Early Tollywood: SOUNDARYA

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Music: Mani Sharma
Dialogues and Lyrics: Jonna Vithula
Screenplay & Direction: Kodi Rama Krishna
Producer: MS Raju
Release Date: 15th January 2001

Cast:
Venkatesh - Krishna/Balaram
Anjala Zaveri - Satyavati
Soundarya - Karuna
Bhupinder Singh
Baby Cherry - Paapa
Suresh - Archaeologist's friend
M.S. Narayana - Perayya, Satyavati's grandfather

Story

This film starts with a voice explaining the submersion of Dwaraka village in the sea with visual appeal. And then the story jumps to 5000 years ahead and starts with a Krishna (Venky) doing pranks in Mumbai and earn living with petty thefts.

Satyavati (Anjala) is a foreign returned girl and she comes to know that her elder sister Karuna (Soundarya) got married to an archeologist when she visited to see the site of Dwaraka. Satyavani decides to visit Dwaraka to meet her sister. As Satyavati comes out of the airport of Bombay to go to Dwaraka, Krishna meets her as the driver of the taxi Satyavati hired thinking that she has valuable diamonds with her. On the way, he realizes that she is not the one who was supposed to have carried diamonds and decides to dump her and come back to Bombay. But the destiny has other plans (want to know how is it … better watch the film) and Krishna arrives in Dwaraka. There he meets up with a cute little friend called papa. And she has mystical powers. She explains Krishna about the flash back.

There is used to be an archeologist called Balaram (Venky), who was an atheist. He believes more in the power of science than that of God. There she meets up with a damsel called Karuna (Soundarya) and they fall in love, get married and Karuna gets pregnant (courtesy: one single song). There used to be a kind of catostrophy in the sea adjoining the Dwaraka every Amavasya, which generates huge amount of torque. Balaram believes that there is a mystery behind that's strange thing in the sea. During one Amavasya, he jumps into the sea and comes back with a huge archaic metal box that has all kinds of marks and an embossed trishulam.

There is a bunch of foreigners who are after that mystical box. When Venky opens it, he turns into believer in God with the kind of effect it shows and he is told by the Devi inside that the box need to be put back in the same place as it was meant for saving the world from the natural calamity. That box consists of a Devi, who prevents the natural calamity everyday except for the day of Amavasya, when she becomes wild and generates that amount of torque. But the foreigners believe that that box consists of nuclear powers and they can sell it off at an unbelievable price.

At the same time, the baby in the stomach of Karuna has mystical powers and she can communicate too. When Balaram tries to take the box back and leave it in the sea, he gets the call from the villains that they kid napped his pregnant wife. He hides the box at some place and goes back. In that episode Balaram dies and he tells the secret to his wife. The papa inside Karuna overhears it.

And the rest of the story is about how she makes sure that the box is gone back to it's original place with the help of Krishna. I am not revealing the entire story as this film has lot of powerful mystic attached to it. And mystic of the film should remain as the mystery till you watch it. Please do not kill your excitement by reading the complete story anywhere. If you want to experience the mystical thrill, you got to watch the best special effects movie ever made in India only on the bigger screen with the DTS effect.

3.25.2008

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SOUNDARYA PROFILE

Original Name : Soumya
Date of Birth: 18 July 1971
Date of Death: 17 April 2004
Birth Place : Bangalore
Height : 5' 7
Nationality : Indian
Profession : Actress
Claim to Fame : By the film 'Mayalodu (1993)' 'Rajendrudru Gajendrudru (1993)'
Family : Father - Satyanarayana; Spouse - Raghu Sridhar
Qualification : MBBS Ist year
Maiden Film : Gandharva in Kannada
Telugu Film : Raitu Bharatam
Total Film : Around 90 Flims
Awards : Received Prestigious FilmFare Award(1999)
Address : C/O. Prashanth Kuteer, Guest House. Banjara Hills. Hyderabad.

Biography: Soundarya, was born on July 17 at Bangalore, with the real name of Soumya. She proved worthy of their selection by playing performance-oriented characters as well as portraying glamorous roles.

Soundarya was born in the Ashtagrama villages and was an Ashtagrama Iyer. She married her maternal uncle and childhood friend, software engineer G. S. Raghu on 27,April, 2003. She had great dreams of promoting public welfare during her lifetime. At the time of her death, she was about to produce and act in a film titled 'Kamli', directed by K.N.T Sastry. Her wishes of funding welfare activities are being fulfilled by her husband and sister-in-law through the AMARA SOUNDARYA SOCIAL AND EDUCATIONAL TRUST [ASSET]. She has developed the entire village of Gangigunte [her native village], Mallibagilu Taluk, in the Kolara district of Karnataka. Soundarya maintained an orphanage. Presently, it is being maintained by her relatives. In addition, the school, AMARA SOUNDARYA VIDYALAYA, is maintained by her trust and her own home is now being used as a school. There are many ideas and concepts that were dreamt and thought by Soundarya and her brother Amarnath, for the welfare of the society fulfilling by Soundarya's husband and Soundarya's sister-in-law NirmalaAmarmath using ASSET.she had adopted some educational institutions and given funding for so many educational institutions and their family is continuing funding for educational institutions.Soundarya died on April 17, 2004 when the four-seater plane Cessna 180 caught fire immediately after take off. She was on her way to Andhra Pradesh to campaign for Bharatiya Janata Party for the elections. Her brother, Amarnath, a producer of Kannada films, also died in the accident. Her last film was the immensely successful Kannada film, Aaptamitra. Now 'Soundarya Memorial award' was kept and issuing by Karnatandhra Lalitkala academy on memory of Soundarya for every ugadi.

In a short period, she reached the pinnacle of her film career and secured stardom by playing opposite top heroes. There's an enigmatic charm in her which makes her simply irresistible. Like all good things in life, she seems to get better as time passes by. Though a Kannadiga by birth, she's settled down in Andhra like a proper
Trivia:

At the time of her death she was on her way to an election rally for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) campaign in Karimnagar, Andhra Pradesh. Her brother Amarnath, an employee of the BJP, was also killed in the plane crash.
She discontinued her medical education to enter the film industry in 1992.
She is daughter of noted Kannada producer and director Satyanarayana. She married her distant cousin Raghu Sridhar, a software engineer, in April 2003.

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