Mundadugu is a 1983 Telugu Drama film

Drama film

A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, infidelity, moral dilemmas, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, class divisions, violence against women...

 produced by D. Rama Naidu of Suresh Productions

Suresh Productions

Suresh Productions is a film production company founded by Dr. D. Ramanaidu. The production house of the company is Ramanaidu Studios which is located at Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India. Suresh Productions, is one of India’s largest film production companies with over 50 years of contribution to...

 and directed by K. Bapaiah.

It is remade in Hindi language in 1984 as Maqsad

Maqsad

Maqsad is a 1984 Hindi film directed by K. Bapaiah and starring Rajesh Khanna and Jumping Jack Jeetendra in the lead roles. This was the third straight movie with Rajesh and Jeetendra together in the lead roles. The film is a remake of the Telugu movie Mundadugu directed by K. Bapaiah and...

starring Rajesh Khanna

Rajesh Khanna

Rajesh Khanna is an Indian actor of from Hindi films, and has been Hindi film producer and an Indian politician....

, Jeetendra

Jeetendra

Jeetendra born Ravi Kapoor is an Indian actor and television producer...

, Jayapradha, Sridevi.

The Plot

Gummadi and Sivakrishna are brothers. Shivakrishna is a socialist and wanted to spend the property for the poor. Whereas Gummadi is very selfish. Their differences leads to the death of Sivakrishna with the help of Raogopal Rao, Allu and Chalapati Rao. Their children are Chakravarthi (Sobhan Babu) and Tilak (Krishna). Krishna joins as a worker in the company of Gummadi. Jayaprada is nephew of Gummadi loves Tilak. Chakravarthi loves Sridevi, daughter of a teacher in their company. The villains complaints on Tilak. The resulting conflict between Chakravarthi and Tilak finally leads to the revealation of their relationship and ends happily.

Cast

• Krishna Ghattamaneni as Balagangadhara Tilak
• Shobhan Babu as Chakravarthi
• Sridevi 
• Jayapradha 
• Kaikala Satyanarayana
  Kaikala Satyanarayana
  Kaikala Satyanarayana , a versatile Telugu cine actor, was born on 25 July 1935 to Kaikala Laxmi Narayana couple at Kautaram village in Krishna district. Having completed his primary and intermediate education in Gudivada and Vijayawada, Satyanarayana graduated from Gudivada College...
  
   as Kamaraju
• Rao Gopal Rao
  Rao Gopal Rao
  Rao Gopal Rao was a popular Tollywood Character actor and producer and member of Rajya Sabha.-Brief Lifesketch:Rao Gopal Rao was born in 1937 in Ganganapalli near Kakinada,...
  
   as Phanibhushan Rao
• Allu Ramalingaiah as Bhujangam
• Sivakrishna 
• Giribabu 
• Rajendraprasad
  Rajendra Prasad (actor)
  Gadde Rajendra Prasad Gadde Rajendra Prasad Gadde Rajendra Prasad (born 19 July 1956, is a Telugu film actor. He was born in a middle class family from Nimmakuru, Krishna District, Andhra Pradesh. He acquired an engineering (Ceramic Engineering) Diploma.Studied in Gudur Polytechnic at age of 19 ...
  
   
• Gummadi Venkateswara Rao
  Gummadi Venkateswara Rao
  Gummadi Venkateswara Rao popularly known as Gummadi was a popular Telugu film character actor. Though he began to act in films much later than famous artistes like N.T.Rama Rao and Akkineni Nageswara Rao he had through the course of his career acquired a niche for himself vis a vis the character...
  
   as Lawyer
• Nutan Prasad
  Nutan Prasad
  Nutan Prasad was a Tollywood actor. He started his film acting career in the early 1970s.-Career:Nutan Prasad started his acting career with the play "Naa Votu" in Guntur....
  
   as Dasu,
• Suryakantham
  Suryakantham
  Suryakantham Ponnada was an Indian actress in Tollywood.-Early life:Suryakantham was born in Kakinada of East Godavari district in Andhra Pradesh to a telugu Niyogi family. She was the 14th child to her parents, while ten children had died. She learnt dance and singing at a tender age of six...
  
   as wife of Bhujangam
• Annapurna
  Annapurna
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   as wife of Phanibhushan Rao
• M. Prabhakar Reddy

Soundtrack

Boxoffice

The film ran for more than 50 in all the released centers. It also ran for more than 100 days and celebrated Silver Jubilee

Silver Jubilee

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External Links

• Mundadugu 1983 film at IMDb.