Kondaveeti Donga

Kondaveeti Donga
Film poster
Directed byA. Kodandarami Reddy
Written byParuchuri Brothers
(story and dialogue)
Screenplay byYandamuri Veerendranath
Produced byT. Trivikrama Rao
StarringChiranjeevi
Vijayashanti
Sharada
Radha
Mohan Babu
Rao Gopal Rao
Amrish Puri
CinematographyV. S. R. Swamy
Edited byKotagiri Venkateswara Rao
Music byIlaiyaraaja
Production
company
Prasad Studios
Distributed byVijayalakshmi Art Movies
Release date
  • 9 March 1990 (1990-03-09)
Running time
151 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageTelugu

Kondaveeti Donga (transl. The thief of Kondaveedu) is a 1990 Indian Telugu-language vigilante film directed by A. Kodandarami Reddy starring Chiranjeevi, Vijayashanti and Radha in main lead roles.[1][2] Upon release on 9 April 1990, the film received positive reviews, and emerged as a Blockbuster at the box office.

Subsequently, the film was dubbed into Tamil as Thangamalai Thirudan and it was dubbed into Malayalam as Kodanadu Kallan.[3] It was the first Telugu film to be released on a 70 mm with 6-Track Stereophonic sound.[4] The production design by Bhaskar Raju, with background score, and music by Ilaiyaraaja received positive reviews.[5][6] The film had collected a distributors share of 74 lakh on its opening weekend.[7][8]

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