Wednesday, June 18, 2008

11.Yamakinkarudu

Yamakinkarudu is a Tollywood film which released on October 22, 1982. This film stars Chiranjeevi, Raadhika, and Sarath Babu.Vijay (Chiranjeevi) and Kishore (Sarath Babu) are childhood friends and both work in police department.Kishore's sister (Raadhika) is in love with vijay.Jackal escapes from jail and kills Kishore.The movie had grossed Rs.2.5 millions in its opening week.

12.Khaidi

Khaidi (Telugu: ఖైదీ) is a Telugu movie released on 28 October 1983, which was the first major sensational hit movie by Chiranjeevi directed by A. Kodandarami Reddy. It became a major blockbuster and a turning point in Chiranjeevi's career winning huge fan following overnite and catapulted Chiranjeevi into the big league which at that time was occupied by Krishna Ghattamaneni as N. T. Rama Rao had just left movies and started his political party.Veerabhadraiah (Raogopal Rao) is a feudal lord presiding over a village along with his hench men which includes his assistant (Rallapalli) and the village sarpanch (Nutan Prasad).His son, Sooryam (Chiranjeevi) is a hard working student living in the nearby city and falls in love with Veerabhadraiah's daughter- Madhulatha (Madhavi).Veerabhadraiah kills Venkateswarlu and asks Sooryam to pay the money which he had given as a loan.Just as the crops are ready for harvest Veerabhadraiah and his hench men not only destroy the crop but also try to sexually abuse Sooryam's sister during which she commits suicide.Sooryam is arrested by the Police.It had grossed Rs3.4 million its opening week.Since Chiranjeevi's previous movie Simhapoori Simham was a flop, very few distributors came forward to release this movie, but, those who did distribute, earned record profits which at that time were Tollywood's best.

13.Swayam Krushi

Swayamkrushi is a telugu movie released on 3 September 1987 .It also had Vijayashanti, Sumalatha and others. The movie was critically well acclaimed and a moderate success at box-office and always mentioned as a movie which showcased Chiranjeevi's acting ability.And it is being announced that MEGASTAR chiranjeevi is going to start up with a political party which is being named as "SWAYAM KRUSHI".Sambaiah(Chiranjeevi) is a cobbler who raises his dead sister's son Chinna (Arjun/Sirish) while also financing the education of the orphaned Sharada (Sumalatha) with an intention to marry her.Ganga and Sambaiah after initial struggles become wealthy with dedication and hardwork.Eventually Chinna rebels against his father and both he and Sambaiah return to latter's modest original profession of cobbler.
Chiranjeevi won Nandi Award for Best Actor for that year.


  • The film was a commercial success and completed 100 days in most of A centers and 50 days in B & C centers.

14.Pasivadi Pranam

Pasivadi Pranam is a Tollywood film which released on July 23, 1987.This film was produced by Chiranjeevi's brother-in-law Allu Aravind.Madhu (Chiranjeevi) is a painter who becomes a drunkard since his wife gets killed immediately after their marriage in an accident. He names him Raja and takes care of him however, he doesn't stop drinking.Geeta (Vijayashanti) meets the kid in a shopping place and mistakes him to be Madhu's son and fights with them when the kid accidentally breaks her just bought gift and later realises her mistake and comes to apologise to Madhu's house.Later she comes to know that the kid is none other than her sister's (Rajyalakshmi) son and she was murdered. But they realise that he is not the actual killer and is released. This changes him and he gives up drinking. This is a remake of "Poovinnu Puthiya Poonthennal", a malayalam Movie starring Mammootty.This movie was Chiranjeevi's first silver-jubilee hit.

15.Jagadeka Veerudu Athiloka Sundari

Jagadeka Veerudu Athiloka Sundari (Telugu: జగదేక వీరుడు అతిలోక సుందరి) is a Tollywood film released on May 9, 1990 and was directed by K. Raghavendra Rao.Aswani Dutt produced a film with Chiranjeevi for the first time with this film.The sucuess of the film prompted the producers to dub and release in Hindi as Aadmi Aur Apsara, captivating on actress Sridevi's popularity.The story revolves around Raju (Chiru), a guide and caretaker of 4 young orphans. The ring belongs to a celestial being, Indraja (Sridevi), the daughter of Lord Indra.She, at the end, throws away her ring and goes to her love instead of returning to her heavenly abode.The film had a 200-day run in 1 centre.The highlight of the movie was Chiranjeevi and Sridevi combination and the backdrop of mythology mixed fantasy, which attracted kids.

