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Srini's Choice of Songs this week (05/08/08)

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36mundarunna chinnadAnikAlam mArindiS Rajeswara Raon/alinkReleased in 1972, produced by the noted cine journalist, Vasiraju Prakasam, and directed by Kasinadhuni Viswanadh. The song was picturized on Sobhan Babu and Sarada. Both are the lovers coming from two different strata of the Hindu society (a Brahmin boy and a Harijan girl.. quite opposite to their characters in balipeeTham movie). Both wait patiently until Sobhan Babu`s family whole-heartedly accept Sarada into their fold. The movie title is justified with this inter-caste marriage concept.
35Orabbee chebutAnu..khaidee bAbAiKV Mahadevann/alinkReleased in 1974 and directed by the editor Krishna (who also directed Sobhan Babu`s mongADu movie later). The song was picturized on Sobhan Babu and Vanisree. The movie is a remake of Rajesh Khanna starrer, Dushman. You can notice the typical music style of mAma and a melliflous voice of Janaki and the aging voice (but still clear) of Ghantasala in this song.














Songs from the Previous weeks




05/01/08

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34E vasantamidi.. evari sontamidi?mOsagAduChakravarthin/alinkReleased in 1980, produced by Kranthi Kumar and directed by K Raghavendra Rao. The song was picturized on Sobhan Babu and Sridevi. The movie is loosely based on the Hindi movie, Khaan Dost with Sathyanarayana and Sobhan Babu in the original roles of Raj Kapoor and Shartrughan Sinha respectively. Though Sathayanayarayana`s role and Sobhan`s jail and revenge-seeking scenes are taken from the original movie, the double roles of Sridevi are introduced in the Telugu version. Sridevi appears as twins (born in a vESya family), one being a homely girl loved by Sobhan Babu and another, being in a vamp as Chiru`s lover. Chiru eyes on Sobhan`s lover and rapes her and she then commits suicide. Now Sobhan vows to kill Sobhan and in the process he kills Chiru`s sidekicks and ends up in the jail. Sathyanarayana is an innocent yet kind-hearted jailer and he helps Sobhan to escape from the jail on a condition that the latter would come back to the jail. In the climax, Sobhan Babu kills Chiru, but Sathyanaraya loses his eye-sight in a fire accident. Sobhan gives his eyes to Sathyanarayana and then gets hanged to death with a quenched revenge. Though Chiru plays as a villain, he has two steamy mass songs with Sridevi. Sobhan, as usual, excels in the revenge seeking criminal role.
33sundara bRundAvanilOkrishNarjanuluSathyamn/alinkReleased in 1982 and directed by Dasari Narayana Rao. The song was picturized on Sobhan Babu and Jaya Prada. Another pair in the movie is Krishna and Sridevi. Sobhan Babu and Krishna play in the title roles as "prANa snEhitulu", who later part their ways, and eventually unite together.



04/24/08

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32madhuvolakabOsE nee chilipi kaLLukannavAri kalaluV Kumarn/alinkReleased in 1974 and directed by SS Balan. The song was picturized on Sobhan Babu and Vanisri. The movie is a remake of Rajesh Kanna`s sensation hit, ArAdhana. Sobhan Babu plays father and son roles and Vanisri and Latha play the respective heroines.
31ichhESa nA hrudayam teesukO..ee taram manishiChakravarthiAcharya AthreyalinkReleased in 1977, produced by Surapaneni Venakta Rathnam and directed by Veeramachaneni Madhusudana Rao. The song was picturized on Sobhan Babu and Jaya Prada. Lakshmi plays another important role in the film. The movie was based on Madireddy Sulochana`s novel, Mr. Sampath, MA. Sobhan Babu warned the producer that this kind of movie would not click and the movie turned out to be a fiasco. Later he wanted to make "yama gOla" movie with Sobhan Babu, but the latter suggested him that NTR would be the ideal choice for the movie.



