Abhilasha

Abhilasha (1983)

అభిలాష

In order to reform the death sentence penalty, a lawyer sets a trap and gets himself arrested for a murder. But he is caught in his own web of evidence and struggles to prove his innocence.

Date of release
1983-03-11
TMDB
7.8 / 10 (5)
Runtime
2h 15m
Genres
Thriller, Drama
Director
A. Kodandarami Reddy

Casting

Interesting facts

Abhilasha (transl. Desire) is a 1983 Indian Telugu-language legal drama film directed by A. Kodandarami Reddy and produced by K. S. Rama Rao. The film stars Chiranjeevi and Radhika while Rao Gopal Rao and Gollapudi Maruti Rao play vital roles and the music is composed by Ilaiyaraaja.

Production

K. S. Rama Rao, who founded Creative Commercials as a radio advertising business, later expanded into the film industry. His first foray into filmmaking involved acquiring the dubbing rights of successful Tamil films and releasing them in Telugu. His passion for literature inspired his transition to film production.

In the early 1980s, Rama Rao sought the rights to adapt Yandamuri Veerendranath's novel Tulasi Dalam. Instead, Veerendranath introduced Rama Rao to his unpublished novel Abhilasha, which explores the theme of capital punishment. Captivated by the story, Rama Rao secured the rights and decided to produce it as his first film.

For the adaptation of Abhilasha, Rama Rao assembled a distinguished team. He approached Chiranjeevi to play the lead. Chiranjeevi accepted the film immediately after his mother had previously recommended the novel to him based on its serialized publication in a magazine. A. Kodandarami Reddy was chosen as the director, and Ilaiyaraaja was brought on as the composer.

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