Thandri Kodukula Challenge

Thandri Kodukula Challenge
Directed by	M. Mallikarjuna Rao
Written by	Paruchuri Brothers
Based on	Needhikkuppin Paasam (1963 Tamil Film)
Produced by	M. V. Rama Rao A. Ramdas[1]
Starring	Krishna Radha Sumalatha Kaikala Satyanarayana[2]
Cinematography	P. S. Prakash
Edited by	Kotagiri Gopala Rao
Music by	Chakravarthy
Production company	Vijaya Padmalaya Pictures[3]
Release date	14 January 1987 (1987-01-14)[4]
Country	India
Language	Telugu

Thandri Kodukula Challenge is an Indian Telugu film released on 14 January 1987 starring Krishna, Radha, Sumalatha and Kaikala Satyanarayana in the main roles with a musical score by K. Chakravarthy.^[5] The film directed by M. Mallikarjuna Rao was produced by M. V. Rama Rao and A. Ramdas for Vijaya Padmalaya Pictures.

With its release coinciding with the Sankranti festival, the film turned out to be a Superhit^[6] at the box office despite facing competition from other releases — Majnu, Bhargava Ramudu and Punnami Chandrudu. The film is a remake of the Tamil film Needhikkuppin Paasam.

Adv. Raja, the younger son of S. P. Chakradhara Rao and Dr. Saraswati Devi, happens to save Shankarayya from the goons of a wicked Veera Swamy and later defends him in the court when he is wrongly framed of attempting to murder Veera Swamy thereby facing his own brother, Ramu in the court and eventually emerging victorious. He later falls in love with Gowri, Shankarayya's daughter much to his mother's chagrin as he was expected to marry Kalyani. She even threatens Gowri to back off. Meanwhile, Gowri's cousin Narahari, an ex-military officer, who has an insatiable lust for her is enraged upon knowing her relation with Raja. With the help of Veera Swamy he murders Shankarayya and manages to put the blame on Saraswati Devi. Chakradhara Rao who witnesses his wife removing the murder weapon from Shankarayya's body while trying to save him misinterprets her intentions and arrest her. An enraged and embarrassed Raja now takes it upon himself to prove his mother's innocence forcing him to have a face off with his own brother, Ramu, once again since he happens to be the public prosecutor. With the help of a CBI officer who was masquerading as a blind man he not only brings the real culprits — Narahari and Veera Swamy to justice but also helps his father in proving that these two knaves are responsible for the illegal manufacture of local bombs. He reunites his family and marries Gowri with his mother's consent.

• Krishna as Adv. Raja
• Radha as Gowri
• Sumalatha as Kalyani
• Kaikala Satyanarayana as S. P. Chakradhara Rao
• Jayanthi as Dr. Saraswati Devi
• Tiger Prabhakar as Narahari
• Ranganath as Adv. Ramu
• Gollapudi Maruthi Rao as Shankarayya
• Chalapathi Rao as Veera Swamy
• Deepa as Janaki

1. "Appa Amma" -
2. "Yekku Yekku" -
3. "Oyy Labakh" -
4. "Oohala Banthi" -
5. "Magha Masamochchana" -
6. "Aattinum" -