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Godavari (film)

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{{Infobox film
|name = Godavari
|image = Godavari_poster.jpg
|caption = Theatrical poster
|director = [[Sekhar Kammula]]
|producer = [[G. V. G. Raju]]
|writer = [[Sekhar Kammula]]
|starring = [[Sumanth]] [[Kamalinee Mukherjee]] [[Neetu Chandra]]
|music = [[K. M. Radha Krishnan]]
|cinematography = [[Vijay C. Kumar]]
|editing = [[Marthand K. Venkatesh]]
|distributor = [[Amigos Creations]](India) KAD Entertainment(USA)
|released = 19 May 2006<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0813548/releaseinfo|title=Release dates for Godavari (2006)|work=IMDB}}</ref>
|runtime = 160 minutes
|country = [[India]]
|language = [[Telugu language|Telugu]]
|budget = [[Indian rupee|Rs.]] 70 million<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0813548/business|title=Box office/business for Godavari (2006)|work=IMDB}}</ref> (70 million) (estimated)
}}
'''''Godavari''''' is a 2006 Indian [[Telugu language|Telugu]]-language [[Romance film|romantic]] [[comedy-drama]] film written and directed by [[Sekhar Kammula]] and produced by [[G. V. G. Raju]]. [[Sumanth]] and [[Kamalinee Mukherjee]] played the lead roles. The film was a success at the box office in addition to receiving critical acclaim. It won several [[Nandi Awards|Nandi]] and [[Filmfare]] awards. The music of the film was composed by [[K.M. Radha Krishnan]]. The director said the movie carries a similar essence and feel of the 1973 movie ''[[Andala Ramudu (1973 film)|Andala Ramudu]]'' directed by [[Bapu (film director)|Bapu]]. There is a similarity in the names of the protagonists and the cruise boat on the river Godavari .<ref>http://www.idlebrain.com/movie/postmortem/godavari.html</ref> This movie was dubbed In Hindi as ''Jheel Se Gehra Pyar''.

== Plot ==
Godavari is a film about Sreeram, Seetha, and the river cruise, from [[Rajahmundry]] to [[Bhadrachalam]], that brings them together. It is a love story set against the scenic backdrop of the [[Godavari river]] aboard a cruise boat also called "Godavari".<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.amigoscreations.com/movies-godavari |title=Archived copy |access-date=11 July 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151117052801/http://www.amigoscreations.com/movies-godavari |archive-date=17 November 2015 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Sreeram, aka Ram ([[Sumanth]]), is an MS graduate in engineering from the United States. He returns to India wanting to serve its people by entering politics. He is in love with his cousin Raaji ([[Neetu Chandra]]) and hopes to marry her. Raaji's father however trivialises Ram's idealistic nature and his modest financial status. For the same reason, he does not want Raaji to marry him.

Seetha ([[Kamalinee Mukherjee]]) is a fashion designer who runs an unsuccessful clothing boutique store. Her parents, who are not very keen about her business, want her to get married instead. Seetha, being an independent and career oriented woman, is not enthusiastic about their idea. However, circumstances force her to reluctantly agree with her parents. However, the marriage doesn't work out as the groom's family feels that she is 'too progressive and fast'. Frustrated and angry, Seetha decides to take a break from everything to go on the Godavari river cruise.

Meanwhile, Raaji gets a marriage proposal from Ravi ([[Kamal Kamaraju]]), a self-centred IPS officer, whom her father approves of. Raaji tells Ram that she's unsure about her feelings for him. Ram decides to prove his worth to her father and win her hand. However, he soon realises that she has agreed to marry Ravi. Disappointed and heartbroken, Ram is forced to join his family on the same Godavari river cruise to Bhadrachalam, where Raaji is to be married. It is on this boat cruise where Ram and Seetha meet. There are also several sub plots involving other characters on the river boat:

# The river boat captain Chintamani [[Tanikella Bharani]], who harbours a romantic interest in Pullamma.
# Pullatlla Pullamma who prepares and serves Pullattlu, a variety of [[dosa]]. She has a younger brother along with her who sings well.
# an astrologer along with his caged parrot.
# Chinna, a 10-year old poor boy who sells balloons for a living. While once away, he sees a red shirted man cut his balloon threads causing all of them to fly away. Looking to collect the compensatory amount from that man, he boards the boat without a ticket.
# Kotigadu: A street dog who is often bullied by the other dogs around him. While escaping from them, he too follows Chinna and boards the boat. They both end up becoming good friends.
# A Rayalaseema factionist, along with his pregnant daughter, who gets on the boat to escape his enemies. Towards the end of the journey, his rivals catch up with him, but he's rescued by Ram in an ensuing fight.

