Muvva Gopaludu is a unique commercial hit for Balakrishna in his career during the emerging times. The film is laden with great family values, stunts, and songs which made it a memorable film for family audience. This marked another hit in Balakrishna and Kodi Ramakrishna’s combination after the successful Mangamma Gari Manavadu earlier.
Story Details:
Basavaraju (Rao Gopala Rao) is a rich landlord in a village who controls every task in the village and exploits the poor villagers around. He has an idea of entering into politics by participating in panchayat elections. His wife Nagalakshmi ( Jayachitra) has a brother Gopi (Balakrishna) works in his rice mill and has a flair for social service. Gopi aims to educate the villagers in giving up alcoholism, family planning and so on. Nirmala (Vijayashanthi) is an innocent MBBS graduate who aims to become a nun for her life. She grows up in missionary environment as she is an orphan from childhood. She arrives in Gopi’s village for medical practice. A Church Father (Gollapudi Maruthi Rao) also has the ambition of educating the villagers and helps solve their issues. Nirmala’s accommodation is arranged in Basavaraju’s house where she meets Gopi. She understands the exploitation of Basavaraju on Gopi and encourages him to be more courageous and stand up for justice. They fall in love and the marriage gets fixed. Basavaraju’s daughter Krishnaveni (Sobhana) is a young teenager who gets trapped in her father’s plan of gettingher married to Gopi. Rest of the story is about how Gopi along with the help of Nirmala and Church Father fight over the wrongdoings of Basavaraju and help out the village.
Performances:
Balakrishna is excellent as the villager who is innocent yet daring. His performance in emotional scenes, and dialogue delivery works great for his character. Rao Gopal Rao is brilliant as usual with his superior body language and dialogue delivery. Jayachitra does great as the wife of Rao Gopal Rao’s character with impeccable rural slang in talking. Vijayashanthi is good as a female lead with a role of substance and performance instead of just confining to glamour. Shobhana is beautiful and extremely believable as the young innocent girl with good scope to perform.
Technical Aspects:
Dialogues by Ganesh Patro suit the theme and the rural slang used in the film appeals to every family audience. Music by K.V.Mahadevan is wonderfully indigenous. Kodi Ramakrishna’s direction is appealing and has good narration flow throughout the running time.