Raja Kumarudu


Raja Kumarudu is a 1999 Indian Telugu-language romantic comedy film produced by C. Aswini Dutt under the Vyjayanthi Movies banner, directed by K. Raghavendra Rao. It stars Mahesh Babu and Preity Zinta in the lead roles, Krishna made a guest appearance as the father of Mahesh Babu, with music composed by Mani Sharma. Raja Kumarudu is first film of Mahesh Babu as hero, received positive reviews and was commercially successful. The film earned the state Nandi Award for Akkineni Award for Best Home-viewing Feature Film.

Synopsis

Raj Kumar goes on holiday in Khandala and stays with his uncle Dhananjay. He comes across Rani and falls for her. However, he ends up teasing her and she begins to despise him. She is determined to avoid him, but he won't leave her alone. Raj Kumar saves Rani from some thugs, and she is impressed. After spending some time together, she begins to like him and eventually love him.
Unfortunately his uncle has made other plans for him: He reveals the past of the hero's parents and his family. He mentions the challenge that he made with his in-laws to get the hero married to his daughter. Complying to this, the hero informs the heroine that their relationship needs to end there.
Going with his uncle to the village for his uncle's daughter, to his joy he sees that it's none other than Rani.
The rest of the movie revolves around the plot that is woven by him and his uncle to gain the heroine's hand and re-uniting the uncle with his family. This is done in a fun, comical way.

Cast

Music composed by Mani Sharma. All songs are blockbusters. Music released on SUPREME Music Company.
Telugu Track-list — Raja Kumarudu
Hindi Track-list — Prince No. 1

Tamil Track-list — Kaadhal Vennila

Release

Raja Kumarudu released with 78 prints in 116 screens.

Box-office

The film had a 50-day run in 80 centres and a 100-day run in 44 centres. Raja Kumarudu collected a share of 10.51 Crores from Andhra Pradesh. It was dubbed in Hindi as Prince No. 1 and in Tamil as Kaadhal Vennila. The film was again dubbed and released theatrically in Tamil during January 2017 as Ivan Oru Thunichalkaran.