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Pandem
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Wikipedia article
'Pandem ' is a 2005 Indian Telugu-language romantic comedy film produced by Valluripally Ramesh Babu under the Maharshi Cinema banner and directed by Sabapathy Dekshinamurthy in his Telugu debut. It stars Jagapati Babu, Kalyani and music composed by Chakri. It was dubbed into Hindi as 'Mera Challenge'.
Plot
The film begins in a village where Seenu is a vagabond. Lingaraju has been the unanimously elected president of that village for the past 25 years, and is corrupt and behaves like a dictator to the village. Seeta, from the same village, is an elementary school teacher. Seeta is Seenu's childhood friend and falls in love with her at first sight. Seenu plays a lot of tricks and tactics to gain her love and affection. One day, Seenu learns that Seeta wants to marry someone in a better position than her.
Meanwhile, Lingaraju makes a contract deal with some business people, who want to construct a factory in the village, which is hazardous to the people. Simultaneously, it's time for elections in the town. Lingaraju is overconfident that he will be unopposed. But Seenu decides to stand in the election and become president of the village so that he could reach a superior position to Seeta and could marry her. In the beginning, no one supports him because he is irresponsible, but with Seeta's inspiration, he becomes altruistic and wins over the villagers, which Lingaraju could not do these long years. After seeing Seenu's following, Lingaraju hesitates, at the same time he learns his son Rajesh loves Seeta. So he makes a plan and arranges his son's engagement with Seeta, to demoralize Seenu. Even then, Seenu challenges Lingaraju that he would defeat him. The remaining story is how Seenu achieves both of his objectives.
Cast
* Jagapati Babu as Seenu
* Kalyani as Seeta
* Ramaraju as Lingaraju
* Ahuti Prasad as Satya Murthy
* M. S. Narayana as Surinarayana
* Kondavalasa as Jilla Rambabu
* Krishna Bhagawan as Muriki Appala Naidu
* Sivaji Raja as Abbulu
* Chinna as RMP Doctor
* Prudhviraj
* Ravi Varma as Rajesh
* Subbaraya Sharma as Villager
* Sarika Ramchandra Rao as Pamula Narsaiyya
* Chitram Basha
* Jeeva as Police Inspector
* Apoorva
* Mahathi as Pankajam
* Drasharamam Saroja as Saroja
* Lavanya
* Shobha Rani
* Sakhi
Soundtrack
Music was composed by Chakri.
Reception
Idlebrain rated the film 3.25 out of 5 stars and noted that "On the whole, 'Pandem' is a minimum guarantee film which you would never regret watching". 'Full Hyderabad' wrote that "But the script is nowhere near taut, and the individual moments of the film completely undo the potential of the plot".
References
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