04/17/08

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30chali vEstOndi..sOggADuKV MahadevanAcharya AthreyalinkReleased in 1975, produced by Daggubati Rama Naidu and directed by Kovelamudi Bapayya. The song was picturized on Sobhan Babu and Jaya Sudha. Sobhan Babu perfectly fits the role of sOggADu Sobhanadri. Jaya Chitra and Jaya Sudha play the heroine roles and Sathyanarayana as a villain. Sobhan Babu and his educated maradalu, Jaya Sudha are in love with each other, but his mEna mAma, Allu insults him that Sobhan doesn`t deserve his daughter and then Sobhan Babu challenges that he would marry a better girl. Then he marries Jaya Chitra, a niece of a cruel landlord, Sathyanarayana. Sobhan Babu comes to know that the sadistic Sathyanarayana mercilessly kills his father during his childhood. In the climax, Sobhan Babu punishes Sathyanarayana in the same way his father was tortured to death, but leaves him alive on his mother`s request (I like Anjali Devi`s dialogue "ee durmAguDini champitE, vADi prEtAtma ee pavitra sthalAm chuTTu tirigutundi"). Sobhan Babu said that he had taken an inspiration from the mannerisms of a person at his native place (Chinna Nandigama/Mailavaram) while playing this role and Sobhan Babu felicitated that elder person during the 100th day celebrations of this movie. This movie remains as one of my BEST favorite movies from the 70`s. 1975 was the best year for Sobhan Babu in his entire career, as he had super hits with an excellent combination of family and action entertainers such as bali peeTham, jeevana jyOti, jEbu donga, and ofcourse sOggADu.
29vaLLantA vayyAramEiddarU iddarEChakravarthin/alinkReleased 1976, produced by S Venakta Rathnam & Chatterji and directed by V Madhusudana Rao. The song was picturized on Sobhan Babu and Manjula. Krishnam Raju and Chandra Kala are another pair in the movie. The movie is a remake of "Do Yaar" with Vinod Khanna and Shatrughan Sinha in the original roles. Sobhan Babu`s father is responsible for Krishnam Raju`s family breakup and as an act of retaliation, Krishnam Raju kidnaps Sobhan`s sister, Chandra Kala and sells her off in a brothel house. Unknowing to each other Sobhan Babu and Krishnam Raju become good friends. Sobhan Babu is in search of the person (that kidnapped his sister) and his sister as well. In the climax, the truth gets revealed and both of them realize that the mistakes are on the both sides and Krishnam Raju goes to the jail. This movie was later remade (going in circles??) in 1988 as "Inteqam" with Anil Kapoor and Sunny Deol in the original roles of Vinod Khanna and Shatrughan Sinha repsectivley.



04/10/08

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28prEminchukundAm.. evarEmanna Emanna gAnee...ninDu manishiSathyamn/alinkReleased in 1978 and directed by SD Lal. The song was picturized on Sobhan Babu and Deepa. This movie is a remake of Dharmendra starrer, samAdhi. Sobhan Babu appears in the double roles (father and son) and Jaya Chitra, Deepa and Sathyanarayana play the original roles of Asha Parekh, Jaya Bhaduri and Madan Puri respectivley. In the original movie, Dharmendra plays as a decoit, but here Sobhan Babu plays a hot-blooded, patriotic revolutionary (pre-independece days) and he looks awesome in the lines of Bhagat Singh`s getup. He, in an unfortunate situation, is responsible for the death of a kidnapped kid (of a businessman, Gummadi) and then in penance, he leaves his own kid with Gummadi and then surrenders to the police and goes to jail. Though Sobhan Babu excelled in the emotional father role, the movie was a commercial failure for the director could not successfully get the spirit of the original movie.
27ennelantA ErAye..mahA lakshmiSathyamn/alinkReleased in 1980 and the song was picturized on Sobhan Babu and Vanisree. Subhashini plays a supporting role. The story is very similar to ANR starrer, vichitra jeevitam, which, in turn, is a remake of Rajesh Khanna starrer, Daag. A couple of scenes in the movie remind you the Sobhan Babu`s earlier movie, chakra vAkam too. Unable to bear the insults by his vadina (again Raja Sulochana), Sobhan leaves for a town to earn money, but he is assumed to be dead in a cyclone mishap. After reaching the town, he helps out a rich man, Sathyanarayana and his cancer-suffering daughter, Subhashini. In the climax, Subhashini unites both the wife and husband before she dies. I guess this could be Vanisree`s last movie (after her marriage) before she started her second-innings with attaku yamuDu-ammAyiki muguDu in 1989.



