''Appula Appa Rao'' is a 1992

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-language

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, produced by B. Suresh under the Kamadhenu Creations banner, presented by

Rama Prabha Rama Prabha is an Indian actress who performs in Telugu, Tamil and Hindi films. She has acted in more than 1,400 films and is credited as a character artist who shared screen space with superstars across all generation of South Indian Cinema ...

and directed by

E. V. V. Satyanarayana Eedara Veera Venkata Satyanarayana (10 June 1956 21 January 2011) was an Indian film director, screenwriter and producer. He directed a total of 51 films in Telugu and Hindi and introduced many actors to Telugu cinema. He was well known for ma ...

. It stars

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Shobana Shobana Chandrakumar Pillai (born 21 March 1970) is an Indian actress and Bharatanatyam dancer. She acts predominantly in Malayalam films along with Telugu and Tamil films with few Hindi, Kannada and English films. She has won two National Fil ...

and music composed by

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. The film was recorded as a ''Blockbuster'' at the box office and is widely acclaimed as one of the finest comedy films in Telugu. It was released on 24 January 1992.

Plot

Appa Rao is a bachelor who manages every day by living off the loans he takes from others. He manages to coerce the local MLA Nadendla Anjaiah into promising to repay his debts in exchange for the votes in Anjaiah's favor from the debtors of Appa Rao. One night, he meets a lady constable Subba Lakshmi, who slaps him for trying to protect some rowdies who tried to molest her. They meet again and spar with each other, this time over a

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for Rs. 10 lakhs, and end up tearing the ticket. The seller refuses to take it back and instead advises them to keep the two halves with them so that if they win the lottery, they could share the prize money. As luck would have it, their ticket wins the lottery and Appa Rao fakes a story about his family troubles to retrieve the other half of the ticket from Subba Lakshmi. Though aware of the pretense of Appa Rao, she donates the other half as she learns that the ticket didn't win the lottery and it was mistakenly printed in the newspaper earlier. Appa Rao later realizes the same and confronts her, but she tells him that she sacrificed her ticket as she believed his story. As a result, Appa Rao falls in love with her and overcome by emotion, tries to kiss her, but she slaps him for the second time. Subba Lakshmi also falls in love with Appa Rao. Appa Rao meets an astrologer Shastri, who foretells him that he would inherit huge sums of money if he married a woman who could slap him thrice. Appa Rao reveals to Shastri his encounters with Subba Lakshmi and Shastri foretells him that he would marry her. Just as he was about to finish his statement, enter Iron Leg Shastri (

Ironleg Sastri Gunupudi Viswanath Sastri, popularly known by his screen name Ironleg Sastri, was an Indian comedian who predominantly worked in Telugu-language films. He acted in more than 150 films. E. V. V. Satyanarayana introduced him to Telugu Cinema. L ...

), who so influences the prophecy of his brother that whatever his brother foretells, it turns out to be the opposite way. He tells Appa Rao that Subba Lakshmi would die as his brother had intruded into their conversation. However, he tells Appa Rao that he could avoid this bad omen if he married a dying woman. His initial attempts go in vain. Finally, he accidentally meets Ammaji in a temple and convinces her into marrying him to her dying elder daughter, Bangari (Sindhuja). However, his plans turn upside down after marriage after he realizes that he was tricked into this marriage by Ammaji. Appa Rao plans to have a divorce from Bangari, but Ammaji sets a condition that, before taking divorce, he should get her other daughters married. With the help of Subba Lakshmi, whom he manages to convince about his marriage with Bangari, he can arrange the marriage of his sisters-in-law at the same time. After the marriage, Ammaji requests Appa Rao to reconsider his decision of getting a divorce, but to no avail. Finally, Subba Lakshmi is revealed to be the eldest daughter of Ammaji and Appa Rao ends up marrying both Subba Lakshmi & Bangari.

Cast

as Appula Apparao *

as Subbalakshmi * Sindhuja as Bangari *

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as Sastry *

Babu Mohan Pally Babu Mohan known as Babu Mohanis an Indian actor and politician from Bharatiya Janata Party. He prominently works in Telugu films as a comedian and is a former Minister for Labour in Andhra Pradesh. He won Nandi Award for Best Male Come ...

as Nadendla Anjaiah *

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as Lottery Ticketer *

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 Chilipi Donga * Mallikarjuna Rao as Tata Rao *

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as Eeswara Sastry *

Suthi Velu Kurumaddali Lakshmi Narasimha Rao (7 August 1947 – 16 September 2012), better known by his stage name Suthi Velu, was an Indian actor and comedian known for his works in Telugu cinema. He has acted in more than 200 films, and won four state ...

as Brahmaji *

as Iron leg Sastri *

Potti Prasad Potti Prasad (born Kavivarapu Prasada Rao) was an Indian actor who predominantly worked in Telugu cinema. He was introduced to the films by Jandhyala. His notable roles include Chantabbai and Sagara Sangamam. He made his screen debut with Appu ...

* Chidatala Appa Rao as "Jyothi Chithra" * Annapoorna as Mangatayaru *

Ramaprabha Rama Prabha is an Indian actress who performs in Telugu, Tamil and Hindi films. She has acted in more than 1,400 films and is credited as a character artist who shared screen space with superstars across all generation of South Indian Cinema ...

as Ammaji *

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 Tata Rao's wife * Chandrika as Savitri * Lathasri as Chitti * Siva Parvathi

Soundtrack

The soundtrack is composed by

, released by Surya Recording Company.

References

External links

* {{E. V. V. Satyanarayana 1991 films 1991 romantic comedy films Films shot in Vijayawada Indian romantic comedy films Films scored by Rajan–Nagendra Films directed by E. V. V. Satyanarayana Films set in Vijayawada 1990s Telugu-language films