Telugu
TheatreThe 1998 Telugu romantic comedy film Aavida Maa Aavide (English: She Is also My Wife) was written and directed by E. V. V. Satyanarayana. It was presented by M. Murali Mohan and produced by D. Kishore under the Jayabheri Art Productions label.
With music composed by Sri, it features Nagarjuna, Tabu, and Heera Rajagopal in the key roles. It was adapted into Tamil as Police Killadi and Hindi as Biwi No. 2 (2000). Despite a big opening, the movie’s box office performance was mediocre.
Plot
C. I. Vikranth’s father in Hyderabad puts pressure on him to be married. He meets S. I. Archana, another police inspector, during a police encounter, and as a result of the circumstances, they keep running into each other. They eventually marry, fall in love, and have a son.
Later on, when transporting a criminal to court, their jeep is shot at, killing Archana and their kid as well as everyone inside. Despite the encouragement of his father and Archana’s mother to move on from her passing and forget her, Vikranth finds it impossible to forget Archana and his kid.
One day, they set up his marriage to Jhansi, a young woman, and they keep Vikranth’s earlier marriage a secret. Even after finding out about his background, they marry and inform Vikranth that she has accepted marriage on her behalf. Vikranth’s life is returned to by Archana and their son after some time.
Vikranth finds out that before the jeep exploded, terrorists had taken her, their son, and their soldiers hostage. She had not actually died. In the meantime, Jhansi wishes to move into a new apartment in the same neighborhood as Archana.
After Vikranth fails to persuade Jhansi not to move into the apartment, Archana and Jhansi eventually become neighbors. Both women believe they are not married to the same person and that their husbands are similar to each other.
In order to keep his two wives from suspecting him, Vikranth manages them both simultaneously. Kirloskar, Jhansi’s cousin, is a criminal who was previously detained and imprisoned by Archana. There, he makes friends with Murari, another thief who gets imprisoned by Jhansi for his betrayal and several marriages.
These two are persistent in their attempts to uncover the truth about Vikranth’s first marriage and to meddle in Jhansi and Vikranth’s lives. However, they consistently fall short. They finally reveal Vikranth’s treachery of their different wives after numerous failed attempts.
They file for divorce after becoming enraged and believing he has cheated on them. Vikranth claims that despite being grieved by the loss of his kid and wife, he had a deep affection for Archana.
After his mother passed away while he was a little boy, he was living a solitary existence and his father had encouraged him to move on because he did not want him to live like his father.
He thus remarries Jhansi in deference to the wishes of his mother-in-law and father-in-law, not realizing that Jhansi was ignorant of his marriage to Archana. He claims that because Jhansi was a tomboy and did not want to get married, her father blocked him from telling her the truth.
To lighten the situation, he advises him to convey the truth gradually. Archana and Jhansi declare that they know about Vikranth’s actual nature and they want to divorce him since they cannot accept the each other. Finally, Vikranth realizes he can take only Archana as his wife, whilst Jhansi walks out with her father.
Director | E. V. V. Satyanarayana |
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Story | Marudhuri RajaMohan Rao Isukapalli |
Screenplay | E. V. V. Satyanarayana |
Dialogues | Mohan Rao Isukapalli |
Cinematography | Ajayan Vincent |
Editor | K. Ravindra Babu |
Music | Sri |
Producer | D. KishoreMurali Mohan |
Cast | Nagarjuna Tabu (Tabassum Fatima Hashmi)Heera Rajagopal Kota Srinivasa RaoSrihari RaghumudriBrahmanandamMallikarjuna RaoAVSGiri BabuK. Chakravarthy Rama PrabhaGadiraju Subba RaoIronleg SastriShanoor SanaAnuradha, Garimalla Viswaswara Rao |
Release Type | Theatre |
Language | Telugu |
Production | Jayabheri Art Productions |
Budget | 8 Crores |
Box Office | 15 Crores |
OTT Platform | Prime Video |