Chinnodu

Chinnodu is a 2006 Telugu action drama directed by Kanmani, starring Sumanth and Charmy Kaur, with Rahul Dev, Chandra Mohan, Rajiv Kanakala and Brahmanandam in support. Ramana Gogula composed the music, and the film was released on 27 October 2006. It was later remade in Kannada as Hara (2014).

What the story is about

Chinna is born in a jail to a prisoner who dies in childbirth. Moved by the baby’s plight, the jailer Pashupati adopts him and raises him alongside his own son Sanjay and his daughter, though Pashupati’s father never accepts a child born to a prisoner. Then Chinna kills Pashupati’s brother and goes to jail himself. When he is released, the family tells him to stay away.

Chinna moves into a rough neighbourhood run by the local mafia, takes them on and becomes the protector of the people there, all the while trying to make peace with the foster family that now treats him as a criminal; only Pashupati’s wife is still kind to him. Anjali, a clerk in the police commissioner’s office, moves in as his co-tenant and falls for him, believing him to be a gentle soul and knowing nothing of his reputation or his past.

Cast and crew

• Sumanth as Chinna
• Charmy Kaur as Anjali
• Chandra Mohan as the jailer Pashupati
• Vinaya Prasad as Janaki, Pashupati’s wife
• Rajiv Kanakala as Sanjay
• Rahul Dev as Srisailam
• Babloo Prithiveeraj as Ranga
• Sivaji Raja as Pashupati’s younger brother
• Brahmanandam as Appalaraju, Ali as Ram Prasad and Venu Madhav as Venu

Director: Kanmani. Music: Ramana Gogula, released by Aditya Music.

Making the film

According to an Idlebrain interview with Sumanth, after making Naa Oopiri, a “non-commercial film on artistic lines”, Kanmani wanted his next film on a “mass scale”, and Chinnodu was the result.

Reviews

Rediff gave the film two and a half stars out of five, writing that “Chinnodu is for those who like action, but it is Sumanth who steals the show”. Jeevi of Idlebrain called it “average”. We have not found box-office figures from a named outlet.

Where to watch Chinnodu

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