Khaidi
Khaidi English Prisoner is a 1983 Telugu film, which was the first major hit movie for Chiranjeevi directed by A. Kodandarami Reddy. Madhavi was the heroine. It became a major blockbuster and a turning point in Chiranjeevis career winning unlimited fan following. It was remade into Kannada with Vishnuvardan with the same name.
Dr. M. Tirupathi ReddyKodandarami Reddy also hails from the same place of ours, and we thought of doing a film together and worked on a couple of subjects in Chiranjeevi and Kodandarami Reddy combination. However, I liked the subject of First Blood, and I asked Paruchuri brothers to come up with a story based on that film. They gave a wonderful script for the film. ...The protagonist was just a villager in our initial script but we changed it to a student, and it clicked The title Khaidi was my choice indeedMadhavi and Chiranjeevi were a hit pair, but Madhavi didnt work with Kondadarami Reddy before and thus I wanted to cast her in the film. Nitya already acted in a Tamil film. I liked her character in the film and we signed her in for the bubbly character of Rosy. Our banner name being Samyuktha, we rechristened Nitya as Samyuktha, and she continued to do more films such as sirivennela under the same name. ........
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