Tirumala Tirupati Venkatesa

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Tirumala Tirupati Venkatesa
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Directed byE. Sathibabu
Written byPinapaka Krishna Prasad
(Dialogues)
Screenplay by E. V. V. Satyanarayana
Story by Rama Narayanan
Based on Thirupathi Ezhumalai Venkatesa (Tamil)
Produced byChanti Addala
Sreenivasa Reddy
Starring
Music by Vandemataram Srinivas
Production
company
Friendly Movies
Release date
  • 21 December 2000 (2000-12-21)
Running time
146 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageTelugu

Tirumala Tirupati Venkatesa is a 2000 Indian Telugu-language comedy film directed by E. Sathibabu, an assistant to E. V. V. Satyanarayana. The film is a remake of the Tamil film Thirupathi Ezhumalai Venkatesa (1999) and stars Srikanth, Ravi Teja, Bramhanandam, Roja, Maheswari and Kovai Sarala. The film was produced by Chanti Addala and Sreenivasa Reddy and released on December 21, 2000. The original story itself is based on Shakespeare's play Taming of the Shrew .

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Plot

Tirumala, Tirupati and Venkatesa are poor friends who want to become rich at any cost. Kota, a bungalow watchman, has three daughters: Lalitha, Padmini and Ragini. When the owner left the bungalow on vacation, Kota's daughters move into the bungalow. Afterwards, Kota rents his owner's top portion bungalow to Tirumala, Tirupati and Venkatesa who lied about their job. The three men eventually marry the three women. The rest of the story is how the three men will manage their wives.

Cast

Production

The film's pooja was held on August 2, 2000 at Ramanaidu Studios. Principal photography commenced on September 15 and ended on October 30. [1] A devotee of Lord Venkateswara filed a complaint about how the film's title demeaned the god. Chanti Addala, the film's producer organized a press meet where he talked about how the film was not a devotional film but solely a film for entertainment. [2]

Soundtrack

Music composed by Vandemataram Srinivas. [3] The song "Paisa Paisa" was reused from "Aasai Aasai" from original Tamil film.

Track list
No.TitleLyricsMusicArtist(s)Length
1."Abbo Na Bandar Laddu"Ghantala Krishna Vandemataram Srinivas Sukhwinder Singh, Swarnalatha, Sunitha Upadrashta 4:16
2."Jhanak Jhanak"Sankarambadi SundarachariVandemataram Srinivas Udit Narayan, Anuradha Paudwal 4:55
3."One by Three"Sankarambadi SundarachariVandemataram Srinivas S. P. Balasubrahmanyam 4:54
4."Nadumu Ompulo"Sankarambadi Sundarachari Vandemataram Srinivas Rajesh Krishnan, K. S. Chithra 4:19
5."Paisa Paisa"Ghantala KrishnaVandemataram Srinivas S. P. Balasubrahmanyam 4:21

Reception

A critic from Sify wrote, "The 400-year old Shakespeare's play Taming of the Shrew still inspires filmmakers and this time three shrews are tamed by their hubbies in Tirumala Tirupati Venkatesa. The first-half is truly hilarious while the second half is stretched a bit too far deserving a trimming". [4] A critic from Full Hyderabad opined, "Since even this tedium is packaged with a comic touch, it is not unbearable either. It is just one of those regular run-of-the-mill comedies that we have seen before". [5] A critic from indiainfo.com wrote, "The only highlight of the movie is Brahmanandam's superb performance". [6] [7]

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