Bhale Dongalu

Bhale Dongalu is a 2008 Telugu comedy caper directed by K. Vijaya Bhaskar and co-produced by Bellamkonda Suresh under Sri Lakshmi Devi Productions. A remake of the Hindi film Bunty Aur Babli (2005), which itself drew on Bonnie and Clyde, it stars Tarun and Ileana as a pair of small-town dreamers turned con artists, with Jagapati Babu as the police officer on their trail. K. M. Radha Krishnan composed the music. It was released on 11 April 2008 to mixed reviews.

What the story is about

Ramu dreams of becoming a business tycoon, though his middle-class father keeps telling him to settle for a steady job. Jyothi wants to be a top model, but her elders have already fixed her marriage. Both run away from home on the same day and meet on the train, where a thief makes off with their luggage. In the city each is cheated in turn, Ramu by a pawn dealer and Jyothi by the judges of a beauty contest, and when they meet again at the railway station that night and compare notes, they decide that if the world runs on deceit they may as well play it better. Calling themselves Romeo and Juliet, they start pulling cons on the rich, which eventually brings them up against a ruthless drug lord, Veeraraju, and a wisecracking police officer, DCP Yugandhar, who has been ordered to catch them.

Cast

• Tarun as Ramu, alias Romeo
• Ileana as Jyothi, alias Juliet
• Jagapati Babu as DCP Yugandhar
• Pradeep Rawat as Veeraraju
• Chandra Mohan as Ramu’s father and Sudha as his mother
• Paruchuri Venkateswara Rao and Dharmavarapu Subramanyam as Veeraraju’s brothers-in-law
• Brahmanandam, M. S. Narayana, Sunil and Venu Madhav in comic roles, and Annapoorna as Jyothi’s grandmother
• Charmy Kaur in the song “Neethone”

Music

K. M. Radha Krishnan composed the soundtrack, released by Aditya Music at a function at Annapurna Studios on 13 March 2008, with Venkatesh and Ravi Teja as chief guests.

What critics said

Reviews were mixed. The critic at Idlebrain.com warned that “Bhale Dongalu might disappoint if you had already watched” Bunty Aur Babli. Wikipedia’s article does not record the film’s box-office performance, so we do not characterise it.

Where to watch Bhale Dongalu

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Sources: the Wikipedia article on Bhale Dongalu and the review it cites, linked above; Wikidata; our own cast and crew records.