04/03/08

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26aNuvu aNuvunamAnavuDu-dAnavuDuAswadhhamaC Narayana ReddylinkReleased in 1972 and directed by P Chandra Sekhara Reddy. The song is picturized on Sobhan Babu, Krishna Kumari and others. Krishna Kumari and her kid brother, Sobhan Babu get seperated and Krishna Kumari ends up in a brothel house because of Sathyanarayana and the kid grows up with a revenge on Sathyanarayana and becomes a doctor. Sarada (Satyanarayana`s daughter) falls in love with Sobhan Babu. Sobhan appears in two getups: a humanitarian doctor and a ruthless rowdy that burns with revenge (and hence the title). Finally Sathyanarayana realizes how painful it is when Sobhan Babu is about to make his daughter a prostitute (in fact, a drama enacted by Sobhan Babu to give Sathyanarayana a taste of helplessness of other women that have been forcibly thrown by him into prositution). The movie was a big hit during that time and Sobhan Babu excels in in the title roles and shows a commendable variation in the two roles.
25kailAsa SikharAna koluvaina swAmimahArAjuChakravarthiVeturilinkReleased in 1985 and directed by Vijaya Bapineedu. The song is picturized on Sobhan Babu and Suhanisini. It is a family sentimental story where Sobhan Babu plays a sacrificial role in a combined family with a selfish sister and irresponsible family members. Again, it is the role only Sobhan Babu can do a complete justice to it.



03/27/08

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24ninnu marachipOvAlanimanchi manushuluKV MahadevanAcharya AthreyalinkReleased in 1974 and produced/directed by Veeramachaneni Babu Rajendra Prasad. The song was picturized on Sobhan Babu. Sobhan Babu excels in the sentimental role and this is one of the best family sentimental movies from the 70`s. An interesting thing is that Sobhan Babu preferred the singer Rama Krishna over Bablu a lot in 1973 and 1974 and this is the first movie for Balu to sing for Sobhan Babu after nearly the gap of two years. As you can see from this song, only Balu can match the Ardhrata rasam that exceptionally comes from Sobhan Babu`s voice. The movie is a remake of Shashi Kapoor starrer, Aa galE lag jA. Manjula, Jaggayya and Nagabhushanam play the original roles of Sharmila Tagore, Shatrughan Sinha and Om Prakash. Later this movie was made by VB Rajendra Prasad as Uttaman in Tamil with Sivaji Ganesan in the lead role.
23vEyi deepAlu nA lOna veligitE..jeevita noukaKV Mahadevann/alinkReleased in 1977 and directed by Kasinadhuni Viswanadh. The song was picturized on Sobhan Babu and Jaya Prada. In this triangular love story, Sobhan Babu and Jaya Prada are lovers, but the hero is forced to marry another girl, Jaya Sudha and Jaya Prada loses her eyesight in a mishap. Jaya Prada and Sobhan Babu again run into each other and then this song comes in that context (as per MisterVijay from the Prince DB).Interestingly, Sobhan Babu is the only star that acted in a maximum number of Viswanadh`s movies than any one else. By this movie release, Viswanadh was gradually moving towards the classical movie making (with small range artists such as Chandra Mohan) and probably this is his last movie with the 70`s top stars.



