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Evergreen Hero's Evergreen Hit Dasara Bullodu

March 21, 2007

ANR and Chandrakala

Dasara Bullodu, starring the hit pair of yesteryear Telugu cinema-ANR and Vanisri, was noted filmmaker VB Rajendra Prasad's first attempt at direction. Before this film, VB Rajendra Prasad was known as a successful producer having produced many blockbusters under his home banner Jagapati Art Pictures, most of them starring ANR in the lead.

Dasara Bullodu, also starring Chandrakala-the second female lead, SV Rangarao, Nagabhushanam, Gummadi, Padmanabham and Anjali Devi, was released on 13th January, 1971 and went on to become this huge hit. It had lyrics-dialogues by Acharya Atreya, music by KV Mahadevan and cinematography by S. Venkataratnam. Sri Lakshmi Films distributed the film.

It ran in Pratap Talkies, Tirupati for 254 days, before it was replaced by Prem Nagar on 24th September, 1971 again starring ANR and Vanisri. Incidentally, even Prem Nagar celebrated a 100-day run at the theatre.

VB Rajendra Prasad later directed Akkineni in Bangaru Babu, Bangaru Bommalu, Rama Krishnulu, Muddula Koduku, SP Bhayankar and Bharyabhartala Bandham, but none could repeat the success that Dasara Bullodu managed.

Find below the 150-day gross collections of the film at the 4 centres (direct-3, shift-1) where the film celebrated a 200-day run.

Centre	Theatre (Total Run)	150-day Gross Collection
Hyderabad	Santhi (200 days)	Rs. 5,73,484
Vijayawada	Sri Vijaya Talkies (200 days)	Rs. 4,10,842
Guntur	Krishna Mahal (106 days) + Liberty (94 days)	Rs. 3,20,316
Tirupati	Pratap Talkies (254 days)	Rs. 2,66,582

The movie had a 100-day run in 25 theatres (first release-22, late release-3), the details of which are given below:

#	Centre	Theatre
1	Vijayawada	Sri Vijaya Talkies
2	Guntur	Krishna Mahal
3	Nellore	Kanaka Mahal
4	Vizag	Navarang
5	Rajahmundry	Shyamala Talkies
6	Kakinada	Vijay
7	Vijayanagaram	Sri Krishna Cinema
8	Tenali	Alankar Talkies
9	Eluru	Sri Rama Mahal
10	Machilipatnam	Nataraj Picture Palace
11	Bheemavaram	Padmasri Picture Palace
12	Gudiwada	Sri Neela Mahal
13	Amalapuram	Sri Venkateswara
14	Ongole	Sri Ram Picture Palace
15	Hyderabad	Santhi
16	Secunderabad	Anjali
17	Warangal	Raja Rajeswari Talkies
18	Khammam Mettu	Srinivasa Mahal
19	Tirupati	Pratap Talkies
20	Kadapa	Rounak Picture Palace
21	Kurnool	Navarang
22	Ananthapuram	Neelam
23	Tuni	Somaraj (Late Release)
24	Karim Nagar	Tirandaz (Late Release)
25	Produttur	Venkateswara (Late Release)

The following is the text of the press note issued by ANR in 1971 on the eve of Dasara.