April 1st Vidudhala

April 1st Vidudala
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Directed by	Vamsy
Produced by	P. V. Bhaskar Reddy
Written by	L.B. Sriram (dialogues)
Screenplay by	Vamsy
Story by	Vamsy
Starring	Rajendra Prasad Shobhana
Music by	Ilayaraja
Cinematography	M. V. Raghu
Edited by	Uma Shankar Babu
Production company	Poorna Teja Creations & Sri Sravanthi Movies (presents)
Release date	1 February 1991 (1991-02-01)
Running time	146 min
Country	India
Language	Telugu

April 1 Vidudala (English: Freed on April 1st) is a 1991 Telugu comedy film produced by P.V. Bhaskar Rao on Poorna Teja Creations banner, Presented by Sri Sravanthi Movies and directed by Vamsy. Starring Rajendra Prasad, Shobhana in the lead roles and music composed by Ilayaraja. The film recorded as Super Hit at box office. The film was remade in Tamil as Sathyavan starring Murali and Gautami, in Kannada as Mr. Harishchandra starring Mohan and Anu Prabhakar and in Odia as Jabardast Premika starring Babushan and Jhilik Bhattacharjee.

The story starts with Divakaram (Rajendra Prasad) coming late to video-shoot a marriage, where he sees Bhuvaneshwari and falls head over heels in love. He then gets a hold of Bhuvaneshwari's maternal uncle VP Jagannatham (Pradeep Shakti) and gets information about Bhuvaneshwari. He gathers that she respects only the people who are self-sufficient and straightforward. He also finds out that she is not married and is about to get transferred to Rajamundry (where he stays) soon. She works as a railway booking clerk. So Divakaram comes back to the Rajamundry and gets permission from the doctor (Shubha), who raises him as her foster child to use the front veranda in her house for his video shop. In order to secure the capital, he uses all kinds of tricks. He blackmails Bhagyam (Jayalalitha), cheats Chinna Rao (Mallikarjuna Rao) and claims a chit which he never was a member of, and so on. Finally starts the video shop. That's when Bhuvaneswari enters the scene. All the while Jagannatham writes him letters in her name making Divakaram assume that she is in love with him. Finally, when she lands in Rajamundy he approaches for marriage. It's then that he realises that he had been cheated by Jagannatham. Meanwhile, she finds out all of Divakaram’s mischief through the neighbours. To teach him a lesson, she puts forward a deal that she would marry him only if he stays out of cheating, and does not utter a lie in a month. Divakaram goes for it.