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Kotha Bangaru Lokam
కొత్త బంగారు లోకం
Kotha Bangaru Lokam release date: 9 October 2008 (theatres). Directed by Srikanth Addala; starring Varun Sandesh, Prakash Raj and Rao Ramesh.
- Film release
- 9 October 2008 · All 2008 films
- Director
- Srikanth Addala
- Music
- Mickey J. Meyer
- Production
- Sri Venkateswara Creations
- Writing credits
- Srikanth Addala
- Language
- Telugu
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Film release: 9 October 2008 · all 2008 Telugu films.
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Kotha Bangaru Lokam (transl. “A new golden world”) is a 2008 Telugu romantic drama, the debut of writer-director Srikanth Addala, produced by Dil Raju under Sri Venkateswara Creations. Varun Sandesh and Shweta Basu Prasad play two teenagers at a residential college, with Prakash Raj and Jayasudha as his parents. Released on 9 October 2008, it was a commercial success and won two Nandi Awards and five Filmfare Awards South.
What the story is about
Balu is the only son of a modest middle-class couple; Swapna is the daughter of a strict, wealthy family. Both study at a residential college in Visakhapatnam, and they soon fall for each other, while wondering whether what they feel is attraction or love. Then a photograph of the two of them appears in a newspaper. Swapna is taken out of the college, and Balu is told he cannot sit his exams unless he brings his father in. Balu goes home and tells his parents a very different story, and while they believe he is busy studying, he is really daydreaming about Swapna and trying to find her. What happens when his gentle, trusting father finally learns the truth is where the film turns, and we will stop there.
Cast and crew
- Varun Sandesh as Balu
- Shweta Basu Prasad as Swapna
- Prakash Raj as Vishnu Murthy, Balu’s father
- Jayasudha as Balu’s mother
- Brahmanandam as Rai Pawar, the college principal
- Ahuti Prasad as Swapna’s father
- Rao Ramesh as a lecturer
- Rajitha as Swapna’s mother
Music: Mickey J. Meyer. Cinematography: Chota K. Naidu. Producer: Dil Raju.
Music
Mickey J. Meyer’s soundtrack was released on the evening of 23 August 2008 at the State Art Gallery in Hyderabad, launched by Jr. NTR, Prabhas and Allu Arjun.
Reviews
Radhika Rajamani of Rediff.com gave the film 3 out of 5, saying Addala had written an interesting screenplay for a routine storyline, and that the two leads “wow with their liveliness, energy and their teenage innocence”. Idlebrain.com rated it 4/5 and said the debutant director “comes up with a script that offers lot of freshness”.
Box office and legacy
The film was a hit. The trade site T2BLive, in a list of the year’s top Telugu earners, credits it with a distributors’ share of ₹8 crore. It was remade in Kannada as Cheluvina Chilipili (2009) by S. Narayan.
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Cast of Kotha Bangaru Lokam (2008)
- Varun Sandesh as Balu
- Prakash Raj as Balu's Father
- Rao Ramesh
- Shweta Prasad as Swapna
- Jayasudha as Balu's Mother
Additional cast
Further acting credits recorded for this film; voice-only and dubbing credits are excluded.
Character names as listed on TMDB, checked 10 Oct 2026.
Source record: Q6433960 on Wikidata. Dates are those on record and can change; this is not a studio announcement. Spotted an error? Send a correction.