03/20/08

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22O priyA.. marumalliya kannA tellandimalle puvvuChakravarthiArudralinkReleased in 1978, produced by Samatha arts (Chattarjee) and directed by Victory Madhusudana Rao. Though it is a remake of Guru Dutt starrer, Pyasa, this movie is very well made and remains as one of the best movies from Sobhan Babu. The song was picturized on Sobhan Babu, Jaya Sudha and other people. The natural acting of Sobhan Babu and Lakshmi (who acts as a hooker) in the movie is simply awesome. I can not write more on this movie at this point as I am completley grief-stricken with Sobhan Babu`s demise news.
21evariki telusu chitikina manasumalle puvvuChakravarthiVeturilinkReleased in 1978, produced by Samatha arts (Chattarjee) and directed by Victory Madhusudana Rao. Though it is a remake of Guru Dutt starrer, Pyasa, this movie is very well made and remains as one of the best movies from Sobhan Babu. The song was picturized on Sobhan Babu, Jaya Sudha and other people. The natural acting of Sobhan Babu and Lakshmi (who acts as a hooker) in the movie is simply awesome. I can not write more on this movie at this point as I am completley grief-stricken with Sobhan Babu`s demise news.



03/13/08

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20manasu.. mandAram rAmApuram lO seetaJV Raghavulun/alinkReleased in 1981 and directed by Dhavala Sathyam. The song was picturized on Rama Krishna and Sujatha. Rama Krishna dies in the middle of the movie and the rest of the movie is about the ordeals that the heroine goes through (as per Jamesbond from the Prince DB). I guess this movie is best remembered for this beautiful melody.
19annA vinnA pApamEaparAdhiJV Raghavulun/alinkReleased in 1984, produced by S Gopal Reddy, and directed by Kodi Rama Krishna. The song was picturized on Suman and Suhasini. The movie is a murder-mystery. Suman and Suhasini are a happy couple. Giri Babu tries to molest Suhasini and she in turn kills him in self-defense. Suman comes to know that Suhasini has committed a murder, but pretends that he is not aware of it. Now Suman starts getting the black-mailing calls from some one that has witnessed the murder. Finally it turns out that the actual killer cum the black-mailer is none other than Giri Babu`s wife (she can not tolerate her husband`s lecherous acts and kills him, when he is still left alive after Suhasini`s knife stab). If I remember correctly, Giri Babu`s wife role is donned by the lady, who acts as Chiru`s widow cousin in SubhalEkha.



03/06/08

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18kshaNam.. kshaNam.. nireekshaNamTigerSathyamn/alinkReleased in 1983 and directed by Nandamuri Ramesh (not sure if he is related to NTR family). The song was picturized on Rajani Kanth and Subhashini. The movie was loosely based on Khoon-Pasina (with NTR and Rajani Kanth in the roles Amitabh and Vinod Khanna respectively). Radha Saluja pairs with NTR.
17gOranta sUreeDu Uranta velegEDu..peLLI chEsi chUpistAMRamakrishnam RajuRajasrilinkReleased in 1983 and produced by Chalam. The song was picturized on Chandra Mohan and Vijaya Santhi. I have not watched this movie, but I vaguely remember that the whole movie goes around Sathyanarayana who wants to amend Chandra Mohan or some thing like that. I have no idea who this new music director is and he gave an awesome tune on par with a quality of mAma and Sathyam.



02/28/08

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16niramtaram.. taram taramrahasya gUDhachAriSathyamn/alinkReleased in 1981 and directed by KSR Dasu. The song was picturized on Krishna and Jaya Prada. The movie was heavily inspired by two Roger Moore s Bond movies: A spy who loved me and Moonraker. This is the last memorable Bond movie from the Andhra James Bond.
15aggipulla bhaggumanTadiaDavi simhAluChakravarthiVeturilinkReleased in 1983, produced by Chalasani Aswani Dutt, and directed by Kovelamudi Raghavendra Rao. The song was picturized on Krishna and Silk Smitha. One of the high-budgeted multi-starrer Telugu movies in the early 80s and the movie was later made in Hindi as Jaani Dost with Jeetendra and Dharmendra in Krishna and Krishnam Raju roles respectively.



