Premante Idera

1998 Indian film

30 October 1998 (1998-10-30)

Running time

168 minutesCountryIndiaLanguageTelugu

Premante Idera (transl. This is love) is 1998 Indian Telugu-language romantic drama film directed by Jayanth C. Paranjee, and produced by Burugupalli Siva Rama Krishna and K. Ashok Kumar under the Sri Lakshmi Venteswara Art Films banner. The film stars Venkatesh and Preity Zinta (in her Telugu film debut), with music composed by Ramana Gogula, in his first composition.^[1]

The film won Nandi Award for Best Cinematographer (Jayanan Vincent). It was remade in Kannada as O Premave with Ravichandran.^[2]^[3]

Plot

Murali and his friends go to a village to attend their friend's marriage. There Murali meets a girl Shailu, 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 Shailu's joint family. Finally, the movie ends with the approval of Venktramayya for their marriage.

Cast

Venkatesh as Murali
Preity Zinta as Shailaja "Shailu" (Voice dubbed by Shilpa)
Ranganath as Venkatramayya
Satyanarayana as Shailu's grandfather
Srihari as Muralidhar
Brahmanandam as Avadhani
Ali as Ram Pandu
Chandra Mohan as Subba Rao
Giri Babu as Murali's father
Prasad Babu as Suryam
Narra Venkateswara Rao as Satyam's father
Raghunatha Reddy as Murali's Uncle
Maharshi Raghava as Murali's brother
Sivaji Raja as Satyam
Sivaji as Sivaji
Prasanna Kumar
Naveen as Sarath
Gadiraju Subba Rao
Lakshmi as Murali's mother
Rama Prabha as Subbammatta
Sana as Shailu's aunt
Rajitha as Shailu's aunt
Bangalore Padma as Satyam's mother
Madhurima Sundersen as Lakshmi
Harika as Murali's sister-in-law
Neelima
Tarangini as Shailu's friend
Madhu Mani as Shailu's friend
Vajja Venkata Giridhar as Murali's friend

Soundtrack

Premante Idera

Film score by

Ramana Gogula

Released

1998

Genre

Soundtrack

Length

32:17

Ramana Gogula chronology

Premante Idera
(1998)

Premante Idera
(1998)

Yuvaraju
(2000)

Music composed by Ramana Gogula. Music released on ADITYA Music Company.

No.	Title	Lyrics	Singer(s)	Length
1.	"Nizam Babulu"	Chandrabose	Mano, Swarnalatha	4:32
2.	"Nalo Unna"	Sirivennela	S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, K.S.Chithra	4:43
3.	"Vayasa Chusuko"	Sirivennela	S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, K.S.Chithra	4:59
4.	"Manase Edhuru"	Sirivennela	S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, K.S.Chithra	4:49
5.	"Emo Ekkadundho"	Sirivennela	S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, K.S.Chithra	2:12
6.	"O Meri Bul"	Chandrabose	Ramana Gogula	5:10
7.	"Bombai Bomma"	Chandrabose	Ramana Gogula	4:10
8.	"Theme Music"	Instrumental	Ramana Gogula	1:01
Total length:				32:17

Tamil — Dubbed Version (as Naesikkiren)

All lyrics are written by Palani Bharathi

No.	Title	Singer(s)	Length
1.	"Raja Rajanin"	Mano, Swarnalatha	4:32
2.	"Kaadhal Undhan Perai"	S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, Sujatha	4:43
3.	"Naesikkiren Unnai Naan"	S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, Swarnalatha	4:59
4.	"Manasil"	S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, Sujatha	4:49
5.	"Yengo Yenkiruntho"	S. P. Balasubrahmanyam	2:12
6.	"O Meri Bul Bul Thara"	Suresh Peters	5:10
7.	"Pallakku"	Mano, Ganga	4:10
8.	"Theme Music"	Ramana Gogula	1:01
Total length:			32:17

Hindi — Dubbed Version (as Dulhan Dilwale Ki)

All lyrics are written by Deepak Chaudhary

No.	Title	Singer(s)	Length
1.	"Hai Dil"	Kumar Sanu, Anuradha Paudwal	4:51
2.	"O Mere Bulbul Tara"	Sonu Nigam	5:16
3.	"Dulhan Dilwale Ki"	Udit Narayan, Preeti Uttam Singh	4:11
4.	"Jaana Jaana Jeena"	SP Balasubramaniam, Anuradha Paudwal	4:44
5.	"Dulhe Ki Saali"	SP Balasubramaniam, Preeti Uttam Singh	4:34
6.	"Deewane Tujhe"	SP Balasubramaniam, Anuradha Paudwal	4:58
Total length:			28:38

Box office

Rakesh P of Deccan Herald called the storyline "trite", but the film "still manages to capture young hearts, for it`s shot in a free-wheeling and fluid fashion".^[4] Manjula Kumar of The Indian Express wrote "Good performances, breathtaking shots of New Zealand and scintillating music by Ramana Gogula are plus points".^[5] The film had collected a distributors' share of Rs.85 million in its complete theatrical run.^[6]

Awards

1998: Nandi Award for Best Cinematographer - Jayanan Vincent^[7]

References

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^ Kanoria, Nitya. "8 Bollywood actors you didn't know, featured in South Indian films". Cosmopolitan. Retrieved 25 April 2020.
^ P, Rakesh (29 November 1998). "Premante Idhera (Telugu)". Deccan Herald. Archived from the original on 28 January 1999. Retrieved 29 August 2022.
^ Kumar, Manjula. "Breathtaking shots". The Indian Express. Archived from the original on 1 February 2023. Retrieved 15 June 2023.
^ "Venky telugu cinema idlebrain - box office". idlebrain.com. Retrieved 10 January 2021.
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