Idiot (2002 film)
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| Directed by | Puri Jagannadh |
| Produced by | Puri Jagannadh |
| Written by | Puri Jagannadh |
| Starring |
Ravi Teja Rakshita |
| Music by | Chakri |
| Cinematography | Shyam K. Naidu |
| Distributed by | Vaishno Academy |
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| Country | India |
| Language | Telugu |
Idiot is a Telugu film which released on 22 August 2002 and was directed by Puri Jagannadh.[1] This film stars Ravi Teja and Rakshita in the lead roles.[2][3] This film was a big hit in 2002 . This is a remake of Kannada movie Appu which was also remade in Tamil as Dum in 2003, in Bengali as Hero in 2006 and in Bangladeshi as Priya Amar Priya in 2008[4] with Rakshitha reprising her role in all 3 south-indian versions.
Plot
Chanti (Ravi Teja) is the son of a head constable (Kota Srinivasa Rao). Chanti is a guy with carefree attitude. He is beaten by a rival gang at night and was rescued by a beautiful girl Suchitra or Suchi (Rakshitha). She pays his hospital bills and donates her blood. She is gone from the hospital by the time Chanti became conscious. When Chanti's friends tell him who rescued him, he starts loving her immediately for her good-heartedness though he did not see her. Suchitra later turns out to be the daughter of the city police commissioner Vipra Narayana (Prakash Raj).
Chanti meets Suchi in the college for the first time expresses his love. When she does not agree, he tries to tease her. She complains to her father, and he takes Chanti to the police station and severely beat him before being rescued by his father and his fellow constables. Even though Chanti is beaten by the commissioner, he becomes more adamant to win his lady love. He proposes to Suchi again in the college. She asks him to jump from the building. When he is ready to do so, she agrees to his love.
However her father is not happy about their relationship and ropes in some rowdies to amputate his leg. Suchi comes to know about this and runs to help him, but is met with an accident. Both of them gets admitted the same hospital and they unite there also. Suchi's father finally arranges marriage with another person, to which she openly opposes and tries to commit suicide. Chanti comes and rescues her, but her father still want to get her married to a man of his own choice. He also engage goons to kill Chanti. Chanti finally escapes all the troubles and meets to the Director General of Police to help him to marry his love. The DGP finally suspends the commissioner and arranges Chanti's marriage in the police station itself. Finally Chanti appears for Civil services and selected for IPS.
Cast
- Ravi Teja as Chanti
- Rakshita as Suchitra/Suchi
- Prakash Raj as Commissioner of Police
- Kota Srinivasa Rao as Venkata Swamy, Head constable
- Sangeetha as Chanti's mother
- Srinivasa Reddy as Chanti's friend
- Giri Babu as Police
- Jeeva as Police
- Ali as Motorcycle thief
Production
This is a remake of the Kannada film Appu directed by Puri Jagannath himself. This is the debut film for third son of Kannada Superster Rajkumar.[5] Puri Jagannath initially planned to make this movie in Telugu with Ravi Teja as hero first, however when he met Rajkumar and his family and explained the story, he was very much happy and wanted to immediately launch his son as hero with that story. Ravi Teja also agreed to wait.
References
- ↑ G. V. Ramana. "Telugu Cinema - Idiot - Review". idlebrain.com. GV. Retrieved 26 September 2016.
- ↑ Web master. "Idiot Cast and Crew". filmibeat.com. Filmibeat. Retrieved 26 September 2016.
- ↑ Kiran, Nadella. "Idiot movie review". movies.fullhyderabad.com. Retrieved 26 September 2016.
- ↑ http://www.deccanherald.com/content/38534/inspiration-remakes.html
- ↑ Chinnarayana, Pulagam. "ఇడియట్ చంటిగాడు లోకల్". sakshi.com. Jagati Publications. Retrieved 26 September 2016.
External links
- Idiot at the Internet Movie Database