
Birthday:
01-14-1951
Deathday:
06-19-2001 (50 years)
Birthplace:
Not available
Biography
Jandhyala (born Jandhyala Veera Venkata Durga Siva Subrahmanya Sastry) (14 January 1951 – 19 June 2001), popularly known as Haasya Brahma, was an Indian film screenwriter, director, and actor known for his works in Telugu cinema.[1] Known for his contributions to the comedy film genre, He has garnered four state Nandi Awards and one Filmfare Award.[2] In 1983, he directed Ananda Bhairavi, premiered at International Film Festival of India
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Aapathbandavudu
Act like School teacher
event1992 star_border 6.2
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Aapadbandhavudu is a 1992 Telugu film. It was the third collaboration between actor Chiranjeevi and director K. Viswanath after Shubhalekha and Swayamkrushi. The movie won critical acclaim, especially for Chiranjeevi, who received the Nandi Award for Best Actor & Filmfare Award for Best Actor - Telugu for his performance. This film marked Jandhyala's only screen appearance.
Vijetha
Act like Coach
event1985 star_border 8
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Chinnababu realizes that despite having well-earning sons his father is struggling to fund his younger sister's wedding. In order to help him, Chinnababu takes a drastic step.
Rendu Jella Seetha
Director
event1983
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Four men, Gopi (Naresh), Mohan (Rajesh), Krishna (Pradeep) and Murthy (Subhakar) fall for Seetha (Mahalakshmi), and try to impress her. One fine day they all go to Seetha and ask her whom she love. Then Seetha replies that it is Madhu (Kamalakar). They all are shocked. Then Seetha narrates the flashback. When Seetha was travelling in a bus, Madhu (Kamalakar) is standing beside her and when he is trying to give money to conductor his coin slips into Seetha's blouse. The conductor asks for change, but he has no change, the conductor asks him to get down. Madhu says he has an exam, then Seetha gets a ticket for him too. Seetha teaches music for Madhu's friend's sisters and some girls. There he proposes to her by showing a classical song in a music book. She responds with the same feeling by showing another song.
Srivari Sobhanam
Director
event1985
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Kiran(Naresh) is a manager in a shop of electronics. Staff members tease him for his strictness towards girls. To prove them wrong he urgently marries a girl (Anitha Reddy). But his inexperience frightens him about the possibility of his failure while celebrating first night with his bride. To over-come this fear he seeks his secretary Margaret (Manochitra)'s help. Every attempt is met with some obstacle. Meanwhile a stranger begins to blackmail Kiran about his involvement with Margaret. How Kiran overcomes these and celebrates the happy night...?
Mogudu Pellalu
Director
event1985
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A comedy film directed by Jandhyala starring Bhanupriya, V.K. Naresh and Subhalekha Sudhakar in lead roles.
Vichitra Prema
Director
event1991
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The film begins on, two soulmates Seetapathi (Subbaraya Sarma) & Major Pratapa Rao (Abhishith Varma) fixing up their children, Sivudu (Rajendra Prasad) & Parvati's (Amurtha) alliance in their childhood. But unfortunately, the children grows up with rivalry, so, the elders separate them. After 10 years, they meet unknowingly and an incident makes Parvati misunderstand Sivudu as a thief. Eventually, the elders arrange their get-together, Here they truly fall in love when both the elders burst out and forcibly arrange the children's marriages with unknown people. At last, Sivudu brings out the truth and reunites the elders. Finally, the movie ends on a happy note with the marriage of Sivudu & Parvati.
Vetagadu
Story
event1979
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A greedy accountant murders a wealthy man's wife and deceitfully manages to take over his property. However, fate has other plans in store for him.
Aha Naa Pellanta!
Director
event1987 star_border 6.9
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Krishna Murthy, the son of a rich industrialist, falls in love with Padma, the daughter of a greedy miser. To win her heart and teach her father a lesson, Krishna acts like a greedy miser.
Choopulu Kalasina Shubhavela
Director
event1988
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An employee in the company of Nutan Prasad's brother Pandurangam, Anand Mohan falls in love with Nutan Prasad's daughter Padma. Anand Mohan rescues Lakshmi Prasad from his suicide bid following losses in business, and gets him a job in the company in which he works. Lakshmi Prasad falls in love with Lalitha a girl from his own village, when he meets her in the city.
