Best movies like Dongata
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Dongaata is a comedy thriller starring Lakshmi Manchu and Adivi Sesh. The film marks the debut of Vamsi Krishna as a director,and the film has also been produced by Lakshmi Manchu.
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Naiyaandi
Chinna Vandu, the youngest of three brothers, falls in love with Vana Roja when she visits her grandmother, coinciding with the village carnival. After a few hiccups, their romance becomes mutual. Chinna Vandu has to then handle his family members, particularly his lovesick elder brothers, and also a dreaded goon who sets his eagle eyes on Roja.
Run Raja Run
Raja, son of a vegetable vendor, is a simple man. His girlfriends dump him because of his honesty. However, things take a turn when he meets his true love Priya, the daughter of a police commissioner.
Aa Ammayi Gurinchi Meeku Cheppali
A successful commercial film director finds a reel that changes his life forever. Will he finally make a movie that touches people’s hearts?
Inji Iduppazhagi
An overweight, young woman, who finds it hard to land a husband, learns to accept her 'Size Sexy' figure and leads an awareness campaign against a dubious slimness centre.
Chandamama
Chandamama (Telugu: చందమామ, English translation: Moon) is a 2007 Telugu movie directed by Krishna Vamsi with Navdeep and Shiva Balaji in the lead roles. Kajal Agarwal, known for playing the lead role in Lakshmi Kalyanam, is paired opposite Navdeep, while Sindhu Menon is playing the female lead opposite Shiva Balaji. The movie is produced by C. Kalyan and S. Vijayanand, the musical score is provided by K. M. Radha Krishnan and the base story by Akula Venkat. The film was released in September 2007. The film was remade under the name A Aa E Ee in Tamil by AVM Productions.
Gundello Godari
The story of the film is loosely based on a novel named 'Godavari Kathalu', written by BVS Rama Rao. The film is set in 1986, in Bangarappeta village near Rajahmundry. Malli (Aadhi) and Chitra (Lakshmi Manchu) is a newlywed couple who are forced to battle it out against a devastating flood of the River Godavari. They lose all hope of survival, so they decide to narrate the darkest moments of their lives to each other after they find a support to rest on.
Ragala 24 Gantallo
A couple fall in love and get married, but as soon as they are hitched, things begin to unravel. They discover each other's dark secrets and begin to realise that nothing is as it seems when it comes to their partners.
HIT: The 2nd Case
Krishna Dev aka KD, a laidback cop working in Andhra Pradesh State HIT, takes on a gruesome murder case. As KD unravels the layers of the crime, the stakes rise unbelievably high and the threat comes unusually close.
Evaru
When a high-ranking police officer is killed by his alleged rape victim, Sub-inspector Vikram Vasudev is entrusted with investigating what seems like an open-and-shut case. However, as he delves deeper, Vikram finds the case spiralling into a dark tale filled with unexpected surprises.
Goodachari
Gopi, alias Arjun, is the son of an ex-RAW agent Raghuveer. Brought up by his uncle Satya, he wants to be an agent just like his father and uncle. But Satya wants him to lead a normal life and not be killed like his father was. What happens in Gopi’s life that turns everything upside down?
Department
A police inspector recruits a suspended cop for a specialized task force to battle organized crime.
Sindhooram
The story about how a young man (Brahmaji) in a village who wants to become a police officer ends up becoming a terrorist.
Murari
Circa 1800's a Jamindar (Prakash Raj) insults Durga Devi by stealing her idol in the temple in a state of intoxication.An enraged Devi kills him and puts a curse on his heirs that she is going to take one family member each every 48 years. And one male heir dies accidentally at the end of every 48 years. And the present year denotes end of another 48 years and now it's the turn of Murari (Mahesh Babu). In another village, there lives Vasundhara (Sonali Bendre). She too lives with a big combined family.Both the families of Murari and Vasundhara are releated by blood, but separated due to the family feuds.They both fall in love and these both families makes the formal arrangement of marriage. But once his grandmother, who returns from her Teerdha Yatra, upon being informed by the family poojari that Murari is the one who would be subjected to death by Devi this year, refuses for the marriage.
