Sirivennela

Sirivennela
సిరివెన్నల
Film poster
Directed byK. Viswanath
Written byK. Viswanath
Sainath Thotapalli (dialogues)
Produced byCh. Ramakrishna Reddy
N. Bhaskara Reddy
Ujjuri Chinaveerraju
StarringSuhasini
Sarvadaman Banerjee
Moon Moon Sen
CinematographyM. V. Raghu
Edited byG. G. Krishna Rao
Music byK. V. Mahadevan
Production
company
Geetha Krishna Movie Combines
Release date
  • 5 June 1986 (1986-06-05)
[1]
Running time
181 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageTelugu

Sirivennela[a] (Telugu :సిరివెన్నల) (transl. Moonlight) is a 1986 Indian Telugu-language romance film written and directed by K. Viswanath. The film stars Suhasini, Sarvadaman Banerjee and Moon Moon Sen. The film has music composed by K. V. Mahadevan.

The film won five Nandi Awards.[2] The film was screened at the Asia Pacific Film Festival, the International Film Festival of India, the Moscow Film Festival and the AISFM Film Festival.[3][4] The film was shot in Jaipur and Kerala. The film has Hariprasad Chaurasia's flute rendering and a cameo of drummer Sivamani.[5] The film was dubbed in Tamil as Raaga Devathai.[6] Lyricist Seetharama Sastry derived his stage name Sirivennela from this film.

  1. ^ "Sirivennela". indiancine.ma. Archived from the original on 10 January 2022. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
  2. ^ "నంది అవార్డు విజేతల పరంపర (1964–2008)" [A series of Nandi Award Winners (1964–2008)] (PDF). Information & Public Relations of Andhra Pradesh. Retrieved 21 August 2020.(in Telugu)
  3. ^ The films of K. Viswanath — AISFM Blog
  4. ^ Krishnamoorthy, Suresh (26 January 2012). "If music is the food of love, lyrics are the soul". The Hindu. Chennai, India.
  5. ^ Sirivennela (1986) – Filming Locations – IMDb
  6. ^ "Raga Devathai". The Indian Express. 24 July 1987. p. 5.


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