Ooruki Monagadu

Ooruki Monagadu
Film poster
Directed byK. Raghavendra Rao
Written bySatyanand (dialogue)
Produced byA. Gopala Krishna
StarringKrishna
Jaya Prada
CinematographyK. S. Prakash
Edited byKotagiri Venkateswara Rao
Music byChakravarthy
Production
company
Gopi Movies
Release date
  • 11 January 1981 (1981-01-11)
Running time
140 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageTelugu
Box officeest. ₹2.5 crores[citation needed]

Ooruki Monagadu (transl.Village Chieftain) is a 1981 Indian Telugu-language action comedy film directed by K. Raghavendra Rao. The film stars Krishna and Jaya Prada.[1] It was remade twice in Hindi as Himmatwala in 1983 and in 2013.[2] It marked the third collaboration of Krishna with K. Raghavendra Rao after Bhale Krishnudu (1980) and the highly successful Gharana Donga (1980). The film was a hit at the box office, becoming the highest-grossing and the biggest hit Telugu film in 1981.[citation needed]

  1. ^ "Ooriki Monagadu Songs – Listen Ooriki Monagadu Telugu Movie Songs". Telugufm.com. Retrieved 27 September 2012.
  2. ^ "Ooriki Monagadu to be remade in Hindi". Sify. 15 September 2011. Archived from the original on 13 October 2012. Retrieved 27 September 2012.