''Premante Idera'' () is 1998 Indian Telugu-language

romantic drama Romance films involve romantic love stories recorded in visual media for broadcast in theatres or on television that focus on passion (emotion), passion, emotion, and the affectionate romantic involvement of the main characters. Typically their ...

film directed by Jayanth C. Paranjee, and produced by Burugupalli Siva Rama Krishna and K. Ashok Kumar under the Sri Lakshmi Venkateswara Art Films banner. The film stars Venkatesh and Preity Zinta (in her Telugu film debut), with music composed by

Ramana Gogula Ramana Gogula is an Indo-American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, music composer and singer of film music and Indian pop. His notable film compositions include '' Premante Idera'' (1998), '' Thammudu'' (1999), '' Badri'' (2000)'', Johnny'' ( ...

, in his first composition. ''Premante Idera'' was commercially successful and the music album was a chartbuster. The film won

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for Best Cinematographer for

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. It was remade in Kannada as '' O Premave'' (1999) with Ravichandran.

Plot

Murali and his friends go to a village to attend their friend's marriage. There Murali meets a girl Sailu, the bridegroom's friend, they begin to have fun and join in with the festivities and Murali is captivated by her attitude and beauty. Soon both fall in love, but Murali soon finds out that she is to be married to a police officer Muralidhar. Murali puts on a brave face for the ceremony but hopes that something or someone will be able to stop the ceremony. He does everything he can to stop the marriage, he even tries to convince Sailu's joint family. Finally, the movie ends with the approval of Venktramayya for their marriage.

Cast

* Venkatesh as Murali * Preity Zinta as Sailaja "Sailu" (Voice dubbed by Shilpa) * Ranganath as Venkatramayya * Satyanarayana as Sailu's grandfather * Srihari as Muralidhar *

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as Avadhani * Ali as Ram Pandu * Chandra Mohan as Subba Rao * Giri Babu as Murali's father *

Prasad Babu Prasad Babu is an Indian actor who acts predominantly in Telugu language, Telugu films and also TV serials. Filmography Telugu * ''Anthuleni Katha'' (1976) as Thilak * ''Mana Voori Pandavulu'' (1978) * ''Dongala Veta'' (1978) as Anand * ...

as Suryam *

Narra Venkateswara Rao Narra Venkateswara Rao was an Indian actor known for his works in Telugu cinema. He hailed from Agraharam village (Ramachandrapuram) in Zarugumilli, Zarugumalli Mandal, Prakasam district of Andhra Pradesh, India. Career He acted in over 500 fi ...

as Satyam's father *

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as Murali's Uncle *

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as Murali's brother *

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as Satyam * Sivaji as Sivaji * Prasanna Kumar * Naveen as Sarath * Gadiraju Subba Rao *

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as Murali's mother *

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as Subbammatta * Sana as Sailu's aunt *

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as Sailu's aunt * Bangalore Padma as Satyam's mother * Madhurima Sundersen as Lakshmi * Harika as Murali's sister-in-law * Neelima * Tarangini as Sailu's friend * Madhu Mani as Sailu's friend * Vajja Venkata Giridhar as Murali's friend

Soundtrack

Music composed by

. Music was through released Aditya Music Company. ; Telugu ;Tamil — ''Dubbed Version (as Naesikkiren)'' Hindi — ''Dubbed Version (as Dulhan Dilwale Ki)''

Reception and box office

Rakesh P of ''

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'' called the storyline "trite", but the film "still manages to capture young hearts, for it`s shot in a free-wheeling and fluid fashion". Manjula Kumar of ''

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'' wrote "Good performances, breathtaking shots of

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and scintillating music by Ramana Gogula are plus points". The film had collected a distributors' share of 8.5

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in its complete theatrical run.

Awards

* 1998: Nandi Award for Best Cinematographer -

References

External links

* {{Jayanth C. Paranjee 1990s Telugu-language films 1998 films 1998 romantic drama films Films directed by Jayanth C. Paranjee Indian romantic drama films Telugu films remade in other languages