Aditya 369
Dialogue
event1991 star_border 7
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In a series of events involving a stolen diamond, Krishna and Hema get caught in a time machine and travel through the centuries, encountering historical figures and exploring futuristic worlds.
Bhale Krishnudu
Writer
event1980
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Krishna is the son of a wealthy man, Madhav Rao. When Madhav Rao's secretary tricks him for his property leading to his death, Krishna takes up a false identity to avenge his father's loss.
Chantabbai
Director
event1986 star_border 7.5
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Panduranga Rao is a detective, who is popularly known as James Pond. His life takes an interesting turn when he is tasked to find a lady's long-lost brother.
Jayammu Nischayammu Raa!
Director
event1990 star_border 7.3
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A wonderful comedy about the efforts of a young man trying to win the love of his lady with some help from his friends.
Abbaigaru
Dialogue
event1993 star_border 4
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A greedy woman fears she might lose control over her stepson, an illiterate and gullible person, when she learns about his unexpected marriage and attempts to sabotage his married life.
Bava Bava Panneeru
Director
event1991 star_border 9
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Kota Srinivasa Rao is a wealthy man, with poor relatives waiting for him to die so that they can get their hands on his money. Kota wants to get married so that he can leave his health to an heir. However his relatives hamper all his efforts to get married. He decides to evade them by leaving his home and moving to another place. He also adopts a young girl Chandraprabha (Rupa Kala), with the intention of marrying her when she grows up. He installs her in a home with 2 servants as caretakers. Ramesh (Naresh) is under pressure from his parents pressurizing him to marry girls from their respective families. Tired of their matchmaking he moves to the town where the heroine stays. Kota tells heroine that she will be married without telling her that he would be the groom. He tells heroine that the man who comes to her house on a specific day will be her husband, and Ramesh comes there by mistake. They both fall for each other. Kota is Ramesh's father's friend - and Ramesh tells him about
Hai Hai Nayaka
Director
event1989 star_border 7
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One of the all-time greatest movies penned from the legend Jandhyala. Jandhyala often tries to convey social messages to humanity through his movies and through this movie takes up the sensitive topic of upbringing children and importance of education in nurturing the childhood. Some part of the movie is also based on the unemployment which was prevalent in the 80's in the country. The way these sensitive subjects were presented by Jandhyala along with The elements of humor, love and music rates this movie one of the best movies in the history of Telugu cinema
Sankarabharanam
Dialogue
event1980 star_border 5.5
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Sankara Shastri is a devout and famous classical singer who finds a fan in Tulasi, a prostitute's daughter. She wants to devote herself to his service, but her mother wants her to become a prostitute.
Sagara Sangamam
Dialogue
event1983 star_border 7.2
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A young multi-talented dancer is poverty stricken and as a principled person he does not want to compromise on his ethics for commercial dancing. A wealthy woman recognizes this talent and provides him with an opportunity to showcase his art.
Rowdy Ramudu Konte Krishnudu
Dialogue
event1980
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A gangster and his acolyte try to lay their hands on a treasure, which rightfully belongs to the government. Two young brothers thwart their attempts and receive the accolades of one and all.
Saptapadi
Dialogue
event1981 star_border 10
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Yajulu is a man who believes fiercely in customs and rituals. Without the consent of his daughter Hema, he gets her married to Gaurinatha, who in turn realises that she loves Murali.
Aakhari Poratam
Screenstory
event1988 star_border 7.5
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CBI officer Pravallika strives to expose a dangerous criminal, Anantananda Swamy. In her quest, she finds help in a stage artiste named Vihari who offers to help.
Adavi Ramudu
Story
event1977 star_border 5
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Nagabhushanam and his son Nagaraju (Satyanarayana) runs smuggling and Illegal transport of forest produce in the Forest. Ramu (NTR) opposes and raises the villagers to fight against him. Padma (Jayaprada) Daughter of Forest officer (Jaggayya) loves him. One tribal lady Chilakamma (Jayasudha) also loves him as a brother. Nagabhushanam takes the help of Jaggu (Sridhar) to sent Ramu away from the forest. Later half reveals that Ramu was in fact a Forest officer in secret mission to investigate the case of Forest affairs. The story finally leads to the arrest of criminals.