Ram and Seeta meet each for the first time as she hesitantly walks on the ramp that leads to the boat. Noticing her difficulty, Ram picks her up suddenly, and carries her in his arms onto the boat. Ram feels he did her a favour, but Seeta angrily demands an apology from him for touching her without her permission. The easygoing Ram apologises and moves on. Their next meeting is on the boat deck, where both are reading their books while snacking on chips. Seeta mistakes Ram's pack of chips for hers and eats all of them, annoying Ram. Later she realises that her bag of chips are actually in her room. She realizes her stupidity and returns a new pack to Ram. This is where they formally introduce themselves to each other.
During the journey, Pullamma's brother sings a song and gets a monetary tip from Ram. Pullamma gets offended by Ram's charity and refuses to serve pullattlu to him. Seeta, seeing this, brings extra pullattlu for him out of compassion. From here on, a friendship develops between them.

Seeta starts writing in a diary to record her memories of her trip, those especially with Ram. She tries her best to woo Ram romantically many times. During a halt in their journey, the boat captain organizes a treasure-hunt and they both team up. All through the event, Seeta tries to find out if Ram has feelings for her, but she doesn't succeed. When they are just a step away from winning the treasure hunt, Seeta asks Ram to let Chinna win since the latter is in financial need. Ram willingly agrees further winning her admiration. After the treasure hunt, Chinna finds out that the redshirted man is none other than Ravi, Raaji's fiancé. He tries to teach Ravi a lesson but eventually moves on from the issue, because he feels that following Ravi had lead him to the cruise, which eventually led him to win the treasure hunt prize of Rs.50000.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.amigoscreations.com/movies-godavari |title=Archived copy |access-date=11 July 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151117052801/http://www.amigoscreations.com/movies-godavari |archive-date=17 November 2015 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Meanwhile, Raaji and Ravi, who are on the same team together, get lost during the treasure hunt as Raaji misguides him accidentally, thereby angering him. Raaji subsequently discovers the controlling and chauvinistic nature of Ravi, and starts having second thoughts about their impending marriage.
Confused and disappointed, she suddenly asks Ram to marry her instead. Ram says he will pick her up at a specific location and time and sends the details on a piece of paper. This paper accidentally lands in the hands of Seeta. Chinna, who doesn't want Seeta to read it, suddenly swallows the paper as he is aware of Seeta's feelings for Ram. Hence the paper never gets to Raaji, and her meeting plan with Ram goes awry. Raaji, disappointed and hurt with Ram, confides in Seeta about eloping plan. Hearing this, Seeta thinks that Ram still loves Raaji. Heartbroken, she leaves the boat cruise abruptly without anyone's knowledge. Subsequently, the fickle minded Raaji decides to go through with her initial marriage plan to Ravi.

Ram, confused as to why Seeta left, starts to miss her. He comes across her diary, which was accidentally left behind. After reading it, he discovers Seeta's feelings for him. He goes to her home in Hyderabad hoping to reconcile with her. After a lot of convincing, she agrees to take a walk with him, where he suddenly proposes to her. Seeta is shocked and confused and demands an explanation from Ram regarding his feelings for Raaji. Ram tells her that he never had any plan of marrying Raaji, that the piece of paper he gave was in fact blank, and that the whole plan was just a hoax. He then expresses that his feelings all along were only for Seeta. Hearing this, Seeta is happy once again, and agrees to marry Ram.

