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	'''''Chaitanya''''' is a 1991 Indian [[Telugu language\|Telugu]]-language [[action film\|action]] [[Road movie\|road]] film, written and directed by [[Prathap K. Pothan]].<ref name="cinestaan1">https://www.cinestaan.com/movies/chaitanya-26247</ref> Produced by Sathyam Babu, the film Starred [[Akkineni Nagarjuna]], [[Gautami]], and [[Girish Karnad]] in pivotal roles and with music composed by [[Ilaiyaraaja]].<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://chaitanya.moviedost.com/\|title=Chaitanya Telugu Movie\|website=MovieDost\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101113231443/http://chaitanya.moviedost.com/\|archive-date=13 November 2010\|url-status=dead\|access-date=11 October 2010\|df=dmy}}</ref><ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.vebtoday.com/profiles/nagarjuna.html\|title=Nagarjuna\|website=Tollywood Heros\|publisher=vebtoday.com\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110717192311/http://www.vebtoday.com/profiles/nagarjuna.html\|archive-date=17 July 2011\|url-status=dead\|access-date=6 January 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.chakpak.com/movie/chaitanya/8468\|title=Chaitanya\|website=Chakpak.com\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090420032828/http://www.chakpak.com/movie/chaitanya/8468\|archive-date=20 April 2009\|url-status=dead\|access-date=6 January 2018}}</ref> It was simultaneously dubbed into Tamil and Malayalam as ''Madras To Goa''.<ref>{{cite book\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SLkABAAAQBAJ&q=chaitanya+1991+film+prathap+pothan&pg=PT247 \|title=Encyclopedia of Indian Cinema - Google Books \|date= 10 July 2014\|access-date=2019-12-12\|isbn=978-1-135-94318-9 \|last1=Rajadhyaksha \|first1=Ashish \|last2=Willemen \|first2=Paul }}</ref~~><ref name="cinestaan1" /~~>		'''''Chaitanya''''' is a 1991 Indian [[Telugu language\|Telugu]]-language [[action film\|action]] [[Road movie\|road]] film, written and directed by [[Prathap K. Pothan]].<ref name="cinestaan1">https://www.cinestaan.com/movies/chaitanya-26247</ref> Produced by Sathyam Babu, the film Starred [[Akkineni Nagarjuna]], [[Gautami]], and [[Girish Karnad]] in pivotal roles and with music composed by [[Ilaiyaraaja]].<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://chaitanya.moviedost.com/\|title=Chaitanya Telugu Movie\|website=MovieDost\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101113231443/http://chaitanya.moviedost.com/\|archive-date=13 November 2010\|url-status=dead\|access-date=11 October 2010\|df=dmy}}</ref><ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.vebtoday.com/profiles/nagarjuna.html\|title=Nagarjuna\|website=Tollywood Heros\|publisher=vebtoday.com\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110717192311/http://www.vebtoday.com/profiles/nagarjuna.html\|archive-date=17 July 2011\|url-status=dead\|access-date=6 January 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.chakpak.com/movie/chaitanya/8468\|title=Chaitanya\|website=Chakpak.com\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090420032828/http://www.chakpak.com/movie/chaitanya/8468\|archive-date=20 April 2009\|url-status=dead\|access-date=6 January 2018}}</ref> It was simultaneously dubbed into Tamil and Malayalam as ''Madras To Goa''.<ref name="cinestaan1" /><ref>{{cite book\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SLkABAAAQBAJ&q=chaitanya+1991+film+prathap+pothan&pg=PT247 \|title=Encyclopedia of Indian Cinema - Google Books \|date= 10 July 2014\|access-date=2019-12-12\|isbn=978-1-135-94318-9 \|last1=Rajadhyaksha \|first1=Ashish \|last2=Willemen \|first2=Paul }}</ref>

