Samanyudu

Samanyudu (“Common Man”) is a 2006 Telugu political action film directed by Ravi C. Kumar (credited on our record as Ravikumar Chavali) and produced by R. R. Venkat under R. R. Movie Makers. Jagapati Babu plays a newspaper editor taking on a corrupt minister, with Kamna Jethmalani, Sai Kumar, Ranganath, Archana and Vinod Kumar Alva in the cast. Vandemataram Srinivas composed the music, and it was released on 19 October 2006.

What the story is about

Chandrashekhar, the principled editor of the newspaper Addam, has spent his life exposing wrongdoing, and has raised three orphans, Chandra, Abhi and Aparna, who have settled abroad. When he prepares to expose the scams of the Home Minister, Bhagawan Raj, a ruthless politician said to have looted 600 crores of public money in four years, he is murdered and the killing is staged as a suicide.

Chandra returns, takes over as Addam’s editor and vows to carry on his father’s work, changing people “without any harm”. With his brother Abhi and the loyal sub-editor Das, he begins uncovering a bank fraud tied to the minister and turns one of Bhagawan Raj’s men into an informer, while someone inside his own camp is leaking his moves. Running alongside is a phone-call romance with Vandana, the sister of the minister’s henchman. The film follows Chandra’s unusual plan for dealing with the minister once he has the evidence.

Cast and crew

• Jagapati Babu as Chandra
• Kamna Jethmalani as Vandana
• Sai Kumar as Bhagawan Raj
• Ranganath as Chandrasekhar
• Archana as Aparna
• Dasari Arun Kumar as Abhi
• Vinod Kumar Alva as Lingam Goud
• Rajiv Kanakala as Das
• M. Balayya as Chief Minister Veda Prakash
• Ahuti Prasad as Commissioner Kalyan
• M. S. Narayana as Chandra’s uncle

Director: Ravi C. Kumar. Producer: R. R. Venkat (R. R. Movie Makers). Music: Vandemataram Srinivas, released by Aditya Music. Runtime: 148 minutes.

Box office and awards

Samanyudu completed a 100-day run on January 26, 2007, and the makers marked it with a function at the Raavi Narayana Reddy Auditorium in Hyderabad on January 31, 2007, attended by V. B. Rajendra Prasad, T. Subbarami Reddy, D. Ramanaidu, Srikanth and Uday Kiran, according to a Cinegoer report. The film won Nandi Awards for Best Story Writer and Best Villain, and a Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor (Telugu). We have not found a contemporary review or collection figures from a named outlet.

Where to watch Samanyudu

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