Adavi Ramudu

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Adavi Ramudu is a 2004 Telugu romantic action film directed by B. Gopal and produced by Chanti Addala under Friendly Movies. Prabhas plays a tribal youth in love with his childhood sweetheart, played by Aarti Agarwal, with Nassar, Telangana Shakuntala and Brahmanandam in support and music by Mani Sharma. Coming soon after Prabhas’s breakthrough with Varsham, it was eagerly awaited, but it was released on 21 May 2004 to poor reviews and failed at the box office.

What the story is about

As a child, Madhu befriends a boy in a village. When her uncle insults him for being a tribal, she tells him to get an education so that people will respect him. Ten years later Ramu turns up at college, where he meets Madhu, now the most sought-after girl on campus, and she falls for him, eventually revealing at her birthday party that she was the girl who told him to study. Her mother, Tribhuvna, a hot-tempered woman with mafia and political connections, throws him out of the party and wants him dead. The rest of the film is the fight between them.

Cast and crew

• Prabhas as Ramu
• Aarti Agarwal as Madhu
• Telangana Shakuntala as Tribhuvna, Madhu’s mother
• Ranganath as Madhu’s father
• Nassar as Peddayana, a tribal leader
• Sai Kumar as Narasimha
• Brahmanandam as Puli Raja
• Venu Madhav as Hanumanth
• Rajeev Kanakala, Ravi Babu and Banerjee
• Ramya Krishna in a special song

Director: B. Gopal. Story: Rajendra Prasad. Dialogue: Paruchuri Brothers. Music: Mani Sharma (Aditya Music). It was the last film of cinematographer V. S. R. Swamy.

Making of the film

The film was launched on 22 May 2003 at Annapurna Studios, where Krishnam Raju switched on the camera and D. Rama Naidu directed the first shot. The soundtrack includes a remix of “Aresukoboye” from the 1977 film of the same name, Adavi Ramudu; S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, who sang it for the original, sang the new version too.

Reviews and box office

Critics were harsh. Sify felt B. Gopal had to “grow beyond his outdated formula films”, and Idlebrain found the first half okay, the second boring, and the film as a whole “a disappointment from B Gopal and Prabhas”, with good action as its one plus point. Full Hyderabad was blunter still, calling it “dead, decaying matter”, and Telugu Cinema criticised the thin story and weak dialogue.

The film flopped. The Times of India included it in a June 2004 report on the season’s Telugu flops, and News18 later counted it among Prabhas’s pre-Baahubali failures. Wikipedia, citing those two reports, puts its gross at ₹10.90 crore against an expensive budget.

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Sources: the Wikipedia article on Adavi Ramudu (2004 film) and the reviews and reports it cites, linked above; our own cast and crew records.