Manam (2014) on Netflix
NR20142h 43mComedyDramaFantasy
Krishna Veni and Radha Mohan drive to file for divorce and die in a car crash. Their son Nageswara Rao grows into a wealthy businessman who meets two lookalikes of his parents.
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Plot summary
Nageswara Rao, known as Bittu, is six years old when his parents, Radha Mohan and Krishna Veni, are killed in a road accident while driving to a lawyer's office to end their marriage. Thirty years on he is a rich and influential businessman. By chance he comes across a young man and a young woman who are the image of his dead parents, and he sets out to win them for each other the contentment his parents never found, keeping his plan to himself and calling on his assistant, Girish Karnad. The young man already has a girlfriend, Prema. Close to the clock tower where his parents were lost, Nageswara Rao is struck by a doctor, Anjali, and the two of them take an injured elderly man, Chaitanya, to a hospital.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Manam (2014)
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- While battling cancer, Akkineni Nageswara Rao had dubbing equipment brought to the set so he could voice his own role, refusing to let another artist do it; he completed the dubbing days before his death on 22 January 2014, with only an appearance in a song left unfinished.
- Ileana D'Cruz was approached in early February 2013 for the main female lead opposite Nagarjuna; she was reported to have quoted a ₹20 million fee, which sources close to her denied. Shriya Saran was signed instead, in her fourth collaboration with Nagarjuna.
- Nagarjuna asked Amitabh Bachchan to appear in Manam as an honour to his father Akkineni Nageswara Rao's memory, and Bachchan agreed immediately; they kept his appearance secret because they wanted it to be a surprise.
- Vikram Kumar asked Nagarjuna for a year to finish the script; after K. Raghavendra Rao found the original too complicated, the rewrite was read to Akkineni Nageswara Rao over six hours, and Nageswara Rao suggested adding a comedy plotline between grandfather and grandson.
- Because of Akkineni Nageswara Rao's death, one song's tune was replaced with another tune, and the replacement drew on a few lines of the song Nenu Puttanu from Prem Nagar (1971).
- In late September 2014 the United States postal department issued a stamp in honour of Nageswara Rao, making him the first Indian actor to have a postal stamp released in his name; the stamp featured a still of him from Manam.
- Before its release, the film leaked onto the internet in early March 2014, and two people connected to the leak were arrested on 8 March 2014.
