Raja Kumarudu

Raja Kumarudu
Directed by	K. Raghavendra Rao
Starring	Preity Zinta Mahesh Babu
Release date(s)	28 June 1999
Country	India
Language	Telugu

Raja Kumarudu (Telugu: రాజ కుమారుడు) is a 1999 Telugu movie directed by K. Raghavendra Rao. It stars Preity Zinta and Mahesh Babu. In the movie Krishna made a guest appearance as the father of Mahesh Babu. Raja Kumarudu received positive reviews and was commercially successful.

Synopsis

Raj Kumar (Mahesh Babu) goes on holiday in Khandala and stays with his uncle Dhanunjay (Prakash Raj). He comes across Rani (Preity Zinta) and falls for her. However, he ends up teasing her and she begins to despise him. She is determined to avoid him, but he won't leave her alone. Raj Kumar saves Rani from some thugs, and she is impressed by his heroism. After spending some time together she begins to like him and eventually love him.

Unfortunately his uncle has made other plans for him: He reveals the past of the hero's parents and his family. He mentions the challenge that he made with his in-laws to get the hero married to his daughter. Complying to this, the hero informs the heroine that their relationship needs to end there.

Going with his uncle to the village for his uncle's daughter, to his joy he sees that it's none other than Rani.

The rest of the movie revolves around the plot that is woven by him and his uncle to gain the heroine's hand and re-uniting the uncle with his family. This is done in a fun, comical way.

Cast

• Mahesh Babu ... Raj Kumar
• Preity Zinta ... Rani
• Prakash Raj ... Dhanunjay
• Jaya Prakash Reddy ... Sarvarayudu
• Sumalatha ... Rajyalakshmi (Dhanunjay's wife)
• Krishna ... Krishnamurthy

Release

Raja Kumarudu released with 78 prints in 116 screens.

Box-office

The film had a 50-day run in 69 centres and a 100-day run in 44 centres Raja Kumarudu collected a share of Rs.10.51 crores from Andhra Pradesh. It was dubbed in Hindi as Prince No. 1 and in Tamil as Kaadhal Vennila.

External links

• Raja Kumarudu at the Internet Movie Database