Dongala Mutha
Sudheer and Rani break down near a resort and quickly realize they are in a do or die situation.
Nakshatram
A young boy is made to realise that the police form the backbone of society and every cop is akin to Lord Hanuman the protector. He then makes up his mind about becoming a cop when he grows up.
Doosukeltha
Chinna (Vishnu) is a very witty and resourceful person who knows how to get things done. As kids, Chinna and Piccheshwar (Vennela Kishore) have a tiff and Piccheshwar leaves the village in a huff. Piccheshwar’s outraged grandfather (Kota Srinivasa Rao) orders the execution of Chinna’s family, forcing them to flee as well. As the years go by, Chinna grows into a tall and fearless young fellow. He applies for a job as a journalist and he is sent on an assignment by his boss Avatar (Posani). The assignment is to conduct a sting operation on Minister Dilleeswara Rao (Pankaj Tripathi). Chinna succeeds in capturing incriminating footage, but he is caught and thrashed by the minister’s goons.
Ninne Pelladatha
Ninne Pelladata is family romance based movie in which Mahalakshmi (Tabu) comes to Hyderabad for job training and falls in love with Seenu (Nagarjuna). The duo decide to inform their respective parents of their plan to get married. Seenu's family welcomes Mahalaxmi, and approves of her. Just shortly after their approval, Mahalaxmi's parents interrupt the proceedings and forcibly take Mahalaxmi with them, to get her married to someone else, leaving Mahalaxmi and Seenu to an unknown fate
Chakram
Chakram (Prabhas) is a foreign returnee and has a dream of building a hospital at Pulivendula. He is in love with his colleague, Lakshmi (Asin Thottumkal) who studied with him abroad. But leaves her half-way through after he realizes that he was struck with cancer. Not wanting to tell her, he moves to Hyderabad and stays in place called ‘Sahara Colony’. There, he tries to solve people problem's in the colony. Seeing all this, another girl who is also named Lakshmi (Charmy) falls in love with Chakram. The rest is a heart-rending saga of the cancer-struck patient's love station.
Karma
Padma (Jade) is an Indian girl born and raised in the US and during childhood she sees the murder of her father which shakes her faith in god. Years pass by and even her mother passes away. While she lives the life of loneliness and fear, a turn takes place as she comes across Dev (Sesh). He is new to the US and comes from a place remotely known in India. Dev’s mother leaves him with Padma and goes to New York. It is here that Padma begins to experience few unbelievable things being done by Dev which questions her very faith. On the other hand, a devil cult is spreading its tentacles and it is out to create mayhem and unrest in the world. Who is Dev? What is his identity? What happens to Padma’s strong beliefs? All this forms the rest of the story.
Goadalli C.I.D 999
Goadalli CID 999 is a 1968 Indian Kannada-language spy thriller film written, directed and produced by Dorai–Bhagavan duo. The film starred Rajkumar in the lead role as a detective. Popular Indian actress Lakshmi made her debut in Kannada cinema with this film. Sri Lankan based actress Sabeetha Perera also made her Indian movie debut with this film.[2] The film had musical score by G. K. Venkatesh with lyrics by R. N. Jayagopal.The film met with highly positive response upon release and paved the way for many more such Bond style of movies in the combination of the director duo with lead actor Rajkumar.
Budugu
Vamsi Krishna suffers from ADHD and therefore suffers miserably at school life. Due to his lack of performance in class and deviltry issues, he is constantly nagged by his parents. His studding mother Pooja spends time over his betterment but couldn’t comply with the difficulties of coping with a ADHD child since she has no clue what Bunny aka. Vamsi was going through. One fine day, parents decide to send him to boarding, thinking this to be the only viable option available for his improvement. And that’s where Bunny starts getting abnormal and starts getting connected to Diya. Who is Diya? Why did Parents consult a Psychiatrist Geetha? What happens next forms the rest of the story line.
Uu Kodathara Ulikki Padathara
Uu... Kodathara? Ulikki Padathara?, commonly referred to as UKUP, is a 2012 Indian Telugu socio-fantasy film written and directed by Sekhar Raja, produced by Lakshmi Manchu and starring Manoj Manchu