	==Plot==		==Plot==

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{{Infobox film
| name = Chaitanya
| image = Chaitanya (1991 film) poster.jpg
| caption = Theatrical release poster
| writer = [[Singeetam Srinivasa Rao]] {{small|(dialogues)}}
| story = Prathap K. Pothan
| screenplay = Prathap K. Pothan
| producer = Sathyam Babu
| director = [[Prathap K. Pothan]]
| starring = [[Akkineni Nagarjuna]]<br /> [[Gautami]]
| music = [[Ilaiyaraaja]]
| cinematography = [[Rajiv Menon]]
| editing = [[B. Lenin]]<br /> [[V. T. Vijayan]]
| studio = Sri Tirumalesa Productions
| released = {{Film date|df=y|1991|6|7}}
| runtime = 130 minutes
| country = India
| language = Telugu
| budget =
}}
'''''Chaitanya''''' is a 1991 Indian [[Telugu language|Telugu]]-language [[action film|action]] [[Road movie|road]] film, written and directed by [[Prathap K. Pothan]].<ref name="cinestaan1">https://www.cinestaan.com/movies/chaitanya-26247</ref> Produced by Sathyam Babu, the film Starred [[Akkineni Nagarjuna]], [[Gautami]], and [[Girish Karnad]] in pivotal roles and with music composed by [[Ilaiyaraaja]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://chaitanya.moviedost.com/|title=Chaitanya Telugu Movie|website=MovieDost|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101113231443/http://chaitanya.moviedost.com/|archive-date=13 November 2010|url-status=dead|access-date=11 October 2010|df=dmy}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.vebtoday.com/profiles/nagarjuna.html|title=Nagarjuna|website=Tollywood Heros|publisher=vebtoday.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110717192311/http://www.vebtoday.com/profiles/nagarjuna.html|archive-date=17 July 2011|url-status=dead|access-date=6 January 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.chakpak.com/movie/chaitanya/8468|title=Chaitanya|website=Chakpak.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090420032828/http://www.chakpak.com/movie/chaitanya/8468|archive-date=20 April 2009|url-status=dead|access-date=6 January 2018}}</ref> It was simultaneously dubbed into Tamil and Malayalam as ''Madras To Goa''.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SLkABAAAQBAJ&q=chaitanya+1991+film+prathap+pothan&pg=PT247 |title=Encyclopedia of Indian Cinema - Google Books |date= 10 July 2014|access-date=2019-12-12|isbn=978-1-135-94318-9 |last1=Rajadhyaksha |first1=Ashish |last2=Willemen |first2=Paul }}</ref><ref name="cinestaan1" />

==Plot==
Chaitanya, ([[Akkineni Nagarjuna]]) is the chief mechanic for the upcoming ''Roots Challenge 1991 Automotive rally race'' – which starts via the route from Chennai coast to Goa coast, a route which is noted for [[illegal drug trade]] and [[arms trafficking]]. Retired Major Harischandra Prasad ([[Girish Karnad]]) is the chief guest for the rally, his daughter Padmini ([[Gautami]]) also competes for the Roots Challenge Trophy.

Chaitanya's journalist friend Sudhakar (Chinna) witnesses the murder of the city D.I.G. in a park. The D.I.G.'s murder happens to have been planned by an underworld gangster. Later, Sudhakar's murdered by a gang near his garage because he witnessed the murder of the D.I.G. Chaitanya finds himself beaten by the gang after he comes to the assistance of Sudhakar. When he regains his senses, he finds himself with a revolver in his hand and in police custody, arrested and charged with the homicide of the friend he tried to assist. With evidence pointing toward his guilt, he has virtually no defense and may well spend the rest of his life in prison or be hanged. He manages to escape from the prison with the help of Chaitanya's garage assistant, Golconda (a drunkard), through the journalist's friend (Joseph) in a water tanker. Disguised as the journalist's friend, the gangster's henchman is hidden in the tanker.

The police commissioner ([[Kota Srinivasa Rao]]), who is a close associate of Harischandra Prasad, attempts to solve the mysterious murder of D.I.G. and the journalist. The criminal's henchman plans to blast the water tanker and kill Chaitanya, who flees from [[Srungavarapukota]] prison in the same water tanker. But, after a battle with the henchman inside the water tanker, Chaitanya escapes and jumps from the water tanker into a lake, and the henchman dies in the water tanker explosion. Police send Chaitanya's case to CBI as they come to the conclusion that it was Chaitanya who was killed in the explosion. Chaitanya gets to participate in the ''One Halt Race'' by joining at a milestone on the route, in the guise of the garage assistant's race car. He finds out that the photographs of D.I.G.'s murder caught by his journalist friend are hidden in one of the three cars of the rally. In another twist, Padmini happens to drive the car in which 1 photograph was hidden.