Seethakoka Chilaka
Dialogue
event1981
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A man and a woman fall in love with each other; his mother does not approve of her as she is from a different religion and her brother is a gangster. But they decide to withstand religious differences to be with each other.
Srivariki Premalekha
Director
event1984 star_border 6
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Ananda Rao is in love with a girl who writes love letters to him. But before he finds her, he must tackle a number of obstacles, including a dominating father, cunning colleagues and an imposter.
Govindha Govindha
Dialogue
event1993 star_border 4.5
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A Tantric believes that by donating a virgin woman's head to gods crown, would bring down the universe to his feet. How the hero and heroine gets entangled in the underworld nexus, while rescuing the robbery, forms the crux of the plot.
Seetharama Kalyanam
Director
event1986
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The story starts with a conflict between two villages Ramapuram and Raghavapuram for Lord Rama statues. In that conflict, Raja's father who is the president of Ramapuram has been killed by Govindaiah brother-Subbaramaiah. Taking into that mind Raja's elder brother Rangayya kills Subbaramaiah and is sentenced to jail. After few years, Raja falls in love with one of his colleague in college without knowing that she is Subbaramayya's daughter, her name is Vara Laxmi. But their love was accepted neither by Laxmi's brother Hari nor by Govindayya. The rest of the film is all about how Raja struggles to marry Lakshmi with creating the relationship between both the families.
Padamati Sandhya Ragam
Director
event1987 star_border 7
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The story of an Indian girl falling in love with an American in 80s USA.
Amarajeevi
Director
event1983
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Dr. Murali, a well-renowned eye specialist, shows hatred towards women as he is victimized by a girl named Savitri. Suddenly, a young lady, Lalitha, enters his life, and he profoundly falls for her.
Babai Hotel
Director
event1992
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Babai Hotel is a 1992 Telugu-language comedy drama film directed by Jandhyala and produced by K. S. Rama Rao under the banner Creative Commercials. The film stars Brahmanandam, Gundu Hanumantha Rao and Kinnera.[1] This movie was named based on Babai Hotel in Vijayawada.
Jagadeka Veerudu Athiloka Sundari
Dialogue
event1990 star_border 8.5
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Raju (Chiranjeevi), a courageous and spirited young man, is a caregiver to four young orphans. He is a tourist guide in a picturesque hill station. One of the children is accidentally injured and, on the suggestion of an ayurvedic guru that the cure for this injury can be found on the banks of Manasa Sarovar, Raju goes to the Himalayas. During the same time, a celestial being, Indraja (Sridevi), the daughter of Lord Indra, happens to visit the Manasa Sarovar. She accidentally drops her ring, which is her passport to the Heaven. Raju finds this ring and starts wearing it, unaware of its divine power. Because Indraja is unable to enter Heaven, Brihaspathi, the Deva-guru, allows her to go back to Earth to retrieve it before the next Kartik Poornima.
Mudda Mandaram
Director
event1981
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Pradeep is son of a millionaire. He returns from America after his studies. He falls in love with a simple flower seller, Poornima. He marries her against the wishes of his father Shankar. How the young lovers survived facing the reality of life is the rest of the story.
Malle Pandiri
Director
event1982
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A story about a 35-year-old bachelor.
Nalugu Stambalata
Director
event1982
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Naresh and Pradeep are classmates. Naresh loves Sarada but marries Kamala due to certain circumstances. To save Sarada who is pregnant by then, Pradeep marries her. Naresh, who is unable to forget the past, cannot compromise with Kamala. What happens in this situation forms the rest of the story.
Nelavanka
Director
event1983
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Srirama Raju (Gummadi) is the zamindar of the village. Raheem (J.V. Somayajulu), his classmate and a friend, also works as his carriage-driver. The zamindar has two daughters Savitri (Rajyalakshmi) and Lalitha (Tulasi) and a son Ravi (Eswara Rao). Savitri is a born mute, while Tulasi goes to college. Tulasi meets Kiran (Kiran) who traps her in the name of love and later marries Savitri for money. Raheem's son Saleem (Rajesh) rescues Lalitha from Kiran. A couple of villagers who had grudges on Raheem create Hindu-Muslim clashes between the otherwise peaceful villagers. How all issues were resolved and the price they had to pay, to regain peace in the village as well as in their lives, forms the rest of the story.
