Jandhyala Subramanya Sastry
A Tantric believes that by donating a virgin woman's head to gods crown, would bring down the universe to his feet. How the hero and heroine gets entangled in the underworld nexus, while rescuing the robbery, forms the crux of the plot.
Aapadbandhavudu is a 1992 Telugu film. It was the third collaboration between actor Chiranjeevi and director K. Viswanath after Shubhalekha and Swayamkrushi. The movie won critical acclaim, especially for Chiranjeevi, who received the Nandi Award for Best Actor & Filmfare Award for Best Actor - Telugu for his performance. This film marked Jandhyala's only screen appearance.
Kota Srinivasa Rao is a wealthy man, with poor relatives waiting for him to die so that they can get their hands on his money. Kota wants to get married so that he can leave his health to an heir. However his relatives hamper all his efforts to get married. He decides to evade them by leaving his home and moving to another place. He also adopts a young girl Chandraprabha (Rupa Kala), with the intention of marrying her when she grows up. He installs her in a home with 2 servants as caretakers. Ramesh (Naresh) is under pressure from his parents pressurizing him to marry girls from their respective families. Tired of their matchmaking he moves to the town where the heroine stays. Kota tells heroine that she will be married without telling her that he would be the groom. He tells heroine that the man who comes to her house on a specific day will be her husband, and Ramesh comes there by mistake. They both fall for each other. Kota is Ramesh's father's friend - and Ramesh tells him about
The film begins on, two soulmates Seetapathi (Subbaraya Sarma) & Major Pratapa Rao (Abhishith Varma) fixing up their children, Sivudu (Rajendra Prasad) & Parvati's (Amurtha) alliance in their childhood. But unfortunately, the children grows up with rivalry, so, the elders separate them. After 10 years, they meet unknowingly and an incident makes Parvati misunderstand Sivudu as a thief. Eventually, the elders arrange their get-together, Here they truly fall in love when both the elders burst out and forcibly arrange the children's marriages with unknown people. At last, Sivudu brings out the truth and reunites the elders. Finally, the movie ends on a happy note with the marriage of Sivudu & Parvati.
Raju (Chiranjeevi), a courageous and spirited young man, is a caregiver to four young orphans. He is a tourist guide in a picturesque hill station. One of the children is accidentally injured and, on the suggestion of an ayurvedic guru that the cure for this injury can be found on the banks of Manasa Sarovar, Raju goes to the Himalayas. During the same time, a celestial being, Indraja (Sridevi), the daughter of Lord Indra, happens to visit the Manasa Sarovar. She accidentally drops her ring, which is her passport to the Heaven. Raju finds this ring and starts wearing it, unaware of its divine power. Because Indraja is unable to enter Heaven, Brihaspathi, the Deva-guru, allows her to go back to Earth to retrieve it before the next Kartik Poornima.
A wonderful comedy about the efforts of a young man trying to win the love of his lady with some help from his friends.
One of the all-time greatest movies penned from the legend Jandhyala. Jandhyala often tries to convey social messages to humanity through his movies and through this movie takes up the sensitive topic of upbringing children and importance of education in nurturing the childhood. Some part of the movie is also based on the unemployment which was prevalent in the 80's in the country. The way these sensitive subjects were presented by Jandhyala along with The elements of humor, love and music rates this movie one of the best movies in the history of Telugu cinema
Raktabhishekam is a 1988 Indian Telugu-language action film based on Yandamuri Veerendranath's acclaimed novel of the same title. The film stars Nandamuri Balakrishna as Parthasarathi opposite Radha who enacted the female lead, Aparna. Ilayaraja composed the film's score and soundtrack. The film directed by A. Kodandarami Reddy was released on 9 December 1988. The film was dubbed into Tamil as Rathabhishegam
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An employee in the company of Nutan Prasad's brother Pandurangam, Anand Mohan falls in love with Nutan Prasad's daughter Padma. Anand Mohan rescues Lakshmi Prasad from his suicide bid following losses in business, and gets him a job in the company in which he works. Lakshmi Prasad falls in love with Lalitha a girl from his own village, when he meets her in the city.
Krishna Murthy (Rajendra Prasad), son of rich industrialist Satyanarayana (Nutan Prasad) falls in love with Padma (Rajani). When Krishna's father learns that Padma is the daughter of a greedy miser Lakshmipathy (Kota Srinivasa Rao), he challenges his son to convince Lakshmipathy to marry his daughter without revealing that he belongs to a rich family. Rest of the story is about Krishna's efforts to impress Lakshmipathy by acting like a miser himself. Brahmanandam made his acting debut with this film as Lakshmipathy's servant. This film is a turning point of Kota Srinivasa Rao.
Ramu (Nandamuri Balakrishna) is an orphan whom Lawyer Raghava Rao (Jaggayya) and Gayatri Devi (Sharada) had adopted and treated like a son, as one of their four children. Ramu was very sensible and loved his parents a lot, he could do anything for his parents. Once Ramu meets Sita (Rajani), who is the daughter of the servant in their house and falls in love with her. Ramu's freedom and rights in the affairs of their house is not liked by their own sons Satish and Ramesh (Hari Prasad and Bhaskar) and son-in-law Gopalam (Sudhakar). So they plan and remove Ramu from their house and take all the authorities. Now Ramu is trying to reunite his family. Whether he will he be successful in his mission forms the rest of the story.
The story of an Indian girl falling in love with an American in 80s USA.
