Gangotri
Gangotri is a Telugu film which released on March 28, 2003 and was directed by K. Raghavendra Rao.
Allu Arjun and Aditi Agarwal played the lead roles. This was Allu Arjun's first film as an actor
and K. Raghavendra Rao's 100th film as director. Allu Aravind and C. Ashwini Dutt, both who are big-time producers,
produced the film. This film was later dubbed into malayalam under the name "Simhakutty".
Neelakanta Naidu (Prakash Raj) is a big factionist.
He has a loyal confidant called Narasimha fro imis (Suman), who is willing to give his life for the sake of his master.
After gap of many years, Neelakanta Naidu's wife gives a birth to a baby daughter. But all the earlier babies born to Neelakanta
Naidu died due to some unknown reason. The priests advise Neelakanta to name his daughter as 'Gangotri' (Aditi Agarwal).
They also warn Neelakanta that the kid is having 'jalagandam', hence they ask Neelakanta to take Gangotri to the holy place
of Gangotri in Himalayas and do the 'abhyangana snanam' (bath with turmeric, milk etc.) for the next 15 years. After 15 years,
Gangotri would be free of any dangers. When nobody could entertain the kid Gangotri; Simhadri (Allu Arjun) - the son of Narasimha - makes
her smile by entertaining her with a song. Simhadri becomes a servant cum friend to Gangotri. They grow together. In the mean
time mother of Simhadri (Seeta) sacrifices her life to save Neelakantam. When Gangotri attains puberty, Gangotri's aunt (Sakuntala)
restricts Simhadri from meeting Gangotri. Gangotri and Simhadri realize that they fell in love. When Simhadri comes to Gangotri's
place clandestinely to meet her, they are caught red-handed by Neelakantam. Neelakantam beats Simhadri. Meantime, Narasimha comes
to the spot and interferes. This causes a rift between Neelakantam and his trusted lieutenant Narasimha. Neelakantam is
misinformed about Narasimha's intentions; hence he bombs the house of Narasimha. Simhadri is away at that time. When Simhadri
comes to know that Neelakantam is responsible for the bombing, he comes to Neelakantam's house and challenges that he would marry
Gangotri in 365 days. Then Simhadri reaches Gangotri and waits for his ladylove to come to that place for the final sacred bath.
The rest of the film is about how Simhadri and Gangotri unite together.
Cast
| Name | Character Name |
|---|---|
| Allu Arjun | Simhadri |
| Aditi Agarwal | Gangotri |
| Prakash Raj | Neelakanta Naidu |
| Suman | Narasimha |
Box-office
- The film had a successful 100-day run in 53 centres.
ARYA----PROUD OF YOUTH
Arya is a Telugu (Dubbed into Malayalam with the title "Arya proud of youth" ) film which released on 7 May 2004 and was directed by Sukumar. This film has Allu Arjun in the main lead. Though Arjun's first film was a hit, he wasn't quite recognized by Tollywood. But this film made him a popular star. This movie was remade into Oriya as Pagala Premi and in Tamil as Kutty.
Geetanjali a.k.a Geeta (Anuradha Mehta) goes to Kanyakumari on a trip. She finds a poem in a diary left on a beach and signs in it. Her anklet falls into the sea and a guy jumps into the water in front of her eyes but no one sees him returning. But she doesn't see his face. She dreams about that incident frequently with the idea that the guy who jumped has died but her friends ask her to forget it. Ajay (Siva Balaji) is a spoiled brat, and is the son of local MP Avataram (Rajan P Dev). He likes Geetanjali and proposes to her. When she refuses, he threatens to jump from the top of college building. Being a meek girl, Geeta accepts the proposal with the thought that some guy has already died for her and she doesn't want someone to get hurt because of her and starts dating him. Arya (Allu Arjun) is a happy-go-lucky guy who enjoys his life with friends and kids. On his first day to the college,he sees Geeta who just proposes to Ajay who is at the top of the college building , threatening her. Charmed by her beauty, Arya falls in love with her and soon he proposes to her. But Ajay makes conspiracy against Arya. She actually rejects his proposal saying that she is already committed to Ajay. One day Ajay's father, Mr.Avataram arranges a party in his house and it so turns out that Ajay introduces Geeta to his father and persuades him to fix their marriage. Ajay's father, who initially pretended to accept his son's marriage with Geeta, suddenly turns tables upside down by introducing another girl (Miss Lalasa by name) and announces that his son is going to marry Lalasa and not Geeta. He threatens his son not to marry anyone except Lalasa. Being embarrassed by the situation and helpless, Ajay sits down and starts to get frustrated. Arya, who loves Geeta so much that he never hesitated to help her, decides to go bring Ajay to Geeta and helps them elope. On their way, they are followed by Avataram's henchmen. The three youngsters find a train and get into it.
When they get down from the train in the night, they are shocked to see the leader of Avataram's henchmen who forces Geeta to come with him, denying his boss' order too. On the other hand Ajay remains helpless, while Arya bravely fights all the men and finally defeats them,rescuing Ajay and Geeta. They walk on to the nearby town, Arya's hometown. Being Already late and tired, the three go to bed. The next morning they wake up and realize that Ajay is missing. Arya tries to convince Geeta that Ajay left to win over his father. This leaves private time for Arya and Geeta and they grow close to each other. Geetha starts liking Arya .But when she tries to reveal it to him, Ajay and his father return. Avataram agrees to get Ajay married to Geeta. On the day of wedding, Geeta finds out that Arya was the guy who dived into the sea for her anklet and realizes that he came into her life much before Ajay. She realizes that while Ajay blackmailed her into loving him, Arya just wanted to see her happy. Geeta also realizes that Arya truly loves her, while Ajay was just acting on his impulse of wanting what he couldn't have. She leaves the wedding hall in tears and confesses her love to Arya.
Cast
* Allu Arjun ... Arya Sharma
* Anuradha Mehta ... Geetha Singh
* Siva Balaji ... Ajay Dhingra
* Subbaraju ... Subbu
* Rajan P. Dev ... MP Avataram
Crew
* Director: Sukumar
* Screenplay: Sukumar
* Story: Sukumar
* Dialogue: Sukumar
* Producer: Dil Raju
* Music: Devi Sri Prasad
* Editor: Marthand K. Venkatesh
* Choreography: Raju Sundaram, Nixon, Shankar, Ashok Raj, & Harish Pai
* Lyrics: Viswa, Veturi Sundararama Murthy, Chandrabose, & Sirivennela
Box-office performance
* The film had a 50-day run in 89 centres. The film had a 100-day run in 56 centres. It collected a share of 16 crores.[1]
* The film's dubbed version in Malayalam did a business of nearly Rs. 30-35 lakhs from Kerala
