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Wikipedia article
'Dongodu: Meesam Melesaada Anthe..!' is a 2003 Indian Telugu-language romantic comedy film directed by Bhimaneni Srinivasa Rao. The film features Ravi Teja and Kalyani in the lead roles. The music has been composed Vidyasagar. The movie released on 7 August 2003 was a decent success at the box office. This is a remake of the Malayalam film 'Meesa Madhavan' (2002).
Plot
The movie story deals with Madhava who becomes a thief in his childhood to feed the hunger of his sister and he continues to be a notorious thief in that village. There is one landlord called Naidu (Tanikella Bharani) who exploits the people around by unfair means. Rukhmini is the daughter of Naidu. Naidu also possesses the registration forms of Madhava's house with him because he gave loan to the father of Madhava at a very high interest rate. Madhava pretends to fall in love with Rukhmini so that he could get the registration forms of his house back. The Rest of the film is about how Naidu cooks a plan to convict Madhava in a theft which he has not done and how Madhava emerges as winner.
Cast
* Ravi Teja as Madhava
* Kalyani as Rukhmini
* Rekha Vedavyas
* Riyaz Khan as S.I.
* Tanikella Bharani as Naidu
* Brahmanandam as Sastry
* Sunil as Justice Chowdary
* Paruchuri Venkateswara Rao as Venkateswara Rao
* Uttej as Hanumanthu
* Chandra Mohan as Madhava's father
* M. S. Narayana
* Shakeela
* Pavithra Lokesh
* Varsha as Madhava's sister
* Uma
* Dharmavarapu Subramanyam as Naidu's assistant
* Jeeva
* Rajitha
* Duvvasi Mohan
Soundtrack
The soundtrack is composed by Vidyasagar. Lyrics are written by Sirivennela Sitaramasastri, Chandrabose, Bashasree and Bandaru Daanayya.
All songs are re-used from the Malayalam original, Meesha Madhavan except for "Meesala Gopala" which was re-used from "Panchangam Paarkathe" in 'Thavasi' and "Dum Dum Dum" from "Radhai Manadhil" in 'Snegithiye'.
Release
'The Hindu' gave a mixed review. 'Idlebrain' opined that "One fails to understand why Bheemineni has to buy the remake rights of such an out-of-place storyline and make it in Telugu".
References
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