Suswagatham

Suswagatham
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Directed by	Bhimaneni Srinivasa Rao
Produced by	R. B. Choudary
Written by	Chintapalli Ramana (dialogues)
Screenplay by	Bhimaneni Srinivasa Rao
Story by	Bala Sekharan
Starring	Pawan Kalyan Devayani
Music by	S. A. Rajkumar
Cinematography	Mahindar
Edited by	Gautham Raju
Production company	Super Good Films
Release dates	1 January 1998 (1998-01-01)
Running time	2:30:20
Country	India
Language	Telugu

Suswagatham (English: Welcome) is a 1998 Telugu romantic film produced by R. B. Choudary on Super Good Films banner, directed by Bhimaneni Srinivasa Rao. Starring Pawan Kalyan, Devayani in the lead roles and music composed by S. A. Rajkumar. The film is remake of Tamil Movie Love Today (1997). The film recorded as Super Hit at box office.

Plot

Ganesh (Pawan Kalyan), a college graduate, who had been following a college girl, Sandhya (Devayani), for the past four years; trying to express his love. Though Sandhya often had warned Ganesh not to follow her but he still does. Ganesh's frined Peter (Karan) introduces him to Sandhya's friend (Sadhika), who tries to help him with his love but fails. Ganesh, on his birthday, tries to express his love to Sandhya but was caught by her father, (Prakash Raj), who was a police officer who puts him away for harassing his daughter. Later Ganesh's father (Raghuvaran) bails him out. Ganesh's father goes to Sandhya's father with a marriage proposal for their children. But Sandhya's father rejects the proposal and tries take his daughter to Hyderabad, to his sister's house but changes his mind. But Ganesh thinks Sandhya was in Hyderabad and goes to search for her. Meanwhile Ganesh's father dies in road mishap disturbed after he witnesses a boy committing suicide cause his girlfriend left him. His friends desperately try to find his whereabouts, but they cannot trace him. Peter ends up performing the last rites for Ganesh's father. Ganesh arrives and gets heart broken that he could not even perform the cremation for his father.

At last, Sandhya realizes her love for Ganesh. She reveals her feeling for him and tells him that she loves him and wants to spend the rest of her life with him. But Ganesh rejects her love and tells her that he lost four years of his life and his father for her love and realizes it is not worth it. The next day, Sandhya is found to be standing at the bus stop, waiting for him to come. Meanwhile, Ganesh goes to attend his first interview suggested by his father.

Cast

• Pawan Kalyan as Ganesh
• Devayani as Sandhya
• Saadhika Randhawa as Kala
• Prakash Raj as Inspector Vasu Deva Rao Monark
• Raghuvaran as Dr. Chandra Shekar
• Karan as Peter
• Sudhakar as Shanmuka Sharma
• Tirupathi Prakash as Ekbal
• Bandla Ganesh as Gaidoda
• Venu Madhav
• Naveen as Naveen
• Sudha as Krishnaveni
• Varsha as Fathema
• Madhavi Sri
• Pavala Shyamala
• Y. Vijaya as Kala's mother

Crew

• Banner: Super Good Combines
• Producer: R.B. Choudary
• Director: Bheemaneni Sreenivasa Rao
• Music: S.A. Raj Kumar
• Story: Balasekhar
• Screenplay: Bheemaneni Sreenivasa Rao
• Editing: Gautham Raju
• Cinematography: Mahindra
• Dialogues: Chintapalli Ramana
• Music : S.A. Rajkumar
• Release date: 1 Jan 1998

Soundtrack

Music composed by S. A. Rajkumar helped the success of this film. Music was released by ADITYA Music Company.

Box office performance

This film is the first blockbuster of Pawan Kalyan and the movie ran for 175 Days in 16 centres. And this movie eventually made Pawan Kalyan as one of the big commercial hero in Tollywood after the existing top heroes.

Others

• VCDs and DVDs on - VOLGA Videos, Hyderabad

External links

• Suswagatham at the Internet Movie Database