Telugu Movie Review Guntur Talkies - Cast & Crew

The model turned actor, Shraddha Das is one among the young actors of today, who’s carved her own niche in the field of the South Indian film industry with her impeccable beauty and skills. She majorly works in the Telugu film industry playing supporting roles in most films and lead roles in a few films.

Shraddha was originally a Bengali girl who ventured into modelling before she set foot into the world of showbiz. It was Tollywood that Shraddha Das initially chose to act in debuting with Siddu from Srikakulam (starring Allari Naresh). Target and four other telugu films followed post that but none of them won her the fame that the supporting role that she played as a psychotic-lover-girl in Arya 2 (the Allu Arjun starrer) did. She bagged a lot of offers after Arya 2 with her career graph going straight up. Mantra 2 (sequel of the horror flick Mantra), Nagavalli (sequel of Chandramukhi) and Maro Charithra (a remake of the Kamal Haasan starrer) are some of the big films that Shraddha bagged after that.

Shraddha made her mark in Bollywood by being a part of two small films, Lahore and Dil Toh Baccha Hai Ji. She also forayed into the Kannada and Malayalam. It was only in the telugu cinema that she gained much popularity in comparison with all other languages that she acted in.

Despite being a much loved and a popular face in the Telugu film industry, Shraddha Das is yet to get the taste of that grand success that she deserves.

Rashmi Gautam is an actress who mainly works in Telugu movies. She was born in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, on April 7, 1988. She made her debut in Holi, a Telugu film in 2002, in a supporting role. In 2009, she made her Hindi debut with Well Done Abba. After doing a few supporting roles in Telugu, She made her debut in Tamil movie, Kandaen in 2011 with Shanthanu Bhagyaraj, which won positive reviews for her presentation. Actress Sangeetha, who watched Rashmi’s performance in a reality dance show, suggested her to director AC Mugil. He gave her an opportunity to play the lead role in Kandaen. In 2012, she won the Best Female Debutant Actress in SIIMA Award for the Kannada movie, Guru, which is the remake of Tamil hit, Mouna Guru.

Sreevidhya Nanjan is an Indian television actress who works mainly in the Tamil film industry. Sreevidhya’s husband is Arjunan Karthick. She is known for “Kalyana Parisu Season 1”, a Tamil TV Serial that was telecasted on Sun TV in 2014, directed by Harish Adithya, produced by Vision Time India Pvt Ltd, and Neha Gowda (Gayathri), Eshwar (Surya), Shruthi Shamuga Priya (surya’s second wife), and Sridevi Ashok played the leading roles and Sadhan, Andrew, and Sreevidhya Nanjan (Vanitha Azhaguraja- Surya’s sister) played the supporting roles, “Mundhaanai Mudichu,” a Tamil serial telecasted on Sun TV, directed by P. Selvam, produced by Siddhiq, and Sreeja Chandran, Durga, and Kuyili played the leading roles.

Allari Subhashini’s real name is Thirumala Subashini. She is a Telugu and film and serial actress. She is from Bhemavaram, Andhra Pradesh. She was a stage artist. When she was studying, her father was dead and she started stage shows. And now she does not have husband and she does not have mother. She has children. She studied 7th class only but she wanted study more. At her 7th class she got married. She has one sister. From her childhood onwards she was a stage artist. When she came to Hyderabad for Chinthamani drama, after her drama, actor chalapathi rao garu had told her to ask Ravi babu for Allari movie. And she asked director Ravi babu and he gave her chance in Allari movie and this was her first movie and through this everyone are calling her as Allari Subhashini. After that she got many chances in movies like Sri Anjaneyam under Krishna vamshi gari direction. She likes directors like EVV sathyanarayana garu and Krishna vamshi garu. She likes actors like Balakrishna, NTR, Nagarjuna, Chiranjeevi, and Rajanikanth. She likes actress like Vanisri and she used to follow her style like dressing and jewellary. What ever she likes, she follows. She likes to eat frons, fish, and chicken. She does not like liers. She believes in god. If she gets free time, she likes to read Bible and Baba parayanam. She likes movies like Ninne pelladutha. She likes to do Dramas. She did dramas like Chinthamani, Sri Krishna thulabaram, and etc. she said that the Artist is king. Now, she is acting in serials. She is also a drama singer.

Serials: Nishabdham, Mudhu bidda, Kotha bangaram, Shivapuranam, etc

Movies: Allari, sri anjaneyam, mhathma, amaravathi, sudigadu, etc.