== Cast ==
* [[Sumanth]] as Sreeram "Ram"
* [[Kamalinee Mukherjee]] as Seetha Mahalakshmi "Seetha" (Voice by [[Sunitha Upadrashta |Sunitha]])
* [[Neetu Chandra]] as Rajeswari "Raji"
* C.V.L Narasimha Rao as Seetha's father
* Lalitha Sindhuri as Madhu, Seetha's sister
* Madhumani as Seetha's mother
* [[Kamal Kamaraju]] as Ravindra "Ravi"
* [[Tanikella Bharani]] as Captain Chintamani
* Shiva as Chinna
* [[Karate Kalyani]] as Pullamma
* [[Shekhar Kammula]] provided voice for Kotigadu, the stray dog

==Soundtrack==
The soundtrack was composed by [[K. M. Radha Krishnan]]. The track "Andamgalena" sung by [[Sunitha Upadrashta]] won her a [[Nandi Award]] for [[Nandi Award for Best Female Playback Singer|Best Female Playback Singer]]. The track "Manasa Vaacha" sung by [[K.S.Chithra]], and [[P. Unnikrishnan]] was also nominated at the [[Filmfare Awards South]] in the [[Filmfare Award for Best Female Playback Singer – Telugu|Best Female Playback Singer]]. All tracks were written by [[Veturi Sundararama Murthy]].

{{tracklist
| headline = Track Listing
| extra_column = Singer(s)
| title1 = Uppongele Godavari
| extra1 = [[S.P.Balasubrahmanyam]]
| title2 = Andamgalena
| extra2 = [[Sunitha Upadrashta]]
| title3 = Manasa Gelupu
| extra3 = [[Shankar Mahadevan]], [[K.S.Chithra]] and K. M. Radha Krishnan
| title4 = Tippulu Tappulu
| extra4 = [[Shreya Ghoshal]]
| title5 = Manasa Vaacha
| extra5 = K.S. Chitra, [[P. Unnikrishnan]]
| title6 = Raama Chakkani
| extra6 = Gayathri
}}

==Critical reception==
This is what the Tollywood film makers had to say about the movie:<ref>http://www.idlebrain.com/movie/postmortem/godavari.html</ref>
* [[Mullapudi Venkata Ramana]], writer of [[Andala Ramudu (1973 film)|Andala Ramudu]]: Godavari is a pleasant film. The climax seems to have been shot in a hurry though.
* [[S. S. Rajamouli]]: It gives great pleasure when you dangle your feet in the flowing waters of the Godavari. The film renders the same feeling.
* [[Krishna Vamsi]]: Godavari is a wonderful film. I was born and brought up in the Godavari district. I am feeling jealous that I did not get an idea to make a film like Godavari.
* [[M. S. Raju]]: Excellent Movie. I am a hardcore critic. From other production houses, Godavari is the film I liked most after ''[[Arya (2004 film)|Arya]]''. Some people are saying that the second half is relatively weak, but I liked it better than the first half.
* [[Dasari Narayana Rao]]: This film will get many awards.
* [[Kovelamudi Raghavendra Rao]]: You made a good film. However, I do not see a need for the factionist sub plot.

==Accolades==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Ceremony
! Category
! Nominee
! Result
! {{tooltip|Ref.|Reference(s)}}
|-
| rowspan="5" | [[Nandi Awards]]
| [[Nandi Award for Best Feature Film|Second Best Feature Film]]
| [[G. V. G. Raju]]
| {{Won}}
| rowspan="5" | <ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Nandi Film Awards G.O and Results 2006|url=https://www.apsftvtdc.in/nandi-film-awards-2006.html|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-08-11|website=APFTVTDC}}</ref>
|-
| [[Nandi Award for Best Director|Best Director]]
| [[Sekhar Kammula]]
| {{Won}}
|-
| [[Nandi Award for Best Music Director|Best Music Director]]
| [[K. M. Radha Krishnan]]
| {{Won}}
|-
| [[Nandi Award for Best Cinematographer|Best Cinematographer]]
| [[Vijay C. Kumar]]
| {{won}}
|-
| [[Nandi Award for Best Female Playback Singer|Best Female Playback Singer]]
| [[Sunitha Upadrashta|Sunitha]] (for "Andamgalena")
| {{Won}}
|-
| rowspan="6" | [[54th Filmfare Awards South]]
| [[Filmfare Award for Best Film – Telugu|Best Film – Telugu]]
| [[G. V. G. Raju]]
| {{Nominated}}
| rowspan="6" |
|-
| [[Filmfare Award for Best Director – Telugu|Best Director – Telugu]]
| [[Sekhar Kammula]]
| {{Nominated}}
|-
| [[Filmfare Award for Best Actress – Telugu|Best Actress – Telugu]]
| [[Kamalinee Mukherjee]]
| {{Nominated}}
|-
| [[Filmfare Award for Best Music Director – Telugu|Best Music Director – Telugu]]
| [[K. M. Radha Krishnan]]
| {{Nominated}}
|-
| [[Filmfare Award for Best Lyricist – Telugu|Best Lyricist – Telugu]]
| [[Veturi Sundararama Murthy]] (for "Uppongene godavari")
| {{won}}
|-
| [[Filmfare Award for Best Female Playback Singer – Telugu|Best Female Playback Singer – Telugu]]
| [[K. S. Chitra]] (for "manasavacha")
| {{Nominated}}
|-
|}