How Chaitanya unweaves the mystery behind all this crime and how Padmini & Chaitanya fall in love in the process and identify the high-profile criminal adds to the rest of the plot and suspense in the film. The D.I.G. was killed by three people. According to the pictures, the guy in the brown coat is the police commissioner, who claims to be the gangster. The police commissioner forces Harischandra and Padmini to join the drug trade. Chaitanya manages to reach the commissioner's [[safehouse]], where it's revealed that Harischandra's the high-profile criminal. Commissioner didn't know that someone else was the mafia, boss. Harischandra kills the commissioner. When Chaitanya shows up, he realizes that Padmini's father was the gangster who is responsible for the illegal drug trade, arms trafficking, DIG's murder, Sudhakar's murder, and ordered his gang to frame Chaitanya. The film ends with Chaitanya killing Harishchandra, the gangster, when he attempts to shoot him.

==Cast==
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*[[Akkineni Nagarjuna]] as Chaitanya
*[[Gautami]] as Padmini
*[[Girish Karnad]] as Harischandra Prasad
*[[Kota Srinivasa Rao]] as Commissioner KJ Prabhakar
*[[Raghuvaran]] as Raana
*[[Babu Antony]] as Cobra
*[[Silk Smitha]] as Smitha
*[[Chinna (Telugu actor)|Chinna]] as Journalist Sudhakar
*[[Nizhalgal Ravi]] as Smuggler
*[[Chinni Jayanth]] as Smuggler
*[[Ravi Teja]] as Racer
*[[Suthi Velu]] as Detective
*[[Raavi Kondala Rao]] as Roots Rally Company MD
*[[P. J. Sarma]]
*[[Vijayachander]] as DIG Ram Mohan Rao
*Bhimeswara Rao as Jailor
*KK Sarma as Police Officer
*Telephone Satyanarayana as Doordharshan Reporter
{{div col end}}

==Soundtrack==
{{Infobox album
| name = Chaitanya
| type = film
| artist = [[Ilaiyaraaja]]
| cover =
| alt =
| released = 1991
| recorded =
| venue =
| studio =
| genre = Soundtrack
| length = 24:35
| label = Echo Music
| producer =
| prev_title = [[Nirnayam (1991 film)|Nirnayam]]
| prev_year = 1991
| next_title = [[Surya IPS]]
| next_year = 1991
}}

Music was composed by [[Ilaiyaraaja]]. Lyrics were written by [[Veturi Sundararama Murthy]]. All songs are hit tracks. The music released on ECHO Music Company.
{{Track listing
| collapsed =
| headline =
| extra_column = Singer(s)
| total_length = 24:35
| all_writing =
| all_lyrics =
| all_music =
| writing_credits =
| lyrics_credits =
| music_credits =

| title1 = Oho Laila
| extra1 = [[S. P. Balasubrahmanyam|SP Balu]]
| length1 = 4:56

| title2 = Kanne Lady
| extra2 = [[S. P. Sailaja]]
| length2 = 4:57

| title3 = Paapa Eddu
| extra3 = SP Balu
| length3 = 4:51

| title4 = Sweety
| extra4 = SP Balu, [[S. Janaki]]
| length4 = 4:55

| title5 = Vayase Tholi
| extra5 = SP Balu, S. Janaki
| length5 = 4:53
}}

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
* {{IMDb title|254210|Chaitanya}}

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[[Category:1991 films]]
[[Category:Indian road movies]]
[[Category:Indian films]]
[[Category:Films scored by Ilaiyaraaja]]
[[Category:Films featuring an item number]]
[[Category:Indian auto racing films]]
[[Category:Indian avant-garde and experimental films]]
[[Category:Fictional portrayals of the Andhra Pradesh Police]]
[[Category:Fictional portrayals of the Tamil Nadu Police]]
[[Category:1990s road movies]]
[[Category:Indian chase films]]
[[Category:Crime in fiction]]
[[Category:Films shot in Ooty]]
[[Category:Films shot in Goa]]
[[Category:1991 action thriller films]]
[[Category:Indian action thriller films]]
[[Category:Indian nonlinear narrative films]]
[[Category:Films about the illegal drug trade]]
[[Category:Indian detective films]]
[[Category:1990s avant-garde and experimental films]]
[[Category:Films directed by Pratap Pothen]]

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