Anandamanandamaye

Anandamanandamaye is a 2004 Indian Telugu-language romantic comedy drama film in Telugu directed by Srinu Vaitla and produced by Ramoji Rao. It was released on 5 February 2004 under the banner of Ushakiran Movies. The film featured Akash and Renuka Menon, J. D. Chakravarthy, Preeti Jhangiani, Venu Madhav and M. S. Narayana. Background score and soundtrack were composed by Koti.

Cast

Akash as Kiran
Renuka Menon as Bhuvaneshwari "Bhuvana"
J. D. Chakravarthy as Chakravarti "Chakri"
Preeti Jhangiani as Maheshwari "Mahi"
Devan as Bhuvana's father
Sumalatha as Bhuvana's maternal aunt
Sudhakar as Bullebbayi
Sivaji Raja as Bhuvana's paternal uncle
Sumithra as Bhuvana's mother
Rajya Lakshmi as Bullebbayi's wife
Hema as Lakshmi
A. V. S.
Venu Madhav as Ammi Raju
M. S. Narayana as Gavarraju
Sunil as "Panchatantram" Seenu
Dharmavarapu Subramanyam as Manmatha Rao
Kondavalasa Lakshmana Rao as Lakshmana Rao
Nutan Prasad as Judge
Banerjee as lawyer
Gautam Raju as T. C.
Jenny
Jaya Prakash Reddy as Police Inspector
Melkote
Sudeepa Pinky as Bhuvana's cousin
Baby Zeeba as Bhuvana's cousin
Master Bharath as Pattabhi

Production

After the success of Anandam, Srinu Vaitla, Ramoji Rao, and Akash collaborated again for this film.

Music

The background score and soundtrack were composed by Koti, with lyrics by Sirivennela Seetharama Sastry, Veturi, Sai Sriharsha, and Kandi Konda. The singers were Sreerama Chandra, Sunitha, Karthik, Raghu Kunche, Malathi, Shreya Ghoshal and Koti.

Release

A critic from Sify opined that "A feel-good family drama about mistaken identities similar to Chitchor and the recent Main Prem Ki Deewani Hoon. Director Seenu Vytla has handled the subject with streaks of comedy and has been successful to some extent but the flashbacks are too lengthy and on the whole the film is far from entertaining". Jeevi of Idlebrain gave the film a rating of three out of five and opined that "This film is a typical feel-good movie". Telugu Cinema wrote "There is no story in the first half of the movie, and the narration slow. The story part of JD Chakravarthy’s flashback is illogical. There is very less entertainment in the movie. Photography, Locations and lead artistes’ performance is the only plus points of the movie".