Movie Retrospect
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Coconut manaku dosti okate asti raa jabaru dasti cheste nasti raa
Chi chi po papa oppulakumma
koluvainade urkikoluvayinade maa kobbarikayala subbarayude
emanani nee cheli padudane
ammakade bujji kade naa pai kopama daanikade dinikide ante nerama
sala sala nanu kavinchavela mila mila Story:
Subbarayudu (Allu Ramalingayya) and Ramabadrayya (Ravi kondala Rao) are childhood friends. As the time passes, Subbarayudu turns out to be rich person and he forgets Rambadrayya. Subbarayudu’a son Sivaram (Subhaleka Sudhakar) falls in love with Susheela (Tulasi), Rambhadrayya’s daughter. Subbarayudu insults Rambadrayya saying that he wants his son to get married to a minister's daughter and not to a layman’s daughter. How Rambadrayya's son Babji (Chiranjeevi) teaches a lesson to Subbarayudu forms the rest of the movie. Mantrigaari Viyyankudu is 63rd movie in Chiranjeevi’s career. After Manavoori Pandavulu, Bapu teamed up with Chiru second time for this flick. The film also is the second movie of Maestro Ilayaraja and Chiru’s great combination first being Abilasha. For actress Poornima Jayaram, who was rage in Tamil and Malayalam at that time, it was her first and only Telugu film. Chiranjeevi's father Venkat Rao did a small role as minister in the film. Mantrigaari Viyyakundu became a hot topic when it released primarily for Lok Singh’s visuals. Songs like ‘dosti okate asti raa..’ and ‘emani ne padedane’ shot in Ooty were trendsetters in capturing the nature in most imaginative style. Songs remained till date as one of the best songs in both Chiru and maestro’s career. Remember Ram Gopal Varma recently used the ‘Emani Ne Padadeno’ for his Shiva 2008. About the heroine Poornima Jayaram: Malayalee Poornima Jayaram shot to fame with super hit film Manjil Virinja Pookkal (1980) directed by Fazil. That was the first film for Mohan Lal as villain after the movie released she became a rage in South India and she began accepting all the big movies in Tamil and Malayalam. Soon she met director Bhagyaraja and while working with for Darling Darling Darling (Tamil), she fell in love with him. The movie was later dubbed into Telugu also. By then Bhagyaraja was already married to Praveena who was an actress even before he became director and she helped him while he is struggling to get a break in films. After Praveena passed away due to illness, he married Poornima with a condition that she would not act in films anymore. Bhagyaraja - Poornima's daughter Sharanya is now also an actress.
Next: Mullapudu Ramana and producer Jayakrishna speak about the film.. © Copyright by Telugucinema.com
Mullapudi Ramana on Mantrigari Viyyankudu “The film is actually a remake of a Malayalam film. But we changed the scenes to suite our nativity. K.V.Mahadevan was our regular music director for most of our films but it was producer’s choice to go with Ilayaraja for this movie and we accepted it. Raja was very down to earth and he came to our house for the music sittings. He did a very wonderful job.
Chiranjeevi was upset for two reasons. First and foremost, the title was not on his name. At that time the movie titles were all on his name but we felt Mantrigari Viyyankudu suits the story better than any other name. He also objected for his character not entering until half of the movie ends (Chiru enters after first 36 minutes of the movie begins). He was budding star then and his objections were understandable. But if you ask him now about his favorite movies, he would definitely mention this movie in his list (laughs). "I got the rights of the Malayalam movie for about Rs 40,000. I know Bapu garu very well as I produced produced couple of movies with him such as Manavuri Pandavulu. For both Bapu and Ramana, I paid them remuneration as package deal. Illayaraja garu was my choice. His combination with Chiru in Abhilasha was a hit, so I insisted upon keeping him for this too. Ilayaraja remuneration was Rs 60,000. Cameraman Loksingh was regular for our productions and he was already renowned then. But he showed Chiranjeevi very handsome. And his picturisation of songs was also talked about. We paid him about 50k. When Chiranjeevi threw party for film industry before entering into politics, he mentioned that it was me who gave him the first remuneration (for Manavoori Pandavulu). He was really busy at that time. I think almost fourteen films released that year. For this film we paid him Rs 1.5 Lakhs. Poornima Jayaram was numero uno in Malayalam films at that time but we made her to act in this film and it turned out to be her only movie in Telugu. Her remuneration was Rs 60,000. While we shooting for this film, Bhagyaraja used to come to the sets every day in Ooty. Though he never used to speak to her in public, he used to watch her from distance and stayed in the same hotel. Most of the film was shot in and around Chennai. Songs and fight scenes and some scenes were done in Ooty. The film was completed in 40 days within the budget of Rs 22 lakhs. The film ran fifty days in most centers and was a decent hit. It completed fifty days in six centers." © Copyright by Telugucinema.com
Andhra
Vijayawada – Yuvaraj & Srinivasa Mahal Nizam
Hyderabad – Subash, Meera, Radhika, Vimal, sRidevi, Sheesh Mahal, Konark, & Ceded
Tirupathi – Mini Pratap A/c & V.V. Mahal Direct 100 days None Shift 100 days A few centers Direct 50 days
Vijayawada - Yuvaraj 35mm A/c – 90
Acknowledgements : Thanks to Mullapudi Ramana garu and Jayakrishna garu.
Edited by Navya
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