Kondaveeti Donga (Telugu: కొండవీటి దొంగ) is a film starring Chiranjeevi which was a massive hit when it was released in 1990. Engaging and with a social cause at the same time, relating to both masses and classes, Kondaveeti Donga remains one of the best movies in the Telugu film history. The movie was later dubbed in Tamil as "Thangamalai Thirudan".
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Raja(Chiranjeevi) goes to town for higher studies with the donation of people living in a tribal village. He returns back to his village after the studies. He then finds the sufferings of his people and how they are cheated local heads (Rao Gopal Rao and Mohanbabu).He then fills confidence in his men and tells them that they should face these illegal in the court of law. But this duo makes the villagers fools and Raja's attempts goes in vain. Few villagers get hurt by this act suicide as they have no other option and the blame is on Raja as he has forced them. Sametime Raja is selected for IAS but he rejects it and decides to fight against the villains and changes to a Robinhood avatar and names himself as Kondaveti Donga. He punishes the illegal and stands by the villagers thus all his folk starts admiring him. Trouble starts when the villains start doing mischief in the name of him. Vijayasanthi is an inspector comes to his place to catch hold of him. Radha her sister, working as a doctor knows his true identity and starts loving him. How this kondaveti donga punished the fruad people or is he caught by the police or what happens to him forms the rest of the story.
Release date: 9/3/1990
Banner: Sri Vijayalaxmi Art
Lead: Chiranjeevi, Vijayashanti, Radha
Producer: T Trivikrama Rao
Director: A. Kodandarami Reddy
Music: Ilayaraja
Dialogues: Yandamuri Veerendranadh
Camera: V S R Swamy
Perhaps the most famous scene in the movie is that of a dance-tribute of sorts to Michael Jackson, to a Telegu version of Thriller. YouTube user Mike Sutton under the alias of Buffalax subtitled the video according to what he felt it sounded like in English. Sutton is known to have dubbed other videos in the same manner, dubbed "Buffalaxing", before his account was terminated due to copyright violations.
Jeevithame oka ata, Shubaleka rasukunna and several other songs from the film were also very famous.