Credits

Banner: Suresh Productions

Cast: Venkatesh, Katrina Kaif, Balaiah, Kota Srinivasa Rao, Brahmanandam, Tanikella Bharani, Naresh, Ahuti Prasad, Dharmavarapu Subramanyam, Mallikharjuna Rao, Chalapati Rao, Sunil, CVL Narasimha Rao, Devdas Kanakala, Chitram Seenu, Benarji, Ganesh, Prabhu, Raghunadh Reddy, Gowtam Raju, Chitti Babu, Poosala, Lakshmipati, Sudarshan, Rajya Lakshmi, Rajitha, Sana, Padma Jayanth, Priyanka, Hema, Baby Greeshma, Gajala (SA) & Smita (SA)

Story - dialogues: Trivikram

Lyrics: Sirivennela & Bhuvana Chandra (Janma Janmala)

Choreography: Raju Sundaram, Raja Sekhar, Krishna Reddy

Co-director: Sudhakar G

Art Director: Bhupesh R Bhupathi

Editing: Srikar Prasad

Stunts: Stun Siva

Cinematography: Sameer Reddy

Music: Koti

Producer: D Suresh

Screenplay - direction: Vijaya Bhaskar K

Release date: 18th February 2004

Interesting Facts:

https://www.idlebrain.com/news/functions/pressmeet-malliswari.html

Katrina Kaif was paid 65 lakhs for the movie, all time record salary for a heroine in South Indian cinema at the time.

All the songs were picturised in outdoor locations except a song. He said songs were picturised in the beautiful locales of New Zealand (2 songs) and finest islands of Bangkok (1 song) along with Mysore, Goa and Hyderabad.

Collected 14 crores share at box office and was a hit

Ran for 50 days in 119 centers and 100 days in 33 centers

Vijaywada Apsara theater 112 days run - 62.77 lakhs gross

Rajamundtry Syamala theater 110 days run - 50.26 lakhs gross

Guntur Venkatakrishna theater 100 days run - 33.86 lakhs gross

Vizag Jyothi theater 111 days run - 58.03 lakhs gross

Gajuwaka Mohini theater 111 days run - 25.76 lakhs gross

Gudivada Sarath theater 100 days run - 15.53 lakhs gross

Machilipatnam Siri Venkat theater 105 days - 15.08 lakhs gross

First watch and impressions
How your liking towards it grew
Songs and Technicalities
Writing/Direction

Set up and Payoff

- Asks the panthulu if when he sees the girl lighting will come, flowers will fall, directly after that it happens,

Prasad tells Malliswari he can give her worlds most comfortable life salary with 9000 rupees. He says nuvvu ooh and oka yuvarani laa chooskunta, roju saintram, mallevppuvu, varaniki oka cinema, vela ki oka sari picnic, samsraaniki okasari ye OOtu no Kaidkonal trip, ippudu em cheppaakkarledu, take your won time, but rep saint ram vasthanu baga alochinci yes ani cheppeu kuummedham anthe, And despite her not paying attention to him, she remembers what he said in climax
She asks him about the necklace, he says when I was young my mother gave this to me when I was young, hold it and ask for anything you want and it will give it to you, naa pranam paying teeyanu, in climax he gives it to her symbolically showing that she is now his life and what means most to him.
Snoopy snoopy come on okkadu antadu, Brahmi says rei thana thali meed cheyyi vesthe karichi champesthadi, Sunil and venky do the same thing and then he dies lmaoooo
Krishaveni wants Hyderabad transfer from Vizag and then MS comes and says Vizag transfer ayyindi.

5) Favorite Scenes

6) Why it will always be a classic - evergreen dialogues, clean comedy masterpiece direction, and evergreen entertainment from start to finish.