Cheppave Chirugali

Cheppave Chirugali (“Tell Me, Gentle Breeze”) is a 2004 Telugu romantic drama directed by Vikraman, his own remake of his 2002 Tamil film Unnai Ninaithu. Venu Thottempudi plays the lead with Abhirami and Ashima Bhalla. Venkata Shyam Prasad produced it under SP Entertainments, and it was released on 24 September 2004. The title comes from a song in Okkadu (2003).

What the story is about

Venu works as the receptionist of a lodge in Visakhapatnam that he runs with his friend Gopi. The lodge belongs to Venu’s father but has been leased out because of money troubles. Radha, the daughter of the lodge’s new manager, lives next door with her family and is drawn to Venu’s good nature. Before anything can grow between them, Venu tells her about his past: years earlier he loved Nirmala, the girl who used to live in Radha’s house, and helped her family through hard times, until his well-off friend Ramji also set his sights on her. The film follows that old love story and what it means for Radha.

Cast and crew

• Venu Thottempudi as Venu
• Abhirami as Radha
• Ashima Bhalla as Nirmala
• Ramji as Ramji
• Sunil as Gopi
• Kaikala Satyanarayana as the hotel manager and Giri Babu as the lodge owner
• Mouli and Subhashini as Nirmala’s parents
• Krishna Bhagavaan, L. B. Sriram and Sudhakar in comic roles; Kiran Rathod in the song “Paapa Poothota”

Director: Vikraman. Music: S. A. Rajkumar, with Sirpy’s songs from the Tamil original. Production: SP Entertainments.

Ramji, Pandu and Visweswara Rao repeat their roles from the Tamil version, while Ramesh Khanna, also from the original, plays a different part here.

Music

The score is credited to S. A. Rajkumar and Sirpy. All the songs Sirpy composed for Unnai Ninaithu were kept in the Telugu version, and the audio was launched on 8 July 2004.

Reviews

Idlebrain rated the film two out of five and wrote that “what this film lacks is soul. The emotions graph is flat.” We have no box-office figures for it from a named outlet.

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