Gunde Jhallumandi
Gunde Jhallumandi is 2008 Telugu romantic drama film directed by Madan starring Uday Kiran, Aditi Sharma in the lead roles. Music is composed by M. M. Keeravani and the lyrics are penned by Siva Sakti Dutta and Chaitanya Prasad.
Plot
The film begins with Neelima, a student pursuing her bachelor's degree taking a strong decision to avoid boys who try to develop a relationship with her. She randomly selects a name, Rajesh and she announces the whole college that she is in love with Rajesh just to keep the boys at bay. She takes this decision because her elder sister Bhramaramba was cheated by a person named Munna in the name of love. She had to marry someone else at an early age and suffer because of that. So she does not want to become like her sister.Balaraju comes from a village to his sister's house in Hyderabad to study B.A, as it was a prerequisite for his village president post which he desperately want to win. He is a shy person and is treated badly by the fellow students. Initially Balaraju want to go back to his village but he wants to fight back. He meets Neelima in the college. He changes his style, and attitude with the help of Neelima and his six year old nephew. Though she talks to him frequently, she is cautious not to get too close with him. Sometimes she uses the name Rajesh just to avoid him. Balaraju also pretends that he is in love with another fictitious lady called Lavanya. After some time they come to know about their real feelings and start liking each other.
Suddenly a person by name Rajesh appears before Neelima and ask her to marry. She is surprised to see Rajesh whose name she just used to escape from boys who tries to befriend her. The rest of the film is about how Balaraju and Neelima unite.
Cast
- Uday Kiran as Balaraju
- Aditi Sharma as Neelima
- Ahuti Prasad as Neelima's father
- Madhumani as Neelima's mother
- Ajay as villain
- Dharmavarapu Subramanyam as English lecturer
- Venu Madhav as Rajesh, software engineer
- Surekha Vani as Balaraju's sister
- Srinivasa Reddy as Balaraju's friend
- Jaya Prakash Reddy
Production
Music
composed the music for this film. This album contains 8 songs. Chaitanya Prasad, who worked with Madan for his previous film Pellaina Kothalo penned the lyrics for all the songs except for one. The folk song "Pavada Kastha" was written by Siva Sakti Dutta, father of M. M. Keeravani.| No. | Song Title | Singer | Lyricist |
| 1 | "I Have a Boy Friend" | Nikitha Nigam | Chaitanya Prasad |
| 2 | "Gunde Jhallumandi" | Deepu, Ganga, Malavika, Chandra Teja | Chaitanya Prasad |
| 3 | "True Love" | M. M. Keeravani, Usha, Bhargavi Pillai | Chaitanya Prasad |
| 4 | "Pavada Kastha" | Jai Srinivas, Geetha Madhuri | Siva Sakti Dutta |
| 5 | "Idhi Adhe" | Krishna Chaitanya, Geetha Madhuri | Chaitanya Prasad |
| 6 | "Telusa Manasa" | Krishna Chaitanya, Geetha Madhuri | Chaitanya Prasad |
| 7 | "Nee Nuduti" | Geetha Madhuri | Siva Sakti Dutta |
| 8 | "Ila Endukoutondi" | M. M. Keeravani, Geetha Madhuri | Chaitanya Prasad |