== References ==
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==External links==
*{{IMDb title|id=0813548|title=Godavari}}

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Chandamama (2007 film)

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{{Infobox film
| name = Chandamama
| image = Chandamama Poster HD.jpg
| caption = Poster
| director = [[Krishna Vamsi]]
| producer = C.Kalyan & S Vijayanand
| starring = [[Navdeep]] [[Kajal Aggarwal]] [[Nagababu]] [[Siva Balaji]] [[Sindhu Menon]]
| music = [[K. M. Radha Krishnan]]
| cinematography = [[Prasad Murella]]
| editing =
| distributor =
| released = {{film date|df=y|2007|9|6}}
| runtime = 156 mins
| country = India
| language = Telugu
| budget =
}}
'''''Chandamama''''' ([[Telugu language|Telugu]]: చందమామ, [[English language|English]] translation: ''Moon'') is a [[2007 in film|2007]] Telugu film directed by [[Krishna Vamsi]] starring [[Navdeep]] and [[Kajal Aggarwal]] in the lead roles and [[Siva Balaji]], [[Sindhu Menon]], [[Nagababu]] in crucial roles. The movie is produced by C. Kalyan and S. Vijayanand, the musical score is provided by [[K. M. Radha Krishnan]] and the base story by Akula Venkat. Popular actress [[Charmme Kaur]] gave her voice to [[Kajal Aggarwal]]. The film has garnered the state [[Nandi Award for Akkineni Award for Best Home-viewing Feature Film]]. The film was remade under the name ''[[A Aa E Ee (2009 Tamil film)|A Aa E Ee]]'' in Tamil by [[AVM Productions]]. The movie won critical acclaim upon release and was a blockbuster at the box office, with critics mainly praising Kajal's and Navdeep's performances.

==Plot==
Ranga Rao ([[Nagendra Babu|Nagababu]]) a widower, landlord, and well-respected man, loves his beloved daughter Mahalakshmi ([[Kajal Aggarwal]]), a sweet, intelligent, innocent, and somewhat fun-loving girl who loves her father as much as he loves her, more than anything else. His brother also has a daughter Rani ([[Sindhu Menon]]) and a son ([[Satyam Rajesh]]). Rani is like a sister to Mahalakshmi and a second daughter to Ranga Rao. Rani is a hyper, whiny, talkative but fun-loving, sweet girl. When Mahalakshmi returns from college, Ranga Rao realizes that she has grown up and decides to fix her marriage with Dhorababu ([[Siva Balaji]]), an innocent, good-natured and rather shy boy.

After the engagement, Mahalakshmi reveals to Dhorababu that in the city, she had fallen in love with Kishore ([[Navdeep]]), a mischievous and amiable youth. After spending the night with her, he made it clear that he was not interested in marrying her. Mahalakshmi says that she did not want to lie and cheat Dhorababu, because she knows he is good and deserves better. Dhorababu goes to meet Kishore, where he learns it was all a prank and that Kishore actually loves Mahalakshmi. He fakes an accident and brings Kishore to the village under the pretense of a doctor. Mahalakshmi forgives Kishore. Finding out the secret, Rani falls in love with Dhorababu and vice versa. They dare not tell anyone, however.

Ranga Rao misunderstands their feelings and fixes Rani's marriage with Kishore, to take place at the same time as Mahalakshmi's with Dhorababu. The four youngsters decide the only way left is to elope, though Mahalakshmi has mixed feelings about this, as she feels it would hurt her father. At the last minute, Mahalakshmi cannot go through with it and tearfully confesses the truth to her father. Luckily, Ranga Rao understands and has the girls marry their respective lovers.

