Srinivasa Kalyanam

Srinivasa Kalyanam (“The Marriage of Srinivasa”) is a 1987 Telugu romantic drama directed by Kodi Ramakrishna and produced by K. Murari under the Yuva Chitra Arts banner. Venkatesh plays the lead with Bhanupriya, Gautami and Mohan Babu, and K. V. Mahadevan composed the music. It was released on 25 September 1987 and runs 143 minutes.

What the story is about

Srinivas and his sister Lakshmi lost their parents as children, who died saving a landlord, Sridhar Rao. Their uncle Nagayya, a drunk, pockets the money Sridhar Rao gives them and tries to sell them off, and it is his daughter Saroja, their cousin, who helps them escape while she stays behind. Adopted by a couple in the city, Srinivas grows up into an educated but jobless young man who delivers newspapers, drives an auto and runs a dance school. There he meets Lalitha, who is looking for work and staying with her sister and her unpleasant brother-in-law, and the two fall in love. Then a young woman calling herself Swapna rents a room in Srinivas’s house without realising who he is, and a womanising hotel owner, Bokka Lambodharam, sets his sights on Lalitha. The film is about how this tangle of old ties and new love resolves itself.

Cast and crew

• Venkatesh as Srinivas
• Bhanupriya as Lalitha
• Gautami as Swapna
• Mohan Babu as Bokka Lambodharam
• Suthi Velu as Nagayya
• Prasad Babu as Yenimdakula Venkatrao
• Gollapudi Maruthi Rao and Y. Vijaya as the couple who adopt Srinivas
• Subhalekha Sudhakar as Rajesh, with Srilakshmi and Varalakshmi as Lakshmi

Director: Kodi Ramakrishna. Producer: K. Murari. Music: K. V. Mahadevan (soundtrack on Lahari Music).

Box office

Srinivasa Kalyanam was a hit. Idlebrain’s list of Venkatesh’s successes and centres is the source Wikipedia cites for calling it a “Super Hit”; no collection figures are given.

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Sources: the Wikipedia article on Srinivasa Kalyanam and the list it cites, linked above; our own cast and crew records.