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Love in Singapore is a 1980 Indian Telugu-language action drama film directed by OSR Anjaneyulu and starring Ranganath, Latha, Chiranjeevi, and Jose Prakash (in his Telugu debut). The film was simultaneously shot in Malayalam with the same name with a different director starring Prem Nazir and Jayan.




Plot



In a village in Andhra Pradesh, rebels steal the diamond from a Kali Sword and take it to Singapore. The central government hands over the case to the CBI, who appoints officer Prem to bring the stolen jewel back to India. Prem leaves for Singapore and meets his younger brother Suresh, who ran away from home as a child. How Prem and Suresh together return the jewel back to India forms the rest of the story.




Cast


Ranganath as Prem
Latha as Sudha
Chiranjeevi as Suresh
Jose Prakash
The uncredited cast includes:

Madeline as Madeline
Mukkamala
Hema Sundar
P. J. Sarma
Attili Lakshmi
The rest of the cast consists of junior artistes from Singapore.




Production


This was the first film that Chiranjeevi had clapped for the muhurat shot. This film was shot in Bangkok, Hong Kong, Malaysia and Singapore for about twenty days. This film marked Chiranjeevi's first film shot outside of India. Although both Ranganath and Chiranjeevi's roles were given equal importance to the media during shooting, the film was promoted as a Chiranjeevi film prior to release due to his craze at the time post the success of Punnami Naagu (1980).




Release and reception


The film had a preview at Meena Theatre in Chennai (then Madras), which was attended by Kamal Haasan. The film was released a week after Kaali and Thathayya Premaleelalu, both starring Chiranjeevi. The film was dubbed and released in Tamil with the same title.
Kalki reviewed the Tamil version praising the acting of Chiranjeevi, cinematography and music but found OSR's direction as okay. A writer from Movie Volume wrote that the film's fights are the main attraction while also praising Chiranjeevi's dance and Shankar–Ganesh's music. A writer from iDreamPost felt that Chiranjeevi had become a better actor through this film. The film was a box office success.




References






External links


Love in Singapore at IMDb

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