==Cast==
{{colbegin}}
* [[Navdeep]] as Kishore
* [[Kajal Aggarwal]] as Mahalakshmi (Voice by [[Charmy Kaur]])
* [[Nagababu]] as Ranga Rao
* [[Siva Balaji]] as Dhorababu
* [[Sindhu Menon]] as Rani
* [[Satyam Rajesh]] as Rani's brother
* [[Ahuti Prasad]] as Ramalingeswara Rao
* [[Uttej]] as Kondala Rao
* [[Abhinayashree]] as Sakkubai
* [[Jeeva (Telugu actor)|Jeeva]] as Police Inspector
* [[Gundu Sudarshan]] as Police Constable
* [[Sameer Hasan|Sameer]]
{{colend}}

==Soundtrack==
{{Infobox album
| name = Chandamama
| type = Soundtrack
| longtype = to Chandamama
| cover =
| alt =
| released = {{film date|df=y|2007|8|20}}
| recorded = 2007
| venue =
| studio =
| genre = [[Film soundtrack|Feature film soundtrack]]
| length = 27:28
| language = [[Telugu (language)|Telugu]]
| label = Supreme Music
| producer = [[K. M. Radha Krishnan]]
| prev_title = [[Mayabazar (2006 film)|Mayabazar]]
| prev_year = 2006
| next_title = [[Siddu from Sikakulam]]
| next_year = 2008
}}

Music of Chandamama was launched on 20 August 2007 in a live telecasting of a private TV channel. This launch was attended by the cast and crewmembers of the film. [[K. M. Radha Krishnan]] composed the music.<ref>http://www.idlebrain.com/news/functions/audio-chandamama.html</ref> [[Krishna Vamsi]] released the audio and handed over the first cassette to producer C Kalyan. Supreme Music bought the audio rights.<ref>http://www.indiaglitz.com/channels/telugu/events/13054.html</ref>

{{Tracklist
| collapsed =
| headline = Track list
| extra_column = Artist(s)
| total_length = 27:28
| title1 = Regumullole
| note1 =
| lyrics1 = [[Suddala Ashok Teja]]
| extra1 = [[Karthik (singer)|Karthik]] M. M. Srilekha Noel (Rap)
| length1 = 04:58
| title2 = Bugge Bangaarama
| note2 =
| lyrics2 = Peddada Murthy
| extra2 = [[Rajesh Krishnan]]
| length2 = 04:32
| title3 = Ghallu Ghallumantu
| note3 =
| lyrics3 = [[Vanamali]]
| extra3 = [[N. C. Karunya|Karunya]] [[Gayatri Iyer]]
| length3 = 04:14
| title4 = Nalo Voohalaku
| note4 =
| lyrics4 = [[Anantha Sreeram]]
| extra4 = [[Asha Bhosle]] [[K. M. Radha Krishnan]]
| length4 = 04:33
| title5 = Sakkubaayine
| note5 =
| lyrics5 = Lakshmi Bhupal
| extra5 = [[Jassie Gift]] [[Mamta Mohandas]]
| length5 = 04:34
| title6 = Mukkupai Muddupettu
| note6 =
| lyrics6 = Sai Sriharsha
| extra6 = [[Haricharan]] [[Sujatha Mohan]]
| length6 = 05:29
}}

==Remakes==
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size:95%;"
! Year
! Film
! Language
! Cast
! Director
|-
| 2009
| ''[[A Aa E Ee (2009 Tamil film)|A Aa E Ee]]''
| Tamil
| [[Navdeep]], [[Monica (actress)|Monica]], [[Aravind Akash]], [[Saranya Mohan]]
| S. D. Sabapathy
|-
| 2009
| ''Chellidaru Sampigeya''
| Kannada
| Prashanth, Vishal, [[Bianca Desai]]
| [[S. Narayan]]
|-
|}

==Box office==
The film was highly successful at the box office and completed a 100-day run on 18 December 2007.<ref>http://idlebrain.com/news/functions/100days-chandamama.html</ref>

==Television Rights==
The Television rights of the film was sold to ZEE.

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
* [http://www.nonstopcinema.com/nsc/headlines/news_content.php?fileName=265 Snippet on Nonstop Cinema]
* [http://www.indiaglitz.com/channels/telugu/article/30971.html Preview on Indiaglitz]
* [http://www.idlebrain.com/movie/archive/mr-chandamama.html Review on Idlebrain]

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