Jai Chiranjeeva

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Jai Chiranjeeva is a 2005 Telugu action comedy directed by K. Vijaya Bhaskar and produced by Vyjayanthi Movies, starring Chiranjeevi with Sameera Reddy, Bhumika Chawla and Arbaaz Khan. Mani Sharma composed the music, Venu shot the film and Kotagiri Venkateswara Rao edited it; Trivikram Srinivas wrote the comedy dialogue. It released on 22 December 2005. Our record lists a running time of 173 minutes.

What the story is about

The film opens with Pasupathi, an international arms dealer, arriving in India with a new batch of weapons, including a computer-linked .35 Magnum, and demonstrating it to his partner Ramakoti with chilling indifference. Ten months later Sathyanarayana Murthy, “Satya”, a rough-edged man from Amalapuram, turns up in Hyderabad with his friend Venu. He beats up train ruffians, threatens a doctor for information, poses as whatever suits the moment, and finds time to romance his neighbour Sailaja. Underneath the comedy he is on a mission of revenge, and the reason for it, revealed in flashback, eventually takes him all the way to the United States.

Cast

• Chiranjeevi as Sathyanarayana Murthy, alias Satya
• Sameera Reddy as Sailaja “Sailu”
• Bhumika Chawla as Neelima “Neelu”
• Arbaaz Khan as Pasupathi
• Jaya Prakash Reddy as Ramakoti
• Rahul Dev as Asghar, Pasupathi’s henchman
• Sunil as Dhanushkoti, Ramakoti’s son
• Venu Madhav as Venu, Satya’s friend
• Brahmanandam as Neelima’s uncle
• Dharmavarapu Subramanyam as Sailaja’s father
• Sudha as Sailaja’s mother
• Tanikella Bharani as a visa agent
• M. S. Narayana as a customs officer
• Uttej as a family friend

Making of the film

The film was launched at Ramanaidu Studios on 9 April 2005. Art director Anand Sai built a 60-foot Hanuman idol near Gachibowli for the film, which took 20 days to complete. The climax was shot in Los Angeles and one song on the Las Vegas Strip. Mani Sharma’s soundtrack was launched at Shilpa Kala Vedika on 14 November 2005. Arbaaz Khan’s and Rahul Dev’s voices were dubbed by P. Ravi Shankar.

Reception

Reviews credited the star more than the story. Sify said it “offers very little by way of surprise” and that “the one-man entertainment troupe called Chiranjeevi” salvages an uneven film. Idlebrain.com found the first half entertaining and the second half lagging, naming Chiranjeevi and Trivikram’s comedy dialogue as the plus points but saying the hero’s revenge motive was not projected well. The Deccan Herald called it “a revenge theme retold” that “offers nothing new”. Madhusudhan Reddy won the Nandi Award for Best Audiographer. We have found no box-office figure from a named outlet.

The film was later remade in Bangladesh as Ziddi Mama (2012). KAD Entertainment released it on DVD in February 2006, and Zee Telugu holds the television rights.

Where to watch Jai Chiranjeeva

We do not have a confirmed streaming platform for Jai Chiranjeeva on file. The OTT details on this page will be updated when a platform’s own listing confirms it.

Sources: the Wikipedia article on Jai Chiranjeeva and the reviews it cites, linked above; our own cast and crew records.