| Choodalani Vundi | |
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| Directed by | Gunasekhar |
| Written by | Story & Screenplay: Gunasekhar Dialogues: Diwakar Babu |
| Produced by | Ashwini Dutt |
| Starring | Chiranjeevi Soundarya Anjala Zaveri Prakash Raj |
| Cinematography | Chota K. Naidu |
| Edited by | Kotagiri Venkateswara Rao |
| Music by | Mani Sharma |
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Release date |
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Running time | 148 minutes |
| Country | India |
| Language | Telugu |
Choodalani Vundi (transl. I'd like to see) is a 1998 Indian Telugu-language action thriller film co-written and directed by Gunasekhar, and produced by C. Aswani Dutt under Vyjayanthi Movies. This film stars Chiranjeevi, Soundarya, Anjala Zaveri and Prakash Raj. The film has music composed by Mani Sharma with cinematography by Chota K. Naidu.[1]
Released on 27 August 1998, the film was a blockbuster at the box office and became the highest grossing Telugu film of 1998.[2][3] The film was featured in the Indian Panorama mainstream section at the 30th International Film Festival of India.[4] It received two South Filmfare Awards and three state Nandi Awards. In 2003, it was remade into Hindi as Calcutta Mail.[5]
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Then Chiranjeevi did Choodalani Vundi with her, which turned out to be last year's biggest hit.
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- ^ Devipriya (January 1999). "30th IFFI" (PDF). 30th International Film Festival of India '99. Directorate of Film Festivals. p. 150. Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 January 2013. Retrieved 23 March 2018.
- ^ "'Anil, Rani are not stars. They're good actors'". Rediff. Archived from the original on 9 June 2021. Retrieved 8 September 2020.