Manmadhudu

Manmadhudu
Directed by	K. Vijaya Bhaskar
Produced by	Akkineni Nagarjuna
Written by	Trivikram Srinivas
Starring	Akkineni Nagarjuna Sonali Bendre Anshu Ananth
Music by	Devi Sri Prasad
Cinematography	Sameer Reddy
Editing by	Sreekar Prasad
Distributed by	Annapurna Studios
Release dates	December 20, 2002
Language	Telugu

Manmadhudu (Telugu: మన్మధుడు) is a 2002 romantic comedy Telugu film directed by K. Vijaya Bhaskar and has Akkineni Nagarjuna in the lead role. Sonali Bendre and Anshu play female leads. The film was later remade as Aishwarya in Kannada, marking the debut of Deepika Padukone.

Plot

Abhiram (Nagarjuna) is a manager in his ad agency. He despises women and feels that all women are traitors. Abhiram's uncle (Tanikella Bharani), who is the chairman of the ad agency, appoints Harika (Sonali Bendre) as the assistant manager. Though Abhiram does not like a girl joining his company, he has to live with it as the appointment is made by his uncle. He starts mistreating her. Harika, vexed by Abhiram's acts, submits her resignation to his uncle, who then narrates Abhiram's past to Harika.

Abhi was born with a golden spoon. He was raised by his grandfather (Balayya) as his parents died soon after the Abhi's birth. Abhi falls in love with Maheswari (Anshu), who is the niece of an employee (Chandra Mohan) in Abhi's grandfather's company. Alarmed by this, Maheshwari's uncle takes her away to his home town and arranges her engagement with another man. Abhi travels all the way to the venue and takes Maheswari away. While returning, they meet with an accident. After 10 days, when Abhi comes out of coma, he is told that Maheswari is about to marry some other guy. Shocked by this news, Abhi develops hatred towards women. After narrating the flashback, Abhi's uncle promotes Harika as the Manager and demotes Abhi to the post of Assistant Manager. Although Abhi resents this, he travels to Paris with Harika for a business venture. While there, he falls in love with her. Problems soon arise, and when they return, Harika is arranged to marry another man. However, Abhi realizes his true feelings for her at last, and they end up together.^[1]

Cast

• Akkineni Nagarjuna as Abhiram
• Sonali Bendre as Harika
• Anshu as Maheswari
• Chandramohan as Maheswari's uncle
• Tanikella Bharani as Prasad
• Brahmanandam as Lavangam
• M. Balaiah as Abhiram's Grandfather
• Suneel as Bunk Seenu
• Ranganath as Father of Harika
• Sudha as Lakshmi
• Dharmavarapu Subramanyam as Prof. Balasubramaniam
• Melkote as Sundar
• Swapna Madhuri as Swapna
• Rekha Vedavyas (Cameo)
• Keerthi Chawla (Cameo)

Soundtrack

The soundtrack of the film was composed by Devi Sri Prasad, with lyrics written by Sirivennela Sitaramasastri and Bhuvanachandra.

Remakes

The film was remade in kannada as Aishwarya with Upendra and Deepika padukone. It was also remaked in bengali Priyotoma with Jeet.

Notes

The film's theme in the first half was inspired by Mel Gibson's What Women Want. In Manmadhudu, Abhi installs microphones to spy on his employees' conversations. In What Women Want, Nick gets the ability to hear women's thoughts after a mishap.

In both films, the hero saves a woman in the office who tries to commit suicide. Nick tries on women's lipstick at home — Abhi does the same thing.

The film was appreciated for its slapstick comedy and Trivikram Srinivas's witty dailogues. The red sports car that Abhiram drives in the movie is a 1992 Nissan 300sx. This model was discontinued in 1994 and would have been an import. The movie has references to tehelka.com.

Box office performance

The film collected nearly 37 crore in 50 days during its theatrical run.it was box office blockbuster hit.It was the First Telugu movie to run 50 days in USA.. It ran in 30+ theaters for 100days.

References

1. ↑ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mf7sk4IydGo

• Manmadhudu at the Internet Movie Database