Iddaru Mitrulu (1999 film)

Vijay (Chiranjeevi) and Anita (Sakshi Sivanand) are best friends. They share their thoughts, happiness, and pain with each other. One day Anita finds love in a photographer, Prakash (Suresh) and marries him, while Vijay plays a lover boy and marries Shanti (Ramya Krishna). However, Anita's happiness ends when she finds out that her husband is two-timing her. Vijay consoles her but his wife is unhappy that he spends so much time with her and gives him an ultimatum. He chooses his friend and takes care of her and her unborn child and later reunites her with her husband. Anita wants to see her friend in a happy state as well and reunites him with Shanti. The film ends on a happy note, with the happy couples holding the newborn baby.

• Chiranjeevi as Vijay
• Sakshi Sivanand as Anita
• Ramya Krishna as Shanti
• Suresh as Prakash
• Sudhakar as Harishchandra a.k.a. Hari
• Chandra Mohan as Ranga Rao, Vijay's father
• Mallikarjuna Rao as Vijay's Cook
• AVS as Navala Subba Rao, Shanti's Father
• Y. Vijaya as Shanti's Mother
• Brahmanandam as Titanic, Shanti's Bodyguard
• Subbaraya Sharma
• Rambha for Cameo appearance in song, Rukku Rukku

The music for this film was composed by Manisharma. The audio was a huge hit and all the songs were chartbusters. All the tracks were massive hits, especially the tracks "Hey Rukku" featuring Rambha, "Nootokka Jillalo" gained much mass attention due to heavy dance steps. The track "Bangaram Techhi" sung by K. S. Chithra and Partha Sarathi was critically acclaimed due to the emotional rendition provided by Chitra in the song suiting the situation in the movie.{{Citation needed|date=June 2024}}

{{Infobox album

| name = Iddaru Mitrulu

| type = Soundtrack

| artist = Mani Sharma

| cover =

| released = 1999

| recorded = 1999

| genre = Soundtrack

| length = 29:38

| label = Aditya Music

| producer = Mani Sharma

| prev_title = Neti Gandhi

| prev_year = 1999

| next_title = Raja Kumarudu

| next_year = 1999

}}

{{track listing

| headline = Track Listing{{cite web | url = https://www.jiosaavn.com/album/iddaru-mithrulu/1U,xOMZkm8k_ | website = JioSaavn | title = Iddaru Mithrulu | date = 30 April 1999 | access-date = 8 December 2020}}

| extra_column = Singer(s)

| total_length = 29:34

| title1 = Hey Rukku Rukku

| extra1 = S. P. Balasubrahmanyam & K. S. Chithra

| lyrics1 = Chandrabose

| length1 = 4:26

| title2 = Changu Changu

| extra2 = Udit Narayan & Harini

| lyrics2 = Chandrabose

| length2 = 4:38

| title3 = Dhek Baba Dhek

| extra3 = S. P. Balasubrahmanyam & K. S. Chithra

| lyrics3 = Chandrabose

| length3 = 5:24

| title4 = Noottokka Jillallo

| extra4 = Mano & K. S. Chithra

| lyrics4 = Chandrabose

| length4 = 5:15

| title5 = Manasavachha Manasiste

| lyrics5 = Chandrabose

| extra5 = S. P. Balasubrahmanyam & Sujatha Mohan

| length5 = 4:46

| title6 = Bangaram Techhi

| lyrics6 = Sirivennela Seetharama Sastry

| extra6 = K. S. Chithra, Partha Sarathi

| length6 = 5:08

}}

Idlebrain wrote "It is a very atypical of Raghavendra Rao and Chiru combination to select such a soft story. He did not do complete justice to direction as he seem to have lost his grip over subject during the last two reels. Muthaya Subbaiah or Jayanth would have handled this story in a better manner. He hurried at the end giving a complete anti-climax".{{cite web | url=http://www.idlebrain.com/movie/archive/mr-iddaru.html | title=Idle Brain }} Andhra Online wrote "You have great expectations when it is a Chiranjeevi film. More so when it is directed by Raghavendra Rao. Sad to say, expectations fall flat, at least when it comes to the story which is anything but new. How many times, Oh! How many times has friendship between a man and a woman and the misunderstandings about it been dealt with? Innumerable".{{cite web|url=http://www.andhraonline.com/tolly/just.htm|title=Iddaru Mithrulu|website=Andhra Online|access-date=18 November 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19990508144416/http://www.andhraonline.com/tolly/just.htm|archive-date=8 May 1999}}

{{Reflist}}

• {{IMDb title|0245961|Iddaru Mitrulu}}

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Category:1990s Telugu-language films

Category:1999 films

Category:Films directed by K. Raghavendra Rao

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Category:Indian drama films

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