Ram Charan’s Peddi completes sports movie legacy Chiranjeevi left behind in 1985 | Telugu News
Ram Charan has played warriors, rebels, and revolutionaries. He has never played a sportsman. That changes on June 4, when Peddi arrives in theatres with him as a sportsman from 1980s rural Andhra Pradesh. What most people do not know is that his father tried this exact thing once, in 1985, and then never did it again for the rest of his career. Released in 1985, Vijetha was directed by A. Kodandarami Reddy and produced by Allu Aravind under the Geetha Arts banner. It was a remake of a 1981 Bengali film that had also been adapted into Hindi the same year with Anil Kapoor in the lead role. The Telugu version localised the sport to football and anchored the story firmly in family emotion rather than sporting spectacle. Chiranjeevi played Chinnababu, a young man from a middle-class household who dreams of representing the country as a footballer. While his father does not support the ambition, his coach does. Between those two poles, the story unfolds not as a conventional sports drama but as something …
