Eduruleni Manishi (2001)

Directed by
Srinivasa Rao Jonnalagadda
Writing credits
Bhupati Raja screenplay
Bhupati Raja story
Original Music by
Ilayaraja
Stunts
Kanal Kannan .... stunt coordinator
Music Department
K.S. Chitra .... playback singer
Mano .... playback singer
Cast
Nagarjuna Akkineni ... Surya Murthy / Satya Murthy
Soundarya ... Vasundhara
Srinivasa Rao Kota
Ranganath
Nasser
Sriram L.B.
Kallu Chidambaram
Satya Prakash
Surya
Ponnambalam
Achyuth
Brahmanandam ... Hero friend
Story: Surya Murthy (Nag) is the head of a village where he is respected with a lot of reverence by the entire village except for the trouble shooting Nazar. Surya Murthy stays with his grandfather (Satyanarayana) and grandmother (Showkar Janaki) and a 6-year-old girl Vaani. He has a younger look-a-like brother Satya Murthy (Nag again) in Hyderabad completing his engineering in computer science. Satya Murthy has a non-Telugu-speaking girl friend Sri (Shehnaz). Satya Murthy has a worrying factor now. His elder brother Surya Murthy has decided not to marry in his life. Hence Satya Murthy starts looking for a suitable bride for his elder brother. There he meets Vasundhara (Soundarya) at a temple and decides that she is the right choice for his elder brother. He approaches Vasundhara and asks her hand for marrying his elder brother. Later on, Vasundhara happen to observe the heroism and goodness in Surya Murthy when he comes to Hyderabad to meet Satya Murthy. Later on Vasundhara comes to know that Surya Murthy and Satya Murthy are the younger brothers of the man who married his elder sister Yamuna. Yamuna tells Vasundhara that Surya Murthy played a villain role in their life and he was instrumental in her husband dying after prolonged boozing due the compounding problems. She also tells that after her husband's demise, Surya Murthy forcibly took away her daughter Vaani. After coming to know about her elder sisters flashback, Vasundhara decides to take revenge by marrying Surya Murthy and then slowly destroy the entire family. She accepts the proposal of Satya Murthy to marry his brother Surya Murthy. Then they start doing a drama by making Vasundhara stay in the village of Satya Murthy and creating situations where Vasundhara saves Vaani from the perils. After the repetitive requests from his family members and Vaani, Surya Murthy marries Vasundhara. First step of Vasundhara after marriage was to postpone the first night by 22 days by bribing the priest. Then she transfers the money and jewelry to his sister's house with the help of a petty thief. But that thief runs away without giving jewelry to her sister and gets caught by the police. Meantime, Satya Murthy realizes the intentions of his bhabhi Vasundhara and explains her the flashback of Vaani and tells her that it was Yamuna who was a characterless lady. By the time Vasundhara realizes the fault of her, the thief was presented in the house of Surya Murthy and was interrogated about who give him jewelry. To save his bhabhi, Satya Murthy behaves in a strange manner and tells Surya Murthy that he wants his partnership in the property. He tells that he stolen the jewelry and want the thief to sell that off so that he can start his software business (all college passouts can get some ideas about putting a startup after watching this film). With that incident, the brothers split. The rest of the film is about how the brothers get united and decimate the villain gang.