Karate Kalyani is a comedian actress in movies and negative roles in serials. She is a supporting artist.Karate Kalyani was born on 31^st October 1977. She is from Vijayanagaram. She has two brothers. She completed her Diploma. She completed her schooling in Kalyananda Bharathi High School and woman’s college from Vijayanagaram. Her mother tongue is Telugu. She can speak Hindi, Telugu and English. Her original name is Padaala Kalyani. She got a black belt in karate and that's why she got the name Karate Kalyani. As there were some other people in the same name, she prefixed Karate to her name. Her father’s name is Padaala Ramdas. He was an All India Radio Artist. Her mother's name is Vijaya Lakshmi. She learned karate, dance and music. She acted with all comedians in the Telugu film industry. Now she is working in serials and for serials, she is doing negative roles. Her husband's name is Kakarla Shyam. He is a songwriter. Their's is a love marriage. She is a narrator, imitator, and painter. She is teaching karate for kids at her home and in residential school.

She acted in many movies like Aadi, Godavari (Pullamma role), Krishna, Leela Mahal Centre, Shankar Dada M.B.B.S. She is also a stage singer. She acted in more than 120 movies. She acted not only in Telugu and also acted in Kannada movies. She acted in stage shows like Kalyana Vasantham and Goda and also played the lead role. Her first movie was Vechivunta in 2001 and Murthy Sriram directed it.

She got National Gold Medal in Karate at Goa, Bhuvaneswar and Chandigarh. She was awarded Taekwondo. Now she is acting in Zee Telugu serials. Kalyani’s hobbies are watching TV, singing, karate, painting, etc.
Serials : Gorantha Deepam; Movies: Chatrapati, Drona, Aadi, Leela Mahal Centre, etc.; Stage Shows: Kalyana Vasantham and Goda.

Lakshmi Prasanna Manchu is an Indian celebrity known for her acting and hosting skills, along with being a producer. She was born on 8 October 1977 in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. Her father (Mohan Babu) and brothers (Vishnu Manchu and Manoj Manchu) are accomplished actors. Her birth mother, Vidya Devi, is no more, but she has a step-mother, Manchu Nirmala Devi. She is quite a learned woman in the industry. She graduated in theater from Oklahoma City University. Later, she attended the film school at the University of Southern California. Lakshmi’s career kick-started with the role of Sarasvati, on the American comedy-drama television series titled ‘Las Vegas.’ She recurred in eleven episodes of the show from 2004 to 2007. In 2006, she not only acted in the short film titled ‘Private Lives’, but also directed and produced it. In 2008, she played the role of Najma in the English biopic, ‘The Ode.’

Pavala Shyamala is a Telugu Actress who is from Hyderabad. She has been appearing in Telugu movies in a supporting role from the year 1984. Her first film was ‘Babai Abbai’. Later she acted in the movies ‘Mogudu Pellalu’, ‘Swarnakamalam’ and ‘Karthavyam’ in the years 1985, 1988 and 1991 respectively. After a span of over 9 years, she appeared again in the movie ‘Kodanda Ramudu’ in the year 2000 which was followed by ‘Manasantha Nuvve’ in 2001 and ‘Allari Ramudu’ and Indra in 2002. Her other movies include ‘Ninney Ishta Paddaanu’, ‘Andhrawala’, ‘Varsham’, ‘Gowri’, ‘Modati Cinima’, ‘Nuvvosthanante Nenoddantaana’, ‘Andagaadu’, ‘Ayodhya’, Bahumati’, ‘Rainbow’, ‘Golimaar’, ‘Kedi’, ‘Emo Gurram Egaravachu’ and others. Though she has acted in various movies, she did not receive a lot of recognition and most of her roles went unnoticed as all her roles were that of a supporting actress.

Her financial condition was not very good and she once needed money to get medical treatment. She tried to approach Superstar Pawan Kalyan with whom she had acted in a movie called ‘Swagatam’. She had also said that Pawan Kalyan had shown great respect to her as she was a senior artist. When she tried to contact him, the members of the unit stopped her and did not allow her to meet Pawan. However, Pawan on noticing that the senior actress was being stopped from meeting him, walked towards her to enquire about the problem. After knowing about the medical problem, he gave her the sufficient money to get the treatment which was very much appreciated by Pavala Shyamala and she says that Pawan Kalyan’s kindful gesture saved her life.

