Aa Okkati Adakku

Aa Okkati Adakku (“Don’t Ask for That One Thing”) is a 1992 Telugu comedy directed by E. V. V. Satyanarayana and produced by M. Saravanan and M. Balasubramaniam for AVM Productions. Rajendra Prasad stars with Rao Gopal Rao and Rambha, in her Telugu debut, with music by Ilaiyaraaja. Based on the Tamil film Paaru Paaru Pattanam Paaru (1986), it was released on 19 September 1992 and was a commercial success.

What the story is about

In Visakhapatnam, Chitti Babu is a well-educated but idle young man who trusts astrology more than effort, convinced by his astrologer that he is destined to become a king within a year. Royyala Naidu, a wealthy self-made businessman, wants his daughter Rambha to marry a hard-working man, however poor, rather than a rich idler. When Rambha falls for Chitti Babu, her father agrees to the wedding only on one condition: Chitti Babu must pay him a dowry of ₹100,000, and until he does, the newly married couple may not spend their first night together. Chitti Babu’s increasingly desperate schemes to raise the money drive the comedy.

Cast and crew

• Rajendra Prasad as Atukula Chitti Babu
• Rambha as Rambha
• Rao Gopal Rao as Royyala Naidu
• Allu Ramalingaiah as Sahadevudu
• Brahmanandam as Addu Pulla Rao
• Babu Mohan as the astrologer Poompuhar
• Nirmalamma as Chitti Babu’s mother

Director: E. V. V. Satyanarayana. Producers: M. Saravanan and M. Balasubramaniam (AVM Productions). Music: Ilaiyaraaja. Runtime: 155 minutes.

Music

This was Ilaiyaraaja’s only film with E. V. V. Satyanarayana. The soundtrack was released by Akash Audio, and the song “Pavurama” was based on his own “Shenbagame” from the 1987 Tamil film Enga Ooru Pattukaran.

Reception and legacy

The film was a commercial success and was remade in Kannada as Bal Nan Maga (1995) and in Hindi as Mr. and Mrs. Khiladi (1997), as NDTV notes in its list of Bollywood remakes of South Indian films. According to Indiancine.ma, Rao Gopal Rao’s performance was praised, while the film’s double-entendre dialogue drew criticism for obscenity, one of E. V. V.’s early controversies over sexual content, a charge that returned with his later Alluda Majaaka (1995).

Rao Gopal Rao’s character lived on: in 2017 his son Rao Ramesh played a Royyalu Naidu in DJ: Duvvada Jagannadham, a role based on and named after his father’s character here.

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Sources: the Wikipedia article on Aa Okkati Adakku and the sources it cites, linked above; our own cast and crew records.