Dollar Dreams

Dollar Dreams is a 2000 Indian bilingual drama film written, directed and produced by Sekhar Kammula.[1] Primarily shot in Telugu and English languages, the film starred Santosh Kumar, Anish Kuruvilla, Ravi Raju, Anil Prashant, Dashveer Singh, Priyanka Veer, and Satya. The film was screened at the 33rd International Film Festival of India.[2][3]

Dollar Dreams
Directed bySekhar Kammula
Produced bySekhar Kammula
Written bySekhar Kammula
Starring
CinematographyVijay C. Kumar
Edited byMarthand K. Venkatesh
Production
company
Distributed byAmigos Creations
Release date
October 19, 2000
Running time
100 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageTelugu
English

Accolades

Dollar Dreams garnered the National Film Award for Best First Film of a Director for its "taking in a very natural manner the burning problem of brain drain to the technologically developed world" as cited by the jury at the 47th National Film Awards.[1][2]

Reddiff.com cited Dollar Dreams as a take off from where Hyderabad Blues ends.[4][5] Dollar Dreams explores the conflict between American dreams and human feelings.[6] The film re-introduced Social realism to Telugu screen.[7]

Cast
  • Santosh Kumar as Balu
  • Anish Kuruvilla as Srinu
  • Ravi Raju as Ravi
  • Dr. Anil Prashant as Phani
  • Dashveer Singh as Sardar
  • Priyanka Veer as Usha
  • Satya as Archana
  • Manasa as She
  • Gopal Krishna as Father
  • Radha Krishna as Lakshmi
  • Kushnaaz as Kamal
  • Sekhar Kammula (cameo appearance)
  • PS Chandrasekhar as The Confident Man

References
  1. "47th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 13 March 2012.
  2. "rediff.com, Movies: The Dollar Dreams review".
  3. August 23, Amarnath K. Menon; August 23, 1999 ISSUE DATE; February 4, 1999UPDATED; Ist, 2013 17:51. "Dollar Dreams: Is the great American dream a myth or reality?". India Today.CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  4. "Software engineer turned director wins National Award". reachouthyderabad.com.
  5. Dundoo, Sangeetha Devi (7 October 2016). "Hyderabad 425: Cinema and the city" – via www.thehindu.com.
  6. "Dollar Dreams Movie: Showtimes, Review, Trailer, Posters, News & Videos | eTimes" – via timesofindia.indiatimes.com.
  7. "rediff.com, Movies: The Dollar Dreams review". M.rediff.com. 17 July 2000. Retrieved 28 August 2019.
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