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Kondaveeti Donga(Telugu: కొండవీటి దొంగ) is a film starring Chiranjeevi which was a massive hit when it was released in 1990. Engaging and with a social cause at the same time, relating to both masses and classes, Kondaveeti Donga remains one of the best movies in the telugu film history.

Credits

Release date: 9/3/1990

Banner: Sri Vijayalaxmi Art

Lead: Chiranjeevi, Vijayashanti, Radha

Producer: T Trivikrama Rao

Director: A. Kodandarami Reddy

Music: Ilayaraja

Dialogues: Yandamuri Veerendranadh

Camera: V S R Swamy

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Movie title : Kobbari Bondam
Cast: Rajendra Prasad, Nirosha, Kota Srinivasa Rao, Sudhakar, Mallikarjuna Rao, JV Ramana Murthy, Sri Lakshmi, Jaya Lalitha

Direction : K Ravi Teja
Banner : Manisha Films
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Produced by Bhargava and directed by B.Satya, Kittu is the first ever full length animation feature film in Telugu films. The entire movie is produced, created and developed in India. Talking to TotalTollywood, the makers said, "Keeping in view of the world wide animation scenario and the current trends and demands in animation, we have observed the need to promote the original Indian animation content both locally and globally. Bhargava pictures has been the content development hub creating the original Indian content based on the Indian culture, mythology, epics, geography, politics and legends."

Kittu is the story of a monkey kid in a beautiful forest. Naughty, careless, proud and adamant- The story of a naughty monkey kid, an original creation- set amidst a beautiful jungle, gives a message of good conduct and the results of being careless and falling in to bad companies. The entire story moves in the Jungle and the real day-to-day life style is given for the animal characters. E.g., mother monkey putting the uniform on Kittu, going to the school, doing homework, going to market, having lunch, Kittu copying in the exam, addicting to drugs, making false friendships and the police station etc. The mischievous things of Kittu were presented in a very lighter way. Chasing between Kittu and the rest of the animals will be put in a very comic way. There is an underline message of Good personality development and habits are given in this story.

Bhargava pictures is a Hyderabad based animation film production company founded by Bhargava Kodavanti to make films, documentaries, semi documentary features, short films (all in animation), which promote Indian heritage and culture and have strong social responsibility. Bhargava pictures is producing two animation films, the script work of which is currently going on and will be released in 2007.
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Cast: Naresh, Geetu Singh, Madhu Shalini, Brahmanandam, Giribabu,Sunil, Venu Madhav, Chalapati Rao, Babu Mohan, Mallikharjuna Rao, Dharmavarapu Subramanyam, Ali, Jayaprakash Reddy, MS Narayana, LB Sreeram, Mada, Krishna Bhagawan, AVS, Raghubabu, Lakshmipati. Kondavalasa Lakshmana Rao, Uttej, Dr. Siva Prasad, Gundu Hanmantha Rao, Kadambari Kiran, Rama Prabha, Jayalalitha, Telangana Sakuntala, Sana, Rajitha, Subhashini, Rekha, Rajani, Kalpana & Archana

Crew:
Dialogues: Vegnesa satish, Nivas, D nagaraju, Veligonda Srinivas, Balaram, Muralimohan & EVV
Cinematography: Jayaram V
Art: Ashok
Editing: V Nagireddy
Fights: Stun Siva
Story - screenplay - producer - Direction: EVV Satyanarayana

Last day shoot of EVV’s Kithakithalu film was going on at ‘Le Palais Royale’ function hall in Bowenpally, Secuderabad on 11th March 2006. Le Palais Royale was converted into district magistrate office and the scene consists of women activists under the leadership of Telangana Sakuntala making protect against Relangi Rajababu played by Allari Naresh. Raghubabu, Mada, AVS, Rajitha and Kalpana also acted in the scene.

EVV arranged a press meet on this occasion. EVV, Chalapati Rao, Babu Mohan, Allari Naresh, AVS, Raghubabu and Mada participated in it.

Kithakithalu will be the best comedy flick in my career - EVV
Speaking to the press EVV said, “Kithakithalu is my 45th film as director. We started the shooting of this film on 16th January and completing it today. We will start dubbing on 20th of this month and are planning to release Kithakithalu in the first week of May. We worked over the script for five months. 6 dialogue writers worked for Kithakithalu and we made over 14 versions of script. In every scene of the film there are bound to be at least 10 jokes. Audiences are going to laugh for 1000 times while watching this 2 and half hour film. Kithakithalu is going to be the best comedy flick in my career. In addition to dialogue comedy, there is going to be excellent visual comedy too. There is comedy in sentiment and action scenes as well. Among my films Jambalakadipamba, Hello Brother and Aa Okkati Adakku were the films that were broadcast for most number of times. Kithakithalu will join that league.”

