Jayammu Nischayammu Raa

Jayammu Nischayammu Raa (“Victory Is Certain”) is a 1989 Telugu comedy directed by Jandhyala and produced by G. V. H. Prasad under the Sudarshana Pictures banner. Rajendra Prasad, Sumalatha and Chandra Mohan play the leads, Raj–Koti composed the music, and the film was presented by Kaikala Satyanarayana and Kota Srinivasa Rao. It was released on 6 July 1989 and runs 143 minutes.

What the story is about

Rambabu and Suribabu are close friends who rent rooms in the house of Gopalam and his wife Kantham, an eccentric couple still grieving their dead son. Rambabu falls for Shanti, while Suribabu courts Seeta, whose family has troubles of its own. When Shanti finishes her studies and goes back to her village, Rambabu loses track of her. Back home, his father Ranganatham fixes a match with his best friend Jaganatham’s daughter, and Rambabu, not knowing the bride is Shanti, refuses and bets his father he will win his own love within six months. When he finds Shanti and proposes, she turns him down: she dislikes love marriages and wants an arranged one. So Rambabu sets out to win over her parents instead, a strict atheist father and a devout mother, and the comedy grows out of the lengths he goes to.

Cast and crew

• Rajendra Prasad as Rambabu
• Sumalatha as Shanthi
• Chandra Mohan as Suribabu
• Suthi Velu as Jaganatham and Radha Kumari as Subbalakshmi
• Dharmavarapu Subramanyam as Ranganatham
• Brahmanandam as Gopalam and Srilakshmi as Kantham
• Satyanarayana as Narayana, Kota Srinivasa Rao as Patil and Ashok Kumar as Chakrapani
• Krishna, Venkatesh and Suman appear as themselves

Director: Jandhyala. Producer: G. V. H. Prasad. Music: Raj–Koti.

Behind the film

The title is taken from a well-known song in Sabhash Ramudu (1959). The film marked the screen debut of comedian Dharmavarapu Subramanyam, who plays the hero’s father.

Box office and legacy

Jayammu Nischayammu Raa was a commercial success, according to a Telugu Filmnagar piece marking the film’s 30th anniversary; no collection figures are given. It was later remade in Tamil as Killadi Mappillai (1994).

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Sources: the Wikipedia article on Jayammu Nischayammu Raa and the report it cites, linked above; our own cast and crew records.