Panchadara Chilaka

<p>Kalyani, a college student, is deeply in love with her classmate Murali but struggles to express her feelings. Murali, unaware of her affection, mistakenly believes that Kalyani doesn’t likes him. Kalyani’s personal life is fraught with challenges, as her elder sister is entangled with a dangerous goon who now threatens Kalyani and her younger sister. This perilous situation prevents Kalyani from reaching out to Murali and confiding in him about her troubles, further complicating their relationship. The film was shot at and in March 1999. Some songs and scenes were also shot at Mahabalipuram. The music was composed by with lyrics by . The song “Anukunnana” is based on Rajkumar’s own tune “Azhaga Azhaga” from (1998). All lyrics are written by ; all music is composed by . Griddaluru Gopalrao of gave the film a negative review, criticising the plot and characterisations as illogical and insipid. He also criticised the direction of Kodi Ramakrishna, but noted that the music and lyrics were good. A critic from rated the film one out of five stars and wrote that “In a nutshell, the movie can be termed as one produced by the producer-director duo, who chose the theme during a period of mental imbalance. With its meaningless characters it tests the patience of the audience. To add to all this it is replete with double meaning dialogues. The only relief comes in the form of music score by S. A. Rajkumar”.</p>