Sirivennela

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Sirivennela (“Moonlight”) is a 1986 Telugu musical romance written and directed by K. Viswanath. Sarvadaman Banerjee plays a blind flautist, with Suhasini and Moon Moon Sen, and K. V. Mahadevan composed the classical score. Geetha Krishna Movie Combines produced it. The film was released on 5 June 1986 and runs 181 minutes.

What the story is about

Hari Prasad is a blind, self-taught flute player who lives with his younger sister Samyuktha in a picturesque village near Jaipur and earns a modest living playing for tourists. He has never been formally trained, but his melodies stop people in their tracks. Jyothirmai, who shows tourists around, hears him and recognises an extraordinary talent; she teaches him to listen to nature and to the forms of classical music, and mentors him until he becomes a celebrated maestro, Pandit Hari Prasad. Over the years he comes to love her silently, dedicating every album to her. At the same time Subhashini, a mute painter, falls for Hari Prasad and pours her unspoken feelings into her paintings. The film is about these three people and the love none of them can easily say out loud.

Cast and crew

• Sarvadaman Banerjee as Pandit Hari Prasad
• Suhasini as Subhashini
• Moon Moon Sen as Jyothirmayi
• Nithya as Samyuktha, Hari’s sister
• Subhalekha Sudhakar as tour guide Sooribabu
• Misro as Ramalingaiah, a village elder
• J. V. Ramana Murthi as the recording company owner and Sakshi Ranga Rao as a music teacher
• Baby Meena as Renu, and drummer Sivamani in a cameo

Writer and director: K. Viswanath. Music: K. V. Mahadevan, with flute by Hariprasad Chaurasia. Lyrics: Seetharama Sastry.

Music

The soundtrack is steeped in classical music, and the hero’s flute is played by Hariprasad Chaurasia. Every song was written by Seetharama Sastry, and the album’s success gave the lyricist his lasting name: he became known as “Sirivennela” Seetharama Sastry, according to Indiancine.ma. The music was released on the Lahari label.

Festivals and awards

Sirivennela won five Nandi Awards and was shown at the Asia Pacific Film Festival, the International Film Festival of India, the Moscow Film Festival and the AISFM Film Festival. It was shot in Jaipur and Kerala and dubbed into Tamil as Raaga Devathai. We have no box-office figures for it from a named outlet.

Where to watch Sirivennela

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Sources: the Wikipedia article on Sirivennela and the page it cites, linked above; our own cast and crew records.