Pournami (2006 film)

Pournami
Directed by	Prabhu Deva
Produced by	M.S. Raju
Written by	Pavan Kumar Paruchuri Brothers
Starring	Prabhas Trisha Charmy Rahul Dev Sindhu Tolani
Music by	Devi Sri Prasad
Cinematography	Venu
Edited by	Krishna Reddy
Production company	Sumanth Art Productions
Release dates	21 April 2006
Running time	167 minutes
Country	India
Language	Telugu

Pournami is a 2006 Telugu language film directed by choreographer-turned director Prabhu Deva. It stars Trisha, Prabhas, Charmy, Rahul Dev, and Sindhu Tolani.^[1] The movie had a lot of pre-release hype because of Prabhas and Trisha's earlier hit, Varsham. However, despite the huge cast, film couldn't perform well at box office. The film has been dubbed into Tamil^[2] as Pournami and in Hindi as Tridev - Pyaar Ki Jung.The film also dubbed into malayalam as Pournami^[3] The film was inspired from the 2001 Brazilian film Behind the Sun starring Rodrigo Santoro which in itself was adapted from an Albanian novel by Ismail Kadare.

Plot

Film starts in a distant past where a remote village in Andhra Pradesh suffers from a drought for a very long time. A woman(Veda Archana Sastry) from a traditional family comes forward to dance in a Lord Shiva's temple to appease Shiva to bless their village with rains. She dances for twelve days continuously before she dies if exhaustion. Finally they have rains and their long standing drought ends. From then they make it a tradition that a girl from that dancer's family should dance in Shiva's temple for every twelve years on that auspicious day.

Story comes to present day. Now they are expecting Pournami (Trisha), elder daughter of the family to dance on the occasion. But just before few months from the festival, she goes missing and everybody thinks that she eloped with someone.Then, everybody's attention turns to Pournami's younger sister Chandrakala (Charmy) to dance on the occasion but their father wouldn't agree. Later it would be revealed that Pournami hasn't eloped but her father sent her away to protect her from their village Zamindar who wants to make Pournami his concubine. He fears that same fate might befall on Chandrakala, so he wouldn't agree to teach her dancing.

Meanwhile Chandrakala's stepmother rents their pent house to Siva Kesava (Prabhas), a Western-style dance instructor. After some fights Chandrakala develops feelings on Kesava, but he doesn't reciprocate. Slowly he reveals the flashback, where he and Pournami married and Pournami dies in an attempt to save his life. She tells him her dying wish that her sister should dance in the temple to save the tradition. He promises her that he would make it happen.

After knowing this, Chandrakala agrees to learn dance with her father's blessings. Kesava promises them that he would protect her from Zamindar, and he saves her when Zamindar tries to abduct her. She tries hard and becomes a skilled dancer in a very short time. Finally, she performs ardently in the temple and again their village get blessed with rains. After some drama involving the Zamindar and Kesava's fiancee, finally Chandrakala and Kesava become one.

After few years, their daughter doesn't want to learn the dance. Film ends with Kesava narrating the tradition to their daughter in that temple.

Cast

Trisha Krishnan was selected as lead heroine marking her second collaboration with Prabhas.

Crew

• Director: Prabhu Deva
• Screenplay: M.S. Raju
• Story: M.S. Raju
• Dialogue: Paruchuri Brothers
• Producer: M.S. Raju
• Music: Devi Sri Prasad
• Cinematography: Venkat Prasad
• Editing: K.V. Krishna Reddy
• Stunts: Peter Hein
• Choreography: Prabhu Deva
• Lyrics: Sirivennela
• Playback Singers: K. S. Chithra, S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, Srinivas, Sumangali, Tippu, Shaan, Gopika Poornima, Sagar

Music

The music and background score was composed by Devi Sri Prasad and lyrics were penned by Sirivennela Sitaramasastri.

References

External links

• Pournami at the Internet Movie Database