Gorintaku

Gorintaku is a 2008 Telugu family melodrama directed by V. R. Prathap for Megaa Super Good Films, built around the bond between a brother and sister. Rajasekhar plays a dual role, with Meera Jasmine as his sister and Aarthi Aggarwal and Akash completing the leads. It is a remake of the successful Kannada film Anna Thangi, which starred Shiva Rajkumar, and it was released on 4 July 2008.

What the story is about

Ashok and his younger sister Lakshmi lose their parents, the village landlord Sarvarayudu and his wife, while they are still children, and grow up inseparable. When Lakshmi falls in love with Akash, she makes it clear she will marry him only with her brother’s blessing, which Ashok gives; he marries Nandini on the same day.

The years that follow are happy ones for Lakshmi, Akash and their growing family, until a woman called Kantham moves in with Nandini, claiming to be her aunt, and trouble begins in Ashok’s home. As misfortune and greedy relatives close in on both households, the film tests how far the siblings’ devotion to each other can hold. It is a weepie in the classic mould, and its ending is not a light one.

Cast and crew

• Rajasekhar in a dual role as Ashok and his father Sarvarayudu
• Meera Jasmine as Lakshmi, Ashok’s sister
• Aarthi Aggarwal as Nandini
• Akash as Akash
• Hema Choudhary as Suryakantham
• Telangana Shakuntala as Ashok’s grandmother
• Nassar as Chakrapani
• Chandra Mohan as Chandram
• Suhasini Maniratnam as Snehalatha
• Sivaji Raja, Venu Madhav, Brahmaji and Ravi Prakash

Director: V. R. Prathap. Production: Megaa Super Good Films. Music: S. A. Rajkumar.

Music

S. A. Rajkumar kept three of Hamsalekha’s songs from the Kannada original: “Dum Dum Dum” stayed “Dum Dum Dum”, “Anna Thangiyara” became “Anna Chellela”, and “Anna Nammonadharu” became “Yeradilo Koila”.

Release and box office

Gorintaku was a commercial success. Idlebrain included it in its list of the top 14 Telugu films of 2008, and T2BLive‘s list of the year’s top earners credits it with a distributors’ share of ₹8 crore. It was later dubbed and partly reshot for Tamil audiences as Maruthani, with an added comedy track featuring Mayilswamy and Aarthi, released on 10 September 2010. We have not found a contemporary review cited for the film.

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Sources: the Wikipedia article on Gorintaku and the reports it cites, linked above; our own cast and crew records.