Manasantha Nuvve

Manasantha Nuvve is a 2001 Telugu romantic film written and directed by V. N. Aditya.^[1] This film stars Uday Kiran and Reema Sen in the lead roles. The film was produced by M. S. Raju and had music composed by R. P. Patnaik. The film was declared a blockbuster after Chitram (2000) and Nuvvu Nenu (2001). The film's success also lead to several remakes.^[2]

Plot

Anu (Baby Zeeba) is the daughter of a wealthy government officer. Chanti (Ananda Vardhan), son of a widow mother, lives in a small hut beside their house. Anu is attracted to the kindness of Chanti and his family and they both become good friends. Anu's father does not like their friendship, but they continue playing together. One day, Anu's father gets a job transfer and they leave that village. Anu gives him an alarm clock as a parting gift when they leave to Vizag. He keeps this gift as a token of remembrance.

After some time, his mother dies because of a disease and he is an orphan now. He starts selling breakfast to the railway passengers and tries to make a living of it. One day a couple Mohan Rao (Chandra Mohan) and Sudha, impressed by his honesty, decide to adopt him and give him a good life. They give him a new name Venu and bring him up as their own child. He looks after their Audio/Video cafe run by Mohan Rao. Anu goes to Malaysia and completes her education, but she still remembers her childhood friend Chanti. Her parents want her to get married to her cousin, but she convinces them that she does not want to marry now. She also reveals to her cousin that she still likes Chanti and hopes to meet him someday.

She comes to India in the hope of finding Chanti, but fails to meet him. She starts writing about their friendship since their childhood as a serial and visits the editor of Swati magazine and tells him that this is her own story. He gets impressed by the story and agrees to publish it in his magazine with her pen name Renu. Chanti's sister becomes a big fan of that serial and admires her. She keeps asking Venu to find her and get her home.

One day he meets Renu in a TV show where he also reveals the story of his childhood friend. Renu becomes happy that she found him, but wanted to give him a thrill by not revealing her identity. She introduces herself to him as the writer of the serial Manasantha Nuvve. He feels happy that he can take her to his sister and surprise her. Anu visits their home and she becomes a good family friend. When they actually come to know each other, Anu's father threatens him to forget his daughter otherwise he will spoil his sister's marriage. He agrees to his proposal and rejects Anu. But Anu finds out her father is the reason for their breakup and spoils her own marriage with a minister's son and rushes to Venu. Venu is wounded by the henchmen of Anu's father and goes into a coma. Finally, he recuperates from the coma after listening to the alarm sound given by Anu in their childhood and the couple unites.

Cast

• Uday Kiran as Venu / Chanti
• Reemma Sen as Anu / Renu
• Tanu Roy
• Shiju
• Chandra Mohan as Mohan Rao
• Paruchuri Venkateswara Rao as Sivaram, editor of Swati weekly
• Tanikella Bharani as Anu's father
• Sunil as Sunil
• Sudha as Mohan's wife
• Sireesha as Mohan's daughter
• Devadas Kanakala as minister
• Shiva Reddy as minister's son
• Pavala Shyamala as Mohan's mother
• Rajita as Mohan's friend
• Sirivennela Seetharama Sastry as himself
• Master Ananda Vardhan as young Chanti

Production

V. N. Aditya, who earlier assisted directors like Jayanth C. Paranjee and Singeetham Srinivasa Rao made his directorial debut with this film.^[3] M. S. Raju said that he did this film with relatively new director and a new actor as per the recommendation of S. Gopal Reddy after the dud of Deviputrudu (2001).^[4]

Soundtrack

The soundtrack consists of 8 songs. All were composed by R. P. Patnaik. The song "Tuneega Tuneega" became a massive hit. It was taken from the Malayalam movie Pranayavarnangal. The original song "Kannadi Koodum Kootti" was composed by Vidyasagar. All the tracks were huge chartbusters. The track "Kita Kita Talupulu", sung by Chithra, with lyrics penned by Sirivennela Seetharama Sastry was a huge hit and became an evergreen song. R. P. Patnaik, while speaking about this song, said that "The high pitched notes in the song sung in apt perfection by Chithra, is very hard to reproduce by any other singer. The range Chithra possessed in the song can only be sung by a male singer with difficulty".^[5]

Remakes

Legacy

With Manasantha Nuvve, Uday Kiran had scored back-to-back successes along with Chithram (2000) and Nuvvu Nenu (2001).^[6] V. N. Aditya also became a popular director and has given successful films like Sreeram (2002) and Nenunnanu (2004).

References

External links

• Manasantha Nuvve on IMDb