Swetha Naagu

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Swetha Naagu
Directed bySanjeevi
Produced byCV Reddy
Starring
CinematographyDiwakar
Edited byLanka Bhaskar
Music by Koti
Production
company
CV Arts
Release date
  • 18 February 2004 (2004-02-18) [1]
Running time
145 minutes (Telugu)
123 minutes (Kannada)
CountryIndia
LanguagesTelugu
Kannada

Swetha Naagu is a 2004 Indian devotional horror starring Soundarya, Abbas, and Sarath Babu. The film was shot simultaneously in Telugu and Kannada with the latter version titled Shwetha Naagara. Both versions had a slightly different supporting cast. The Telugu version was partially reshot and dubbed in Tamil as Madhumathi. It is the last film for Soundarya before her death on 17 April 2004.

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Cast

Cast (Telugu)Cast (Kannada)Role (Telugu)Role (Kannada)
Soundarya Madhumathi
Abbas Praveen
Sarath Babu Shankar Reddy
Jaya Prakash Reddy Sarpararanya DhoraSarpa Kaadu Dhorey
Abhinayashree Naagini
Dharmavarapu Subramanyam Dwarakish Ashok Kumar
Mallikarjuna Rao Kunigal Nagabhushan Madhumathi's guardian
Sangeeta ShrideviMadhumathi's mother
Raghunatha Reddy Bank Janardhan Praveen's father
Brahmanandam Sanketh Kashi chief guest
Karunas Karibasavaiah bus conductor
Babloo Prithviraj shapeshifting snake dancer (cameo)
Anand tribal man

Telugu and Tamil versions

Kannada version

Production

The film was originally planned to be made simultaneously in Telugu and Tamil. [2] Many resources state that this was Soundarya's 100th milestone film and also her last proper film while still alive; she died two months later in that horrible helicopter crash and the latter had further two posthumous releases in the later part of the year. [3] A white snake from Meghalaya was used in the film. [2] Abbas who garnered acclaim with his debut in the Tamil film, Kadhal Desam was signed to play one of the leads in the film. [4] The film began production in mid-2003. [4]

Reception

Idlebrain gave the film a rating of two-and-three-quarters out of five and wrote that "Swetha Nagu is an average devotional film. And the USP (Unique Selling Point) is Soundarya". [3] A critic from Sify noted that "The first half of the film is interesting, but the film peters out in the second half. However the plus point of the film is Soundarya". [5]

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References

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  2. 1 2 "Wonderful white snake". The Hindu. 22 July 2003. Archived from the original on 26 September 2023.
  3. 1 2 "Telugu cinema Review — Swetha Naagu — Soundarya, Abbas — Sanjeevi — CV Reddy". www.idlebrain.com.
  4. 1 2 "Abbas receives mafia threat | undefined News — Times of India". The Times of India. 4 July 2003.
  5. "Review". Sify . 24 February 2004. Archived from the original on 13 October 2017.