Second innings with Party and Kithakithalu this summer - Allari Naresh
Allari Naresh said, “I am very thankful to my father for making 4th film with me as hero. Kithakithalu would be most memorable EVV film in my career like Aa Okkati Adakku for Rajendra Prasad. I am hopeful to start my second innings with Party and Kithakithalu this summer.”

Chalapati Rao, AVS, Raghubabu and Mada also spoke during this occasion.
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Khaidi No.786 is a 1988 film, starring Chiranjeevi, Bhanupriya, Suthivelu, Kota Srinivasa Rao, Mohan Babu, Nutan Prasad, and Kaikala Satyanarayana. The film was directed by Vijay Bapineedu

Gopi (Chiranjeevi) is a music master brought up by Satyanarayana and Nutan prasad in a village. He wants to become a police constable. Surya Chandra Rao (Kota Srinivasa Rao) is a rich man in the village with his daughter Radha (Bhanupriya) who is head strong and proud of her riches. In a brawl with Gopi, she seeks revenge and acts as his disciple wanting to learn music and later accuses him of attempting to rape her with the help of new SI of the village Asirayya (Mohan Babu) but later realises her mistake and his good nature and falls in love with him. Though reluctant to marry her, Gopi is convinced to accept her into his life and they marry. Surya Chandra Rao is enraged by this and sends a goon to kill him and in a fight the goon loses and Gopi leaves him at Surya Chandra Rao's house warning him not to enter his life again. The goon is killed by Surya Chandra Rao and Gopi is accused of his murder and is put in jail. The rest of the story forms on how Gopi proves his innocence and how he brings the villains to justice.


The climax of this movie, is remembered for it's difference. Villain Mohan Babu shouts at the hero, claiming that he had trapped Chiranjeevi earlier. But Chiru had set up mikes, speakers on trees, thru which the Police Chief does come to know the triue colors of Asirayya.

This movie was remade in Kannada as Nammoora Hammeera with Ambarish and Suman Ranganathan in lead roles.


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Cast: Chiranjeevi, Madhavi, Sumalata, Ravu Gopal Rao, Nutan Prasad, PL Narayana, Ranganath, Sangeeta, Chalapati Rao
Banner: Samyukta Movies
Director: A Kodandarami Reddy
Producers: K Dhanunjaya Reddy, K Narasa Reddy & S Sudhakara Reddy
Story & Dialogues: Paruchuri Brothers
Lyrics: Veturi Sundara Rammurthy & Rajasri
Camera: VSR Swamy
Music: Chakravarthy

About the film:

This film is an action thriller establishing Chiranjeevi as a megastar. Having been falsely accused of crime, he becomes lone avenger. The poor Suryam(Chiranjeevi) falls for university colleague Madhu (Madhavi). In retaliation Madhu's father and village landlord Veerabhadraiah ((Ravu Gopal Rao) auctions the house of Suryam's father, the peasant Venkateswarlu (PL Narayana).

The landlord's associate in the villainy, the village munsiff (Nutan Prasad), kills Suryam's sister and accuses Suryam of the deed. The landlord later tortures him. They also kill Dr Sujata (Sumalata) when she offers shelter to the hero. The film begins with Suryam's escape from the police after a spectacular fight and much of the story deals with his efforts to dodge arrest while getting at the bad guys. IN the end he kills Veerabhadraiah and munsiff before surrendering to the police.
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Credits

Jeevi rating: 3/5
Punchline: Lacks edge and clarity
Genre: Patriotic
Banner: Karthikeya
Cast: Srikanth, Sonali Bendre, Prakash Raj, Ravi Teja, Kim Sharma, Sangeeta, Brahmaji, Uttej, Giri Babu, Raghu Babu and Ahuti Prasad
Lyrics: Sirivennela, Vijay Kumar, Suddala Ashok Teja and Shakti
Dialogues: Uttej
Additional Screenplay: Satyanand
Music: Devi Sriprasad
Photography: Bhoopati
Story - Screenplay - Direction: Krishna Vamsi
Producer: Sunkara Madhu Murali
Release date: 29th November
Review

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Story

The film opens with the Khadgam title track that shows the greatness and history of India. There are a few Ariel moving shots of Charminar. Koti (Ravi Teja) is a hero wannabe. He has only one goal in life. That is to become a hero and to be called as 'Babu' by the industry people. Amjad (Prakash Raj) is an auto driver. Though extremely religious Muslim, Amjad is very patriotic about India. His younger brother Azhar is been missing since one year. The cops of Hyderabad arrested a dreadful ISI terrorist Masood. In a bid to get him released, the Pakistan authorities train Azhar (brother of Amjad) and send him across to Hyderabad to create riots and build communal tension. Azhar comes to Hyderabad and stays with his brother Amjad. Azhar's secret activities include devising and executing plans to release Masood.

