Anand (2004 film)
Anand | |
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Vijay C Kumar | |
Edited by | Marthand K. Venkatesh |
Music by | K. M. Radha Krishnan |
Production companies | |
Distributed by | Amigos Creations |
Release date |
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Running time | 180 minutes |
Country | India |
Language | Telugu |
Budget | ₹30 Lakhs[1] |
Anand
The film's basic story was also chosen as the subject for
The film was well received by critics and became successful at the box office. It was remade in
Plot
Roopa is a woman with self-respect, determined at her decisions, and yet lovable and sensitive. She works in an
She is engaged to Rahul, a rich
Anand is the son of a rich industrialist who unintentionally killed Roopa's parents in a car accident, thereby losing mental stability. Anand brings his father to Roopa's wedding hoping that his blessings for the wedded couple would bring solace to his soul. At the wedding, however, Anand witnesses the turn of events and finds that Roopa is the woman for him. In order to try his luck in wooing Roopa, he drops his studies in the US and decides to move into a room next to her house. They frown, fight, argue with each other all through his stay there. Anita who is aware of Anand's love for Roopa helps him by giving tips to get closer to her.
A few months later, Rahul's mother dies and Roopa is the one he approaches to seek solace. She gives all the support as a friend to Rahul during his difficult days. On the other hand, the affection between Anand and Roopa is on and off, with arguments on trivial issues. Anand continues to put in his efforts till one day drunken Rahul appears at Roopa's house only to forcibly convince her to marry him. Anand gets frustrated and kicks him out of the house and blames her for choosing Rahul over him. Trying to win back the love of Anand, she cooks for him. Anand rejects and leaves the house. After a few days, they both meet again at a
Cast
- Rajaas Anand
- Sunitha)
- Satya Krishnan as Anita, Roopa's friend
- Anish Kuruvilla as Raju, Anand's cousin
- Anuj Gurwara as Rahul, Roopa's ex-fiancée
- Bakhitha Francis as Samatha, Anand's little friend
- Chandana Chakrabarti as Rahul's mother
- Gopichand Lagadapati as Ram
- Gururaj Manepalli as Anand's father
- Sekhar Kammula as auto driver (cameo appearance)
- Shankar Melkote as Roopa's boss
Production
Financing
After Sekhar Kammula's first venture,
Anish Kuruvilla, who played Anand's cousin in the film, was the executive producer for the film and Kammula's following film, Godavari (2006).[13]
Casting and locations
Kammula preferred actors who suit the roles than writing characters for established actors. Hence, the choice of the cast were non-established actors.
Miscellaneous
Kammula's primary inspiration came from the Indian middle class. He was of the thought that this section of people were wrongly represented in films. He wanted to represent them appropriately and this was achieved with Anand.[16]
Kammula sat with Veturi for writing songs for the film. Kammula said that he could see thousands of expressions expressed as a couple of words in lyrics. Eventually, they ended up with six beautiful songs penned by Veturi. For Anand, Veturi took a month to come up with the lyrics as against his usual penchant of coming up with lyrics spontaneously.[15]
Being a
With most of the cast not well-versed in speaking Telugu, Kammula faced challenges in their dialogue delivery. It just happened that most of the cast couldn't speak Telugu. The crew had to face a slight loss of the performance owing to this fact. To overcome this handicap, the dialogues were altered slightly to improve the actors' diction.[16]
Release
Critical acclaim and reviews
Anand had a relatively low-profile release unlike the huge banner releases of the Telugu film industry. It was made with a modest budget of less than ₹1 crore.[1] Kammula wasn't sure of the outcome of the film and said "I knew that it would either be a huge hit or a huge flop".[20] It evoked a decent response from the critics. Idlebrain.com gave the film a 3.75/5.[21] The website review goes on to recommend this film to the film-going audiences. On the other hand, IndiaGlitz said that the film was "good, but could have been better".[22] It also figured among the top five grossers in the Telugu film industry for the year 2004.[23] The success of the films in India being measured in the number of days the film has been screened in the theatres, Anand completed 100 days of screening on 28 January 2005.[24] Another website says that the film was realistic in its depiction and goes on to given instances in the film that do happen (unlike some of the fictitious and dreamy Indian films).[25]
Home media
DVD
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The DVD Release is a Special Edition 2 disc pack Released by KAD Entertainment.[26]
Disc 1 contains the theatrical version of the film primarily with subtitles in English, both in
Disc 2 contains a trivia game about the film, the saga of the film, that is, from the film Dollar Dreams where it all began to conceiving Anand, raising of finances for the film, selection of the cast and location, dubbing, choice of the music director, lyricist, cinematographer and choreographer. It also has a brief informational biography about the director, actors, about the choice of the caption, the encountered pre-release blues, the day of release, the best scene from the film, favourite song, memorable moments during the film, the post release scenario and the Director's Cut. It also contains the 100 days celebrations of the film with Dr. Dasari Narayana Rao's congratulatory speech. The film trailers are also included in this disc.
This film possibly is the first Telugu film to be released in a 2-Disc Special Edition DVD that also features the director's cut version of the film. KAD also won the best DVD award for this special edition.[citation needed]
Soundtrack
The film has six songs composed by
No. | Title | Singer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Vachhe Vachhe" | K.S.Chithra, Hariharan | 4:10 |
3. | "Nuvvena Naa Nuvvena" | Shreya Ghoshal, K.M. Radha Krishnan | 4:54 |
4. | "Charumati I Love You" | Lucky Ali | 4:09 |
5. | "Telisi Telisi" | Shreya Ghoshal | 4:28 |
6. | "Yedalo Ganam" | K.S.Chithra, Hariharan | 4:55 |
Awards
- Nandi Awards - 2004[29]
- Second Best Feature Film - Silver – Sekhar Kammula
- Best Director – Sekhar Kammula
- Best Actress – Kamalinee Mukherjee
- Best Supporting Actress – Satya Krishnan
- Best Child Artiste – Bakhita
- Sunitha Upadrashta
Ceremony | Category | Nominee | Result | Ref. |
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52nd Filmfare Awards South | Best Film | Sekhar Kammula | Nominated | |
Best Director | Sekhar Kammula | Nominated | ||
Best Actor – Female | Kamalinee Mukherjee | Nominated | ||
Best Music | K. M. Radha Krishnan | Nominated | ||
Best Supporting Actress | Satya Krishnan | Nominated |
Notes
- ^ Taglined Manchi Coffee Lanti Cinema (transl. Film as good as a coffee)
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External links
- Anand at IMDb
- Anand – Amigos Creations