The film begins with two close friends Sadguna Rao (Chandra Mohan) & Madhusudan Rao (Rajendra Prasad). Once he is acquainted with a beautiful girl Keerthana (Preeti) in funny circumstances and they fall in love. Keertana also holds a mate Vindhya (Rajani) a stage artist. Right now, the story unfolds by Keerthana divulging Vindhya regarding her childhood marriage with a guy Venkata Sivam in their village which she denies and even changed her name from Vighneshwari to Keerthana.
Chantabbai is action comedy based movie in which, Panduranga Rao (Chiranjeevi) who likes to be known as
The story starts with a conflict between two villages Ramapuram and Raghavapuram for Lord Rama statues. In that conflict, Raja's father who is the president of Ramapuram has been killed by Govindaiah brother-Subbaramaiah. Taking into that mind Raja's elder brother Rangayya kills Subbaramaiah and is sentenced to jail. After few years, Raja falls in love with one of his colleague in college without knowing that she is Subbaramayya's daughter, her name is Vara Laxmi. But their love was accepted neither by Laxmi's brother Hari nor by Govindayya. The rest of the film is all about how Raja struggles to marry Lakshmi with creating the relationship between both the families.
A comedy film directed by Jandhyala starring Bhanupriya, V.K. Naresh and Subhalekha Sudhakar in lead roles.
Kiran(Naresh) is a manager in a shop of electronics. Staff members tease him for his strictness towards girls. To prove them wrong he urgently marries a girl (Anitha Reddy). But his inexperience frightens him about the possibility of his failure while celebrating first night with his bride. To over-come this fear he seeks his secretary Margaret (Manochitra)'s help. Every attempt is met with some obstacle. Meanwhile a stranger begins to blackmail Kiran about his involvement with Margaret. How Kiran overcomes these and celebrates the happy night...?
A young multi-talented dancer is poverty stricken and as a principled person he does not want to compromise on his ethics for commercial dancing. A wealthy woman recognizes this talent and provides him with an opportunity to showcase his art.
Four men, Gopi (Naresh), Mohan (Rajesh), Krishna (Pradeep) and Murthy (Subhakar) fall for Seetha (Mahalakshmi), and try to impress her. One fine day they all go to Seetha and ask her whom she love. Then Seetha replies that it is Madhu (Kamalakar). They all are shocked. Then Seetha narrates the flashback. When Seetha was travelling in a bus, Madhu (Kamalakar) is standing beside her and when he is trying to give money to conductor his coin slips into Seetha's blouse. The conductor asks for change, but he has no change, the conductor asks him to get down. Madhu says he has an exam, then Seetha gets a ticket for him too. Seetha teaches music for Madhu's friend's sisters and some girls. There he proposes to her by showing a classical song in a music book. She responds with the same feeling by showing another song.
Srirama Raju (Gummadi) is the zamindar of the village. Raheem (J.V. Somayajulu), his classmate and a friend, also works as his carriage-driver. The zamindar has two daughters Savitri (Rajyalakshmi) and Lalitha (Tulasi) and a son Ravi (Eswara Rao). Savitri is a born mute, while Tulasi goes to college. Tulasi meets Kiran (Kiran) who traps her in the name of love and later marries Savitri for money. Raheem's son Saleem (Rajesh) rescues Lalitha from Kiran. A couple of villagers who had grudges on Raheem create Hindu-Muslim clashes between the otherwise peaceful villagers. How all issues were resolved and the price they had to pay, to regain peace in the village as well as in their lives, forms the rest of the story.
Naresh and Pradeep are classmates. Naresh loves Sarada but marries Kamala due to certain circumstances. To save Sarada who is pregnant by then, Pradeep marries her. Naresh, who is unable to forget the past, cannot compromise with Kamala. What happens in this situation forms the rest of the story.
Saptapadi deals with the transformation of an individual so devoted to (mired in) the concept of rituals, that it takes an act of God (will be discussed shortly) for him to realize the true spirit behind the rituals and true meaning of the prayers. Yajulu is a man of great conviction. According to him rules and customs, that have been passed down generations thus standing the test of the time, are there for a reason and hence are immutable; traditions are trademarks of a culture and customs, its signature. He does not mind losing his daughter for his principles.
Mudda Mandaram is a Telugu drama film written and directed by Jandhyala Subramanya Sastry. It is debut film for both the leading actors Poornima and Pradeep and Suthi Velu
A man and a woman fall in love with each other; his mother does not approve of her as she is from a different religion and her brother is a gangster. But they decide to withstand religious differences to be with each other.
Krishna is the son of a wealthy man, Madhav Rao. When Madhav Rao's secretary tricks him for his property leading to his death, Krishna takes up a false identity to avenge his father's loss.
The story of a rare and exceptional bond between the master of classical music Sankara Sastry and his admirer Tulasi, a woman from a family of prostitutes.
Malli (Sridevi), who just passed her tenth class, had nurtured only one dream since childhood - to become a teacher. As a teenager, she falls in love with the doctor who comes to the village. However, her dreams are shattered when she finds out aabout his real character. She realizes what life really is after the death of her mother and settles with the innocent Chandram (Chandra Mohan) who rescues her from Simhachalam (Mohan Babu).
Nagabhushanam and his son Nagaraju (Satyanarayana) runs smuggling and Illegal transport of forest produce in the Forest. Ramu (NTR) opposes and raises the villagers to fight against him. Padma (Jayaprada) Daughter of Forest officer (Jaggayya) loves him. One tribal lady Chilakamma (Jayasudha) also loves him as a brother. Nagabhushanam takes the help of Jaggu (Sridhar) to sent Ramu away from the forest. Later half reveals that Ramu was in fact a Forest officer in secret mission to investigate the case of Forest affairs. The story finally leads to the arrest of criminals.
Funny movie based on 'Parakaya Pravesam' staring Chandra Mohan and Rao Gopal Rao.
