C.L. Narasa Reddy Presents
Bhagyalakshmi Enterprises
Geetanjali (1989)
Technical:
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| Geetanjali |
Color
Scope
Censor Date:
May 05, 1989
Release Date:
May 19, 1989
Reels:
14
Cast:
Nagarjuna Akkineni ... Prakash
Girija ... Geethanjali
Vijay Kumar ... Geethanjali's father
Vijayachander ... Prakash's father
Sumitra ... Prakash's mother
Radha Bai ... Geethanjali's grandmother
Dubbing Janaki ... Lakshmi
Muccherla Aruna ... Doctor
Shavukaru
Janaki ... Vice Chancellor (Guest Appearance)
Other Cast:
Sutti
Velu, Chandramohan, 'Disco' Shanti, Silk Smitha (Guest), Padma, Priya, Neena,
etc.
Dialogues:
Rajasri
Music:
Ilayaraja
Playback:
S.P. Balasubrahmanyam, S. Janaki, K.S. Chitra
Lyrics:
Veturi Sundararamamurthy
Choreography:
Sundaram
Art:
Thota Tharani
Editing:
B. Lenin, V.T. Vijayan
Camera:
P.C. Sriram
Producers:
C. Praveen Kumar Reddy, P.R. Prasad
Story, Screenplay, and Direction:
Maniratnam
Songs:
jagaDa jagaDa jagaDam, chEsEstaam ragaDa ragaDa ragaDam...
Playback: S.P. Balasubrahmanyam, Chorus
Cast: Nagarjuna, Silk Smitha, and others
jallanta kavvinta kaavaalilE, oLLanta tuLLinta raavaalilE!...
Playback: K.S. Chitra
Cast: Girija, Sundaram Master
aamani paaDavE haayigaa...
Playback: S.P. Balasubrahmanyam, Chorus
Cast: Nagarjuna, Girija, and others
nandikonDa vaagullOna, nalla tumma neeDallO...
Playback: S.P. Balasubrahmanyam, K.S. Chitra, Chorus
Cast: Nagarjuna, Girija, and others
Om nama@h, nayana Srutulaku...
raaga
:
naaTakuranji
and
thillaang
Playback: S.P. Balasubrahmanyam, S. Janaki
Cast: Nagarjuna, Girija
O paapaa, laalii! janmakE laalii!
Playback: S.P. Balasubrahmanyam
Cast: Nagarjuna, Girija
O priyaa, priyaa! naa priyaa, priyaa!
Playback: S.P. Balasubrahmanyam, K.S. Chitra
Cast: Nagarjuna, Girija
Story:
The film is a touching love story of a young couple - Prakash and Geethanjali (played by Nagarjuna and Girija) who are terminally ill and both knew that they ar going to die soon. They meet unexpectedly, know of their r problems, and see that they both take them in lighter vein and live for this moment. Eventually, they fall in love in the romantic environs of Ooty where Geethanjali is being treated by her doctor father, when Prakash visits Ooty to spend his last days in peace. The movie ends with no tragic note or heavy melodrama!
C.L. Narasa Reddy Speaks...
Initially, I wanted to remake Maniratnam's Agni Natchattiram in Telugu with Venkatesh and Nagarjuna, but it didn't work out, and we dubbed it as Gharshana. At that time, Nagarjuna was ready to do a film with Maniratnam. And Mani had a basic story line based on Young Die First, an English movie in which both the male and female lead know that they're going to die soon. Based on that single line, he prepared the story and screenplay. Geethanjali is the name of a Delhi-based 11-year old girl who was suffering from cancer and wrote her emotions in a diary that got printed at that time. Mani was moved emotionally when he read those diary pages, and wanted to name his film, and the heroine, after the little girl.
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| Maniratnam |
About the heroine:
Girija was accompanying cricketer Srikkanth's sister when she attended the marriage of Maniratnam and Suhasini in Chennai. She's basically from London, born to a Kannada doctor mother and a British businessman father. We saw her at the marriage and chose her as our heroine, and she got trained by Gadiraju Keshava Rao, a senior associate director, for two months before the shooting. She used to practice dialogues with him, writing them down in English. ...Girija later did one Malayalam film (Priyadarshan's Vandanam ) and a Telugu film Hrudayanjali (completed in 1992 but released in 2002), co-starring Sanjay Mithra, under the direction of A. Raghurami Reddy, music by L. Vaidyanathan, and camerawork by Madhu Ambat, which won four Nandi awards. The film has good songs by SPB and K.J. Yesudas but was a disaster at the box-office. She also appeared in a song in Jo Jeetha Wohi Sikander (in a stage drama with Aamir Khan). She was initially signed for the lead role in the film but Ayesha Julka replaced her after the first schedule, for reasons unknown. Later, she went back to London and is in London at present too.
