Pelli Sandadi

Pelli Sandadi
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Directed by	K. Raghavendra Rao
Produced by	C. Ashwini Dutt Allu Aravind
Written by	Satyanand
Starring	Srikanth Ravali Deepti Bhatnagar
Music by	M. M. Keeravani
Release dates	12 January 1996 (1996-01-12)
Running time	129 minutes
Country	India
Language	Telugu

Pelli Sandadi is a 1996 Telugu musical romance film directed by K. Raghavendra Rao. It stars Srikanth, Ravali and Deepti Bhatnagar. This film was shot in Godavari districts of Andhra pradesh. It was a major blockbuster of the year 1996 famous for its excellent songs and amazing background score vivifying the artistic vision of the director to a brilliant effect.

Plot

Srikanth is a musician belonging to a musical family in which he had three married sisters and their husbands. All of his family is dedicated to Music. His father forces him to marry but he was in search of a girl whom he saw in a dream. He never saw her face in the dream but he saw a mole beside navel. The story continues in search of the girl. Meanwhile his father arranges his marriage with a girl by name Ravali who belongs to a nearby village. Ravali also belongs to a music family.

Meanwhile Srikanth gets a job in Ooty as a music lecturer. There he finds his dream girl Swapna Deepti Bhatnagar. He fell in love with her and proposes to her which she accepts. He comes back to home to share the news about his love but meanwhile his father arranges marriage. And the story continues. Later Swapna comes to know the person she loves and Ravali's fiance are same. Deepti and Ravali are actually sisters. Deepti Bhatnagar then sacrifies her love and informs that she has a deadly disease. She asks srikanth as a last wish to marry Ravali. Meanwhile Ravali also comes to know that Srikanth loves her sister Deepti Bhatnagar. Finally Ravali convinces her sister to marry Srikanth.

Cast

• Srikanth as Vijay Krishna
• Ravali
• Deepti Bhatnagar as Swapna
• Kaikala Satyanarayana as Vijay's father
• M. Balaiah
• Tanikella Bharani as Vijay's brother-in-law
• Babu Mohan
• Brahmanandam as N. V. Krishna
• A.V.S.
• Sivaji Raja as Vijay's brother-in-law
• Raja Ravindra as engineer in quarry
• Sri Lakshmi
• Chitti Babu Punyamurthula as Paidi Talli
• Suthi Velu
• Ananth Punyamurthula
• Gundu Hanumantha Rao as priest
• Visweswara Rao

Soundtrack

The soundtrack of the film was composed by M.M. Keeravani. Each song is set in major raagas of Carnatic music, such as Hindolam.

Background score

Keeravani poured sparkling life into the movie with his enchanting and haunting re-recording through heavy use of Saraswathi Veena & Melam, thus greatly complementing the resplendent handling of the movie by Raghavendra Rao, known as the Darsakendra of Tollywood. Esp. in scenes:

1) when Srikanth in a tearing haste rushes downstairs with great anticipation to check whether a lady whose voice he had just heard below is the same "dream girl" who keeps appearing & bewitching him in his dreams, in the process of which he accidentally tumbles down the steps knocking flower-bearing trays from the servant's hands coming in their direction - before finally meeting his Swapna-Sundari(Deepti Bhatnagar)presently being rained by the flowers sent flying from their knock and who is laughing out aloud(in Roja Ramani's voice) amused by the hero's & his sidekicks' inadvertent antics.

2) The heroine siblings' playful tussle over grabbing the freshly arrived hero's photos.

3) All these scenes leave a pretty trail of RAghavendra Rao's trademark mess - knocked down people, objects, flowers, fruits etc., only to leave an spectacular effect.

Some songs in the Tamil remake significantly borrowed tunes and orchestration from the original.

Awards

• Filmfare Award for Best Music Director - Telugu - M. M. Keeravani
• Nandi Award for Best Director - K. Raghavendra Rao
• Nandi Award for Best Music Director - M. M. Keeravani
• Nandi Award for Best Choreographer - K. Raghavendra Rao

Remakes

External links

• Pelli Sandadi at the Internet Movie Database