Dongodu

2003 Indian film

Ravi Teja
Kalyani

CinematographyRamana RajuEdited byGowtam RajuMusic byVidyasagar

Release date

7 August 2003 (2003-08-07)

Running time

140 minutesCountryIndiaLanguageTelugu

Dongodu (transl. Thief) is a 2003 Indian Telugu-language romantic comedy film directed by Bhimaneni Srinivasa Rao. The film features Ravi Teja and Kalyani in the lead roles. The music has been composed Vidyasagar. The movie released on 7 August 2003 was a decent success at the box office. This is a remake of the Malayalam film Meesa Madhavan (2002).^[1]

Plot

The movie story deals with Madhava who becomes a thief in his childhood to feed the hunger of his sister and he continues to be a notorious thief in that village. There is one landlord called Naidu (Tanikella Bharani) who exploits the people around by unfair means. Rukhmini is the daughter of Naidu. Naidu also possesses the registration forms of Madhava's house with him because he gave loan to the father of Madhava at a very high interest rate. Madhava pretends to fall in love with Rukhmini so that he could get the registration forms of his house back. The Rest of the film is about how Naidu cooks a plan to convict Madhava in a theft which he has not done and how Madhava emerges as winner.

Cast

Ravi Teja as Madhava
Kalyani as Rukhmini
- Baby Malasri as young Rukhmini
Rekha Vedavyas
Riyaz Khan as S.I.
Tanikella Bharani as Naidu
Brahmanandam as Sastry
Sunil as Justice Chowdary
Paruchuri Venkateswara Rao as Venkateswara Rao
Chandra Mohan as Madhava's father
Dharmavarapu Subramanyam as Bhadram, Naidu's assistant
Uttej as Hanumanthu
Ali Madhava's friend
M. S. Narayana as Lawyer
Shakeela
Pavithra Lokesh as Bhadram's wife
Varsha as Madhava's sister
Uma
Jeeva
Rajitha
Duvvasi Mohan as Duvvasi
Surekha Vani as Rukhmini's mother

Soundtrack

The soundtrack is composed by Vidyasagar.^[2] Lyrics are written by Sirivennela Sitaramasastri, Chandrabose, Bashasree and Bandaru Daanayya. All songs are re-used from the Malayalam original, Meesha Madhavan except for "Meesala Gopala" which was re-used from "Panchangam Paarkathe" in Thavasi and "Dum Dum Dum" from "Radhai Manadhil" in Snegithiye.

Dongodu
Soundtrack album by Vidyasagar
Released	15 July 2003 (2003-07-15)
Genre	Film soundtrack
Label	Aditya Music^[3]
Producer	Rushita Sai

Track list^[4]
No.	Title	Lyrics	Singer(s)	Length
1.	"Kodi Munda"	Chandrabose	Shankar Mahadevan, Rimmi Tommy	4:16
2.	"Dum Dum Dum"	Sirivennela Seetharama Sastry	K. S. Chithra, Valisha Babji	4:49
3.	"Entha Panjesindee"	Sirivennela Seetharama Sastry	Hariharan, Sujatha Mohan	5:27
4.	"Sotta Buggala"	Basha Sri	Karthik, Swarnalatha	4:46
5.	"Donga Donga (Theme)"	Bandaru Danayya	Child Chorus	0:44
6.	"Meesalaa Gopalaa"	Basha Sri	Sri Vardhini, Udit Narayan	4:13
Total length:				24:17

Release

The Hindu gave a mixed review.^[1] Idlebrain opined that "One fails to understand why Bheemineni has to buy the remake rights of such an out-of-place storyline and make it in Telugu".^[5]

References

^ ^a ^b "Comic capers - HYDB". The Hindu. 10 August 2003. Archived from the original on 12 December 2023. Retrieved 19 August 2021.
^ "Chords & Notes". The Hindu. 11 August 2003. Archived from the original on 15 December 2021. Retrieved 15 December 2021.
^ "Audio release of Dongodu". Idlebrain. 29 July 2003. Archived from the original on 15 December 2021. Retrieved 15 December 2021.
^ "Dongodu". Spotify. Archived from the original on 1 December 2019. Retrieved 26 February 2021.
^ "Movie review - Dongodu". Idlebrain. 7 August 2003. Archived from the original on 15 December 2021. Retrieved 15 December 2021.