16.Kondaveeti Donga

Kondaveeti Donga(Telugu: కొండవీటి దొంగ) is a film starring Chiranjeevi which was a massive hit when it was released in 1990.The film had collected a distributors' share of 7.4 million in its opening week.

17.Gang Leader

Gang Leader is a very popular telugu film of megastar Chiranjeevi.Was a sensational hit at the box office.He celebrated this occasion in four different places at Hyderabad, Visakhapatnam, Vijayawada and Tirupati on the same day. (He flew by a helicopter).

18.Gharana Mogudu

Gharana Mogudu (Telugu: ఘరాణ మొగుడు) is a very popular telugu film which has Chiranjeevi, Nagma in the lead roles.The movie was the first telugu film to gross over 100 million rupees. This film was a remake from Kannada film Anuraaga Aralitu, acted by Legend Dr.Rajkumar.Raju (Chiranjeevi) is a do-gooder who helps his fellow co-workers while working in Visakhapatnam shipyard, but when his mother suffers a paralytic stroke, he moves back to Hyderabad and looks for a job.In this scenario, she not only rejects Ranganayakulu's(Kaikala Satyanarayana) son's marriage proposal but insults them when the father-son duo show up at her house. Raju wins over the employees within no time and takes on the high handedness of Uma Devi and her management.And to this end she plays an emotional blackmail game with Raju's mother and eventually makes Raju agrees to marry her. Uma Devi's secretary, Bhavani(Vani Viswanath) is also a friend of Raju which leads to jealousy as well.The rest of film deals with how Raju thwarts the schemes of Ranganayakulu as well as teaches Uma Devi to be humble.The film collected a distributors' share of Rs.13.5 million in its opening week.It collected a share of Rs.40 million in 50 days and ended being the first Telugu movie to collect a distributors' share of Rs.100 million.

19.Alluda Majaka

Alluda Majaka (Telugu: అల్లుడా మజాకా) is a popular telugu movie produced by Devi Vara Prasad on Devi Films banner with Chiranjeevi in the lead role.Even though it gave him a much needed hit, the movie had a lot of double entendres.The film opened with 120 prints and collected a gross of nearly Rs.35.6 million in its opening week.It completed 50 days in 75 centres.

20.Sneham Kosam

Sneham Kosam(Telugu: స్నేహం కోసం) is a Telugu film produced by A. M. Ratnam under the Sri Surya Movies banner. The film was released on 1 January 1999.After his father goes to jail for murder, a young boy Chotu (Chiranjeevi) is affectionately raised by the rich landlord of the village, who treats him as a son rather than as a servant.Into this harmonic picture, enters Gudiya a.k.a Prabha (Meena), the younger daughter of the landlord back home after completing her higher studies in America.Then there's the landlord's evil son-in-law (Prakashraj) plotting to usurp the property of the old man through nefarious means.The film is a remake of the Tamil movie Natpukkaga; which was also directed by K.S.Ravikumar.The film had run for 50 days in 89 centres and 100 days in 52 centres.The film's shooting was completed in 56 days.

21.Indra (film)

Indra (Telugu: ఇంద్ర) is a Telugu language action film directed by Gopal B.The film released in 258 screens,including 223 in Andhra Pradesh,30 in Karnataka,3 in Orissa and 2 in USA.The film had collected a distributors' share of Rs.87 million in its opening week.It had a 50-day run in 151 centres,including 9 in Karnataka and 2 in Orissa.It had a 175-day run in 32 centres including a 247-day run in Satyam theatre,Adoni.It was the first Telugu movie to gross over Rs.300 million.

22.Tagore (film)

Tagore is a Telugu language ("Tollywood") film which was a remake of the Kollywood blockbuster Ramana. Chiranjeevi played the role of the protagonist and Shriya, Jyothika, and Prakash Raj played some other roles as well. The film was screened at the International Indian Film Academy Awards, along with [Tollywood blockbuster Pokiri.Tagore (Chiranjeevi) creates his own vigilante military network called the Anti corruption Force (ACF) that eliminates the most corrupt individuals, from all walks of life, in a systematic manner. He is aided by Suryam (Prakash Raj) who, though being just a constable in the mammoth Police force, is compelled by his instincts to see through the underlying design.The film opened in 405 screens.The film collected a distributors' share of Rs.100 million in its opening week.The film had a successful 100-days run in 190 centres.

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