Geethanjali (1989 film)
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| Directed by | Mani Ratnam |
| Produced by | C. Praveen Kumar Reddy P. R. Prasad C. L. Narasa Reddy |
| Written by | Rajashri (dialogues) |
| Screenplay by | Mani Ratnam |
| Story by | Mani Ratnam |
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| Music by | Ilaiyaraaja |
| Cinematography | P. C. Sreeram |
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B. Lenin V. T. Vijayan |
| Distributed by | Bhagya Lakshmi Pictures |
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150 minutes |
| Country | India |
| Language | Telugu |
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| Soundtrack album by Ilaiyaraaja | ||||
| Released | 1989 | |||
| Genre | Soundtrack | |||
| Length | 32:40 | |||
| Label | Echo Music | |||
| Producer | Ilaiyaraaja | |||
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Geethanjali is a 1989 Indian Telugu-language romance film written and directed by Mani Ratnam. Starring Akkineni Nagarjuna and Girija Shettar in lead roles, the film's soundtrack was composed by Ilaiyaraaja. Upon release, the film met with both commercial success and critical acclaim. It won the National Film Award for Best Popular Film Providing Wholesome Entertainment and seven Nandi Awards. A Tamil dubbed version titled Idhayathai Thirudathe was released in 1989. The film was later dubbed into Malayalam and remade in Hindi as Yaad Rakhegi Duniya, starring Aditya Pancholi, Rukhsar and Vikram Gokhale.
Prakash (Akkineni Nagarjuna), a carefree, mischievous student graduates from College. During his celebration with his friends, he gets into a road accident. Although the accident is only minor, during medical tests, he is diagnosed with terminal cancer and has few months to live. Unable to hear his mother's constant wailing, he packs his bags and leaves to his family's vacation home in Ooty.
There he meets Geetanjali (Girija Shettar), who enjoys playing pranks on people around her. In one incident, Geetanjali asks a guy to meet her near a church after sundown to elope with her. When he comes to meet her, she along with her sisters and friends plays an elaborate prank by dressing up as ghosts to scare him away. When she tries to pull the same prank on Prakash, who is already aware of this, it backfires as he pulls a bigger prank on her by dressing himself as a vampire and along with aerial wire stunts, scares her.
After being unsuccessful in scaring Prakash away, Geetanjali forms another plan in which she complains to her grandmother that Prakash had asked her (Geetanjali) to elope with him. Furious at this knowledge, Geetanjali's grandmother confronts Prakash about it. Though Prakash tries his best to explain the truth, Geetanjali's grandmother chides him and humiliates him in public. Prakash becomes angry and retaliates by driving Geetanjali to a hillside area and leaving her there. Later that night, Geetanjali's youngest sister comes to Prakash and tells him that Geetanjali has still not returned home and they are getting worried about her. Prakash goes out to look for her and upon finding her shivering in cold, brings her back to her family. Geetanjali's grandmother scolds Prakash for pulling such a stunt on Geetanjali as such things could have worsened her health condition. Curious at this, Prakash inquires about her health. To his dismay, he finds out that she has a terminal illness. This intrigues him as she is always happy and energetic. Geetanjali tells him that she's not worried about her impending death as everyone who lives in this world will be gone someday. She also tells him that she's not bothered about what happens in the future and she only lives for today. This teaches Prakash to take his own impending death in his stride and live life to the fullest.
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