Iddaru Mitrulu

Iddaru Mitrulu (“Two Friends”) is a 1999 Telugu drama directed by K. Raghavendra Rao for R. K. Associates. Chiranjeevi, Sakshi Shivanand and Ramya Krishna star, and Mani Sharma composed the music. It was released on 30 April 1999 and was dubbed into Tamil as Singanadai.

What the story is about

Vijay and Anita are best friends who share every joy and sorrow. Anita falls in love with a photographer, Prakash, and marries him, while Vijay, playing the lover boy, wins and marries Shanti. Anita’s happiness does not last: she discovers that Prakash is cheating on her. Vijay stands by his friend, but Shanti resents the time he spends with Anita, and the friendship between a man and a woman becomes the test of both marriages.

Cast and crew

• Chiranjeevi as Vijay
• Sakshi Shivanand as Anita
• Ramya Krishna as Shanti
• Suresh as Prakash
• Sudhakar as Hari
• Chandra Mohan as Vijay’s father
• AVS and Y. Vijaya as Shanti’s parents
• Brahmanandam as Titanic, Shanti’s bodyguard, and Mallikarjuna Rao as Vijay’s cook, with Rambha in the song “Rukku Rukku”

Director: K. Raghavendra Rao. Music: Mani Sharma.

Music

The soundtrack was a big hit, with “Hey Rukku”, featuring Rambha, and the dance number “Nootokka Jillalo” the standouts. Screen reported that the album sold “more than 3 lakh cassettes” within days of its release.

Reviews

Wikipedia says the film opened to positive reviews, citing The Times of India, but the contemporary reviews it quotes were cooler. Idlebrain found such a soft story unusual for the Raghavendra Rao and Chiranjeevi team and felt the director lost his grip in the last two reels, rushing to “a complete anti-climax”. Andhra Online said expectations “fall flat” with a story about male-female friendship that had been told “innumerable” times. We have no box-office figures for it from a named outlet.

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Sources: the Wikipedia article on Iddaru Mitrulu (1999) and the reviews and reports it cites, linked above; our own cast and crew records.