Choodalani Vundi

<p>Ramakrishna ( ) is a mechanic in whose life changes when he meets Priya ( ) at a train station. She sees him and feels some inexplicable connection, and then runs away with him to flee her father Mahendra’s ( ) gangsters. They end up living in the forest with their son, but Mahendra, who is an underworld don, kidnaps her so that he can marry her off to another don’s son. Ramakrishna confronts Mahendra, and in the ensuing struggle, Priya takes the bullet shot at Ramakrishna and dies. Their son loses his voice because of the shock, and Ramakrishna is imprisoned because the police have been corrupted by Mahendra, who is running a . Mahendra kidnaps the boy and takes him to , where the story started. Ramakrishna, with the help of Padmavathi ( ), whom he falls in love with, reunites with his son, and kills Mahendra. After (1997), Gunasekhar wrote as his next film which impressed Aswini Dutt and decided to produce it. The fans of Chiranjeevi initially had mixed feelings since Chiranjeevi and Aswini Dutt was supposed to do a film with which got shelved and the film’s director Gunasekhar was a young director. The scene where Chiranjeevi conveys his love to Anjala Zaveri at a railway station was shot at . A set resembling a large apartment complex in Calcutta was built at . The same location was used to build a Varanasi street set for Vyjayanthi Movies’ next collaboration with Chiranjeevi, (2002). The title was suggested by Chiranjeevi. The soundtrack and score were composed by . The film’s single, written by with the vocals of , is a rendition of ‘s composition . The song depicts the culture and beauty of the city of . Giddaluri Gopalrao of gave a positive review for the film. He praised Chiranjeevi for picking up a new theme and Gunasekhar for executing it. Christopher Domingo of opined that ” is an entertaining masala movie that is worth watching”. The film became a commercial success and had a theatrical run of 100 days. The film was dubbed into under the title and twice in Hindi as in 2005 and 2018.</p>