fiction.wikisort.org - Movie

Suswagatham (transl. Hearty welcome) is a 1998 Indian Telugu-language romance film produced by R. B. Choudary under the Super Good Films banner, directed by Bhimaneni Srinivasa Rao. It stars Pawan Kalyan and Devayani (in her Telugu debut), with music composed by S. A. Rajkumar.[1] The film is a remake of the Tamil movie Love Today (1997).[2] The film was a success at the box office.[3] Pawan Kalyan, Bhimaneni Srinivasa Rao, and R. B. Choudary later collaborated for Annavaram (2006).[4]

Suswagatham
DVD Cover
Directed by	Bhimaneni Srinivasa Rao
Written by	Chintapalli Ramana (dialogues)
Screenplay by	Bhimaneni Srinivasa Rao
Story by	Balasekaran
Based on	Love Today (Tamil)
Produced by	R. B. Choudary
Starring	Pawan Kalyan Devayani
Cinematography	Mahindar
Edited by	Gautham Raju
Music by	S. A. Rajkumar
Production company	Super Good Films
Release date	1 January 1998 (1998-01-01)
Running time	150 minutes
Country	India
Language	Telugu

Plot

Ganesh (Pawan Kalyan), a college graduate has been following a college girl, Sandhya for the past four years ,trying to express his love. Though Sandhya had often warned Ganesh not to follow her, he still does. Ganesh's friend Peter (Karan) introduces him to Sandhya's friend (Sadhika), who tries to help him with his love, but fails. Ganesh, on his birthday, tries to express his love to Sandhya, but is caught by her father, (Prakash Raj), who is a police officer, who puts him away for harassing his daughter. Later, Ganesh's father , Dr. Chandrashekhar, a reputed psychologist (Raghuvaran) bails him out.Ganesh's father and him are very close to each other as he had lost his mother in his childhood. Despite lenient, his father asks him and his friends to work and get settled. One day, Ganesh emotionally states to his father that he badly needs Sandhya and he agrees to take the proposal.

Ganesh's father goes to Sandhya's father with a marriage proposal for him. But Sandhya's father, as usual arrogant, speaks out of his wits and insults him. He then decides to take his daughter and his wife to his sister's house in Hyderabad,but changes his mind in the bus. But Ganesh thinks Sandhya is in Hyderabad and goes to search for her. Meanwhile, Ganesh's father dies the same day he had left, in a road mishap after he witnesses a boy committing suicide because his girlfriend had left him. Ganesh's friends desperately try to trace his whereabouts, but they cannot trace him. Peter ends up performing the last rites for Ganesh's father. Ganesh arrives and is heartbroken that he could not even perform the cremation.

Sandhya now realizes her love for Ganesh. She reveals her feelings for him and tells him that she loves him and wants to spend the rest of her life with him and asks to wait at the regular bus stop. But Ganesh rejects her love and tells her that he had lost four years of his life and his father's life for her love and says that she is not worth it. The next day, Sandhya still waits at the bus stop, waiting for him to come.Ganesh's friends start a restaurant after his father's name and Ganesh attends the interview suggested by his father.

Cast

Production

For the scene where his father dies, Pawan Kalyan repeatedly slapped himself to feel emotional. The shot took forty takes.[5]

Soundtrack

Suswagatham
Film score by S. A. Rajkumar
Released	1998
Genre	Soundtrack
Length	28:29
Label	Aditya Music
Producer	S. A. Rajkumar
S. A. Rajkumar chronology
Subhakankshalu (1997) Suswagatham (1998) Suryavamsam (1998)

Music composed by S. A. Rajkumar.

No.	Title	Lyrics	Singer(s)	Length
1.	"Ye Swapnalokala"	Sirivennela Sitarama Sastry	S. P. Balasubrahmanyam	4:46
2.	"Happy Happy"	Shanmukha Sharma	P.Jayachandran, Mano	4:50
3.	"Suswagatham Navaragama"	Shanmukha Sharma	Hariharan, K. S. Chithra	4:16
4.	"Figure Maata"	Bhuvanachandra	Mano, SA Rajkumar	5:06
5.	"Come Come"	Shanmukha Sharma	SA Rajkumar, Anuradha Sriram	4:54
6.	"Aalayana Harathilo"	Sirivennela Sitarama Sastry	S. P. Balasubrahmanyam	4:26
Total length:				28:29

References

External links

• Suswagatham at IMDb

---