''Premante Idera'' () is 1998 Indian Telugu-language

romantic drama Romance films or movies involve romantic love stories recorded in visual media for broadcast in theatres or on television that focus on passion, emotion, and the affectionate romantic involvement of the main characters. Typically their journey ...

film directed by

Jayanth C. Paranjee Jayanth C. Paranji (born 21 July 1957) is an Indian film director known for his works predominantly in Telugu cinema. He introduced Bollywood actresses: Preity Zinta, Aishwarya Rai, Anjala Zaveri, Bipasha Basu, Lisa Ray, Nauheed Cyrusi to the Te ...

, and produced by Burugupalli Siva Rama Krishna and K. Ashok Kumar under the Sri Lakshmi Venteswara Art Films banner. The film stars Venkatesh and

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(in her Telugu film debut), with music composed by Ramana Gogula, in his first composition. The film won

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for Best Cinematographer (

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). It was remade in Kannada as '' O Premave'' with Ravichandran.

Plot

Murali and his friends go to a village to attend their friend's marriage. There Murali meets a girl Shailu, the bridegroom's friend, they begin to have fun and join in with the festivities, and Murali is captivated by her attitude and beauty. Soon both fall in love, but Murali soon finds out that she is to be married to a police officer Muralidhar. Murali puts on a brave face for the ceremony but hopes that something or someone will be able to stop the ceremony. He does everything he can to stop the marriage, he even tries to convince Shailu's joint family. Finally, the movie ends with the approval of Venktramayya for their marriage.

Cast

* Venkatesh as Murali *

as Shailaja "Shailu" (Voice dubbed by Shilpa) * Ranganath as Venkatramayya * Satyanarayana as Shailu's grandfather *

Srihari Srihari (15 August 1964 – 9 October 2013) was an Indian actor who was active mainly in Telugu cinema. He appeared in a few Tamil, Kannada and Hindi films as well. He won seven Nandi Awards and one Filmfare Award. Early life Srihari was bor ...

as Muralidhar *

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as Avadhani *

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as Ram Pandu * Chandra Mohan as Subba Rao *

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as Murali's father *

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as Suryam *

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as Satyam's father *

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as Murali's Uncle * Maharshi Raghava as Murali's brother *

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as Satyam *

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as Sivaji * Prasanna Kumar * Naveen as Sarath * Gadiraju Subba Rao *

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as Murali's mother *

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as Subbammatta * Sana as Shailu's aunty *

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as Shailu's aunty * Bangalore Padma as Satyam's mother * Madhurima Sundersen as Lakshmi * Harika as Murali's sister-in-law * Neelima * Tarangini as Shailu's friend * Madhu Mani as Shailu's friend * Vajja Venkata Giridhar as Murali's friend

Soundtrack

Music composed by Ramana Gogula. Music released on ADITYA Music Company. Tamil — ''Dubbed Version (as Naesikkiren)'' Hindi — ''Dubbed Version (as Dulhan Dilwale Ki)''

Box office

Rakesh P of ''

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'' called the storyline "trite", but the film "still manages to capture young hearts, for it`s shot in a free-wheeling and fluid fashion". The film had collected a distributors' share of Rs.85 million in its complete theatrical run.

Awards

* 1998: Nandi Award for Best Cinematographer -

References

External links

* {{Jayanth C. Paranjee 1990s Telugu-language films 1998 films 1998 romantic drama films Films directed by Jayanth C. Paranjee Indian romantic drama films Telugu films remade in other languages