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Chandralekha is a film of genre Drama directed by Krishna Vamsi with Akkineni Nagarjuna
Chandralekha (1998)
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Add to a movie listChandralekha is a 1998 Telugu film, produced by Akkineni Nagarjuna and V. Ram Prasad on Great India Enterprises banner, directed by Krishna Vamsi. Starring Nagarjuna Akkineni, Ramya Krishna and Isha Koppikar in lead roles and music composed by Sandeep Chowtha . This is the second combination of Nagarjuna-Vamsi-Chowtha after Ninne Pelladatha. Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt made a special appearance for the first time in a Telugu film. This film is a remake of Mohanlal starred Malayalam film Chandralekha directed by Priyadarshan.
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Sitarama Rao alias Seeta (Nagarjuna Akkineni) is a struggling unemployed youth who arrives in Hyderabad to meet his sister (Jhansi) and brother-in-law (Tanikella Bharani), his father has been falsely implicated in a bank fraud and wants to sell his ancestral property to pay towards the litigation, for that he needs his sister's approval but is rebuked and banished by his brother-in-law. Disillusioned, Seeta seeks out his old school mate Tirupathi (Brahmaji), who is working in a fruit juice vending shop in Hyderabad. Tirupathi himself is a hapless uneducated youth working for his uncle (Rallapalli), who is a treacherous money lender, with a hope to marry his daughter Bangari (Priya). They plan to open a cool drink shop but need 1.25 lakh Rupees to rent a shop as a prerequisite to getting a bank loan. With no other way in sight, the two of them swindle Tirupathi's uncle out of 1.25 lakh Rupees. Seeta then tries to get the loan sanctioned, but he is rebuffed by a new Bank manager (M. S. Narayana) who had taken charge by then.Actors
Akkineni Nagarjuna
(Sitarama Rao / Raj Kapoor)
Ramya Krishnan
(Chandra)
Isha Koppikar
(Lekha)
Chandra Mohan
(Pandu)
Sanjay Dutt
(Raj Kapoor)
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