Gharana Mogudu

Gharana Mogudu (transl. Intelligent Husband) is a 1992 Indian Telugu-language romantic drama film directed by K. Raghavendra Rao. The film stars Chiranjeevi, Nagma and Vani Viswanath with Rao Gopal Rao and Kaikala Satyanarayana in supporting roles. Music is composed by M. M. Keeravani and A. Vincent handled the cinematography. It is a remake of the 1986 Kannada film Anuraga Aralithu.^[2]

Gharana Moguda
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	K. Raghavendra Rao
Screenplay by	Paruchuri brothers
Story by	P. Vasu
Based on	Anuraga Aralithu (1986)
Produced by	K. Devi Vara Prasad
Starring	Chiranjeevi Nagma Vani Viswanath Rao Gopal Rao Kaikala Satyanarayana
Cinematography	A. Vincent
Edited by	Kotagiri Venkateswara Rao
Music by	M. M. Keeravani
Production company	Devi Film Productions
Release date	9 April 1992 (1992-04-09)
Country	India
Language	Telugu
Box office	est. ₹10 crore (distributor share)^[1]

Released on 9 April 1992, the film became the first Telugu film to collect over ₹10 crore distributor share at the box office.^[3] The film made Chiranjeevi the highest-paid actor in India, with the English-language weekly magazine The Week describing him as "Bigger Than Bachchan".^[1] The film was screened at the 1993 International Film Festival of India in the mainstream section.^[4]

Plot

Raju (Chiranjeevi) is a do-gooder who helps his co-workers in a Visakhapatnam shipyard, but when his mother suffers a paralytic stroke, he moves back to Hyderabad and looks for a job. Uma Devi (Nagma), daughter of industrialist Bapineedu (Raogopal Rao) takes over the business from her father and helps it to reach new heights, which also sees her head-strong ways reach new heights. In this scenario, she not only rejects Ranganayakulu's (Kaikala Satyanarayana) son's marriage proposal, but insults them when the father-son duo show up at her house. To get their revenge, they send goons to kill Uma Devi. As fate would have it, Bapineedu shows up in the car instead of Uma Devi and is rescued by Raju, who asks him for a job, which Bapineedu readily agrees to.

Raju wins over the employees in no time and takes on the high-handedness of Uma Devi and her management. This leads to constant conflict and Uma Devi decides to marry Raju, so that he will not interfere anymore. To this end, she emotionally blackmails Raju's mother and eventually makes Raju agree to marry her. But Raju continues to trouble her even after marriage. Uma Devi's secretary, Bhavani (Vani Viswanath), is also a friend of Raju, which leads to jealousy. In the meantime, Ranganayakulu, with the help of Uma Devi's manager Sarangapani (Ahuti Prasad) schemes against Uma Devi to sabotage her factory. The rest of film deals with how Raju thwarts the schemes of Ranganayakulu and teaches Uma Devi to be humble.

Cast

• Chiranjeevi as Raju
• Nagma as Uma Devi
• Vani Viswanath as Bhavani
• Raogopal Rao as Bapineedu
• Kaikala Satyanarayana as Ranganayakulu
• Brahmanandam as Appanna
• Sharat Saxena as Ranganayakulu's son
• Ramaprabha as Uma Devi's servant
• Shubha as Raju's mother
• Ahuti Prasad as Sarangapani
• Ponnambalam as Veeraiah
• Sakshi Ranga Rao as Bhawani's father
• Chalapathi Rao as Chalapathi
• P. L. Narayana as Narayana
• Disco Shanti as item number in the song "Bangaru Kodi Petta"
• Gautam Raju

Soundtrack

Gharana Mogudu
Soundtrack album by M. M. Keeravani
Released	1992
Recorded	1992
Genre	Soundtrack
Length	30:13
Label	Lahari Music
Producer	M. M. Keeravani
M. M. Keeravani chronology
Hello Darling (1992) Gharana Mogudu (1992) Sundarakanda (1992)

The music and the background score of the movie were composed by M. M. Keeravani, the lyrics for the songs are by Bhuvanachandra and M. M. Keeravani.^[5] The song "Bangaru Kodi Petta" was later remixed by M. M. Keeravani in the 2009 Telugu blockbuster Magadheera. Keeravani later reused "Hey Pilla" as "Hey Babu" for Hindi film Is Raat Ki Subah Nahin.

Track-List

No.	Title	Lyrics	Performer(s)	Length
1.	"Bangaru Kodi Petta"	Bhuvanachandra	S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, K. S. Chitra	6:14
2.	"Kitukulu Thelisina"	Bhuvanachandra	K.S. Chitra, Mano	5:00
3.	"Hey Pilla Hello Pilla"	Bhuvanachandra	K.S. Chitra, Mano	4:30
4.	"Kappuko Duppati"	M. M. Keeravani	S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, K. S. Chitra	4:51
5.	"Endibe Ettaga Undhi"	Bhuvanachandra	S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, K. S. Chitra	4:37
6.	"Pandu Pandu Pandu"	Bhuvanachandra	S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, K. S. Chitra	5:01
Total length:				30:13

Box office

The movie was received very well at the collecting a share of over ₹10.8 crore and becoming the first South Indian movie to collect a share of ₹10 crore.

• Gharana Mogudu collected a distributors' share of ₹1.35 crore in its opening week.^[6]
• The film had a 100-day run in 56 centres^[7] and a 175-day run in three centres^[8] including a 183-day run in Sandhya 70mm, Hyderabad.^[9]
• It was dubbed into Malayalam as Hey Hero. It was successful in Kerala and it had run 175 days in the same theatre in Trivandrum.^[10]

Awards

Filmfare Award for Best Film - Telugu - K. Devi Vara Prasad

References

1. . The Times of India. 17 August 2012. Archived from the original on 18 May 2013. Retrieved 11 August 2020.
2. "Top ten Kannada films to have been remade". The Times of India. Retrieved 11 August 2020.
3. "28 Years for Gharana Mogudu: 4 fascinating things about the Chiranjeevi starrer". The Times of India. 10 April 2020. Retrieved 26 June 2021.
4. (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 October 2014. Retrieved 30 September 2014.
5. . Archived from the original on 10 October 2011. Retrieved 2 November 2011.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
6. . Archived from the original on 11 January 2004.
7. . Archived from the original on 11 October 2007. Retrieved 10 October 2007.
8. "nonstopcinema.com".
9. CineGoer.com - Box-Office Records And Collections - Chiranjeevi's 175-Day Centres List 14 August 2012 at the Wayback Machine
10. "Photo by kkvinposter".

External links

• Gharana Mogudu at IMDb