Samyukta Movies
Khaidi (1983)
Technical:
Color
Release Date: October 28, 1983
Reels: 16
Cast:
Chiranjeevi ... Suryam
Madhavi ... Madhulatha
Sumalatha .. Sujatha
P.L. Narayana ... Annabathula Venkateswara Rao (Suryam's father)
Rao Gopala Rao ... Veerabhadraiah (Madhavi's father)
Samyuktha ... Rosy
Chidatala Appaarao ... Barber In police station
Chalapathi Rao ... Forest officer
Nutan Prasad ... Raghava (Village munsif)
Rallapalli ... Sarma
Ranganath ... Sub-Inspector of Police
Sangeetha ... Bhagyam (Suryam's sister)
Sutti Velu ... Beggar
Sivaprasad Reddy ... Beggar
Other Cast: P.J. Sarma, 'Silk' Smitha, Satyavathi, Kalpana Rai
Story, Dialogues: Paruchuri Brothers
Photography: Lok Singh
Editor: Vellaiswamy
Dances: Saleem, Raghu, Shiva Subrahmanyam
Music: Chakravarthy
Playback: S.P. Balasubrahmanyam, P. Susheela, Anita Reddy
Lyrics: Veturi Sundararamamurthy, Rajasri
Action: Raju
Art: Bhaskara Raju
Editing: Kotagiri Venkateswara Rao
Make-up: Shiva, Naidu, Subbarao
Presenter: Dr. M. Tirupati Reddy
Producers: K. Dhanunjaya Reddy, S. Sudhakar Reddy, K. Narasa Reddy
Screenplay, Direction: A. Kodandarami Reddy
Songs
idEmiTabbaa...? idi adEnu, abbaa!
Playback: S.P.Balasubramanyam, P.Susheela
Lyric: Veturi Sundararamamurthy
Cast: Chiranjeevi, Sumalatha
meramera merupula mEnakani (vEdam, naadam, mOdam, mOksham annii neelO choosanE)
Playback: S.P.Balasubramanyam, P.Susheela
Lyric: Veturi Sundararamamurthy
Cast: Chiranjeevi, Madhavi
ragulutOndi mogalipoda, vagalamaari kanne eda
Playback: S.P.Balasubramanyam, P.Susheela
Lyric: Veturi Sundararamamurthy
Cast: Chiranjeevi, Madhavi
gOrinTa poochindi, gOrinka koosindi
Playback: S.P.Balasubramanyam, P.Susheela
Lyric: Veturi Sundararamamurthy
Cast: Chiranjeevi, Madhavi
Playback: Anita Reddy
Lyric: Rajasri
Cast: 'Silk' Smitha
What's it about?
Sooryam (Chiranjeevi) is a college student and he falls in love with Madhulatha (Madhavi) who is daughter of his village's feudal lord Veerabhadraiah (Rao Gopal Rao). Sooryam's father Venkateswarlu (P.L. Narayana) owes money to Veerabadhraiah. Knowing that his daughter is seeing Sooryam, Veerabadraiah hatches a plan to nip the budding romance. He kills Sooryam's father, later harrass his sister prompting her to commit suicide. Veerabhadraiah implicates Sooryam in the death of his sister and makes police arrest him. The rest of the movie is how Sooryam takes revenge on the feudal lord.
Presenter Dr. M. Tirupathi Reddy speaks...
I hail from Nellore, and I came to Madras to get into film financing business. We started Tirupathi Finance and provided finance to many films. That was when I got Introduced to Chiranjeevi and Kondarami Reddy. Kodandarami Reddy also hails from the same place of ours, and we thought of doing a film together and worked on a couple of subjects in Chiranjeevi and Kodandarami Reddy combination. However, I liked the subject of
First Blood, and I asked Paruchuri brothers to come up with a story based on that film. They gave a wonderful script for the film. ...The protagonist was just a villager in our initial script but we changed it to a student, and it clicked! The title
Khaidi was my choice indeed!
...Madhavi and Chiranjeevi were a hit pair, but Madhavi didn't work with Kondadarami Reddy before and thus I wanted to cast her in the film. Nitya already acted in a Tamil film. I liked her character in the film and we signed her in for the bubbly character of Rosy. Our banner name being Samyuktha, we rechristened Nitya as Samyuktha, and she continued to do more films such as
sirivennela under the same name.
...The film's shooting was started at Prasad Labs on May 10, 1983, with the
muhurtam shot on Chiranjeevi and Madhavi. (It was the continuation scene of Menaka-Vishwamitra song
vEdam, naadam..., where Madhavi asks Chiranjeevi about their love). The film was completed in three schedules. The number of shooting days were forty; forty film rolls were exposed for the movie.
The movie was sold for 25 lakh rupees even when we just announced it! Chiranjeevi was paid Rs.1,75,000, Madhavi Rs.40,000, Sumalatha Rs. 20,000, and the director Kondarami Reddy was paid Rs.40,000 too. As we wanted to make the film a very prestigious one, we spent all our money and we had not made much profit in the film's first run. As the film's rights were sold once every five years to exhibitors, we made profit on this film after five years and through the following years. After five years, we made a profit of 20 lakh rupees, and some more during the subsequent years. We have not made much profit on satelight rights as we were not aware that it would boom so much today!
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