Premante Idera

Premante Idera is 1998 Indian Telugu-language romantic drama film directed by Jayanth C. Paranjee, and produced by Burugupalli Siva Rama Krishna  and K. Ashok Kumar under the Sri Lakshmi Venteswara Art Films banner. The film stars Venkatesh and Preity Zinta (in her Telugu film debut), with music composed by Ramana Gogula, in his first composition.

The film won Nandi Award for Best Cinematographer (Jayanan Vincent). It was remade in Kannada as O Premave with Ravichandran.

Plot
Murali and his friends go to a village to attend their friend's marriage. There Murali meets a girl Shailu, the bridegroom's friend, they begin to have fun and join in with the festivities and Murali is captivated by her attitude and beauty. Soon both fall in love, but Murali soon finds out that she is to be married to a police officer Muralidhar.

Murali puts on a brave face for the ceremony but hopes that something or someone will be able to stop the ceremony. He does everything he can to stop the marriage, he even tries to convince Shailu's joint family. Finally, the movie ends with the approval of Venktramayya for their marriage.

Cast

 * Venkatesh as Murali
 * Preity Zinta as Shailaja "Shailu" (Voice dubbed by Shilpa)
 * Ranganath as Venkatramayya
 * Satyanarayana as Shailu's grandfather
 * Srihari as Muralidhar
 * Brahmanandam as Avadhani
 * Ali as Ram Pandu
 * Chandra Mohan as Subba Rao
 * Giri Babu as Murali's father
 * Prasad Babu as Suryam
 * Narra Venkateswara Rao as Satyam's father
 * Raghunatha Reddy as Murali's Uncle
 * Maharshi Raghava as Murali's brother
 * Sivaji Raja as Satyam
 * Sivaji as Sivaji
 * Prasanna Kumar
 * Naveen as Sarath
 * Gadiraju Subba Rao
 * Lakshmi as Murali's mother
 * Rama Prabha as Subbammatta
 * Sana as Shailu's aunt
 * Rajitha as Shailu's aunt
 * Bangalore Padma as Satyam's mother
 * Madhurima Sundersen as Lakshmi
 * Harika as Murali's sister-in-law
 * Neelima
 * Tarangini as Shailu's friend
 * Madhu Mani as Shailu's friend
 * Vajja Venkata Giridhar as Murali's friend

Soundtrack
Music composed by Ramana Gogula. Music released on ADITYA Music Company.

Tamil — Dubbed Version (as Naesikkiren)

Hindi — Dubbed Version (as Dulhan Dilwale Ki)

Box office
Rakesh P of Deccan Herald called the storyline "trite", but the film "still manages to capture young hearts, for it`s shot in a free-wheeling and fluid fashion". Manjula Kumar of The Indian Express wrote "Good performances, breathtaking shots of New Zealand and scintillating music by Ramana Gogula are plus points". The film had collected a distributors' share of Rs.85 million in its complete theatrical run.

Awards

 * 1998: Nandi Award for Best Cinematographer - Jayanan Vincent