Manmadhudu

Manmadhudu
Produced by	Akkineni Nagarjuna
Written by	Trivikram Srinivas
Starring	Akkineni Nagarjuna Sonali Bendre Anshu
Music by	Devi Sri Prasad
Editing by	Sreekar Prasad
Distributed by	Annapurna Studios
Release date(s)	December 20, 2002
Language	Telugu

Manmadhudu (Telugu: మన్మథుడు) was 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. Akkineni Nagarjuna plays the role of a woman-hater.

Plot

Abhiram (Nagarjuna) is a manager in his own ad agency. He hates women and he feels that all women are traitors. Abhiram's uncle (Tanikella Bharani), who is the chairman of the ad agency, appoints Harika (Sonali Bendre) as an 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 Abhi's uncle, who then narrates Abhiram's flashback to Harika. Abhi is born with a golden spoon. He is 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 father takes her away to his home town and arranges engagement with another guy. Abhi travels all the way to the venue and takes Maheswari away. While traveling back, 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 a Manager and demotes Abhi as an Assistant Manager. The rest of the story is all about how Abhi falls in love with Harika.

Cast

Actor	Character
Akkineni Nagarjuna	Abhiram
Sonali Bendre	Harika
Chandramohan	Maheswari's uncle
Tanikella Bharani	Prasad
Brahmanandam	Lavangam
M. Balaiah	Abhiram's Grandfather
Anshu	Maheswari
Suneel	Bunk Seenu
Ranganath	Father of Harika
Sudha	Lakshmi
Dharmavarapu Subramanyam	Professor Balasubramaniam
Melkote	Sundar

Soundtrack

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

Song	Singer(s)	Duration	Lyricist
Don`t Marry	S.P.Balasubrahmanyam	5:40	Sirivennela Sitaramasastri
Gundello Emundho	Venu, Sumangali	4:38
Nenu Nenuga Lene	S. P. B. Charan	3:55
Na Manasune	S.P.Balasubrahmanyam, K. S. Chitra	4:06
Cheliya Cheliya	Shaan	4:14
Andhamaina Bhamalu	Devi Sri Prasad	4:18	Bhuvanachandra

Notes

The film's theme in the first half was inspired from Mel Gibson's What Women Want. In Manmadhudu, Abhi installs spy microphones to watch his office staff. In What Women Want, Nick gets the ability to listen women's thoughts after a small accident.

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. The What Women Want story is just about 5 minutes and used as a slapstick scene.

Box office performance

• The film collected a share of nearly Rs. 15 crore in 75 days after its theatrical release.[1]

References

• Manmadhudu at the Internet Movie Database
• Manmadhudu at TeluguComedy.com
• http://www.idlebrain.com/movie/coming/manmadhudu.html
• http://www.raaga.com/channels/telugu/movie/A0000260.html
• http://www.telugufm.com/modules/music/moviedetail.aspx?mid=10143

External Links

• Manmadhudu Film At Basthi.com