Hello Brother

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Hello Brother is a 1994 Telugu action comedy directed by E. V. V. Satyanarayana and produced by K. L. Narayana for Sri Durga Arts. Nagarjuna plays twins, opposite Ramya Krishna and Soundarya, and Raj–Koti composed the music. It was released on 20 April 1994 and runs 167 minutes. The film is loosely based on Jackie Chan’s Hong Kong comedy Twin Dragons (1992), and was itself remade in Hindi as Judwaa (1997) and Judwaa 2 (2017) and in Kannada as Cheluva (1997).

What the story is about

On the night police officer Chakravarthy’s wife Geetha gives birth to twin boys, a dacoit he has arrested escapes from the hospital and snatches one of the babies. Doctors have already noticed something strange: the twins feel each other’s pain when they are close. The kidnapped child ends up being raised by a poor labouring couple and, orphaned, grows up as Deva, a small-time thief, alongside his friend Kasi. His brother Ravi Varma is raised in America, where Chakravarthy has taken Geetha for treatment after she falls into a coma, and returns to India as a rock star. Ravi falls for Ooha, while Deva’s girlfriend Manga mistakes Ravi for Deva, and when the identical brothers finally run into each other, the mix-ups begin.

Cast and crew

• Nagarjuna as Deva and Ravi Varma
• Ramya Krishna as Manga
• Soundarya as Ooha
• Napoleon as the villain Mitra and Charan Raj as his father Misra
• Sarath Babu as Chakravarthy
• Brahmanandam as Kasi, Kota Srinivasa Rao as S.I. Thadi Mataiyya and Ali as Higaral
• Srihari as Simhachalam and Annapurna as Akkamamba
• Mallikarjuna Rao, Babu Mohan and Giri Babu, with Rambha, Aamani and Indraja in the song “Kanne Pettaro”

Director: E. V. V. Satyanarayana. Producer: K. L. Narayana. Music: Raj–Koti. Cinematography: S. Gopal Reddy.

Reviews and awards

Reviewing the film on 6 May 1994, Griddaluru Gopalrao of Zamin Ryot praised the way the director shaped the characters and found the fast screenplay drew laughs from nearly every scene. The film won three Nandi Awards: Best Music Director for Raj–Koti, Best Cinematographer for S. Gopal Reddy and Best Editor for Ravindra Babu.

Wikipedia calls Hello Brother the highest-grossing Telugu film of 1994, but gives no source or figures, so treat that as Wikipedia’s claim. It was also dubbed into Tamil under the same title.

Where to watch Hello Brother

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