Mahesh Manjrekar is a renowned actor, director and producer in Marathi cinema. The actor has been in the film industry and theatre for over two decades now and is considered to be a powerhouse of talent. With films like Vaastav and Astitva, he made a mark for himself as a director. Afterwards, he made Virudh with Amitabh Bachchan and Sharmila Tagore.

Praveen Sattaru is an Indian-American screenwriter, producer and film director. He has given his contribution to the Telugu film industry. He is known for his work in the movie Chandamama Kathalu. The film earned him the National Film Award in the category of Best Feature Film in Telugu in 2014. He was born in Andhra Pradesh. He holds a degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering. He used to work as an SAP Consultant for the company IBM. He used to stay in the United States where he would discuss with his friends about their favorite films. His favorite movies were of K. Vishwanadh. In his free time, he used to write scripts which he would share with his friends. At a certain point in time, he was bored of the work which he was doing and so he decided to leave the USA and return to India and start his career as a filmmaker. His first movie was Life Before Wedding (LBW) in 2010. The movie was romantic drama which dealt with emotions and showcased two stories of how relationships change over a period. The movie starred Abhijit, Chinmayi, Rohan, Nishanti, Sidhu and Asif in the lead roles.

Naresh is a famous South Indian Actor who has acted in various Telugu movies. He was born in 1960’s in Hindupur, Andhra Pradesh. He started his career at a very young age of 7. His debut movie as a child artist was ‘Pandanti Kaapuram’ which released in 1972. He always dreamt of being an actor and loved the words  ‘Lights, camera and action’. When the movie ‘Pandanti Kaapuram’ was being made, the child artist who was supposed to act in the movie was sick and he was given the opportunity to replace the child’s character. He was willing to do it and requested the director to finish the shooting before his mother came on the sets. His mother, Vijaya Nirmala who is also a South Indian Film Actress, Producer and director, wanted him to concentrate on his studies. His father is Late K.S.Murthy.

After working as a child artist, he made his debut as an actor in a lead role in the movie ‘Prema Sankellu’ in the year 1982. This movie was directed by his mother. After this movie was released, he worked on another movie named ‘Nalugu Stambhalata’ in the same year. This was a very successful movie and he feels that the bold them of the movie, the climax, etc worked well with the audiences. In the movie, he falls in love with a woman who bears his child and then gives it to him and his wife asking her if she can sleep on his lap one last time before her death. Naresh feels that the story line was very strong and that was the reason that the movie was a big hit. 

Naresh is also fond of writing and poetry. He informs that he also received a few offers to direct movies. However,  he was held up at that time and he is considering direction and will direct a movie soon.

Sidhu Jonnalagadda, an Indian actor, made his debut in the Telugu film industry with director Praveen Sattaru’s movie ‘Life before wedding’ in 2011. Next he did ‘Boy meets girl Tholiprema Katha’ in 2014. Both these movies were characterized under the genre of romance by the critics, and thus, they did not provide much to the expectant audience. Along with this, he also worked in a Tamil movie called Vallinam. After working in RGV’s Ice cream 2, he decided to go on a break for one year and came back with Mahesh Manjrekar’s ‘Guntur Talkies’. He was very excited to work with this director and he asked him to give him work by which he got this movie in 2015. This movie marks him as a distinct identity from what he had through his debut movie and other movies before. He plays a role of a slum boy from the slums of Guntur in this movie.

Ram Reddy is a member of the Kannada director crew. He has worked at various profiles in the crew. Calling him a multi-talented proactive participant in the movie won't is an exaggeration. He has worked as an assistant director also as a photography director and various other stature. Other members of the crew are full of appreciation when asked about him. The things that are expected from a director is proper understanding and visualization of the script and the understanding and ability to articulate it as and when required by the movie. These things were engraved in Ram since the beginning. 

Sricharan Pakala is an Indian music composer who works in the Telugu film industry. He is one of the most prominent music directors in the Telugu film, who is a self-taught musician and began playing guitar at a very young age. He was born into a Telugu speaking household in Vishakhapatnam. After graduating, he decided to pursue music full-time after realizing his passion. In 2013, Pakala made his feature film debut as a music director with the romantic comedy KISS: Keep It Simple Stupid, which starred Priya Banerjee and Adivi Sesh. In 2016, he continued working at Kshanam, where he was greatly appreciated and became more well-known. Additionally, he has composed music for motion pictures like Naruda Donaruda, Guntur Talkies, and many more. He later rose to fame in his capacity as a music director. Sricharan made acting debut in Krishna and His Leela (2020); but he also wrote the music for the film.

