Mrugaraju(Telugu:!

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Gunasekhar and based on the Hollywood film The Ghost and the Darkness. It stars
Chiranjeevi, Simran, Sanghavi and Nagendra Babu. Mani Sharma composed music for this
film. The film has been dubbed in Tamil with the title Vettaikkaaran. The Hindi version of this is
named Rakshak, The Protector. The film was released along with Devi Putrudu and
Narasimha Naidu on the same day.

Mrugaraju

Poster

Directed by Gunasekhar

Produced by Devi Vara Prasad

Written by Yandamoori Veerendranath

(Script Assist.)

Gunasekhar (Screenplay)
Satyanand (Dialogues)
Nagendra Babu (Adapted
Story)

Based on The Ghost and the

Darkness

Starring Chiranjeevi
Simran
Sanghavi
Nagendra Babu
 Music by Mani Sharma

Cinematography Sekhar V. Joseph

Edited by Kotagiri Venkateshwara

Rao

Distributed by Devi Film Productions

Release date 11 January 2001

Running time 147 minutes

Language Telugu

Plot

In a jungle, there lives a man-eating lion. The latest victim of the lion's havoc is the death of
the chief engineer, who is constructing the rail bridge. The Railway department asks
Aishwarya (Simran) to go on the mission of constructing the bridge. Even after Aishwarya
resumes the building, the Lion starts terrorizing the crew of the construction team. The ace
hunter of Adavipalli, Raju (Chiranjeevi), is entrusted with the job of hunting the lion.

The rest of the first half is all about how Raju traps the lion and kills it at the cost of Appanna
Dora (Nagendra babu). But, the other lion in the jungle becomes enraged at Raju for killing its
companion. There is another trouble for the bridge project in the form of forest ranger (Surya)
and a local smuggler (Ramireddy). Raju gets rid of these two goons by the interval.

Then it's revealed to the viewers that Aishwarya is the wife of Raju. In the second half, the
flashback is revealed. Raju comes to city to participate in the crafts mela to sell his herbs
from the jungle. There he meets Aishwarya, who has come to visit a fun stall along with her
fiance Vicky (Raja Ravindra). When Aishwarya tries to take a shot at shooting the balloon,
Vicky disappoints her saying that she cannot do it. Raju, who is an onlooker, comes forwards
and gives her confidence and tips to shoot. Then Aishwarya's bullet hits the bull's eye.
Impressed with Raju's help, she invites him to come to her engagement party.

At the party, Raju spots Vicky flirting with another girl and tells him about the importance of
being a good human being. Aishwarya watches the entire episode from behind, and she
decides that Raju is a loyal man compared to the flirtatious Vicky. She seeks for Raju's hand
and they get married. The father of Aishwarya cunningly separates the couple by creating
misunderstandings. The rest of the film is about how the hunter Raju and engineer Aishwarya
sort out the matters and complete the construction of the bridge.

Cast

Chiranjeevi...... .... Raju

Simran .... Aishwarya

Sanghavi .... Sivangi

Nagendra Babu .... Appanna Dora

Brahmanandam .... Ibraheem

M. S. Narayana

Prakash Raj .... Valmiki Dora

Tanikella Bharani

Chalapathi Rao

Gundu Hanumantha Rao

L.B. Sriram

Rambha .... Guest role in the song Ramaiah Padaletti

Raja Ravindra

Kovai Sarala

Vijayakumar

Surya

{Niharika}

Crew

Director: Gunasekhar

Producer: Devi Vara Prasad

Music: Mani Sharma

Cinematography: Sekhar V. Joseph

Editor: Kotagiri Venkateswara Rao

 Art: Ashok Kumar

Assistant Director: Yadagiri

Stunts: Vijayan

Lyrics: Veturi Sundararama Murthy, Chandrabose & Bhuvana Chandra

Soundtrack

The soundtrack of the film was composed

Mrugaraju
by Mani Sharma. The album consists of six
songs. Lyrics for the three songs were Soundtrack album by Mani Sharma
penned by Veturi Sundararama Murthy and
Genre Film soundtrack
the remaining three songs were written by
Chandrabose, Kulasekhara and Length 34:11
Bhuvanachandra.
Producer Manirma

Tracklist
No. Title Lyrics Singer(s) Length
1. "Ramayya Padaletti" Veturi Shankar Mahadevan 6:00
2. "Aley ley Aley ley" Veturi Udit Narayan, S. P. 5:36
Sailaja
3. "Sathamana Mannadile" Veturi Hariharan, Sadhana 5:38
Sargam
4. "Chai Chai" Chandrabose Chiranjeevi 6:00
5. "Hangama Hangama" Kulasekhar Raghu Kunche, K. S. 5:29
Chithra
6. "Dammentho" Bhuvanachandra Sukhwinder Singh, 5:28
Swarnalatha
Total length: 34:11

External links

Mrigaraju on IMDb
Last edited 2 months ago by Vivvt