Pasivadi Pranam

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Pasivadi Pranam is a 1987 Telugu thriller directed by A. Kodandarami Reddy and produced by Allu Aravind under Geetha Arts, starring Chiranjeevi, Vijayashanti, Raghuvaran and child actor Sujitha. A remake of the Malayalam film Poovinu Puthiya Poonthennal (1986), it released on 23 July 1987 and became one of the biggest hits of Chiranjeevi’s early career. Our record lists a running time of 120 minutes.

What the story is about

One night the business tycoon Chakravarthy murders his general manager with the help of his henchman Ranjith. A woman named Lakshmi and her small son witness the killing; Ranjith kills Lakshmi, but the boy escapes. Madhu, a painter who drinks heavily, finds the child asleep on the road on his way home from a bar, takes him in and names him Raja. He soon learns that Raja is deaf and mute, unable to tell anyone what he saw, while Chakravarthy and Ranjith discover that the only witness to their crime is living in town. Madhu’s growing bond with the boy, and with Geetha, a young woman who befriends them, sets up a race to protect a child who cannot speak for himself.

Cast

• Chiranjeevi as Madhu
• Vijayashanti as Geetha
• Raghuvaran as Chakravarthy
• Babu Antony as Ranjith
• Sujitha as Raja
• Kannada Prabhakar as Inspector Reddy
• Rajyalakshmi as Lakshmi, Raja’s mother
• Gummadi as Chalapathi Rao
• Allu Ramalingaiah as a blacksmith
• Giribabu as Venu, Madhu’s friend
• Jaggayya as a church father
• Sumalatha in a special appearance
• Brahmanandam in a cameo

Music

K. Chakravarthy composed the songs, with lyrics by Acharya Aatreya and Veturi, sung by S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, P. Susheela and S. Janaki.

Box office

Pasivadi Pranam was a major commercial success. News18 Telugu and CineJosh are cited for a distributors’ share of over ₹4.75 crore, and The Times of India lists it among the blockbusters of the Kodandarami Reddy–Chiranjeevi partnership; Wikipedia calls it the highest-grossing Telugu film of 1987.

The film is remembered as Chiranjeevi’s first silver-jubilee hit. The fan box-office site CineGoer records a 175-day direct run with five shows a day at Prathap theatre in Tirupati, and 100-day direct runs in 11 centres, a record at the time, when the state’s slab system made long runs hard to achieve.

Where to watch Pasivadi Pranam

We do not have a confirmed streaming platform for Pasivadi Pranam on file. The OTT details on this page will be updated when a platform’s own listing confirms it.

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