Snehamante Idera

Snehamante Idera (transl. This is what friendship is) is a 2001 India Telugu-language comedy-drama film produced by R.B. Chowdhary under the Super Good Films banner and directed by Bala Sekharan. It stars Nagarjuna Akkineni, Sumanth, Bhumika Chawla and Prathyusha , with music composed by Shiva Shankar. It is a remake of the Malayalam film Friends. The film was an average grosser at the box office. It was dubbed into Hindi in 2007 as Naya Jigar.

Snehamante Idera
File:Snehamante Idera (2001 film).jpg Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Balasekaran
Produced by	R. B. Choudary
Written by	Chintapalli Ramana (dialogues)
Screenplay by	Balasekaran
Story by	Siddique
Based on	Friends (Malayalam)
Starring	Nagarjuna Akkineni Sumanth Bhumika Chawla Prathyusha
Music by	Shiva Shankar
Cinematography	Shyam K. Naidu
Edited by	Nandamuri Hari
Production company	Super Good Films
Release date	26 October 2001 (2001-10-26)
Running time	179 minutes
Country	India
Language	Telugu

Plot

Aravind (Nagarjuna Akkineni), Chandru (Sumanth) and Krishna Murthy (Sudhakar) have been best friends since their childhood. They consider their friendship above everything else, including family. Chandru, an orphan, stays with Aravind and is considered by Aravind's parents as a second son. Aravind's sister Amrita (Prathyusha) falls in love with Chandru. Chandru is hesitatant as she is the sister of his best friend. Chandru seeks the help of Krishna Murthy to avoid Amrita. Some brushes with the law force Aravindan and Chandru to lie low in Hyderabad for a couple of days, where they and Krishnamoorthy take up jobs as painters in a mansion under contractor Bhavani Shankar (Brahmanandam), who is Krishnamurthy's paternal uncle. Aravind falls in love with Padmini (Bhumika Chawla), who lives in the mansion, though Padmini only considers him as a friend; nevertheless she is grateful to him when he saves her from an accidental electrocution. But Padmini's cousin, Swathi (Abhinaya Sri) has a crush on Aravind, and is enraged when she realises that he is in love with Padmini. Swathi sends false letters to him in Padmini's name and makes him believe that his love is reciprocated. So, when Padmini suddenly gets engaged to another man, Chandru stands up for Aravind's love and insults Padmini in front of her entire family, causing her engagement to get cancelled. This makes Padmini decide to marry Aravind, but with the intention to take revenge on Chandru by breaking his and Aravind's friendship. But during their marriage, Aravind and Padmini realise that Swathi is behind all the mishaps which had taken place, and that Chandru is innocent. Padmini reconciles with Chandru and Chandru's and Amrita's wedding is fixed.

Gowtham (Sriman) is Aravind's cousin who lusts for Amrita. He plans to separate Aravind and Chandru so that he can marry Amrita. He first sets Amrita's sari on fire while she is cooking in the kitchen. Chandru blames Padmini for the mishap as she was in the kitchen with Amrita at the time, even though Padmini is innocent, but no one, including Aravind, believes Chandru's accusation could be true. Gowtham, then, turns his eye on the annual bullock race in which Chandru is taking part, by loosening the wheels on Chandru's cart with the intention to cause a serious accident and frame Padmini as the culprit, thus creating a wedge between Chandru and Aravind. Unfortunately for Gowtham, Aravind decides to take part in the race in Chandru's place since Chandru is to be married, and manages to win despite using the broken bullock cart. Chandru accuses Padmini of trying to kill him. Padmini threatens to leave the house if Aravind remains friends with Chandru and does not throw him out of the house. Aravind then reveals to her that he had accidentally killed Chandru's deaf-and-dumb younger brother when they were children, which traumatised him so much that he never told anyone about it, and since then, he has been looking out for Chandru out of the guilt that he had no one else in his life anymore. Gowtham overhears their conversation and tells Chandru about it to anger him. Chandru fights with Aravind, breaks their friendship and leaves the house. Aravind tries to convince Chandru to return and marry Amrita, even if he cannot repair their friendship. However, in the process, Aravind falls from a cliff and seemingly dies. Although, Chandru tried to save Aravind, he blames himself for Aravind's fall. Chandru later realizes that his brother was in fact accidentally killed, and that Aravind wasn't intentionally at fault.

Five years later, Chandru is a Major in the Indian Army and has never returned to Aravind's home since his supposed death. He receives a letter from Krishnamurthy stating that Aravind is not dead, but in a Coma state, not responding to anyone and only sitting in a corner. Chandru immediately leaves for Aravind's house, where he also learns that Aravind and Padmini have a young son whose name is Chandru, in tribute to their friendship. Meanwhile, Gowtham, who has been torturing Padmini and Amrita since Aravind went into the coma state, finds out that Chandru has returned, and beats him up. On hearing Chandru's cries, Aravind wakes up from his coma state and subdues Gowtham and his goons.

In the end, Aravind, Chandru and Krishnamurthy, as well as Aravind and Padmini & Chandru and Amrita, are reunited happily.

Cast

• Nagarjuna Akkineni as Aravind
• Sumanth as Chandrasekhar "Chandru"
• Bhumika Chawla as Padmini
• Prathyusha as Amrutha
• Sudhakar as Krishna Murthy "Kimoo"
• Brahmanandam as Bhavani Shankar
• Abhinayasri as Swathi
• Ali as Gopal
• Venu Madhav
• Tanikella Bharani as Manager Appalaraju
• Jaya Prakash Reddy as Padmini's Uncle
• Chalapathi Rao as Aravind's father
• Giri Babu as Aravind's Uncle and Gautham's father
• Narra Venkateswara Rao as Padmini's Father's Friend
• Rami Reddy as Puliraju
• Sriman as Gowtham, Aravind's cousin
• Lakshmi Rathan
• Ramatherdha
• Gautham Raju as Watchman
• Gadiraju Subba Rao
• Lakhamshetty Nageswara Rao
• Sangeetha as Aravind's Mother
• Sathyapriya as Aravind's Aunt and Gautham's mother
• Shanoor Sana as Padmini's Aunt
• Rama Prabha as Padmini's Grandmother
• Telangana Shakuntala
• Saraswatamma as Aravind's Grandmother
• Master Kireeti as Young Aravind
• Master Tanush as Young Chandru
• Master Vijay as Young Kimoo
• Master Abhinai as Chinna
• Ruthika as Ratna

Soundtrack

Snehamante Idera
Film score by Shiva Shankar
Released	2001
Genre	Soundtrack
Length	29:41
Label	Aditya Music
Producer	Shiva Shankar

The music was composed by Shiva Shankar. Music released on Aditya Music Company.

No.	Title	Lyrics	Singer(s)	Length
1.	"Snehamante Idera"	Kulasekhar	Shankar Mahadevan, Tippu, Krishna Raj	4:46
2.	"Cheliya Nee Premalone"	Mryutyamjayudu	Hariharan, Sujatha	5:01
3.	"Kanne Pillale"	Chirravuri Vijaykumar	Udit Narayan, Sujatha	5:02
4.	"Naa Pedaviki Siggulu"	Chirravuri Vijaykumar	Rajesh, Sujatha	4:34
5.	"Rukku Rukku"	Chirravuri Vijaykumar	Devan, Sowmya	5:26
6.	"Nesthama Nesthama"	Kulasekhar	Hariharan	4:39
Total length:				29:41

External links

• Snehamante Idera on IMDb