Jai Chiranjeeva

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Jai Chiranjeeva
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Poster
Directed by K. Vijaya Bhaskar
Written byScreenplay:
K. Vijaya Bhaskar
Story & Dialogues:
Trivikram Srinivas
Produced by C. Aswani Dutt
Starring Chiranjeevi
Arbaaz Khan
Sameera Reddy
Bhumika Chawla
Cinematography Venu
Edited by Kotagiri Venkateswara Rao
Music by Mani Sharma
Distributed by Vyjayanthi Movies
Release date
  • 22 December 2005 (2005-12-22)
Running time
173 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageTelugu

Jai Chiranjeeva is a 2005 Indian Telugu-language action comedy film directed by K. Vijaya Bhaskar and produced by Vyjayanthi Movies. The movie stars Chiranjeevi, Arbaaz Khan, Sameera Reddy, and Bhumika Chawla. The film's music was composed by Mani Sharma with editing by Kotagiri Venkateswara Rao and cinematography by Venu. The film was released on 22 December 2005. The film was remade in Bangladesh as Ziddi Mama (2012), starring Shakib Khan, Apu Biswas and Rumana.

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Plot

Sathyanarayana Murthy is a rough but kind man living in Amalapuram with his niece Lavanya, mother, sister, and brother-in-law. Sathya and Lavanya share a special bond and are the best of friends. One day, Lavanya falls off a swing in a park and dies. Sathya discovers that she has been murdered by arms dealer Pasupathi, who resides in Los Angeles. Driven by the desire for revenge, Sathya wants to travel to the US but faces an obstacle as he is uneducated and unable to obtain a travel visa. However, he meets and falls in love with Shailaja along the way. Despite his feelings for Shailaja, Sathya ends up marrying Neelima, who holds a US green card, to use her status to gain entry into LA. The story continues to unfold as Sathya and Neelima travel to LA, where Sathya plans to carry out his mission of killing Pasupathi. The remaining plot develops around this premise.

Cast

Production

The film was launched on Ramanaidu Studios at 9 April 2005. [1] the team has erected a 60 feet idol of Hanuman designed by art director Anand Sai near Gachibowli specifically for the film which took 20 days to be completed. [2] The film's climax and one of the songs were shot in Los Angeles and on the Las Vegas strip, respectively.

Soundtrack

Soundtrack was composed by Mani Sharma. The audio was launched at Shilpa Kala Vedika on 14 November 2005. [3]

Jai Chiranjeeva
Studio album by
Released
14 November 2005 (India)
Genre Feature film soundtrack
Length30:58
LanguageTelugu
Label
Producer Mani Sharma
Mani Sharma chronology
Allari Pidugu
(2005)
Jai Chiranjeeva
(2005)
Ranam
(2006)

All music is composed by Mani Sharma [4]

Track list [4]
No.TitleLyricsSinger(s)Length
1."Jai Jai Ganesha" Chandrabose S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, Mallikarjun (Uncredited), Chorus5:43
2."Ko Ko Kodi" Bhuvana Chandra Udit Narayan, K. S. Chithra 5:03
3."Thumps Up Thunder" Sirivennela Seetharama Sastry Mahalakshmi Iyer, Nihal Konduri5:21
4."Thillana"Sirivennela Seetharama Sastry Shankar Mahadevan 4:48
5."Hey Jana"Chandrabose, Bhaskarabhatla KK, Chorus5:04
6."Maha Muddu"Sirivennela Seetharama Sastry Shreya Ghoshal, Karthik 5:06
Total length:30:58

Home media

The DVD of Jai Chiranjeeva was released by KAD Entertainment on February 7, 2006

Reception

Sify wrote "Jai Chiranjeeva offers very little by way of surprise and it is the one-man entertainment troupe called Chiranjeevi that salvages this uneven film". [5] Idlebrain wrote "First half of the film is satisfactory with entertainment. There is lag in the second half. [..] Climax should have been handled better. The plus points of the film are Chiranjeevi and comedy dialogues by Trivikram. On the flipside, the main revenge objective of hero was not efficiently projected". [6]

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