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{{Infobox film<br />
| name = Punnami Naagu<br />
| image = Punnami Naagu.jpg<br />
| caption = <br />
| director = [[Rajasekhar (director)|Rajasekhar]]<br />
| producer = M. Kumaran<br />[[M. Saravanan (producer)|M. Saravanan]]<br />M. Balasubramaniam<br />
| writer = [[Rama Narayanan]]<br />
| starring = [[Narasimharaju (Telugu actor)|Narasimha Raju]]<br />[[Rati Agnihotri]]<br />[[Chiranjeevi]]<br />[[Menaka (actress)|Menaka]]<br />
| music = [[K. Chakravarthy]]<br />
| cinematography = V. Ranga<br />
| editing = M. Vellai Swamy<br />
| studio = [[AVM Productions]]<br />
| distributor = <br />
| released = {{film date|df=y|1980|6|13}}<br />
| runtime = <br />
| country = India<br />
| language = Telugu<br />
}}<br />
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'''''Punnami Naagu''''' is a 1980 Indian [[Telugu language|Telugu]]-language [[horror drama]] film directed by [[Rajasekhar (director)|Rajasekhar]] and produced by [[AVM Productions]]. The film brought recognition to [[Chiranjeevi]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://idreampost.com/love-in-singapore-movie-analysis/|title=Love In Singapore : మెగాస్టార్ నటించిన ఫారిన్ లవ్ స్టోరీ – Nostalgia|language=te|work=iDreamPost|date=5 November 2021|access-date=20 March 2024|archive-date=19 March 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240319192245/https://idreampost.com/love-in-singapore-movie-analysis/|url-status=live}}</ref> and his first Filmfare nomination. The other leads in the film, including [[Rati Agnihotri]], [[Narasimharaju (Telugu actor)|Narasimha Raju]] and [[Padmanabham (actor)|Padmanabham]] played important roles. The film was released on 13 June 1980. It is a remake of the director's own Kannada film ''[[Hunnimeya Rathriyalli]]''.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Kumar |first=K. Naresh |date=2020-06-22 |title=He wrote the script for Chiru hit ' Punnami Nagu' |url=https://www.thehansindia.com/cinema/tollywood/he-wrote-the-script-for-chiru-hit-punnami-nagu-629502 |access-date=2022-10-21 |website=[[The Hans India]] |archive-date=15 August 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220815041944/https://www.thehansindia.com/cinema/tollywood/he-wrote-the-script-for-chiru-hit-punnami-nagu-629502 |url-status=live }}</ref> It also marked the Telugu debut for [[Malayalam]] actress, [[Menaka (actress)|Menaka G. Suresh]].<br />
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== Plot ==<br />
Naagulu, a snake charmer, falls in love with Poorna, whose adopted brother Ravi is in love with Naagulu's cousin Lakshmi. Naagulu's father has been mixing snake venom into his food since childhood, making Naagulu immune to any snake bite. Every full moon, Naagulu behaves like a cobra and searches for a woman and every woman he meets dies from his poison. On one such full moon, he kills Poorna and Ravi gets suspicious about this, as there are no marks of a snake bite on her body. A young teacher comes to the village and becomes Naagulu's victim. Ravi investigates with the help of film in her still camera and discovers that Naagulu appears as a snake in a photo she took of him. Naagulu's father reveals his secret before dying and Naagulu tries to find a remedy, but it's too late for that. His skin starts peeling off like a snake and Ravi advises him to leave the village before villagers find and kill him. Naagulu prefers death to the life of a snake and commits suicide from a hilltop.<br />
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== Cast ==<br />
{{cast listing|<br />
* [[Chiranjeevi]] as Naagulu<br />
* [[Narasimharaju (Telugu actor)|Narasimha Raju]] as Ravi<br />
* [[Rati Agnihotri]] as Lakshmi<br />
* [[Menaka (actress)|Menaka]] as Poorna<br />
* [[Jayamalini]] as Servant maid and accomplice of Musalayya<br />
* Sumangali<br />
* [[Basavaraju Venkata Padmanabha Rao|Padmanabham]] as Mungisa Musalayya the Snake Charmer<br />
* [[Mikkilineni (actor)|Mikkilineni]] as Zamindar<br />
* [[Dhulipala Seetarama Sastry|Dhulipala]] as Sastry, Temple Priest<br />
*[[Valluri Balakrishna|Balakrishna]] as Mungisa Musalayya's brother-in-law<br />
*[[S. V. Ramadas|Ramadas]] as Pamula Pappanna<br />
}}<br />
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== Production ==<br />
Chiranjeevi agreed to act in the film despite limited availability. Due to this, he would shoot his scenes only in the evenings.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Sistu |first=Suhas |date=2023-06-01 |title=AVM Productions new generation producer shares a truth about Chiranjeevi |url=https://www.thehansindia.com/cinema/tollywood/avm-productions-new-generation-producer-shares-a-truth-about-chiranjeevi-800220 |access-date=2024-04-23 |website=[[The Hans India]] |language=en |archive-date=26 September 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230926115237/https://www.thehansindia.com/cinema/tollywood/avm-productions-new-generation-producer-shares-a-truth-about-chiranjeevi-800220 |url-status=live }}</ref><br />
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== References ==<br />
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== External links ==<br />
* {{IMDb title|0246177}}<br />
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{{AVM Productions}}<br />
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[[Category:1980 films]]<br />
[[Category:1980 Telugu-language films]]<br />
[[Category:Films scored by K. Chakravarthy]]<br />
[[Category:Telugu remakes of Kannada films]]<br />
[[Category:Films about snakes]]<br />
[[Category:Films about shapeshifting]]<br />
[[Category:Films directed by Rajasekhar (director)]]<br />
[[Category:AVM Productions films]]<br />
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