Mayuri (film)

Mayuri
Poster
Directed bySingeetam Srinivasa Rao
Written bySingeetam Srinivasa Rao
Ganesh Patro
Produced byRamoji Rao
StarringSudha Chandran
CinematographySrihari Anumolu
Music byS. P. Balasubrahmanyam
Production
company
Release date
  • 1985 (1985)
Running time
142 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageTelugu

Mayuri (transl. Peacock) is a 1985 Indian Telugu-language biographical dance film directed by Singeetam Srinivasa Rao and produced by Ramoji Rao. Based on the life of Sudha Chandran, the film stars her in the title role while P. L. Narayana, Nirmalamma, Y. Vijaya, Potti Prasad, K. K. Sharma, S. R. Raju and Suthi Veerabhadra Rao played supporting roles.[1][2]

The film was premiered at the 1985 10th IFFI,[3] and retrospectively at the 45th IFFI in the Celebrating Dance in Indian cinema section.[4] The film won 14 Nandi Awards the most by any other Telugu film. It was dubbed into Malayalam and Tamil as Mayoori,[5] and remade as Naache Mayuri (1986) in Hindi.[6]

  1. ^ "Singeetham Srinivasa Rao's gems before Christ". Rediff.com. 7 September 2010. Archived from the original on 23 April 2020. Retrieved 9 July 2021.
  2. ^ Rajadhyaksha, Ashish; Willemen, Paul (1998) [1994]. Encyclopaedia of Indian Cinema. British Film Institute and Oxford University Press. p. 471. ISBN 0-19-563579-5.
  3. ^ "Indian Cinema 1985" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 July 2015. Retrieved 22 September 2014.
  4. ^ "45th International Film Festival of India, Goa" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 March 2016. Retrieved 23 August 2015.
  5. ^ "மயூரி". Anna (in Tamil). 20 June 1985. p. 3. Retrieved 30 May 2024 – via Endangered Archives Programme.
  6. ^ "First of Many: Sudhaa Chandran revisits Mayuri". The Indian Express. 12 April 2022.