America Alludu

<p>Raju, a doctor in Chicago, marries his ( ) Radha from the village. However, Radha is unable to adjust to the western lifestyle and frequently makes Raju uncomfortable. Due to a mistake made by Radha, a patient dies in Raju’s hospital. With this, Raju leaves Radha and goes back to India. Radha single handedly takes care of their child. How Radha wins back Raju’s heart forms the rest of the story. The rest of the cast consists of Chicago-based artistes: Mutyala Padmasri, Prasanna, Sujatha, Chowdary, John Jones, and Ron. The film was produced by Chicago-based Dr. Ramesh Babu Vemuri. He paid an advance to , who eventually could not do the film since he did not have a . Vemuri asked to direct the film since he was already in the United States on vacation with a different story and cast. Vasu’s acting role was initially supposed to be played by , but he did not have a passport. , who was in the United States for bypass surgery, was present at the film’s . The film was shot for fifteen days in the United States mostly in Ramesh and his friends’ houses and in the Chicago metropolitan area apart from , , Las Vegas ( ), Los Angeles ( and Hollywood), and Washington D. C. The climax shot in featured a car chase of three cars. Twenty backup cars were arranged for each car in case of an accident. While shooting at the , the film crew was asked to show their film permit, and since they did not have it, stills were taken and used in the film. The village scenes were canned in ten days in , India. The song “Naa Vaalujada Krishnaveni” was supposed to be shot in United States as per the story, but since and were busy and the shooting for this film exceeded the fifteen day period, the song was shot at in India. The music was composed by . All songs were written by except for “Tene Vennela Neeli Minnulaa” was written by Velcheru Narayana Rao. The song “Nee Vente Nenuntaa” is based on ‘s version of , and was the first Telugu song to be made in the United States and feature graphics. The film was expected to release at the end of March 1985, but was delayed to 7 June 1985. The film was a box office success and ran for a hundred days in ten theatres.</p>