Radha Krishna (Srikanth) is a sincere and efficient police officer. But he is very serious in nature and has enormous hatred towards Pakistan for the reasons best known to him.

The rest of the story includes how these three protagonists save the terrorist Masood from fleeing to Pakistan. And of course there is a 15 minutes flashback for Radha Krishna that involves his ladylove Swathy (Sonali Bendre) getting killed by the ISI guys.

Artists:

Srikanth: Srikanth played a full time serious role as an honest and powerful cop. There are good amount of stunts canned on him. He did a balanced action, as his character is a pretty serious one with less number of dialogues.

Prakash Raj: Prakash Raj has got more footage than any other character in this film. Though he sounded redundant at times, he did full justice to his role as a patriotic Muslim Indian.

Ravi Teja: This role of actor-wannabe is a tailor made one for Ravi Teja. He did extremely well in the scenes.

Raghu Babu: Raghu Babu (another son of actor Giri Babu) has been getting impact making roles now a days. In this film, he played the comic role of a typical PA (cum broker) in film industry. His getup and accent is extremely good.

Heroines: Sonali Bendre has a 15-minute role in this film and she is extremely sensuous in 'Nuvvu Nuvvu' song. Its sounds like she has dubbed her character in this film. She sounded decent. Sangeeta did a role of an innocent village belle who comes to Hyderabad in search of heroine chance in Telugu films. She realizes that it's not so easy and decides to sacrifice herself to a director in order to get heroine break (as per the suggestion of her mother). Kim Sharma played the role of cheerful girl. But there is no necessity for that role in this film.

Technical Departments

Story - Screenplay - direction: The basic storyline is about how three people from different walks of life and with different professions accidentally join in a mission to foil a terrorist activity. But Krishna Vamsi did lot of stuffing by inserting too many different threads. There are four heroes and four heroines. There is a love track for each couple. There is a comedy touch for the characters of Ravi Teja and Prakash Raj. In a bid to insert too many things in too little time, the director lost clarity. Screenplay of the film is loose. There is touch of Vamsi in few shots. But the grip on the pulse of audience is missing. His dig at the popular Telugu film heroes and 'Babu' culture in film industry is pretty good. The way he closed the character of Sangeeta is pretty realistic. But there is no relevance of Raviteja and Sangeeta characters to the main story line. Krishna Vamsi throws light on insecurity factor faced by Muslims in India and at the same time focused how some of Indian Muslims enjoy Pakistan winning over India in cricket matches. There is a verbal war between Prakash Raj and Srikanth over the greatness of Hinduism and Muslim religion in Indian context. But, people come to watch film for entertainment, but not for the heated verbal debates over burning issues. Krishna Vamsi also played anti-pakistani and anti-Muslim card like 'Gaddar' (Hindi film) to raise the emotions of the crowds. In order to put too many things in the film, Krishna Vamsi lost focus on straight narration and meandered over trivial issues.

Dialogues: Dialogues by Uttej are good in parts. The dialogues written for Ravi Teja that ridicules current hero system are hilarious. There is pretty good applause for two dialogues in the film that refers Pakistanis in unspeakable words (Pakistani *****kodukulu and Pakistani Madarchod).

Music: Songs by Devi Sri Prasad are good in the film. Picturization of 'Nuvvu Nuvvu' is very pleasant. All other songs also serve entertainment purpose. Rerecording of the film is good. Govinda Govinda song is hilarious.

Lyrics: Lyrics by Sirivennela are good. Especially the title track makes you sit and see what's happening on screen with reverence. Musugu Veyyoddu Manasu Meda song has typical Sirivennela kind of live-and-let-others-live philosophy. Nuvvu Nuvvu lyrics are very sensuous. Govinda Govinda lyrics by Shakti are good.

Photography: Photography for the film is decent. But I guess Bhoopati would have done a better job, if he were given more resources.

Analysis: First half of the film is decent. Second half is comparatively dull. When you watch a film and come out, you can say that you watched a film of a particular genre (like a love story, family cinema, youth film, comedy flick, mass masala etc). Though this film is made to represent the patriotic action film genre, Krishna Vamsi tried injecting all other five-genre elements. In that process, the patriotic aspect of the film did not get elevated. As a Telugu film, it's an average one. But for the standards of Krishna Vamsi it's a below average product.
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