Pournami (2006 film)
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| Directed by | Prabhu Deva |
| Produced by | M.S. Raju |
| Written by | Pavan Kumar Paruchuri Brothers |
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Prabhas Trisha Charmy Rahul Dev Sindhu Tolani |
| Music by | Devi Sri Prasad |
| Cinematography | Venu |
| Edited by | Krishna Reddy |
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21 April 2006 |
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Running time
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167 minutes |
| Country | India |
| Language | Telugu |
Pournami is a 2006 Telugu feature film directed by Prabhu Deva. It stars Trisha, Prabhas, Charmy, Rahul Dev, and Sindhu Tolani. The movie had a lot of pre-release hype because of Prabhas and Trisha's earlier hit, Varsham. However, despite the huge cast, film couldn't perform well at box office. The film has been dubbed into Tamil as Pournami and in Hindi as Tridev - Pyaar Ki Jung.The film also dubbed into Malayalam as Pournami The film was inspired from the 2001 Brazilian film Behind the Sun starring Rodrigo Santoro which in itself was adapted from an Albanian novel by Ismail Kadare. The film is a remake of Sahibaan.Shooting locations included Virupaksha Temple,Elephant stable,stepped well in Hampi.
Film starts in a distant past where a remote village in Andhra Pradesh suffers from a drought for a very long time. A woman(Veda Archana Sastry) from a traditional family comes forward to dance in a Lord Shiva's temple to appease Shiva to bless their village with rains. She dances for twelve days continuously before she dies if exhaustion. Finally they have rains and their long standing drought ends. From then they make it a tradition that a girl from that dancer's family should dance in Shiva's temple for every twelve years on that auspicious day.
Story comes to present day. Now they are expecting Pournami (Trisha), elder daughter of the family to dance on the occasion. But just before few months from the festival, she goes missing and everybody thinks that she eloped with someone.Then, everybody's attention turns to Pournami's younger sister Chandrakala (Charmy) to dance on the occasion but their father wouldn't agree. Later it would be revealed that Pournami hasn't eloped but her father sent her away to protect her from their village Zamindar who wants to make Pournami his concubine. He fears that same fate might befall on Chandrakala, so he wouldn't agree to teach her dancing.
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