7th November 2002

Press meet of Annapurna Films' 'Manmadhudu' was arranged today at the set erected for the film in Annapurna studios. The set was a modern corporate building for an ad agency called 'Abhi Ad Agencies'. Nagarjuna plays the role of ad manager Abhiram in this film. A huge vinyl poster of Birla temple and water filled Hussain Sagar was pasted ppposite the ad agency building to give a feeling that the building was located on the hilly area near Birla Temple. The entrance of the building has an A shaped glass door to symbolically represent A from Abhi.

Vijaya Bhaskar (director), Trivikram (story and dialogue writer), Nagarjuna (hero) and Sonali Bendre (heroine) participated in the press meet. Talking to the press about the role of Nagarjuna in the movie, Vijaya Bhaskar said that being a handsome man, Abhiram is considered as Manmadhudu by the people around him. But on contrary to that, Abhiram hates women. Why and how he hates women is a point to be clarified on the screen. Inspite of his strong hatred for the opposite sex, he somehow falls in love with heroine. Vijaya Bhaskar did not divulge any further details just terming the movie to be a beautiful love story.

Talking next, Nagarjuna said he was enjoying each and every moment of the making of this film. He had special mention for Trivikram by saying that he immensely enjoys the humor in Trivikram dialogues. He specially mentioned about the foreign episode which has some rib tickling comedy scenes with Brahmanandam. He also went on to say that, those scenes would be a feast for comedy lovers. When asked whether Manmadhudu is a class or mass film, Nagarjuna said that there is no distinction of mass or class for a good film. A good film would make all kinds of people come to theaters like Nuvve Kavali did.

Manmadhudu has six songs scored by Devi Sri Prasad.

Trivikram and Sonali Bendre spoke very little on this occasion. The director said that the film is complete except for 2 songs and climax. The film is expected to be released in the third week of December 2002 (most likely on the 20th of December).

Cast and Crew Information:

Cast: Nagarjuna Akkineni, Sonali Bendre, Anshu, Chandra Mohan, Tanikella Bharani, Brahmanandam, Sunil, Balayya, Ranganath, Jaya Prakash Reddy, Dharmavarapu Subramanyam, Ananth, Melkote, Sudha & Swapna Madhuri

Story - Dialogues: Trivikram
Music: Devi Sri Prasad
Songs: Sirivennela Seetarama Sastry, Bhuvana Chandra
Art: V Srinivasa Raju
Choreography: Raja Sekhar, Raju Sundaram, Shankar
Cinematography: Sameer Reddy
Editing: Sreekar Prasad
Co-director: B Subbarao
Producer: Nagarjuna Akkineni
Screenplay - Direction: K Vijaya Bhaskar