''Anandamanandamaye'' is a 2004 Indian

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-language romantic

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film in Telugu directed by

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and produced by

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. It was released on 5 February 2004 under the banner of

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. The film featured

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and

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, J. D. Chakravarthy,

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, Venu Madhav and

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. Background score and soundtrack were composed by Koti.

Cast

as Kiran *

as Bhuvaneshwari "Bhuvana" * J. D. Chakravarthy as Chakravarti "Chakri" *

as Maheshwari "Mahi" * Devan as Bhuvana's father *

Sumalatha Sumalatha (born 27 August 1963) is an Indian actress, politician who is the current Member of Parliament in the Lok Sabha from Mandya, Karnataka. She has acted in more than 220 films in Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Tamil and Hindi. She gained ...

as Bhuvana's maternal aunt *

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as Bullebbayi *

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as Bhuvana's paternal uncle * Sumithra as Bhuvana's mother *

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as Bullebbayi's wife * Hema as Bhuvana's aunt * A. V. S. * Venu Madhav as Ammi Raju *

as Gavarraju * Sunil as "Panchatantram" Seenu *

Dharmavarapu Subramanyam Dharmavarapu Subrahmanyam (20 September 1954 – 7 December 2013) was a popular Indian actor, comedian and film director who worked in Telugu cinema. He was established as one of the highly paid and top most leading comedians in Telugu film in ...

as Manmatha Rao *

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as Lakshmana Rao *

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as Judge *

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as lawyer *

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as T. C. *

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as Police Inspector *

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as Bhuvana's cousin * Baby Zeeba as Bhuvana's cousin *

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as Bhuvana's cousin

Production

After the success of ''

Anandam ''Anandam'' () is a 2001 Indian Telugu-language romance film, directed by Srinu Vaitla and starring Akash and Rekha in the lead roles. The music of the film was composed by Devi Sri Prasad. The film was sensational hit at box office and ran ...

'' (2002), Srinu Vaitla, Ramoji Rao, and Akash collaborated again for this film.

Music

The background score and soundtrack were composed by Koti, with lyrics by Seetharamasastry, Veturi Sundararama Murthy, Sai Sriharsha, and Kandi Konda. The singers were Sreerama Chandra, Sunita, Karthik, Raghu Kunche, Malathi,

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and Koti.

Release

A critic from ''Sify'' opined that "A feel-good family drama about mistaken identities similar to Chitchor and the recent Main Prem Ki Deewani Hoon. Director Seenu Vytla has handled the subject with streaks of comedy and has been successful to some extent but the flashbacks are too lengthy and on the whole the film is far from entertaining". Jeevi of ''Idlebrain'' gave the film a rating of three out of five and opined that "This film is a typical feel-good movie".

References

2000s Telugu-language films 2004 films Films directed by Srinu Vaitla Films scored by Koti {{2000s-Telugu-film-stub