Venky

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Venky
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Directed by Srinu Vaitla
Written bySrinu Vaitla
Kona Venkat
Gopimohan
Produced by Atluri Purnachandra Rao
Starring Ravi Teja
Sneha
Ashutosh Rana
Cinematography Prasad Murella
Edited by Marthand K. Venkatesh
Music by Devi Sri Prasad
Production
company
Lakshmi Productions
Distributed byLakshmi Productions
Release date
  • 26 March 2004 (2004-03-26)
Running time
170 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageTelugu

Venky is a 2004 Indian Telugu-language comedy thriller film co-written and directed by Srinu Vaitla, and produced by Atluri Purnachandra Rao. The film stars Ravi Teja, Sneha, and Ashutosh Rana while Devi Sri Prasad composed music. The film marks Vaitla's first collaboration with writers Kona Venkat and Gopimohan.

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Released on 26 March 2004, the film was a Super hit at the box office. [1] Venky re-released on 30 December 2023 and has garnered a cult fanbase among Telugu audience. [2]

Plot

Venkateswarlu "Venky" is a wayward youth from Vizag. After several unsuccessful attempts of finding employment, Venky and his friends Suri, Ramana and Bujji, luckily clear a police recruitment test, and they are selected for SI training. They travel to Hyderabad on Godavari Express train to attend the training. Venky meets Sravani on the train and instantly falls for her. He proposes the same to her, but she harshly rejects the proposal. Furious Venky threatens to murder Sravani's father Prasad Rao and a lady co-passenger, in a state of inebriation. To their astonishment, both of them are found dead the next morning.

Venky and his friends quickly escape from there. On a belief that the police academy is the only safe haven for them, they join the training immediately. The academy chief Yogendra Kumar Sharma is a very strict officer and a close friend of ACP Bharath, who is assigned to investigate the train murders case. In order to escape the scrutiny, they enter Sharma's office at night to tamper with the date of their arrival, but they find that Sharma himself is responsible for the murders. They learn that Sharma is after Prasad Rao's camera and Sravani would also be killed. Venky saves Sravani and keeps her in an old building behind their academy.

Later, they overhear that Bharat has found Venky's camera as evidence and its reel is given for development. They head to the studio beforehand and retrieve those photos. Upon looking at them, Venky finds out that Gajala, who introduced himself as a software engineer is actually a thief. They track him down and enquire about Prasad Rao's camera, but he lies that he had already sold it. Sharma soon finds out that Venky and his friends are after him, where he publicizes their names in the media and pressurizes their parents so that they would turn themselves in. He also finds out about Sravani's hideout and attacks her but she escapes.

Venky and Sharma make a deal to hand over Prasad Rao's camera which he doesn't honour. Gajala sees an opportunity and calls Sharma to make a deal in exchange for the camera, but Venky takes away the camera from him. With the camera, they learn that Prasad Rao recorded Sharma murdering a senior officer Sarath Kumar IPS as he wanted to escape from a fake stamp case. Prasad Rao unknowingly calls Sharma to report the murder unaware that Sharma himself is the real murderer. He comes to their home to take the camera but Sravani and her father escape to their village on seeing him in their apartment building.

Unaware that Sharma is the real murderer, Prasad Rao gives away their berth numbers and Sharma sends his hitman to kill them. The hitman murders him and a lady who slept on Sravani's berth. Sharma's henchmen attack them for the camera but Venky fights them off. Sravani seeks the Governor's appointment to directly submit the camera as evidence. Sharma tries to shoot them but is caught red-handed in front of the Governor. Venky and his friends are honored & awarded medals by the DGP(Suman) in appreciation of their bravery.

Cast

Cameo appearances

Soundtrack

Venky
Soundtrack album to Venkyby
Devi Sri Prasad
Released17 February 2004
Recorded2004
Genre Soundtrack
Length28:50
Language Telugu
Label Aditya Music
Producer Devi Sri Prasad
Devi Sri Prasad chronology
Varsham
(2003)		Venky
(2004)		 Arya
(2004)

The music and background score was composed by Devi Sri Prasad.

All lyrics are written by Sahiti

No.TitleSinger(s)Length
1."Maar Maar" Manikka Vinayagam, Srilekha Parthasarathy 05:14
2."Gongoora Thotakada" Pushpavanam Kuppusamy, Kalpana 04:51
3."Silakemo" Palakkad Sreeram, Malathy Lakshman 04:43
4."O Manasa"Venu, Sumangali04:15
5."Anaganaga Kathala" Karthik, Sumangali05:05
6."I Love You O Sravani" Mallikarjun, Kalpana 04:42
Total length:28:50

Reception

A review from Sify opined that Venky was a mishmash of three films, the Malayalam film No.20 Madras Mail and the American films Training Day and Police Academy. They added that the film failed to impress as it missed a "natural flow of one leading to another." [3] Idlebrain.com rated the film 3/5 appreciated the film for its humour but wrote the film falls flat as the suspense is revealed. [4]

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References

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  2. ↑ Sistu, Suhas (27 December 2023). "'Devil' to 'Mangalavaaram:' Here is the list of films releasing this week in theaters and OTT platforms". www.thehansindia.com. Retrieved 27 December 2023.
  3. ↑ "Venki". Sify . Archived from the original on 16 October 2021. Retrieved 5 May 2021.
  4. ↑ "Telugu cinema Review - Venky - Ravi Teja, Sneha - Seenu Vytla - Raasi - Devi Sri Prasad". www.idlebrain.com. Archived from the original on 26 September 2012. Retrieved 5 May 2021.
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