5th December 2002

A press meet was arranged for the film Manmadhudu at Annapurna studios on 5th December 2002. This meet was attended by Nagarjuna Akkineni (Producer and hero), K Vijaya Bhaskar (director) and the representative of Sohan Music Company.

Nagarjuna told that audio of the film Manmadhudu would be releasing in the market on 7th of December (as mentioned in idlebrain.com news today section on 1st December) and movie is releasing on 20th of December. However Nagarjuna opined that the gap of 13 days between audio and movie release is sufficient as songs are catchy and would grab the pulse of public in the first hearing itself. 3 lakhs of cassette and 30,000 units of CDs would be released in the first bunch by Sohan Music on 7th of December. Speaking about the music, Nagarjuna told that Devi Sri Prasad has done a wonderful job. Nagarjuna told that he preferred to give audio rights to a relatively new company like Sohan because they offered a pretty good deal not only in terms of money but also their foolproof mechanism to prevent audio piracy. He however opined that not a single hero or an audio producer can eradicate piracy and its there is the hands of the government to find the root cause and eliminate the piracy and pirates. He also requested the press to give more coverage on audio/video piracy related matters. Talking about the future projects Nagarjuna mentioned that he has three films lined up for him in combinations of VN Aditya - Siva Prasad Reddy, Poori Jagannath - Balaji Arts and Jayant - Jayabheri (as mentioned in idlebrain.com news today section on 14th November). Nagarjuna would be completed Manmadhudu work by 12th of December and then he would have sufficient time to sit with these directors to finalize the story.

Vijaya Bhaskar said that all songs come as a part of story narration and if one listens to the lyrics and beat of the songs, one can understand the part of the storyline and the mood of the film. He said that Sirivennela has written all the songs in this film and there is one particular love song that talks about the first meeting of hero and heroine, for which Sirivennela has gone an extra mile to coin new words and lyrics for the expression of love. Vijaya Bhaskar told that shooting of the entire film is completed except for the hero's introduction song that goes like 'Don't Marry! Be Happy!!'. He said that the film starts with this song that shows the attitude and feelings of hero towards women and the rest of the story is all about how his hatred towards women gradually goes down. He also said that Sonali Bendre is a thorough professional and she learnt all her Telugu dialogues to make sure that lip sync is intact with that of the girl who is dubbing for her.

The Sohan Music representative thanked Nagarjuna for giving rights to a relatively newcomer like him and explained that they are duplicating all the units in one place so that piracy could be prevented (Cassettes are done in Bangalore and CDs are done in Singapore) unlike other audio companies which duplicates the audio in 5-7 different places to save time. Otherwise the audio would have been ready by 1st of December.

Click here for Manmadhudu Guide

Cast and Crew Information:

Cast: Nagarjuna Akkineni, Sonali Bendre, Anshu, Chandra Mohan, Tanikella Bharani, Brahmanandam, Sunil, Balayya, Ranganath, Jaya Prakash Reddy, Dharmavarapu Subramanyam, Ananth, Melkote, Sudha & Swapna Madhuri

Story - Dialogues: Trivikram
Music: Devi Sri Prasad
Songs: Sirivennela Seetarama Sastry, Bhuvana Chandra
Art: V Srinivasa Raju
Choreography: Raja Sekhar, Raju Sundaram, Shankar
Cinematography: Sameer Reddy
Editing: Sreekar Prasad
Co-director: B Subbarao
Producer: Nagarjuna Akkineni
Screenplay - Direction: K Vijaya Bhaskar