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-language

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, produced by C. Venkataraju, G. Sivaraju under the Sri Vijaya Lakshmi Productions banner and directed by Mouli. It stars

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, Ashwini Nachappa,

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and music composed by

M. M. Keeravani Koduri Marakathamani Keeravani (born 4 July 1961; credited as M. M. Keeravani) is an Indian film composer, playback singer, and lyricist, who predominantly works in Telugu cinema along with other languages including Hindi, Tamil, Kannada, and Ma ...

. Later dubbed into Tamil as ''Aananenna Pennenna''.

Plot

The film begins at an orphanage where Jyothi a plucky naughty girl defies the rules. One day, Jyothi gets out that she has a family. Suryanarayana, her father an alcoholic, and his benevolent wife Savitri. The couple already has two daughters Lalitha and Vani. Suyarnarayana always subject Savitri to oppression for continuously giving birth to baby girls for which he admitted Jyothi to the asylum. Now Jyothi proceeds toward her father and coercively hangs with him. Subsequently, she takes on household responsibilities and also boosts the courage of her sisters to strive for their goals. Years roll by, and Jyothi toils and molds her sisters. Lalitha becomes well educated and works as a school teacher whereas Vani is a famous local singer. About which Suryanarayana is unbeknownst. Parallelly, Devi Prasad, an honorable-seeming hoodlum conducts a high level of illegal activities in autos in the town. Chakrapani a good soul holds a stand that benefits Devi Prasad as gratitude. Jyothi acquires an auto from him and they fall for each other. Inspector Shivaji a sheer cop is appointed to desist Devi Prasad who gallantly challenges him. Destiny stands for Shivaji & Chakrapani antagonists. Apart from that, Shivaji is a widower and contains a daughter Veena that is a student of Lalitha. She endears her and also comes closer to Shivaji. Meanwhile, Vani joins a music troupe of Pardhasaradhi, he likes her but Vani's desires are at a height. At a point, Suryanarayana is aware of his daughters' achievements as a result three of them quit the house along with their mother. Currently, they reside in a colony that is under jeopardy of wretch Prem, son of Devi Prasad. He acts out his crimes under the garb of a cultural club. Despite being deserted by her husband Savitri takes care of him. Knowing it, Suryanarayana realizes and decides to do something good for his family. Meanwhile, Lalitha completes her I.A.S, returns as Collector, and knits Shivaji. Immediately, she shutdowns Prem's club and apprehends him. Soon after release, begrudged Prem traps and hoodwinks Vani. During this plight, Lalitha pleads Prem to nuptial Vani when he conditionally asks and reopens his businesses. However, turn around his word and also affronts the entire family. Here, incensed Jyothi onslaughts on him when to thwart Shivaji takes her into custody. Annoyed Vani attempts suicide when Pardhasaradhi rescues and wholeheartedly accepts her. In jail, Prem manipulates and torments Jyothi but she is safeguarded by reformed Chakrapani. Besides, Savitri is unable to endure the affliction of Prem and moves to kill him but on the verge, Suryanarayana slaughters him. At last, Shivaji, Chakrapani, and Jyothi cease Devi Prasad. Finally, the movie ends with Suryanarayana feeling proud to give birth to such ideal daughters before leaving for prison.

Cast

as Shivaji * Ashwini Nachappa as Jyothi *

as Chakrapani *

J. D. Chakravarthy Nagulapati Srinivasa Chakravarthy, known professionally as J. D. Chakravarthy, is an Indian actor, screenwriter, director, producer, composer, and singer known for his work primarily with Telugu cinema in addition to Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam, an ...

as Prem *

Nutan Prasad Tadinada Varaprasad popularly known as Nutan Prasad (12 December 1945 – 30 March 2011) was an Indian actor who predominantly worked in Telugu cinema and Telugu theatre. He was a native of Kaikaluru, Andhra Pradesh, India. He started his film ...

as Commissioner Prasad *

Tanikella Bharani Tanikella Bharani (born 14 July 1954) is an Indian actor, screenwriter, poet, playwright and director who works predominantly in Telugu cinema. He has worked as an actor in more than 750 films, including some in Tamil and Hindi; while he was ...

as Suryanarayana *

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as Madhu * Mallikarjuna Rao as Achary *

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as Pardhasaradhi * Ananth as Bilahari *

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as Minister * Sujatha as Savitri *

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as Lalitha *

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as Vani *

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as Chakrapani's sister *

Jayalalita Jayalalita is an Indian character actor, who acted in about 650 films in Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam and Hindi. Early life Jayalalita was born in Gudivada, a town in Krishna district of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. She complete ...

as Achala Kumari & Kuchala Kumari (dual role) *Bangalore Padma as Achala Kumari & Kuchala Kumari's mother *Babu Sunayana as Veena

Soundtrack

Music composed by

. Lyrics are written by

Bhuvanachandra Bhuvana Chandra is an Indian lyricist, renowned for his work in the Telugu cinema. He served in the Indian Air Force for 18 years before turning into a lyricist. He penned lyrics for more than 2000 songs. He also wrote more than 100 stories, a no ...

. Music is released on Balaji Audio Company.

References

{{Reflist Films scored by M. M. Keeravani 1990s Telugu-language films