Kittu Vissapragada is a lyricist who works mostly in the Telugu film Industry. He currently resides at Hyderabad and hails from Amalapuram. He also writes dialogues for Telugu movies. His work as a lyricist was in the films such as Mithai (2019) directed by Prashant Kumar, Yuddham Sharanam starring Naga Chaitanya and Lavanya Tripathi, Naruda Donoruda by Mallik Ram, Aithe 2.0, Dashami, Premalo ABC, etc.

Krishna Kant is a well-known lyricist in the Tamil film industry. He has opted for Sanskrit in his secondary school so that he gets command over the language, which is a desirable credential for being a successful lyricist. He is born in Nalconda but shifted to Hyderabad.

Krishna Madineni is an Indian lyricist known for his work in the Telugu film industry (Tollywood). He is from Amaravathi, Hyderabad, India. He has studied at RVVN College in Dharanikota, Andhra Pradesh, and JKC in Guntur, Hyderabad, India.

Ambika Sashital is a renowned Indian Playback Singer and an eminent personality in the entertainment industry, famous for his melodious vocals. Ambika, a music enthusiast, has worked predominantly in the Telugu movie industry, and his songs have been released in the Telugu language. He was passionate about music since childhood, making him a well-known Singer. Some of his top tracks include Nee Sontham, Anaganaga, Pada Pada Pranama, and Neeku Matrame Sontham Nenu. He has contributed to films like Guntar Talkies in 2016 and Kshanam in 2018. Ambika has impressed the audience with his distinctive, unique, and melodic compositions.

Anant Srikar is a renowned Indian Singer and an eminent personality in the entertainment industry, famous for his melodious vocals. Anant, a music enthusiast, is a famous Music Director who has worked primarily for the Telugu movie industry, and his songs have been released in the Telugu language. He has had a keen interest in music since childhood and has always aspired to have a career in music.

Dharmendra Kakarala is an editor of films of the Indian Cinema. He mainly works for ‘Telugu’ language movies. He was born in the year 1981 in the town of ‘Eluru’ in the state of ‘Andhra Pradesh’. He belongs to a renowned family of ‘Eluru’ as his great grandfather was, namely ‘K Balakrishna Rao’ was a very popular lawyer, his grandmother was an active worker of an NGO, and his grandfather was a famed physician of his town. After school, he began to pursue B.A. in college but did not complete the degree because of his interest in the film industry. After making several attempts for his degree, he decided to learn ‘Film Making’ from an institute in ‘Kolkata’, ‘Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute’.

Fish Venkat is a popular Telugu comedian who hails from Hyderabad, Telangana. He made his debut through the Telugu movie Kushi, in the year 2001. He became popular with his extraordinary performance in Kushi. The film made him to shower in the applause of all the people who saw the movie. He is very popular for his dialogue delivery in Telangana accent. After Kushi, he committed in Aadi and Bhageeratha. After the hit movies, he was booked in Bunny, which also made him famous. King, Hero, Ready and Sankham earned him a good name. He was consecutively booked in the films and 24 hours in a day was not enough for him to attend the shooting. Don Seenu with Ravi Teja has also raised him to a reasonable height in his film career. He acted in more than four or five movies in a year with stunning hits. Kandireega, Veedu Theda, Solo, Sudigadu, Naayak and Mounam were his latest films. In the film Daruvu, he acted as Fish Venkat, himself. He has acted with almost all the popular comedy stars in the Telugu film industry. Bhramanadham, Dhanraj and Raghu Babu have performed with Fish Venkat in many films and all those films were super hit with the comedy.

Jogi Naidu is an Indian-Actor. Along with being an actor, he is also a director and an anchor. He primarily works in the Telugu Film Industry. He is born and brought up in Cherlopalem Village of Vishakapatnam District of Andra Pradesh. He has started his career by becoming an assistant director. Some of the movies in which he has acted include Maa Avida MidaOttuMee Avida ChalaManchini which gets released in the year 2001, Vasu which gets released in the year 2002, Amma Nanna O TamilaAmmayi which gets released in the year 2003, Tagore which gets released in the year 2003, Swamy Ra Ra which gets released in the year 2013, and Karthikey which gets released in the year 2014. The color of his hair and eyes are Black.

