Indrudu Chandrudu

Indrudu Chandrudu is a 1989 Telugu black comedy directed by Suresh Krissna and produced by D. Ramanaidu for Suresh Productions. Kamal Haasan plays a double role alongside Vijayashanti and Charan Raj, with music by Ilaiyaraaja. Based on the 1988 American film Moon over Parador, it was released on 24 November 1989 and runs 158 minutes.

What the story is about

G. K. Rayudu is a corrupt mayor who, with his assistant Tripathi, takes bribes and clears poor traders off market land sold to a rich businessman. A journalist investigating him reveals that Tripathi and Rayudu’s mistress have been secretly married all along and cheating him for years. Shaken, Rayudu decides to expose his own and Tripathi’s crimes, and Tripathi kills him in a rage and hides the body. Afraid that the mayor’s absence will soon be noticed, Tripathi finds Rayudu’s younger lookalike, Chandram, in a mental institution, where he appears to be faking a breakdown to escape a murder charge, and blackmails him into playing the mayor until a big deal goes through. With prosthetics and practice Chandram becomes a convincing double, but his puppet mayor soon develops ideas of his own.

Cast and crew

• Kamal Haasan as Mayor G. K. Rayudu and Chandram
• Vijayashanti as Durga, a news reporter
• Charan Raj as Tripathi
• Srividya as Janaki, Rayudu’s wife
• Gollapudi Maruthi Rao as contractor Vallabha Rao
• Nagesh as a minister and P. L. Narayana as Durga’s father
• Jayalalita as Veena, with E. V. V. Satyanarayana as a police inspector and Gautam Raju

Director: Suresh Krissna. Producer: D. Ramanaidu. Music: Ilaiyaraaja. Cinematography: P. S. Prakash.

Making the film

This was Suresh Krissna’s second film with Kamal Haasan after Sathyaa (1988). For the scene in which Rayudu has a massage, cinematographer P. S. Prakash used mask shots, as no other technical means were available at the time. S. P. Balasubrahmanyam sang “Nachina Fuddu Vechani Beddu” in a deeper voice to match Rayudu and later needed surgery for vocal nodules.

Box office

The film was a commercial success and ran 100 days, according to The Times of India. It was dubbed into Tamil as Indhiran Chandhiran, released on 14 January 1990, and into Hindi as Mayor Sahab.

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