GGM holds plantinum disc show

The unit of "Gundamma Gari Manavadu" (of RR Movie Maker's banner) has celebrated the platinum disc function tonight at Prasad Labs, Hyderabad. Lady director B. Jaya is the captain with Venkat as producer. This Ali starrer was released recently to receive below par reviews. However, the registered claim is that the music made it to the top of the chart. Thus, platinum disc fete! Aditya Music released the music.

On this occasion, the GGM unit members had cut a cake to celebrate the birthday of K. Raghavendra Rao (coming tomorrow). This event coincided with Annamayya (directed by KRR) completing 10 years today.

The dignitaries who took part in the event included D. Ramanaidu, K. Raghavendra Rao, Puri Jagannath, MS Raju, Ambika Ramachandra Rao, Arjun Raju, Charki, Tammareddy Bharadwaj, Krishna Reddy, Achi Reddy, Suresh Reddy, Vandemataram Srinivas (music director of the film), Kunche Raghu, Paruchuri Gopalakrishna, B. Jaya (director) and others.

Ramanaidu, the chief guest of the fete, said that Jaya had a keen eye for family-oriented movies without vulgarity. She had made GGM with perfect planning. The music scored by Vandemataram has become a big asset to the movie. This success would sure flourish into next big project in the near future, he wished so.

Another prominent speaker Puri Jagannath said: "While I was doing Super, KRR came to the sets to seek dates from Nag for the movie Sri Ramadasu. That time, I just quipped as to why he still makes direction even after finishing hundred movies. Why can't you retire.. was my statement to him! But that film became a big hit. Now, I apologize to this great director KRR and wish him 200 movies." He further heaped high praise on hero Ali, calling him as "my hero".

EVV Satyanarayana said that he knew Ali since the time of movie "Seethakoka Chiluka" of late 70s. He is a very talented artiste, who remains cool always without giving scope to emotions. "Ali is the perfect example of No Arrogance", he added.

Ali thanked the guests for all their praise. He recalled the initial days of his career. "I made my entry with a small role in "Punadhi Rallu" in 1978. Later, it was with K. Viswanath's President Peramma. Sholay impressed me a lot and made me an actor later. I used to translate the dialogues of NTR and ANR into Hindi. I even enacted the scenes before my friends as to how NTR and ANR would do the roles of Dharmendra and Amitabh Bachchan. It was all fun those days. I still retain the vigor now with all the cooperation of my producers and directors,"