April 1 Vidudala

April Vidudala
Directed by	Vamsy
Produced by	P Bhaskar Reddy
Written by	L.B. Sriram (dialogues)
Screenplay by	Vamsy
Story by	Vamsy
Starring	Rajendra Prasad Shobhana
Music by	Ilayaraja
Cinematography	M. V. Raghu
Edited by	Uma Sankar Babu
Production company	Poorna Teja Creations & Sravanti Movies (presents)
Release dates	1 February 1991 (1991-02-01)
Running time	146 min
Country	India
Language	Telugu

April 1 Vidudala is a 1991 Telugu, Comedy film produced by P.V.Bhaskar Rao on Poorna Teja Creations banner and directed by Vamsy.^[1] Starring Rajendra Prasad, Shobhana in the lead roles and music composed by Ilayaraja.^[2] The film recorded as Super Hit at box office. The film is remade as Tamil Movie Sathyavaan with Murali and in Kannada as Mr Harishchandra starring Mohan and Anu Prabhakar.

Plot

The story starts with Divakaram (Rajendra Prasad) coming late to video-shoot a marriage, where he sees Bhuvaneshwari and falls head over heels in love. He then gets a hold of Bhuvaneshwari's maternal uncle VP Jagannatham (Pradeep Shakti) and gets information about Bhuvaneshwari. He gathers that she respects only the people who are self-sufficient and straightforward. He also finds out that she is not married and is about to get transferred to Rajamundry (where he stays) soon. She works as a railway booking clerk. So Divakaram comes back to the Rajamundry and gets permission from the doctor (Shubha), who raises him as her foster child to use the front veranda in her house for his video shop. In order to secure the capital he uses all kinds of tricks. He blackmails Bhagyam (Jayalalita), cheats Chinna Rao (Mallikarjuna Rao) and claims a chit which he never was a member of, and so on. Finally starts the video shop. That's when Bhuvaneswari enters the scene. All the while Jagannatham writes him letters in her name making Divakaram assume that she is in love with him. Finally when she lands in Rajamundy he approaches for marriage. It's then that he realizes that he had been cheated by Jagannatham. Meanwhile, she finds out all of Divakaram’s mischief through the neighbours. To teach him lesson, she puts forward a deal that she would marry him only if he stays out of cheating, and does not utter a lie in a month. Divakaram goes for it.

Here we see all the problems of Divakaram gets into because of the deal he had with Bhuvaneshwari. He discloses the murder done by his friend. This enrages his friend who comes out of jail as there is no proof of his murder. In the climax his friend is killed and Divakaram goes to jail but is acquitted as Dr.Krupa Mani (Shubha) confesses to the murder as an act of self-defense and he comes back to win the hand of Bhuvaneshwari.

Cast

Divakaram (Rajendra Prasad): Goes to any extent to get his things done. He is sincere in his love and come what may, determined to keep his words to prove his love. In this process, he suffers in the end for his mischiefs in the past. He doesn’t have any intentions of harming any one with his acts. Rajendra Prasad far exceeds the expectations.

Bhuvaneshwari (Shobana): She works as a Railway Booking Clerk. She is very straightforward and doesn’t like any one to go against the rules. This we can see at the introduction scene of her, where she goes against the dowry. Her helping nature also establishes in the first shot. Also her intelligent and other qualities. She makes the deal with Divakaram to get rid of him. But finally falls in love with him seeing his sincerity.

Gopi Chand (Krishna Bhagavan): He is a friend of Divakaram. By the words of colony people and Divakaram we got to know about his business and he kills his friend when he refuses to marry his sister after running an affair with her. Finally he is killed in the hands of the doctor played by Shubha, for which Divakaram goes to jail.

Chinna Rao (Mallikarjuna Rao): He is in love with jayalalita, even though he is already married twice and he thinks he is a super star and wants to marry her. In that process gets cheated from Divakaram and finally when reformed Divakaram comes to give him the money he dies with heart attack due to the shock.

Neighbour (Y.Vijaya): Runs the chit fund company illegally. She in the greed of money gives loan to Divakaram and gets cheated and tries to take revenge on him. Sakshi Ranga Rao played her husband in the film. Divakaram dramatically cheats them with the Dubai TV.

Bhagyam (Jayalalita): Sexy siren without any exposure. She has an affair with the neighbour and has a son, she gets blackmailed because of this from Divakaram along with the neighbour.

V.P. Jagannatham (Pradeep Shakti): He is Bhuvaneswari`s Uncle. He is a bachelor and helps Divakaram to get married to bhuvaneshwari.

Dr. Krupa Mani (Shubha): She is a Doctor by profession and she rises Divakaram as her own son. She kills Gopi chand in order to save Divakaram.

And there are other characters like Rallapalli (as Sharma), Sakshi Ranga Rao (as Murthy), Jayavijaya (as Shobana’s mother), Kallu Chidambaram etc.

Crew

• Director: Vamsy
• Producer: Bhaskar Reddy.P
• Cinematography: Raghu M.V.
• Music Director: Ilaiyaraja
• Playback Singers: S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, K. S. Chitra and Mano^[3]
• Dialogues: L.B. Sriram

Soundtrack

The music is composed by maestro Ilaiyaraaja^[4] and lyrics are penned by Sirivennela Sitaramasastri and Vennelakanti. The song "chukkalu temmanna" was reused from Raja's own song "Chithirai Sevvanam" which was composed for Kaatrinile Varum Geetham.

Trivia

• The entire movie was shot within two weeks in just a single location.
• The character artist and comedian L.B. Sriram (who incidentally is the dialogue writer for the movie) appears in a lone scene as the barber.

References

1. ↑ "April 1st Vidudala (1991)"
2. ↑ Telugu Cinema Database
3. ↑ http://www.raaga.com/channels/telugu/moviedetail.asp?mid=a0000009
4. ↑ http://www.raaga.com/channels/telugu/moviedetail.asp?mid=a0000009

External links

• April 1 Vidudala at the Internet Movie Database