Bhagyalakshmi Bumper Draw

Bhagyalakshmi Bumper Draw is a 2006 Telugu comedy directed by Nidhi Prasad and produced by Raju and Praveen under Silver Screen Movies. Rajendra Prasad leads an ensemble of comedians, with Rishi and Farjana as the young couple. A remake of the Hindi film Malamaal Weekly (2006), itself adapted from the British comedy Waking Ned (1998), it has music by Chakri and was released on 16 November 2006.

What the story is about

In a village full of characters, from a dairy farmer and a barber to a bogus political leader and a “king” of a long-faded royal line, Bullebbai makes his living as a lottery-ticket agent. A local tyrant, Renuka Rani, keeps the villagers in debt, and her layabout brother wants to marry Bhagyalakshmi, the dairy farmer’s daughter, who loves the king’s son Kittu.

Then Bullebbai learns that one of the tickets he sold has won the top prize of one crore rupees. Scheming to get it, he works out by elimination that the winner is the village drunk, Yesudas, and rushes to his house, only to find him dead with a happy smile on his face and the ticket in his hand. As more and more villagers find out, Bullebbai’s quiet plan to claim the prize turns into a village-wide conspiracy to fool the lottery inspector.

Cast and crew

• Rajendra Prasad as Bullabbai
• Rishi as Kittu
• Farjana as Bhagyalakshmi
• Kiran Rathod as Renuka Rani
• Nagababu as the lottery inspector
• Ali as Yesudas Gotham and Brahmanandam as Joshua Gotham
• Tanikella Bharani as Paala Pullayya, the dairy farmer
• M. S. Narayana as Varadaraju
• Venu Madhav as Aphis and Benarjee as Sarvarayudu
• Kovai Sarala as Mary Gotham and Bhuvaneswari as Mallika Sharbat

Director: Nidhi Prasad. Producers: Raju and Praveen (Silver Screen Movies). Music: Chakri, who also makes a cameo. Runtime: 139 minutes.

Reviews

Jeevi of Idlebrain rated the film three out of five and summed it up as “a typical entertainer for the frontbenchers”. We have not found other reviews cited for it, or box-office figures from a named outlet.

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Sources: the Wikipedia article on Bhagyalakshmi Bumper Draw and the review it cites, linked above; our own cast and crew records.