Naa Manasistha Raa

Naa Manasistha Raa (transl. Come, I will give you my heart) is a 2001 Indian Telugu-language romantic thriller film directed by R. R. Shinde. It stars Srikanth, Soundarya, and Richa Pallod. The film is a remake of the Tamil film Parthen Rasithen (2000).

Naa Manasistha Raa
Official poster
Directed byR. R. Shinde
Written byJandhyala (dialogues)
Based onParthen Rasithen
by Saran
Produced byM. Sudhakar
Starring
CinematographyC. Ramprasad
Edited byMarthand K. Venkatesh
Music byS. A. Rajkumar
Production
company
Sri Mahaganapathi Films
Release date
  • 18 July 2001 (2001-07-18)
CountryIndia
LanguageTelugu

The film released on 18 July 2001 and was a box office failure.[1]

Plot

Shankar, an aeronautical engineer, is a soft spoken man. He befriends Nandini, a student of medicine and the both share a platonic relationship. Despite this, Shankar spends a lot of time as a loaner blowing his mouth organ. Seershika, who works as an employee at a private firm, meets Shankar and starts liking him as a person as well as his taste in music.

Shankar reciprocates her feelings, and they both fall in love with each other. As they decide to get marry, Shankar's parents who live in Dubai come to India as start the wedding arrangements. Meanwhile, Nandini takes an opportunity and confesses his love to Shankar. Disheartened Seershika consumes poison in an attempt to suicide and gets hospitalized. Shankar, however, never had any romantic feelings towards Nandini. Nonetheless, Nandini remains adamant to marry to Shankar. Seershika is now determined to get back her love, successfully faces all the hurdles and wins back Shankar's love.

Cast

Production

After the success of films ending with 'Raa', Ninne Premistha (2000) director R. R. Shinde titled this film Naa Manasistha Raa. The film is produced by Sudhakar, who produced Taraka Ramudu (1997).[2][3] Shooting was scheduled to start on 18 January 2001 but was postponed to the second week of February of the same year.[4][2] Srikanth and Soundarya shot for this film and Kalisi Naduddam (2001) at the same time.[5]

Soundtrack

Songs are composed by S. A. Rajkumar, who reused all tunes from the original.[6]

Reception

Griddaluru Gopalrao of Zamin Ryot gave a positive review for the film. He appreciated the storyline, performances of the leads and camerawork of the film.[7] Ajay Bashyam of Full Hyderabad opined that "Right from the name (ouch!), everything about Naa Manasista... Raa! is filmy. It's an old problem - the story starts off pretty okay and has enough steam to carry it till the interval, then there is the twist [...] and then the writer keeps coming up with new problems just to pull along the film for the second half".[8]

Box office

A writer from News18 attributed the film's failure with the audience's rejection of Soundarya in a negative role.[9][10]

References
  1. Vijayalaxmi, M D Riti (30 May 2003). "Vamsi is back!". Rediff.com.
  2. ""Manasista .. Raa!" - says love expert Shinde". Idlebrain.com. 19 January 2001.
  3. "RB Chowdary donates 5 lakhs to RR Shinde family". Idlebrain.com. 30 October 2001.
  4. "Srikanth - Soundarya combo on 18th Jan". Idlebrain.com. 27 December 2000.
  5. "Anjala Zhaveri with Srikanth". Idlebrain.com. 29 May 2001.
  6. "Naa Manasista Raa Songs Download: Naa Manasista Raa MP3 Telugu Songs Online Free on". Gaana.com. Retrieved 23 August 2022.
  7. Gopalrao, Griddaluru (9 August 2001). "నా... మానసిస్తా రా! చూసి రావోచ్చు!!" [Naa Manasistha Raa is watchable] (PDF). Zamin Ryot (in Telugu). pp. 9, 11.
  8. Bashyam, Ajay. "Naa Manasistha Raa Review". Full Hyderabad.
  9. "Samantha - Ramya Krishna - Kajal - Soundarya: వెండితెరపై విలనిజం చూపించిన స్టార్ హీరోయిన్స్ వీళ్లే." News18 Telugu (in Telugu). 7 April 2021.
  10. "సమంత ప్రేమకథకి నయన్ విలనా?". Andhra Jyothy (in Telugu). 23 November 2021.
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