 year-old)
Cast: Master Aditya, Baby Kavya, Ramesh Aravind, Heera, etc.
maa father O tiger! maaTlaaDaalanTE thunder
Playback: Mano
Cast: Ramesh Aravind, Master Aditya, Baby Kavya, Heera
aDagaalanundi oka doubt-ni... sunrise lEni rOjEdani
Playback: Sri, Deepika, Vishnu, Srilekha
Cast: Master Aditya, Baby Kavya, Ramesh Aravind, Heera
O venDi vennelaa... digiraa ilaa!
Playback: Ram Chakravarthy, Srilekha
Cast: Ramesh Aravind, Heera, Rohini Hattangadi, Master Aditya, Baby Kavya
sarElE oorukO parEshaan enduku?
Playback: Sri
Cast: Master Aditya, Baby Kavya, Brahmanandam
evaDanDi veeDu, Robin Hood-laa unnaaDE
Playback: Mano
Cast: Master Aditya, Baby Kavya, Giribabu, Sudhakar
Ek dO teen, aagE chal... yE pramaadam munchuku raanii, don't you run!
Playback: Ravi
Cast: Master Aditya, Baby Kavya, Kota Srinivasa Rao, Sudhakar, Giribabu
Story:
Aravind (Ramesh Aravind) and Anita (Heera), who marry against their parents' wishes, live happily with their kids, Sunny (Master Aditya) and Bunny (Baby Kavya). Anita's maternal uncle Seshadri (Giribabu) and his son (Sudhakar) eye on the property that belongs to Anita's mother Rajarajeswari (Rohini Hattangadi) and get Aravind and Anita killed in a lorry accident, from which Sunny and Bunny escape luckily. How the kids eventually bring change in the minds of their grandparents and how they teach a lesson to Seshadri and his son, with the help of their paternal grandfather and Army Major Harischandra Prasad (Kota Srinivasa Rao) forms the rest of the story, told in a touching manner.
Baladitya on the film:
I got my second Nandi award for this film, after Anna. More than the Nandi award, a bigger joy was that Nageswara Rao gaaru recomending me for that movie. (Akkineni Venkat was the Executive Producer for this movie). I did the film Theerpu with Nageswara Rao gaaru (starring Rohini Hattangadi, Jagapathi Babu, and Amani in the lead, and directed by Uppalapati Narayana Rao gaaru), and thus an impressed Nageswara Rao gaaru recommended me to Akkineni Venkat gaaru, who was the Executive Producer for Little Soldiers. Another point of excitement for me to do the film was Heera. Her film Hrudayam was a big hit in Telugu as well as in Tamil (titled Idayam). My sister used to say (or probably tease) that my nose was like that of Heera's back then. So, seeing her and doing a film with her really excited me at that age!
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