Shubhodayam
Dialogue
event1980
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Telugu movie made in 1980
Ramu
Dialogue
event1987
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Ramu (Nandamuri Balakrishna) is an orphan whom Lawyer Raghava Rao (Jaggayya) and Gayatri Devi (Sharada) had adopted and treated like a son, as one of their four children. Ramu was very sensible and loved his parents a lot, he could do anything for his parents. Once Ramu meets Sita (Rajani), who is the daughter of the servant in their house and falls in love with her. Ramu's freedom and rights in the affairs of their house is not liked by their own sons Satish and Ramesh (Hari Prasad and Bhaskar) and son-in-law Gopalam (Sudhakar). So they plan and remove Ramu from their house and take all the authorities. Now Ramu is trying to reunite his family. Whether he will he be successful in his mission forms the rest of the story.
Rendu Rellu Aaru
Director
event1986
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The film begins with two close friends Sadguna Rao (Chandra Mohan) & Madhusudan Rao (Rajendra Prasad). Once he is acquainted with a beautiful girl Keerthana (Preeti) in funny circumstances and they fall in love. Keertana also holds a mate Vindhya (Rajani) a stage artist. Right now, the story unfolds by Keerthana divulging Vindhya regarding her childhood marriage with a guy Venkata Sivam in their village which she denies and even changed her name from Vighneshwari to Keerthana.
Sommokadidhi Sokokadidhi
Dialogue
event1979 star_border 10
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Sommokadidi Sokokadidi is a 1978 Telugu-language Indian film directed by Singeetam Srinivasa Rao. Kamal Haasan plays a double role as an honest doctor and a happy-go-lucky youth. This was the first film of Singeetam Srinivasa Rao and Kamal Haasan together.
Rama Rao Gopal Rao
Director
event1984 star_border 8
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Funny movie based on 'Parakaya Pravesam' staring Chandra Mohan and Rao Gopal Rao.
Swati Kiranam
Dialogue
event1992 star_border 8.3
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An egotistical music teacher envious of the extraordinary talent of his prodigious young disciple.
Padaharella Vayasu
Dialogue
event1978
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Malli (Sridevi), who just passed her tenth class, had nurtured only one dream since childhood - to become a teacher. As a teenager, she falls in love with the doctor who comes to the village. However, her dreams are shattered when she finds out aabout his real character. She realizes what life really is after the death of her mother and settles with the innocent Chandram (Chandra Mohan) who rescues her from Simhachalam (Mohan Babu).
Siri Siri Muvva
Dialogue
event1976 star_border 8
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Hyma, a mute girl with a passion for dance, escapes her evil stepmother with help from her lover. In the city, after facing many trials and tribulations, they finally make success out of their lives.
Nireekshana
Dialogue
event1982
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Bhanu Chandra, a forest officer by profession falls in love with Tulasi, a tribal girl. He later gets arrested when police mistakenly identify him as a Naxalite and he subsequently receives life imprisonment. After he is released from jail, he hopes that Tulasi still waits for him despite all the years left behind them.
Babai Abbai
Director
event1985
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The film begins with two con artists Bala & Veera who meet in a very crazy situation and start living together. Out of goodwill, they call each other as Babayi-Abbayi, and their livelihood is making debts and absconding from lenders. Once Bala is acquainted with a beautiful girl Krishnaveni / Krishna, daughter of a multi-millionaire Vara Prasada Rao and they fall in love. Being cognizant of it, Vara Prasada Rao assigns a task for Bala by allocating a huge amount of Rs.25 lakhs and asks him to spend it within 30 days. Eventually, warns him not to donate or destroy the money. At present, Bala starts the task under the guidance of Babai in various methods such as racing, gambling, making a movie, constructing the house, etc.
Ladies Special
Director
event1993
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When their manager threatens to fire them, four women working at a supermarket plan to kidnap him and save their jobs.
Kaksha
Writer
event1980
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Kaksha (transl. Revenge) is an Indian Telugu-language action film written and directed by V. C. Guhanathan in his Telugu cinema debut.
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