Oka Raju Oka Rani

Oka Raju Oka Rani (“A King, a Queen”) is a 2003 Telugu romantic comedy and the debut feature of director Yogi. Ravi Teja and Namitha play the leads, Chakri composed the music and Ushakiran Movies produced it. The film was released on 19 June 2003 and runs 150 minutes.

What the film is about

Ravi Teja plays Ravi and Namitha plays Preethi, a young couple whose romance has to get past Preethi’s father Raghava, played by Tanikella Bharani; the film’s climax turns on Ravi trying to convince him about their love. Wikipedia notes that the story is inspired by the Tamil film Poovellam Kettuppar (1999).

Cast and crew

• Ravi Teja as Ravi
• Namitha as Preethi
• Tanikella Bharani as Raghava, Preethi’s father, and Suhasini Maniratnam as her mother Snehalatha
• Chandra Mohan as Ravi’s father and Sudha as his mother
• Sobhan as Hanumanthu
• Brahmanandam as Sachin, with Sunil, M. S. Narayana, Dharmavarapu Subramanyam, Ali and Giri Babu

Director: Yogi. Music: Chakri, with lyrics by Trivikram Srinivas. Production: Ushakiran Movies.

Behind the scenes

Director Sobhan made his debut as an actor in this film, and A. S. Prakash his debut as an art director.

Music

Chakri’s songs were reviewed warmly. The Hindu’s audio review said the album “certainly deserves more than just one hearing”.

Reviews

Jeevi of Idlebrain gave the film three out of five, liking the first half of the second half but finding the climax, in which Ravi tries to win over Preethi’s father, unconvincing. Gudipoodi Srihari of The Hindu was harder on it, criticising Ravi Teja’s hurried diction and his character’s domineering style with the heroine, and concluding that the film “lacks in aesthetics essential for a love story”. We have no box-office figures for it from a named outlet.

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Sources: the Wikipedia article on Oka Raju Oka Rani and the reviews it cites, linked above; our own cast and crew records.