''Lahiri Lahiri Lahirilo ''is a 2002 Indian

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film written, directed and produced by

YVS Chowdary Yalamanchili Venkata Satyanarayana Chowdary is an Indian Telugu cinema writer, director, producer, distributor, exhibitor and a music company owner. He made his debut as a director in 1998 with the film ''Sri Sita Ramula Kalyanam Chootamu Raara ...

under the banner ''Bommarillu.'' The film stars four pairs

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, Suman, Rachana,

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, Ankitha,

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and

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in the lead roles. Veteran actress

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played the main villain role in this film. This film is a hit at the box-office. The film won three

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. The film's title is based of a song from ''

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'' (1957).

Plot

Nani (

) and Bala ( Ankitha) study in the same college. The story begins with Nani arranging a marriage for his friends Veera Venkata Satya Narayana (Chitram Srinu) and Naga Venkata Ratna Kumari in

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with the help of his classmate John David ( Venu Madhav). Bala also joins the marriage. She gets to know that Nani is an orphan and starts liking Nani's attitude and behaviour. Nani also has same feelings towards Bala but he doesn't reveal them to her. After the marriage, John David tells her that he and Nani have arranged this marriage as part of their business ''A-1 Match Fixing Centre'' and Nani is actually a marriage broker who arranges marriages for making money. She gets upset when Nani bids her good bye saying that there is hardly any friendship between them. Indu (

), Chandu ( Rachana) and Sindhu (

) are three daughters of Rama Krishna ( Ranganath) and nieces of Ammayiamma (

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). Indu is obsessed with cleanliness, Chandu is scared of lizards and Sindhu is a sincere worshipper. Rama Krishna lost his wife and his brother in law (Ammayiamma's husband) in a car accident and he believes the reason to be not believing in astrology. He strongly decides to get his three daughters married to three brothers only with whom their horoscopes match perfectly. Ammayiamma approaches Nani for finding suitable matches for her nieces. Nani suggests Ammayiamma the three sons of Balaramaiah Naidu (

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) and

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of Ramapuram village - Krishnama Naidu (

) for Indu, Chandrama Naidu ( Suman) for Chandu and Srinivasa Naidu (

) for Sindhu. Nani goes to Ramapuram as the younger brother of Indu, Chandu and Sindhu for Dasara festival celebrations and all four stay in the house of Punju Raju (

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) which is exactly opposite to Balaramaiah Naidu's house. Nani plans to create love between the couples and get them married. In his efforts to unite the three couples, he bumps into Bala again who is the only younger sister of the three brothers. Both exchange their love for each other but are scared to reveal it to her family. From then, the story takes a twist with the entry of Achamamba (

) who was once in love with Balaramaiah Naidu and is waiting to take revenge on him for not marrying her. By winning in the village cockfight, she convinces Balaramaiah Naidu for getting his daughter Bala married to foreign returned son of her brother (

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). The rest of the plot is all about how Achamamba's evil plans are destroyed by Krishnama Naidu and the four couples got married.

Cast

as Krishnama Naidu *

as Indu * Suman as Chandrama Naidu * Rachana as Chandu *

as Nani * Ankitha as Bala *

as Srinivasa Naidu *

as Sindhu *

as Achchamamba *

as Balaramaiah Naidu *

as Punju Raju *

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as priest *

as Balaramaiah Naidu's wife *

as Achchamamba's brother's son * Ranganath as Rama Krishna *

as Ammayiamma *

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as Suryam * Kalpana as Suryam's wife * Venu Madhav as John David * Chitram Seenu as Veera Venkata Satya Narayana *

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Soundtrack

The soundtrack of this film is composed by M. M. Keeravani and all the lyrics were written by

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. The soundtrack received positive reviews. The sound track included huge number of tracks and lengthy songs which met with huge success. The tracklist featured eminent singers like Keeravani himself, K.S.Chitra,

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& Ganga. All the tracks were hit tracks, but the track "Kallaloki Kallu Petti" sung by K.S.Chitra and

became a huge chartbuster. "Mantramedo", "Ohoho Chilakkamma", "Nesthama", "Lahiri Lahiri Lahirilo" were other chartbusters.

Awards

; Nandi Awards - 2002-2003(in

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) * Best Character Actor - Harikrishna * Best Character Actress -

* Best Female Comedian -

References

External links

* {{YVS Chowdary 2002 films Indian drama films Films scored by M. M. Keeravani 2000s Telugu-language films Films directed by Y. V. S. Chowdary