Articles : Movie Retrospect : Movie Retrospect: Khaidi (1983)

Most of the shooting was done in the village called Rebala near Nellore, while the climax was shot at Porur near Madras. The blasting of houses, and some other such scenes were done there at a specially erected set. The house set, indoors and minor patchwork of shooting was done in Madras. Madhavi, being a lady artiste, had an exclusive house in Talakona location, while everyone else adjusted in huts and houses in and around the village.

The now famous costume of Chiranjeevi for (which we see in the posters even now) was his own idea! We first thought of doing it ordinarily, but he wanted the getup to be somewhat different. In the last minute, he got a black trouser and black t-shirt from the house, took off the sleeves of the shirt and had the belt above the t-shirt. The getup clicked so much that he became a Khaidi in the hearts of lakhs of audiences with this movie! ...In Tirupathi, an old lady was unable to bear Chiranjeevi being hanged in the end and cried out loud in the theatre that he should not be hanged! Such was the impact of the film and the artistes' performances on the audiences of that time.

The film was later remade in Kannada and in Hindi too. Vishnuvardham did in Kannada while Padmalaya brought the rights for Hindi and made it with Jitendra there. Madhavi played the lead role in all three languages. Madhavi lives in New Jersey, USA, now with her husband Mr. Sharma who has a pharmaceutical business there. She helps him with the business and is a happy mother of three children. She is away from the show business after she is married.

Director Kodandarami Reddy talks about the film...
We initially planned the film with the story given by a Tamil writer, but it didn't work out. Tirupathi Reddy gaaru then gave the cassette of First Blood and suggested that we should develop the story based on the initial scenes of the movie. Paruchuri brothers gave wonderful story based on it. ...In those times, we never used to think that it could be risky to go out of the way to do something different! We always wanted to experiment on various things. The song ragulutOndi mogalipoda... and idEmiTabbaa...? were super hits at that time, because we did them differently! This was the first film of Chiranjeevi that crossed the one crore mark in collections, thus also giving him the star status.

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