''Chintakayala Ravi'' is a 2008 Telugu-language

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film produced by Nallamalupu Bujji and directed by

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. The cross over cinema, starring Venkatesh, and Anushka Shetty in lead roles, while Mamta Mohandas and Venu Thottempudi in a supporting roles, with songs composed by Vishal–Shekhar and background score composed by

Mani Sharma Yanamandra Venkata Subrahmanyam (Telugu: యనమండ్ర వెంకట సుబ్రహ్మణ్యం; born 11 July 1964), professionally known as Mani Sharma, is an Indian composer and music producer known for his work primaril ...

Plot

Chintakayala Ravi ( Venkatesh) works in a bar named Cyber Wave in New York. He is the head waiter; he works with his three friends who also are waiters at the same bar. He has a soft spot for software engineers because he came to the US with the dream of becoming a software pro. However, unavoidable circumstances prevented him from reaching that goal. His mother Seshamamba (

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) tells everybody in her village in Andhra Pradesh that her son is an outstanding software engineer in America. Ravi is hit hard with a sentiment; for the sole reason of not wanting to hurt his mother's feelings, he continues to tell her the sweet lie that he truly is a software engineer in America. However, problems arise when Seshamamba gets ready to marry her son to Lavanya ( Mamta Mohandas), a local village girl because Lavanya believes Seshamamba when she says that Ravi is a software engineer. So, when Lavanya asks her childhood buddy, Sunitha ( Anushka), to enquire about Ravi, the truth comes out that he's a bar waiter. Her family gets angry on knowing that Ravi's family lied to them, and when Ravi arrives in the village for betrothal, he is subjected to humiliation. What happens later forms the remaining story. He troubles Sunitha because she had got her information wrong about Ravi. Later, she understood how good a person Ravi is when he saves her father. Throughout the movie, Ravi and Sunitha become good friends and Ravi plans to find a guy for Sunitha to marry. She aims to rejoin Ravi & Lavanya, but it doesn't work out. Ravi had saved Srikanth's ( Venu Thottempudi) life while he was in America. Srikanth comes to Lavanya's home and tries to convince her parents, explaining how good a person Ravi is. As Srikanth joins hands with Lavanya's parents about Ravi's marriage with Lavanya, Ravi and Sunitha fall in love with each other, which isn't known until the time of Ravi's marriage with Lavanya. On knowing the truth, Ravi's family ends up getting him married to Sunitha.

Cast

* Venkatesh as Chintakayala Ravi * Anushka Shetty as Sunitha * Mamta Mohandas as Mavidikayala Lavanya *

as Chintakayala Seshamamba * Shayaji Shinde as Mavidikayala Ramachandra Rao *

Paruchuri Venkateswara Rao Paruchuri Venkateswara Rao (born 21 June 1944) and Paruchuri Gopala Krishna (born 25 September 1947), collectively referred to as the Paruchuri Brothers, are a screenwriting duo whose work is predominant as story writers, dialogue writers, ac ...

as Venkatachalam * Chandra Mohan as Chintakayala Govinda Rao *

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as Pinky * Sunil as Pendurthi Babu * Ali as Nachimi *

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as Venky Doors / Duwaram Venteswarulu * M. S. Narayana as Anjineyalu * Venu Madhav as Sai *

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as Krishnam Raju, Sunitha's father *

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as Krishna Reddy * Ajay as Ajay * Ravi Prakash as Karthik *

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as Giri *

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as Devudu *

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as Bhaskar * Venu Thottempudi as Srikanth *

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as Pooja / Poo * Master Bharat Kumar as Bharath, Anjineyalu's son * Pragathi as Lavanya's mother * Pradeep Shakthi as Srinivasulu, Lavanya's uncle * Samir Kochhar in a cameo appearance * Rajendra as Sarath * Srilalitha as Srivalli *

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as Swarajya Lakshmi * Anitha Nath * Vijaya Madhavi *

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as Narrator * Rajiv Kanakala as Sunitha's to-be groom (cameo) * Aarti Chhabria as

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* NTR Jr. guest appearance in song "Shava Shava Bhalle Bhalle"

Soundtrack

Music was composed by Vishal–Shekhar. Lyrics written by Chandrabose. Music released on

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Reception

Radhika Rajmani of '' Rediff.com'' called it a "proper commercial family entertainer" and praised Venkatesh's performance.

Awards and nominations

; Filmfare Awards South Nominations * Best Music Director – Telugu – Vishal–Shekhar * Best Female Playback Singer – Telugu –

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– "Merupulaa" * Best Lyricist – Telugu – Chandrabose – "Enduko"

References

External links

* {{IMDb title, 1187038, Chintakayala Ravi 2000s Telugu-language films 2008 films Indian films set in New York City Films shot in India Films shot in New York City Indian romantic comedy films Films about women in the Indian diaspora 2008 romantic comedy films