Annayya (English: Big Brother) is a Tollywood film which released on 7 January 2000 and was directed by Muthyala Subbaiah. This film stars Chiranjeevi, Ravi Teja, Soundarya, Sarath Babu and Gangadhar Panday. The music was composed by Mani Sharma. While Bhupati Raja provided story, writer Satyanand penned dialogues.
Annayya was a huge box office hit both critically and commercially due to Chiru's performances. The film had collected a distributors' share of Rs.60 million in the initial two weeks after its release. It completed 50 days in 92 centres and 100 days in 60 centres, which made Annayya one of the highlest acclaimed films of Chiranjeevi in his career.Synopsis
Rajaram (Chiranjeevi), owner of a fleet of lorries, meets Devi (Soundarya), a garment factory owner. After that acquaintance, she once seeks his help in dealing with two street ruffians, who were teasing her sisters, Lata (Chandini) and Geetha (Sishwa), and is shocked when the culprits turn out to be his brothers, Ravi (Ravi Teja) and Gopi (Venkat). Rajaram takes the incident lightly as the pranks of youngsters and is very lenient to them. With more such incidents, the two fall in love, with the brothers and sisters not far behind.
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