
to the forest, worked for fifty days to build new guesthouses and took special permission for electricity in the middle of the forest.
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There were only three Government Guesthouses in Madumalai forest, and the producers could not accommodate the 300 plus cast and crew in that dense forest.So the producers took carpenters, molders, painters, etc. Cameraman Vincent first worked with NTR much earlier, for the film Sontha Ooru produced by Sree Ghantasala, and this was the second film for him with NTR after a long time. Earlier Cinemascope films Alluri Seetharamaraju and Kurukshetram were done with a lens brought from Mumbai. This was also the first film that used a Cinemascope lens imported from Japan by Prasad Labs (Madras). Adavi Ramudu was the first film for which NTR had given dates for more than a month (35 days) out of Madras! Adavi Ramudu is NTR's first color film shot in Cinemascope. The opening shot was done in Madras in a Studio on 9 January 1977. So, he called the producers Satyanarayana and Suryanarayana so as to request and inform them that he'd give bulk dates once he completed the shooting of Daana Veera Soora Karna.Įxcept for the opening shot,the movie's shooting was done in Madumalai forest. Though he had given the dates for Adavi Ramudu, NTR was doing Daana Veera Soora Karna at the same time, which he planned to complete before January in order to ready it for Sankranthi release. She got a lot of letters after the film's release from her fans requesting her to not do a second lead role again in any of her future films, though she had a good role in the movie(People were not aware that she signed this film before she did Jyothi, as Jyothi hit the screens earlier than Adavi Ramudu and brought Jayasudha a good name.). Jayasudha was not aware that she was doing the second role until the last minute, but since she already agreed to do the film, she just went ahead keeping faith in Raghavendra Rao. Sridhar was approached to do an important role opposite Jayasudha. Thus, she was taken for the heroine role. Jayaprada was just a budding artist at that time with her Sirisirimuvva being a super hit. Raghavendra Rao for his film Raja, was chosen for an important role. This prompted the team to suggest that Jandhyala should work on the script and dialogues based on a forest backdrop.
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At that time, Kannada Rajkumar's movie Gandhada Gudi, made with a forest backdrop, went on to be a super hit in Kannada. NTR had already given them dates in September 1976. When they were planning their next film, they approached Raghavendra Rao to work for them, whom they already knew as an assistant director as he just started taking up direction independently. (The film was released on the same day or NTR's Aaradhana.) It garnered good openings, thanks to Sobhan-Vanisree-Viswanath combo movies ( Chelleli Kaapuram, Chinnanaati Snehitulu, etc.), but it was soon declared a flop as it could not sustain the craze. After that film, they made Prema Bandham (12 March 1976 - the same day as NTR's Aaradhana) with Sobhan Babu and Vanisree under the direction of K. The film was one of the big hits in Sobhan Babu's career in which he played a dual role. Raghavendra Rao Raghavendra Rao was an assistant director for that film.
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Satya Chitra banner (of producers Nekkanti Veera Venkata Satyanarayana and Arumilli Suryanarayana) started their first film with Sobhan Babu's Tahsildar Gaari Ammaayi (12 November 1971), which was based on a serial by Kavilipati Vijayalakshmi in Andhra Prabha titled Vidhi Vinyaasaalu. I am really happy that I made such a film with my cousin Satyanarayana". The film was such a big success that people of that generation speak volumes of it and feel nostalgic even today, wherever I go. After completing the shooting, he just complemented us saying that shooting of this film shall remain as one of the best memories in his life. But Ramarao gaaru knew KRR well enough from the time Raghavendra Rao assisted ' pouraaNika brahma' Kamalakara Kameswara Rao in Pandava Vanavasamu and agreed readily to do the film. His much-celebrated Jyothi didn't start by that time. Producer Suryanarayana speaks:"After a disastrous Prema Bandham, we planned Adavi Ramudu with Ramarao gaaru, and a two-films old Raghavendra Rao. The story finally leads to the arrest of all criminals. in a secret mission to investigate the case of Forest affairs. Later half of the film reveals that Ramu is in fact a Forest officer. Nagabhushanam takes the help of one Jaggu (Sridhar) to send Ramu away from the forest. One tribal lady Chilakamma (Jayasudha) also loves Ramu as a brother. Padma (Jayaprada) who is the Daughter of Forest officer (Jaggayya) loves him. Ramu (NTR) opposes and raises the villagers to fight against him. Nagabhushanam and his son Nagaraju (Satyanarayana) run a smuggling and Illegal transport racket of forest produce in the Forest.
