Released · Telugu film · 1996
Sahasa Veerudu Sagara Kanya
సాహసవీరుడు - సాగరకన్య
Sahasa Veerudu Sagara Kanya release date: 9 February 1996 (theatres). Directed by K. Raghavendra Rao; starring Venkatesh Daggubati, Shilpa Shetty and Malashri.
- Film release
- 9 February 1996 · All 1996 films
- Director
- K. Raghavendra Rao
- Music
- M. M. Keeravani
- Production
- Sri Venkateswara Art Films
- Runtime
- 139 min
- Language
- Telugu
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Film release: 9 February 1996 · all 1996 Telugu films.
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Sahasa Veerudu Sagara Kanya (“The Adventurous Hero and the Mermaid”) is a 1996 Telugu fantasy adventure directed by K. Raghavendra Rao for Sri Venkateswara Art Films. Venkatesh stars with Shilpa Shetty as the mermaid and Malashree, and M. M. Keeravani composed the music. It was released on 9 February 1996 and runs 139 minutes.
What the story is about
Ravi Chandra lives in a house by the sea with a group of comic friends and his cousin Ganga, who is in love with him. The villain, Bangaru Raju, is after a sunken ship full of treasure and has teamed up with a witch to find it, and after several failed attempts she learns that only a mermaid can recover it. One day a mermaid comes ashore and loses her tail, becoming a beautiful young woman, though any splash of water turns her back into a mermaid. Named Bangaram on land, she falls into Ravi’s world and for Ravi himself, just as the witch tells Bangaru Raju that the creature he needs is within reach. The rest of the film is Ravi’s adventure to protect her.
Cast and crew
- Venkatesh as Ravi Chandra
- Shilpa Shetty as Bangaram, the mermaid
- Malashree as Ganga
- Kaikala Satyanarayana as Bangaru Raju
- Kota Srinivasa Rao as Mutyalu and Srihari as Ratnalu
- Babu Mohan as Nallodu and Sudhakar as Lingaraju
- Brahmanandam, Ali, Dharmavarapu Subramanyam, Rallapalli, Gundu Hanumantha Rao and Suthivelu in comic roles
Director: K. Raghavendra Rao. Music: M. M. Keeravani (soundtrack on Melody Makers).
Other versions
The film was dubbed into Tamil as Kanavu Kanni, with lyrics by Vairamuthu, and into Hindi as Sagar Kanya. Wikipedia lists the Hollywood mermaid comedy Splash alongside it as a related film. We have no box-office figures or contemporary reviews for it from a named outlet.
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Cast of Sahasa Veerudu Sagara Kanya (1996)
- Venkatesh Daggubati
- Shilpa Shetty as Sagara Kanya
- Malashri as Ganga
- Brahmanandam
- Kaikala Satyanarayana
- Babu Mohan as Nallodo
- Mallikarjuna Rao
- Kota Srinivasa Rao as Mutyalu
Additional cast
Further acting credits recorded for this film; voice-only and dubbing credits are excluded.
- Ali
- Dharmavarapu Subramanyam as Police Inspector
- Srihari as Ratnalu
- Gundu Hanumantha Rao
- Suthivelu
- Betha Sudhakar
- Rallapalli
- Mada Venkateswara Rao
- Ananth Babu
- Vijaya Lalitha
Also in the cast (TMDB): Venkatesh as Sahasa Veerudu.
Character names as listed on TMDB, checked 10 Oct 2026.
Source record: Q7399534 on Wikidata. Dates are those on record and can change; this is not a studio announcement. Spotted an error? Send a correction.