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| Sri Suryanarayana Raju |
Making of the film:
Except the opening shot, all the of the movie shooting was done in Madumalai forest. The opening shot was done in Madras in a Studio on January 9, 1977.
Adavi Ramudu was the first film for which NTR had given dates for more than a month (35 days) out of Madras!
Adavi Ramudu is NTR's first color film shot in Cinemascope. This was also the first film that used a Cinemascope lens imported from Japan by Prasad Labs (Madras). Earlier Cinemascope films
Alluri Seetharamaraju and
Kurukshetram were done with a lens brought from Mumbai. Cameraman Vincent first worked with NTR much earlier, for the film
Sontha Ooru produced by Sree Ghantasala, and this is the second film for him with NTR after a long time.
There were only three Government Guesthouses in Madumalai forest, and they could not accommodate the 300 plus cast and crew in that dense forest. Thus, the producers took carpenters, molders, painters,
etc. to the forest, worked for fifty days to build new guesthouses and took special permission for electricity in the middle of the forest. The nearest town/ airport was 250 km away from the forest, and for every small thing, they needed to go all the way to Mysore. Thus, they used to get all of a day's needs each morning from Mysore.
Jayasudha recollects two accidents on this shooting: one was while doing a scene where she and Jayaprada were sitting on elephants. Junior artistes were practicing a
Dappu scene right then, and the elephants got panicked by the noise and threw down both the lead ladies with their trunks! Luckily, they escaped the major injuries. Another one was a chase scene where she and Jayaprada were chased by villains while they were trying to escape on a horse cart. The cart's axle was broken and both of them were injured and were forced to rest for a couple of days!
Accolades
The 100 days celebration for
Adavi Ramudu was held in Apsara theatre, Vijayawada. Akkineni Nageswara Rao and Dilip Kumar were chief guests for the function. 200 days celebration was held on November 13, 1977 in Taj Coromandel in Madras with showman Raj Kapoor as the chief guest for the function. The film won the Filmfare award for the Best Film for the year 1977.
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