Aranyakanda

1987 Indian action thriller film

29 December 1986 (1986-12-29)

Running time

170 minutesCountryIndiaLanguageTelugu

Aranyakanda (transl. Jungle Chapter) is a 1986 Telugu-language action thriller film produced by C. Penchal Reddy under the Ushodaya Enterprises banner, and directed by Kranthi Kumar. It stars Nagarjuna, Ashwini, Rajendra Prasad. The soundtrack is composed by Chakravarthy.^[1]

Plot

The film revolves around a forest where the protection of a tribe against a tiger and deadly gangsters by a forest officer, Chaitanya. Chaitanya goes to the jungle to solve the case of the tiger killing the local tribals. He meets the love birds Sanga & Neeli there, but they cannot marry due to caste problems. After going through the case, Chaitanya realizes that the tiger is not harming the people, but some cowardly people are doing all this. The rest of the story shows how he eradicates evil activities and what he has to pay for them.

Cast

Nagarjuna as Chaitanya
Ashwini as Preethi
Rajendra Prasad as Sangadu
Charan Raj as Bukutha
Prabhakar Reddy as Preethi's father
Rallapalli as Chinna Bukutha
P. J. Sarma as DFO
Bob Christo as Rowdy
Radhika as Poornima
Annapurna as Chaitanya's mother
Tulasi as Neeli
Sri Lakshmi as Chinna Dorasani

Soundtrack

Aranya Kanda

Film score by

Chakravarthy

Released

1986

Genre

Soundtrack

Length

20:30

Label

Saptaswar Audio

Producer

Chakravarthy

Chakravarthy chronology

Pratidwani
(1986)

Aranya Kanda
(1986)

Veta
(1986)

The music was composed by Chakravarthy. Lyrics were written by Veturi. The music released on SAPTASWAR Audio Company.

No.	Title	Singer(s)	Length
1.	"Idhe Aranyakanda"	S. P. Balasubrahmanyam	3:32
2.	"Bagunnava"	P. Susheela, Srinivas Chakravarthy	4:28
3.	"Jabilliga"	P. Susheela	4:03
4.	"Suryudu Jabili"	S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, P. Susheela	4:25
5.	"Puvvumeedha"	P. Susheela, Srinivas Chakravarthy	4:02