Muppaleni Siva and Victory Venkatesh’s Sankranthi (2005): Review + Interesting Facts

Banner: Supergood Films

Cast: Venkatesh, Arti Agarwal, Sneha, Srikanth, Siva Balaji, Sarvanand, Sangeeta, Rathi, Sarada, Chandra Mohan, Tanikella Bharani, Raghunatha Reddy, Sudhakar, Rallapally,

Story: Lingaswamy

Dialogues: Paruchuri brothers

Lyrics: ES Murthy, Pothula Ravi Kiran, Sirivennela & Bhaskarabhatla

Choreography: Raju Sundaram, Suchitra and Nobel

Art: Kumar

Music: SA Raj Kumar

Editing: Nandamuri Hari

Cinematography: B Bala Murugan

Screenplay, direction: Muppalaneni Siva

Producer: RB Chowdary

Theatrical release date: 18th February 2005

Interesting Facts 

Did a movie called Dost, it didnt work he went into depression the first idea he got was title called Sankranthi, A Tamil movie called Anandam, Venkatesh showed it to him and asked him hows it, chala baguntadi babu but other commitments dooram ayyindi 

But central point haunted him, 4 brothers melodrama what if a kodalu doesnt come, the whole drama, climax pasibidda. Also put the title because the movie has so many people in it, picture pandagala vathavarnan, Amma thinne bojanam bore kottadu

First Srikanth said he wouldn’t do the movie, 4 brothers yemi undi, Im doing Radha Gopalam with bapu garu as main hero, Super Good banner convinced him to do the movie and forced him actually 

First they thought of Vadde Naveen, but bhagavanthudu vere sankalpam undi ee movie ninnu chepisthundi 

For pedda kodalu, we felt Sneha would be a good fit because she has this seriousness and she acts with her eyes 

This was Sharwanands film successful film, he did two movies with Venkatesh this and same brother role in Lakshmi 

They actually filmed the movie in Bhadrachalam and did the wedding scenes in a wedding function hall 

For the climax, they wanted a location where you can fix Dashavatharalu in a lake, executive producer Vakada Appa Rao took him to Chennai, he said all the actors are from there as all the actors are from there, they went to Marina Beach, this is the climax song, due to the wind and water they’ll feel ibbandi and we have to do all these things we have to put muggulu etc how can we do it in the beach, then where else will you do it, if its Hyderabad then forget about it. Then he got a phone call one fine morning if you want to do it in Hyderabad, immediately he got reminded of the big lake in ICRSAT, there’s ways water there and lot of greenery and they fixed the Davastharalu, Thota Tharani worked as art director for that song and Suchitra Chandrabose was the choreographer 

That morning Venkatesh got a call at 7:30 AM, they said theres a tsunami in Chennai and Marina Beach and the all the boats came onto the main road, if you walk 2 KMS but it came onto the read, and they had to do it on that day call sheet prakaram all they had all the cast dates and they had been there that day, then it would have been scary. 

Audio of Venkatesh's latest film Sankranthi was released at a function arranged in Rama Naidu studios on the night of 20th January 2005. Sarath Kumar, K Raghavendra Rao and D Rama Naidu were invited as guests.

Music director SA Raj Kumar said Sankranthi is his 150th film as music director in his career. His 100th film Nuvvu Vastavani went on to become a big hit. This film is 24th film with Super Good films and 45th Telugu film. He scored music for Suryavamsam, Kalisundam Raa, Raja and Vasantham for Venkatesh and all those films went on to become blockbusters

Sarada is reentering field after a log gap. Her last film was Anthapuram. Siva worked with Srikanth for Gilligajjalu and Taj Mahal. This is his 3rd film with him. 

Vasantham is the first Indian movie to be filmed in Turkey. Ela Vachenamma was filmed in Capadoccia which is made from Cliffs and Andala Srimathiki was filmed in Pammakulae which is famous