Sneham Kosam

Sneham Kosam
DVD Cover
Directed by	K.S. Ravikumar
Produced by	A. M. Rathnam
Written by	Jyothi Krishna
Starring	Chiranjeevi Meena Prakash Raj
Music by	S. A. Rajkumar
Production company	Sri Suriya Movies
Release dates	1 January 1999
Language	Telugu

Sneham Kosam (English: For friendship , Telugu: స్నేహం కోసం) is a 1999 Telugu film produced by A. M. Ratnam under the Sri Surya Movies banner. Directed by K. S. Ravikumar, the film stars Chiranjeevi in the dual roles of father and son. The film was released on 1 January 1999. Meena played the female lead role in the movie. The film has been dubbed into Hindi as Main Hoon Rakhwala which also became a commercial success.

The movie was a remake of Tamil hit Natpukkaga directed by K.S. Ravikumar himself which starred Sarath Kumar and Simran in the lead roles.

Cast

Chiranjeevi as Simhadri/Chinnayya
Meena as Prabhavathi
Prakash Raj
VijayaKumar as Prabhavathi's Father
Brahmanandam
Kota Srinivasa Rao
Babu Mohan
Mallikarjuna Rao
M. S. Narayana
Sujatha as Lakshmi
Nirmalamma
K. S. Ravikumar
Sithara as Gowri

Production

In December 1997, Rajinikanth announced that his next film would be directed by K. S. Ravikumar, who had made the successful 1995 film Muthu with the actor. Filming was initially slated to begin in April 1998 but the FEFSI strike delayed proceedings and Ravikumar was only able to complete his previous film Natpukkaga by June 1998. A. M. Rathnam, who produced Natpukkaga requested Ravikumar to remake the film in Telugu with Chiranjeevi in the lead. Though initially reluctant, he accepted to quickly remake the film in Telugu as Sneham Kosam. The film's shooting was completed in 56 days.^[1]

Awards

Year	Nominee/work	Award	Result
1999	Chiranjeevi (his fifth time)	Filmfare Award for Best Telugu Actor	Won

Box-office

The film ran for 50 days in 150 centres and 100 days in 70 centres.^[2]
There was also a Hindi dubbed version of the Telugu version titled Main Hoon Rakhwala.

Trivia

This film got extreme reviews from audience and critics and emerged as a blockbuster
The story writer of this film, Jyothi Krishna is the son of A. M. Ratnam;the film producer.^[3]

References

External links

Sneham Kosam at the Internet Movie Database

Films directed by K. S. Ravikumar

1990-1999	Puriyaadha Pudhir (1990) Cheran Pandiyan (1991) Putham Pudhu Payanam (1991) Pondatti Rajyam (1992) Oor Mariyadhai (1992) Purusha Lakshanam (1993) Band Master (1993) Suriyan Chandiran (1993) Aagraham (1993) (Telugu) Nattamai (1994) Sakthivel (1994) Muthukulikka Vaariyala (1995) Muthu (1995) Periya Kudumbam (1995) Avvai Shanmugi (1996) Parambarai (1996) Pistha (1997) Dharma Chakkaram (1997) Natpukkaga (1998) Kondattam (1998) Sneham Kosam (1999) (Telugu) Suyamvaram (1999) Padayappa (1999) Paattali (1999) Minsara Kanna (1999)

2000-2009	Thenali (2000) Bava Nachadu (2001) Samudhiram (2001) Panchathantiram (2002) Villain (2002) Villain (2003) (Telugu) Paarai (2003) Aethirree (2004) Saravana (2006) Varalaru (2006) Dasavathaaram (2008) Aadhavan (2009)

2010- present	Jaggubhai (2010) Manmadhan Ambu (2010) Policegiri (2013) (Hindi) Lingaa (2014) Mudinja Ivana Pudi / Kotigobba 2 (2016)

Shelved	Rana

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