Suryavamsam (1998 film)

Suryavamsam
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Directed by	Bhimaneni Srinivasa Rao
Written by	Marudhuri Raja (dialogues)
Screenplay by	Bhimaneni Srinivasa Rao
Story by	Vikraman
Produced by	R. B. Choudary
Starring	Venkatesh Meena Radhika Sanghavi
Cinematography	Y. Mahendra
Edited by	Gautham Raju
Music by	S. A. Rajkumar
Production company	Super Good Films
Release date	25 February 1998 (1998-02-25)
Running time	163 minutes
Country	India
Language	Telugu
Box office	11.75 crores

Suryavamsam is a 1998 Telugu film directed by Bhimaneni Srinivasa Rao and produced by R. B. Choudary on Super Good Films. Starring Venkatesh, Meena, Sanghavi and Radhika in the lead roles and soundtrack is composed by S. A. Rajkumar. The film is a remake of the Kollywood film Suryavamsam (1997). The film was remade into Bollywood as Sooryavansham starring Amitabh Bachchan and Soundarya. This story is also remade in Kannada as Surya Vamsha (2000) with Vishnuvardhan and Isha Koppikar in lead roles. The film recorded as Blockbuster at box office.

Plot

Harischandra Prasad (Venkatesh), the arbitrator and most respected person in a village, sees through that all the people live happily. He has a strong enmity to Singaraju Lingaraju (Anand Raj) and vice versa. He is the only opponent to him in the village. Harischandra has a big family with his wife Vasundhara (Radhika); three sons Ravi Prasad (Vinod), Divakar Prasad (Maharshi Raghava), and Bhanu Prasad (Venkatesh); a daughter Shanti; two daughters-in-law; and two granddaughters. Harischandra dislikes his third son Bhanu because of him being illiterate, but Bhanu is a devoted and benevolent son to his father. Bhanu has to do menial household work and has substantially no kinship with family.

Swapna (Meena) arrives for her brother's wedding to Bhanu's sister. In the beginning, she thinks Bhanu is a servant and looks down on him. After some time, she knows the fact and asks Bhanu's friend Nukaraju (Sudhakar) what actually happened. Then he reveals Bhanu's past. Bhanu's childhood love Madhavi (Sanghavi) turns him down and attempts to commit suicide to escape from being married to him as she does not want to unite with an illiterate man. To prevent any misunderstandings, Bhanu declared that he was not interested in Madhavi and earned his father's wrath. After listening to Bhanu's story, Swapna falls in love with him. Even though Bhanu isn't interested initially, eventually he accepts her love.

Meanwhile, Singaraju makes a plan to have Swapna marry his son. Bhanu breaks his plan, marries Swapna, and enrages both of their parents. They start living in the village outskirts. An event occurs in which Madhavi insults them, so Bhanu decides to grow up and prove himself. Swapna teaches him reading, writing, and some arithmetic, while she pursues her own, I.A.S. studies. In due of time with hard work, Bhanu Prasad gradually becomes one of the biggest businessmen in town and Swapna the District Collector. They have a fine young son, Junior Harischandra Prasad (Master Anand Vardhan). At one point, Madhavi requests Bhanu to allow her husband to work in his factory, as his business is under loss.

Harischandra incidentally comes across his grandson, develops a secret friendly relation with him. Knowing this, Bhanu and Swapna also feel very happy. One day, Bhanu gives his son some canned Payasam (rice pudding) to be offered to his father. Eventually, Singaraju mixes up poison in it. Vasundhara comes to know about the secret meeting of Harischandra with his grandson and urges him to accept Bhanu back into their family. She praises Bhanu to be as valuable as a diamond. At the same,* Surya as Swathi's father time a serious malady apparently because of consuming the "Payasam" to Harischandra, he is hospitalized and Bhanu is suspected of attempting on his father's life.

At the hospital, when Singaraju and his men badly beat Bhanu, Harischandra arrives at his son's rescue. It is then when Harischandra declares that Singaraju had poisoned the "Payasam". A combat ensues between Harischandra and Singaraju until the latter confesses his guilt. Finally, Harischandra accepts Bhanu as his son, and the entire family is happily united.

Cast

• Venkatesh as Harischandra Prasad & Bhanu Prasad (Dual role)
• Meena as Swapna
• Sanghavi as Madhavi
• Radhika as Vasundhara
• Satyanarayana as Justice Dakshana Murthy
• Anandaraj as Singaraju Lingaraju
• Kota Srinivasa Rao as Major Yeddulayya
• Sudhakar as Gudimetla Nukaraju
• Ali as Devadasu
• Mallikarjuna Rao as Dr. Neecham
• Nutan Prasad as Judge
• P. L. Narayana as Narayana
• Raja Ravindra as Venu Gopal
• Maharshi Raghava as Diwakar Prasad
• Ashok Kumar as Drama director
• Banerjee as Inspector
• Varsha
• Kallu Chidambaram
• Bandla Ganesh
• Tirupathi Prakash
• Vinod as Ravi Prasad
• Jaya Bhaskar as SP
• Prasanna Kumar as Paidibabu
• Satti Babu
• Junior Relangi
• Gadiraju Subba Rao
• Chandra Mouli
• Satya Priya as Justice Dakshana Murthy's wife
• Sana as Ravi Prasad's wife
• Rajitha as Devakar Prasad's wife
• Annuja as Bus conductor
• Master Anand Vardhan as Junior Harichandra Prasad

Soundtrack

Music composed by S. A. Rajkumar. All songs are blockbusters. Music released on ADITYA Music Company.

Untitled

No.	Title	Lyrics	Singer(s)	Length
1.	"Rojave Chinni Rojave"	Shanmukha Sharma	Hariharan	4:14
2.	"Kila Kila Navve"	E.S. Murthy	Chitra, S.P. Balu	4:44
3.	"Adugo Maharaju"	Sirivennela Sitarama Sastry	S.P. Balu	4:22
4.	"Chukkalanni"	Sirivennela Sitarama Sastry	S.P. Balu,Sujatha	4:53
5.	"Jhalaku Jhalaku"	Bhuvanachandra	S.P. Balu, Swarnalatha	4:01
6.	"Rojave Chinni Rojave (F)"	Shanmukha Sharma	Chitra	3:55
Total length:				26:17

Remakes

Suryavamsam (1997) (Tamil)	Suryavamsam (1998) (Telugu)	Sooryavansham (1999) (Hindi)	Surya Vamsha (2000) (Kannada)
Sarath Kumar	Daggubati Venkatesh	Amitabh Bachchan	Vishnuvardhan
Devayani	Meena Durairaj	Soundarya	Isha Koppikar
Raadhika	Raadhika	Jayasudha	Lakshmi

Others

• VCDs and DVDs on - VOLGA Videos, Hyderabad

External links

• Suryavamsam at IMDb