Vyjayanthi Movies

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Vyjayanthi Movies
Company type Private
Industry Entertainment
Founded1974
Headquarters,
India
Key people
C. Aswani Dutt
Swapna Dutt
Priyanka Dutt
Products Films
Owner C. Aswani Dutt
Subsidiaries Swapna Cinema
Three Angels Studio
Website www.vyjayanthi.com

Vyjayanthi Movies is an Indian film production company established in 1974 by C. Aswani Dutt. It is one of the biggest film studios in Indian cinema producing prominently Telugu films. [1] Vyjayanthi Movies is especially known for its big-budget productions with top movie stars. [2] It is credited with producing some of the most iconic films in the industry. [3]

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Its subsidiaries, Swapna Cinema and Three Angels Studio, are run by Aswani Dutt's daughters, Swapna Dutt and Priyanka Dutt.

History

Founding

Original Logo of Vyjayanthi Movies Vyjayanthi Movies Old.jpg
Original Logo of Vyjayanthi Movies

Aswani Dutt started his film career as an executive producer for a black and white film directed by K. Viswanath. [4] He wanted to produce a film with his favourite actor N. T. Rama Rao (NTR) and approached him. [5] Named by NTR, Vyjayanthi Movies commenced production, under the proprietorship of Aswani Dutt with the successful film, Eduruleni Manishi in 1975. [2] The logo of the production house contains the image of NTR as Lord Sri Krishna, with a Sankha in his hand and Earth behind him.

Films and success

The production house went on to make films with the top most actors of Telugu cinema like NTR, ANR, Krishna, Sobhan Babu, Krishnam Raju, Chiranjeevi, and Nagarjuna. [6] Many of the films produced by Vyjayanthi Movies were directed by K. Bapayya and K. Raghavendra Rao.

Vyjayanthi Movies produced several Telugu films like Agni Parvatam (1985), Jagadeka Veerudu Athiloka Sundari (1990), Indra (2002) which were very successful at the box-office. Vyjayanthi Movies introduced popular actors like Jr. NTR, Mahesh Babu, Ram Charan, Allu Arjun, and Nara Rohit to the Telugu cinema.

Vyjayanthi Movies had a successful run until it hit a rough patch with Sakthi in 2011. After this, Aswani Dutt took a seven-year hiatus. He produced Mahanati in 2018 which became one of the highest grossing films of the year. [7]

Subsidiaries

Swapna Cinema

In 2014, Ashwani Dutt's elder daughter, Swapna Dutt, inherited Swapna Cinema from her father. Under this banner, Swapna and her sister, Priyanka Dutt produced Yevade Subramanyam . This was a big success story at the box office in 2015. In 2018, this banner produced a biopic on the late actress, Savitri. The biopic, titled Mahanati stars Keerthi Suresh, Dulquer Salmaan, Samantha Ruth Prabhu, and Vijay Devarakonda. It was critically acclaimed and highly successful at the box office.

Three Angels Studio

Aswani Dutt's younger daughter, Priyanka Dutt launched a new production house named Three Angels Studio in 2008. [8] She produced her first film, Baanam (2009), through this company and introduced Nara Rohit to Telugu Cinema. The film was critically acclaimed, but did not do well at the box office. She then produced the anthology film Om Shanti in 2010. It stars Nikhil Siddhartha, Kajal Aggarwal, Bindu Madhavi and Navdeep.

Early Monsoon Tales

Swapna Dutt and Priyanka Dutt ventured into web series with the Nithya Menen starrer Kumari Srimathi (2023). The series that premiered on Amazon Prime has garnered positive reviews with a 7.2 rating on IMDb. [9]

Shelved projects

After the success of Jagadeka Veerudu Athiloka Sundari (1990), Aswani Dutt wanted to do fantasy film highlighting the CGI. So a film titled Bhooloka Veerudu was started in the direction of Singeetam Srinivasa Rao with Chiranjeevi in the lead role. After completing two schedules, the project was shelved as they realised that they didn't have a proper story in hand and hence shelved the film. [10]

Ram Gopal Varma narrated a story to Aswani Dutt which he liked. Varma was making Daud at that time and felt that the shooting of Daud might be stalled due to Sanjay Dutt's legal issues. So Varma narrated the story to Aswani Dutt and Chiranjeevi which they liked. Aswani Dutt started the project with Chiranjeevi as the lead in the direction of Ram Gopal Varma. After Sanjay Dutt's release, the shooting of Daud resumed. Then Aswani Dutt realised that the storylines for these two films are similar. As he was not comfortable in doing a film which had the same storyline to another film, he stalled the project. [10]

Film production

Key
Denotes films that have not yet been released

Vyjayanti Movies

YearNameLanguageNotes
1975 Eduruleni Manishi Telugu
1978 Yuga Purushudu
1981 Guru Sishyulu
1983 Adavi Simhalu
1985 Agni Parvatam
1986 Brahma Rudrulu
1988 Aakhari Poratam
1990 Jagadeka Veerudu Atiloka Sundari
1992 Aswamedham
1994 Govinda Govinda
1998 Choodalani Vundi
1999 Rajakumarudu
Ravoyi Chandamama
2000 Azad
2001 Premakke Sai Kannada
2002 Company Hindi
Indra Telugu
2005 Balu ABCDEFG
Subhash Chandra Bose
Jai Chiranjeeva
2006 Sainikudu
2007 Chirutha
2008 Kathanayakudu
Kantri
2011 Shakthi
2018 Devadas
2019 Maharshi Co-produced with Dil Raju and Prasad V. Potluri
2022 Sita Ramam
2024 Kalki 2898 AD

Swapna Cinema

YearNameLanguageNotes
2001 Student No.1 Telugu
2014 Okato Number Kurraadu
2015 Yevade Subramanyam
2018 Mahanati
2021 Jathi Ratnalu
2022 Sita Ramam
2023 Anni Manchi Sakunamule

Three Angels Studio

YearNameLanguageNotes
2009 Baanam Telugu
2010 Om Shanti
2012 Sarocharu

Early Monsoon Tales

YearNameLanguageNotes
2023 Kumari Srimathi TeluguWeb Series Streaming on Amazon Prime

Raghavendra Movie Corporation, Siri Media Arts, and United Producers

(Aswani Dutt, Allu Aravind, and K. Raghavendra Rao) [10]

YearNameLanguageNotes
1996 Pelli Sandadi Telugu
1997 Mere Sapno Ki Rani Hindi
1998 Paradesi Telugu
Ninaithen Vandhai Tamil
2003 Pellam Oorelithe Telugu
Gangotri
Calcutta Mail HindiRemake of Choodalani Vundi
2004 Intlo Srimathi Veedhilo Kumari Telugu

Sri Priyanka Pictures

Release YearFilm NameLanguageNotes
1994 Subhalagnam Telugu

Roja Art Productions

Release YearFilm NameLanguageNotes
1983 Jaani Dost Hindi

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