Raghu Babu is a prominent Telugu actor and comedian, who become famous for his outstanding comic timing and expressions. He was born as Raghu Babu Yerra on June 24, 1964, in Ravinuthala, Andhra Pradesh in India. He is the eldest son of Giri Babu, a famous Telugu actor and comedian. He studied in Madras from his 7th standard until college. He took an Engineering course (AMI), but in 1988, he stopped schooling and helped his father in his film production job. In the same year, he also got married. He started acting at the age of 10 in the drama play, Sri Krishna Tulabaram, which became very popular. Initially, Raghu did not have any plans to become an actor. But the late director, Satya Reddy, insisted that he is indeed an artist and the director wanted to make him an actor. He was cast in the film, Dongalu Unnaru Jagratha in the year 1990, which marked his debut in the film industry. His real passion is to become a producer, but one day, Satya Reddy did an ad for the film without informing him. His photo was there and the rest of the cast and when he asked Satya, he just said, he is doing the movie, and so he did it.

Raja Ravindra’s original name is Ramesh Dantuluri. He was born at Bhimavaram, Andhra Pradesh. His father’s name is Jayaprakash Raju and his mother’s name is D.V.S.P.V.S.Bhaskaramma. His wife’s name is Venkata Rama Devi. His daughters’s names are Pranathi and Vaagdevi. His mother tongue is Telugu. He knows Tamil, Hindi and English languages also. He has done B.Com. He is a classic dancer. Reading books is his hobby.

Raja Ravindra is a Telugu film and TV actor. He is best known for his acting in the films- Peda Rayudu, Pelli Sandadi, Tagore which was released in 2003, Desamuduru which was released in 2007 and Mirapakai which was released in 2011. He has started his acting career with TV serials and then tried in films as a hero. But he finally became a character actor. He has worked as manager for some heroines and heroes. He has entered the film industry with the film Mrugathrushna. This film is directed by P.Sambashiva Rao and produced by NFDC. In this film he acted as hero. He has acted in supporting roles in around 200 films. Some of his films include- Number One, Muddula Mogudu, Indra, Kalyana Ramudu, Shock, Anjaneyulu, Adhurs, Mr.Perfect, Srimannarayana, Sethamma Vakitlo Sirimallechettu etc.

Raja Ravindra has worked as executive producer for the film Mirapakai in the year 2011. Ravi Teja has acted as hero and Richa Gangopadhyay and Deeksha Seth has acted as heroines in this film. This film is directed by Harish Shanker and produced by Ramesh Puppala. 

Raja Ravindra has acted some TV serials. He has acted in the Telugu serial Andham which was telecasted on ETV. This serial was directed by Satyam and produced by Ramoji Rao. He has acted as the male lead along with actress Bhavana as female lead in this serial. He has acted in the serial Anna Chellellu which was telecasted on MAA TV. This serial was directed and produced by Prabhakar.

Ravi Prakash is the Telugu actor who is growing well in the south Indian films with popularity. He was born in the year 1981 in Vijayawada in Andhra Pradesh. He was introduced to the cinema industry through the film Subhavela in the year 2000. The film was directed by Teja; but Ravi was not recognized at that time. When he did not get proper recognition, Ravi Prakash got fed up and continued with his MBBS. He became a qualified doctor. After 4 years, he was called by Gautam Menon to perform as a Police officer in the film Gharshana. It gave him a good breakthrough and the audience recognized him well. Athadu, Killer, Simha, Gaganam, Payanam, Vedam, Vaanam, Dookudu, Maattraan, Solo, Ishq, Badshah, Edhir Neechal, Thalaivaa, Aagadu, Nee Thaane En Pon Vasantham, S/O Satyamurthy and Gabbar is back are his popular Telugu and Tamil movies. Recently, he has performed with Balakrishna in the film Lion, in a good role. Dagudumootha Dandakor is his latest film. With his excellent performance, Ravi Prakash attracts the audiences. People say that, when they hear the name Ravi Prakash, an image of a Police officer, screens in front of their eyes. Ravi is very choosy in his films and hence he gets good roles, so far.

Thagubothu Ramesh was born on 25th November 1981, in the Karimnagar district of Telangana. He was named as Ramesh Ramilla at birth, but after he began acting in films, he is popularly referred to as Thagabothu Ramesh. His surname is a result of his choice of roles or characters in movies. Ramesh is a Telugu film actor and in Telugu, ‘Thagubothu’ means drunkard. His 2009 movie- ‘Mahatma’ features him in such a role, and the film was a huge success, commercially as well as aesthetically. Ramesh gained a lot of recognition from the audience and the prominent director- Nandini Reddy cast him in the movie ‘Ala Modalaindi’ in which he plays the character of a drunk software engineer.