Adavi Ramudu (2004 film)
Adavi Ramudu is a 2004 Indian Telugu-language romantic action film which was directed by B. Gopal. Prabhas and Aarti Agarwal played the lead roles. Ramya Krishnan acted in an item number alongside Prabhas. The movie features the love story between a tribal youth and his childhood sweetheart. This was Prabhas' next movie immediately after the success of Varsham. Upon release it received mostly negative reception from the critics and audience alike and was a disaster at the box-office. The film was later dubbed into Hindi as The Strong Man Badal in 2009.
| Adavi RamudU | |
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| Directed by | B. Gopal |
| Produced by | Chanti Addala |
| Written by | B. Gopal Paruchuri Brothers |
| Starring | Prabhas Aarti Agarwal |
| Music by | Mani Sharma |
| Cinematography | VSR Swamy |
| Edited by | Kotagiri Venkateswara Rao |
| Distributed by | KAD Movies |
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| Language | Telugu |
| Budget | ₹60 million |
| Box office | ₹50 million |
Plot
In her childhood, Madhu befriends a boy in a village. Her uncle comes and insults the boy for being a tribal. Madhu then tells him to get an education so people will respect him more. 10 years later, the boy Ramu (Prabhas) returns to college, where he meets its most wanted woman Madhu (Aarti Agarwal), who falls in love with him. Later, she reveals in her birthday party that she was the childhood girl who told him to be an educated person. However, Madhu's mother Tribhuvna (Telangana Shakuntala) insults him and throws him out of her party and house. Tribhuvna is a hot-minded woman who can do whatever she wants by using either mafia or politics. She wants to kill Ramu. What happens then is the rest of the movie.
Cast
- Prabhas as Ramu
- Aarti Agarwal as Madhu
- Brahmanandam as Puli Raja
- Ranganath as Madhu's father
- Telangana Shakuntala as Tribhuvna, Madhu's mother
- Nassar as Peddayana, tribal leader
- Venu Madhav as Hanumanth
- Ajay Rathnam
- Rajeev Kanakala
- Ravi Babu
- Narsing Yadav
- Siva Reddy
- G. V. Sudhakar Naidu
- Bandla Ganesh
- Banerjee
- Seema
- Prabhakar
- Malladi Raghava
- Ramya Krishna in item number
- Deepak Jethi as Villan
Soundtrack
The music was composed by Mani Sharma and released by Aditya Music.
| Adavi Ramudu | ||||
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| Released | 22 April 2004 | |||
| Recorded | 2004 | |||
| Genre | Soundtrack | |||
| Length | 32:21 | |||
| Label | Aditya Music | |||
| Producer | Mani Sharma | |||
| Mani Sharma chronology | ||||
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| No. | Title | Lyrics | Singer(s) | Length |
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| 1. | "Jinka Veta" | Sirivennela Seetharama Sastry | Hariharan, K. S. Chithra | 5:16 |
| 2. | "Aakasam Sakshiga" | Sirivennela Seetharama Sastry | Sonu Nigam, Mahalakshmi Iyer | 5:48 |
| 3. | "Nagaram" | Sirivennela Seetharama Sastry | Mallikarjun | 5:22 |
| 4. | "Govindha" | Bhuvana Chandra | Karthik, Shreya Ghoshal | 4:41 |
| 5. | "Adugestene" | Sirivennela Seetharama Sastry | K. S. Chithra, Malathy Lakshman, Sangeethaa-Sangeetha Sajith. | 6:08 |
| 6. | "Aresukoboye" | Veturi Sundararama Murthy | S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, Sandhya | 5:06 |
| Total length: | 32:21 | |||
