Anandam
2001 film by Srinu Vaitla
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Anandam |
| image | Anandam.jpg |
| caption | Poster |
| director | Srinu Vaitla |
| producer | Ramoji Rao |
| writer | Chintapalli Ramana (Dialogues) |
| screenplay | Srinu Vaitla |
| starring | Akash |
| Rekha | |
| Venkat | |
| Tanu Roy | |
| Brahmanandam | |
| Tanikella Bharani | |
| music | Devi Sri Prasad |
| editing | Kola Bhaskar |
| cinematography | Sameer Reddy |
| studio | Ushakiran Movies |
| distributor | Mayuri |
| released | |
| runtime | 132 minutes |
| country | India |
| language | Telugu |
| gross | ₹10 crore distributors' share |
| :: |
| name = Anandam | image = Anandam.jpg | caption = Poster | director = Srinu Vaitla | producer = Ramoji Rao | writer = Chintapalli Ramana (Dialogues) | screenplay = Srinu Vaitla | starring = Akash Rekha Venkat Tanu Roy Brahmanandam Tanikella Bharani | music = Devi Sri Prasad | editing = Kola Bhaskar | cinematography = Sameer Reddy | studio = Ushakiran Movies | distributor = Mayuri | released = | runtime = 132 minutes | country = India | language = Telugu | gross = ₹10 crore distributors' share
Anandam () is a 2001 Indian Telugu-language romance film, directed by Srinu Vaitla and starring Akash and Rekha in the lead roles. The music of the film was composed by Devi Sri Prasad. The film was sensational hit at box office and ran for 200 days in two centers, 175 days in two centers and 100 days in all major centers. It was a commercial and critical success of the time. This film made Akash an overnight star of the Telugu film industry. The film was remade in Kannada as Ananda, in Tamil as Inidhu Inidhu Kaadhal Inidhu, both versions being produced by Ramoji Rao and in Hindi as Thoda Tum Badlo Thoda Hum.
Plot
Kiran (Akash) and Aishwarya (Rekha) are neighbours since childhood and always fight with each other on trivial things. Kiran hates her so much that he feels relieved when she moves to Ooty along with her parents. There, Aishwarya comes across an unopened greeting card addressed to Deepika (Tanu Roy). She learns that Deepika's family were the previous tenants in that home and tries to find out the whereabouts of Deepika to hand over the greeting card. But she finds out that Deepika committed suicide unwilling to marry the person chosen by her parents and as her plans of elopement failed as her boyfriend did not come to rescue her.
Aishwarya feels bad for Deepika and tries to leave the matter, but couldn't when she finds letters written by Vamsi, Deepika's boyfriend. She reads them and gets moved by the emotion in it. She decides to break the information of Deepika's suicide to Vamsi, but first, she writes a letter to him as Deepika to prepare him for the bad news. On the other hand, Vamsi was no more as he dies in an accident while coming to Deepika to marry her. Incidentally, Kiran was Vamsi's friend and receives the letter written by Aishwarya. He too wants to prepare Deepika slowly for bad news and write her back as Vamsi. They continue exchanging letters for some more time and at last decide to break the news and arrange a meeting.
When they see each other instead of Deepika and Vamsi, they get shocked and slowly reveal the truth to each other. They both get impressed with each other for the sympathetic and competent handling of the sensitive matter. They move back to their places but start to having feelings for each other. Slowly they express their emotions and become one.
Cast
- Akash as Kiran
- Rekha as Aishwarya
- Venkat as Vamsi
- Tanu Roy as Deepika
- Chandra Mohan as Aishwarya's father
- Tanikella Bharani as Kiran's father
- Dharmavarapu Subramanyam as College Lecturer
- Brahmanandam as House Owner
- Chitram Srinu as Chandu
- Shiva Reddy as Purse
- Ramachandra as Kiran's friend
- Sudha as Aishwarya's mother
- Delhi Rajeswari as Kiran's mother
- M S Narayana as House Owner
- Jaya Prakash Reddy as Police Officer
- Banerjee as Deepika's father
- Jenny as College lecturer
- Shankar Melkote as House Owner
- Babloo as Kiran's friend
- Nutan Prasad
- Shwetha Menon in a special appearance in the song "Mona Lisa"
Production
Uday Kiran and Shriya Saran were initially considered for the lead roles. Newcomer Akash was cast as the lead despite not knowing Telugu at the time. He wrote down his dialogues in Tamil and English. The voice for Akash was given by music composer Sri. Rekha Vedavyas made her Telugu debut with this film. Jayaprakash Reddy turned comedian with this film. The film was shot in a single schedule at Ooty, Visakhapatnam and Film City.
Soundtrack
The soundtrack is composed by Devi Sri Prasad. The soundtrack of the movie is released through Mayuri Audio. The songs were well received.
| name = Anandam | type = soundtrack | artist = Devi Sri Prasad | cover = | alt = | released = 20 August 2001 | recorded =2001 | venue = | studio = | genre = Film soundtrack | length = 29:54 | label = Mayuri Audio | producer = Devi Sri Prasad | prev_title = Navvuthu Bathakalira | prev_year = 2001 | next_title = Kalusukovalani | next_year =2002
| headline = Tracklist | total_length = 29:54 | extra_column = Artist(s) | title1 = Anandam | lyrics1 = Sirivennela Seetharama Sastry | extra1 = Tippu | length1 = 4:22 | title2 = Kanulu Terichinna | extra2 = Mallikarjun, Sumangali | lyrics2 = Sirivennela Seetharama Sastry | length2 = 4:41 | title3 = Monalisa | extra3 = Devi Sri Prasad, Kalpana | lyrics3 = Bhuvanachandra | length3 = 5:01 | title4 = Evarina Epudaina | lyrics4 = Sirivennela Seetharama Sastry | extra4 = Pratap |note4 = Male | length4 = 1:57 | title5 = Evarina Epudaina |note5 = Female | lyrics5 = Sirivennela Seetharama Sastry | extra5 = Chitra | length5 = 1:58 | title6 = Oka Merupu | extra6 = Sunita Rao | lyrics6 = Potula Ravikiran | length6 = 5:08 | title7 = Premante Emitante | lyrics7 = Devi Sri Prasad | extra7 = Devi Sri Prasad, Mallikarjun, Sumangali | length7 = 5:19 | title8 = Theme Music | note8 = Instrumental | length8 = 1:28
Reception
Gudipoodi Srihari of The Hindu noted, "Dialogues prove to be the basic strength of the film, particularly during the humorous scenes. Akash and Rekha make a good pair and their performances suit the characters they play". E. M. Bhargava of Full Hyderabad opined, "credit should be given to the director for treating the story with a lot of care (pardoning him a few unnecessary scenes) and for creating the feel good factor. The film certainly becomes worth a watch". Telugu Cinema wrote "The film reminds Ushakiron's earlier Nuvve Kavali several times in terms of its scenes, dialogues, locations, settings, etc. Of course, similarity does not extend to the former's quality. Despite all this the film could be a time pass".
Dropped sequel
In 2013, Jai Akash announced that he was working towards directing a sequel to the film titled Anandam Aarambam and had cast a completely new team from the original; however it was shelved.
References
References
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