Thammudu

"Thammudu"( _te. తమ్ముడు) is a superhit Telugu film which released on July 15, 1999 and written and directed by P.A. Arun Prasad. The film stars Pawan Kalyan, Preeti Jhangiani, Aditi Govitrikar, Achyuth, Chandra Mohan, Mallikarjuna Rao. Music by Ramana Gogula was a chartbuster.

Plot

Subrahmanyam (Pawan Kalyan),who is fondly called as Subbu by everyone prefers to be called as Subhash. A spoiled college brat, subbu hangs around with a bunch of friends of similar nature. Janaki(Preeti Jhangiani), is his neighbour and also his childhood friend. She secretly loves Subbu, but never reveals it. Subbu's elder brother, Chakri(Achyut) and his father runs a canteen in which malli(Mallikarjun Rao) is a cook. Chakri, representing govt. college, practices kickboxing to participate in the intercollege competition, but is defeated by rival, Rohit from Model college. Subbu's gang and his govt. college mates are looked down cheaply by Model college's Rohit and gang and are insulted often. Subbu plans to teach them a lesson and tries every trick to woo Lovely(Aditi), who is a new entry into model college.

Subbu pretends as the lone son of a multi-millionaire and wins over lovely's heart by presenting her a diamond ring on valentines day. He borrows money from janaki for this. Lovely realizes subbu's true identity through rohit and ditches him. Janaki's father(Chandra Mohan) blames Subbu's father for the money borrowed. His father gets sick of his misdeeds and kick him out of his house. Chakri tries to talk subbu out of his problems, and while returning home is attacked by rohit and his men. Chakri lies in hospital and is declared unfit to compete in kickboxing competition. Subbu realizes the truth behind Chakri's incident and decides to participate in kickboxing competition. But chakri's guru refuses to train subbu, as he suspects Subbu's integrity. Subbu manages to convince his guru and learn kickboxing with all his energies concentrated. He wins over Rohit and also everyone's heart again.

Box-office

*The film was silver-jubilee hit;running for 50 days in 61 centres;100 days in 25 centres and 175 days in 1 centre. [http://www.idlebrain.com/research/anal/anal-jubilee.html]

Trivia

He has a Black Belt in Martial Arts and did very dangerous stunts and martial arts in this movie by his own.

It is because of this film he is foundly called as powerstar by his fans.

This film is loosely based on the 1989 English movie Kickboxer (film)

This film is highly influenced from 1992 Hindi movie Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikandar in which the main lead was played by Aamir Khan