Pandem

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Pandem
Directed bySabapathy Dekshinamurthy
Written byVeegesna Satish (story/dialogues)
Screenplay bySabhapati
Produced byValluripally Ramesh Babu
StarringJagapati Babu
Kalyani
CinematographySarath
Edited byBasva Paidireddy
Music byChakri
Production
company
Maharshi Cinema
Release date
  • 5 February 2005 (2005-02-05)
Running time
132 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageTelugu

Pandem (transl. A Bet) is a 2005 Indian Telugu-language romantic comedy film produced by Valluripally Ramesh Babu under the Maharshi Cinema banner and directed by Sabapathy Dekshinamurthy in his Telugu debut. It stars Jagapati Babu, Kalyani and music composed by Chakri. It was dubbed into Hindi as Mera Challenge.

Plot[]

Seenu lives in a village, and roams with a gang. Lingaraju has been the unanimously elected president of that village for the past 25 years, and is corrupt and behaves as a dictator to the village. Seeta, from the same village, is an elementary school teacher. Seeta is Seenu's childhood friend and falls in love with her at first sight. Seenu plays a lot of tricks and tactics to gain her love and affection. One day, Seenu learns that Seeta wants to marry someone in a better position than her.

Meanwhile, Lingaraju makes a contract deal with some business people, who want to construct a factory in the village, which is hazardous to the people. Simultaneously, it's time for elections in the town. Lingaraju is overconfident that he will be unopposed. But Seenu decides to stand in the election and become president of the village so that he could reach a superior position to Seeta and could marry her. In the beginning, no one supports him because he is irresponsible, but with Seeta's inspiration he becomes altruistic and wins over the villagers, which Lingaraju could not do these long years. After seeing Seenu's following, Lingaraju hesitates, at the same time he learns his son Rajesh loves Seeta. So he makes a plan and arranges his son's engagement with Seeta, to demoralize Seenu. Even then, Seenu challenges Lingaraju that he would defeat him. The remaining story is how Seenu achieves both of his objectives.

Cast[]

  • Jagapati Babu as Seenu
  • Kalyani as Seeta
  • Ramaraju as Lingaraju
  • Ahuti Prasad as Satya Murthy
  • M. S. Narayana as Surinarayana
  • Kondavalasa as Jilla Rambabu
  • Krishna Bhagawan as Muriki Appala Naidu
  • Sivaji Raja as Abbulu
  • Chinna as RMP Doctor
  • Prudhviraj
  • Ravi Varma as Rajesh
  • Subbaraya Sharma as Villager
  • Sarika Ramchandra Rao as Pamula Narsaiyya
  • Chitram Basha
  • Jeeva as Police Inspector
  • Apoorva
  • Mahathi as Pankajam
  • Drasharamam Saroja as Saroja
  • Lavanya
  • Shobha Rani
  • Sakhi

Soundtrack[]

Pandhem
Film score by
Chakri
Released2005
GenreSoundtrack
Length21:52
LabelAditya Music
ProducerChakri
Chakri chronology
Dhana 51
(2005) 		Pandhem
(2005) 		Chakram
(2005)

Music was composed by Chakri.[1][2]

No.TitleLyricsSinger(s)Length
1."Kukku Kukku"VennelakantiHariharan, Kousalya4:50
2."Guppedu Gundela"VennelakantiChakri, Kousalya4:36
3."Ammadu Gummadu"BhaskarabhatlaShankar Mahadevan, Kousalya3:45
4."Ammalaganna Ammalara"SahithiAdarshini, Matin, Simha, Vasu4:18
5."Abbayo Vayasu"KandikondaRavi Varma, Sunanda4:09
Total length:21:52

Reception[]

Idlebrain rated the film 3.25 out of 5 stars and noted that "On the whole, Pandem is a minimum guarantee film which you would never regret watching".[3] Full Hyderabad wrote that "But the script is nowhere near taut, and the individual moments of the film completely undo the potential of the plot".[4]

References[]

  1. ^ "Songs". Raaga.
  2. ^ "Audio release - Pandem". Idlebrain. 18 January 2005.
  3. ^ "Pandem – Telugu cinema Review – Jagapati Babu, Kalyani". idlebrain.com. Retrieved 30 August 2021.
  4. ^ "Pandem Review". Full Hyderabad.

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