02/21/08

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14indradhanusu cheera kaTTi..gaja dongaChakravarthiVeturilinkReleased in 1981, produced by Kaikala Sathyanarayana and directed by Kovelamudi Raghavendra Rao. The song was picturized on NTR and Jaya Sudha. NTR acts in the double roles (twins) in this action entertainer along with Jaya Sudha and Sridevi in the respective heroine roles. NTR excels in the role of Gold Man. The music director, Chakravarthi appears in a small comic role (a confused constable who puts NTR and Sridevi together behind the bars for a whole night) in the movie.
13chilakamma palikindikArteeka deepamSathyamn/alinkReleased in 1979 and directed by Lakshmi Deepak (who also directed movies like panDanTi kApuram and dhairyavantuDu). The song was picturized on Sobhan Babu and Sridevi. Sobhan Babu plays dual roles (father and son) and Sarada, Sridevi and Geetha play the heroine roles. Starting with this hit movie, he got an image of a husband-stranded-between-two-wives role, though in reality he used to do both the action and family roles with the same ease.



02/14/08

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12eeduru gAliki mA dora gArikikaTakaTAla rudrayyaJV RaghavuluVeturilinkReleased in 1978, produced by Vadde Brothers (Ramesh, Kishore and Sobhanadri) and directed by Dasari. The song was picturized on Rama Krishna and Jaya Chitra. Krishnam Raju and Jaya Sudha are the lead pair in the movie. Dasari got stardom to Krishnam Raju and the popular tag "Rebel Star" with this movie. I guess the association between the Vijaya Madhavi banner and JV Raghavulu started off with AtmeeyuDu and this movie in 1978 and it continued until viSwanAdha nAyakuDu (1987). Dasari seems to be responsible for the producers rise (starting with this with movie, along with some other memorable hits like Rangoon Rowdy and bobbili puli) as well as thier downfall (with lankESwaruDu in 1989).
11chinuku chinuku gA.. chiguru mettagAmukku puDakaJV RaghavuluC Narayana ReddylinkReleased in 1983 and directed by Kodi Rama Krishna. The song was picturized on Bhanu Chandar and Vijaya Santhi. Bhanu Chandar has to forcibly marry his palleTUri maradalu, Suhasini under the family pressure. When he goes for an employment in a city, he falls in love with Vijaya Santhi and secretly marries her. Suhasini comes to the city in search of her husband and joins as a maid in their house. Finally Vijaya Santhi comes to know about the truth and sacrifices her love for Suhasini.



02/07/08

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10mATE mantramO..seetAkOka chilukaIlaya RajaVeturilinkReleased in 1981, produced by Edida Nageswara Rao (Poornodaya movies), and directed by Bharathi Raja. The song was picturized on Karthik (until the mid 80s, he used to Murali for the Telugu audiences) and Muccherla Aruna. It is a remake of the original Tamil movie by the same director and it had Karthik and Radha. The movie is about an intra-religion teenage love. Ali appears in a notable child artist role (bAbAy gADu). As per Naresh, he was first promissed the hero role, but due to the pressure from the director, the hero in the original was taken in the Telugu version as well. It was one of the best albums from the maestro in the early 80s.
9kadilE kOrikavOmalle pandiriRamesh NaiduVeturilinkReleased in 1981 and directed by Jandhyala. The song was picturized on Vijji Babu (who acted as an elder brother to Naresh in nAlugu sthambAlATa movie) and the heroine(??). Veturi and Balu appear in guest roles in the movie.



