Kondaveeti Donga is a film starring Chiranjeevi

Chiranjeevi

Chiranjeevi is a Telugu film actor and a politician. He has appeared primarily in Telugu Cinema along with a few Tamil, Kannada and Hindi films. He made his acting debut in Punadhirallu . However, Pranam Khareedu released at the box office earlier...

 which was a massive hit when it was released in 1990. Engaging and with a social cause at the same time, relating to both masses and classes, Kondaveeti Donga remains one of the best movies in the Telugu film history. The movie was later dubbed in Tamil as "Thangamalai Thirudan".

Plot

Raja(Chiranjeevi) goes to town for higher studies with the donation of people living in a tribal village. He returns back to his village after the studies. He then finds the sufferings of his people and how they are cheated local heads (Rao Gopal Rao and Mohanbabu).He then fills confidence in his men and tells them that they should face these illegal in the court of law. But this duo makes the villagers fools and Raja's attempts goes in vain. Few villagers get hurt by this act suicide as they have no other option and the blame is on Raja as he has forced them. Sametime Raja is selected for IAS but he rejects it and decides to fight against the villains and changes to a Robinhood avatar and names himself as Kondaveti Donga. He punishes the illegal and stands by the villagers thus all his folk starts admiring him. Trouble starts when the villains start doing mischief in the name of him. Vijayasanthi is an inspector comes to his place to catch hold of him. Radha her sister, working as a doctor knows his true identity and starts loving him. How this kondaveti donga punished the fruad people or is he caught by the police or what happens to him forms the rest of the story.

Credits

Release date: 9/3/1990

Banner: Sri Vijayalaxmi Art

Lead: Chiranjeevi, Vijayashanti, Radha

Producer: T Trivikrama Rao

Director: A. Kodandarami Reddy

A. Kodandarami Reddy

A. Kodandarami Reddy , is a Telugu film director who made successful films in 1980s and early 90s.His association with Chiranjeevi created blockbusters like Khaidi, Pasivadi Pranam, Athaku Yamudu Ammayiki Mogudu, Nyayam Kavali, Abhilasha, Goonda, Challenge , Donga, Rakshasudu, Jebu Donga,...

Music: Ilayaraja

Dialogues: Yandamuri Veerendranadh

Camera: V S R Swamy

Box-office performance

• The film was a block buster hit
• The film had collected a distributors' share of 7.4 million in its opening week.http://www.nonstopcinema.com/nsc/boxoffice/display.php?id=104

Thriller

Perhaps the most famous scene in the movie is that of a dance-tribute of sorts to Michael Jackson, to a Telegu version of Thriller

Thriller

Thrillers are a genre of literature, film, and television programming that uses suspense, tension, and excitement as the main elements. A common subgenre is psychological thrillers. After the assassination of President Kennedy, the political thriller and the paranoid thriller film became very popular...

. YouTube user Mike Sutton under the alias of Buffalax subtitled the video according to what he felt it sounded like in English

Mondegreen

A mondegreen is the mishearing or misinterpretation of a phrase as a result of near homophony, in a way that gives it a new meaning. It most commonly is applied to a line in a poem or a lyric in a song...

. Sutton is known to have dubbed other videos in the same manner, dubbed "Buffalaxing", before his account was terminated due to copyright violations.

Legacy

Jeevithame oka ata, Shubaleka rasukunna and several other songs from the film were also very famous.