01/31/08

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8Emani nE.. cheli pADudunOmantri gAri viyyankuDuIlaya Rajan/alinkReleased in 1983, produced by Jaya Krishna, and directed by Bapu. The song was picturized on Chiru and Poornima Jayaram (who later married Bhagya Raja). The movie is about how Chiru teaches a lesson to Allu (an arrogant, rich businessman) who insults Chiru family. This is the only one major movie with Bapu/Chiru combination (though Chiru acted in a small role in manavUri pAnDavulu earlier). Ram Gopal Varma took this tune in one of his recent Hindi movies (James or Shiva???) quoting that he is a big fan of Ilaya Raja.
7adigadigO.. yamunA teeramtella gulAbeeluSankar-Ganeshn/alinkReleased in 1984 and directed by Relangi Narasimha Rao. I have no idea about this movie except that Rajesh (who was an younger brother of the comdeidan, Sri Lakshmi) is the hero in the movie.



01/24/08

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6palarAti mandirAnanEnU manishinEVedaC Narayana ReddylinkReleased in 1971 and directed by G.V.R.Seshagiri Rao. The song was picturized on Krishna and Kanchana. I vaguely remember the story - Gummadi and Krishna are brothers. Gummadi is a judge and Krishna is a police officer. Gummadi takes revenge (by killing) on the person that has raped and killed his wife. I guess the title applies to the elder brother, Gummadi (who is not free from the extreme human emotions such as revenge, though he himself is a judge). This movie seems to be a remake of a Hindi movie, Do Bhai starring Ashok Kumar and Jeetendra as brothers-- as per Hanuman from the Discussion Board.
5nA rASi kanya rASi.. nE rASi midhuna rASiallari pillaluSathyamCS Rao Released in 1978 and directed by Chittajallu Srinivasa Rao. The song was picturized on Rama Krishna and Jaya Chitra. Interestingly, the song is penned down by the director himself.



01/17/08

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4OhO.. lalitA.. nA prEmakavitAmalle puvvuChakravarthiVeturilinkReleased in 1978, produced by Samatha arts (Chattarjee) and directed by Victory (Veeramachaneni) Madhusudana Rao. The song was picturized on Sobhan Babu and Jayasudha. Though it is a remake of the Guru Dutt starrer, "Pyasaa", this movie is very well made and remains as one of the best movies from Sobhan Babu. If I were to choose just one move of Sobhan Babu or one movie of Chakravarthi, I would with no second thoughts pick up this movie.
3charaNa kinkiNulu..chelleli kApuramKV MahadevanC Narayana ReddylinkReleased in 1971, produced by the actor Mannava Balayya, and directed by Kasinadhuni Viswanadh. The song was picturized on Sobhan Babu and Vanisree. Sobhan Babu excels in a role of a poet who hesitates to express his love to a beautiful heroine, as he suffers an inferirity complex because of his dark-complexion. Balayya once quoted that Ghantasala was supposed to sing this song.. but due his ill-health, Ghantasala could not go the recording and hence the opportunity went to the then-upcoming singer, Bablu.



01/10/08

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2keeravANi.. chilaka lA..anvEshaNaIlaya RajaVeturilinkReleased in 1985 and directed Vamsee. The song was picturized on Karthik and Bhanu Priya. I guess the AlApana at the beginning of the sung was sung by Ilaya Raja (correct me if I am wrong). As every one of you knows that the movie is a suspense thriller, I am not going over the movie details.
1chinukulArAli.. nadulugA sAginAlugu stambAlATaRajan-NagendraVeturilinkReleased in 1982, produced by Navatha Krishnam Raju, and directed by Jandhyala. The song was picturized on Naresh and Poornima. Pradeep and Tulasi play the supporting roles. One interesting thing is that EEV Sathyanarayana (who used to an assistant director for Jandhyala movies in the beginning) played as "vidhi", the masked man during the titles of the movie. Rajan Nagendra re-used their popular Kannada tune for this song.


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