Mogalirekulu

Mogalirekulu
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Created bySrikanth Entertainment Pvt. Ltd
Based onMogali Rekulu
by Yaddanapudi Sulochana Rani
Written byManjula Naidu (dialogues)
Screenplay byManjula Naidu
Bindu Naidu
Story byManjula Naidu
Directed byManjula Naidu
Starring
  • Indraneil
  • Sagar
  • Sheela Singh
  • Likitha Kamini
  • Karuna
  • Medha Bihri
  • Ravi Varma/Selvaraj
  • Muktar
  • Shruthi
  • Ravi Krishna
Theme music composerBunty
Country of originIndia
Original languageTelugu
No. of seasons2
No. of episodes1,368
Production
Producers
  • Sudhakar Pallamala
  • Shashank Pallamala
EditorRaam
Camera setupBaba
Ravi Chepur
Running time20 minutes
Original release
NetworkGemini TV
Release18 February 2008 (2008-02-18) –
24 May 2013 (2013-05-24)[1]
Related

Mogalirekulu was an Indian Telugu-language drama television series which originally premiered on 18 February 2008 on Gemini TV and ran until 24 May 2013. It was directed by Manjula Naidu, who co-wrote alongside Bindu Naidu.[2] It is one of the longest-running Telugu series. The show starred Sagar, Sheela, Likhitha Kamini, Indraneel and Medha in the lead roles.

Mogalirekulu has a revenge plot. Season 1 focus on Dharma, the eldest of five orphans, looks after the younger ones, Satya, Daya, Santhi and Keerthana, who also want to avenge their parents' death. The story has a lot of twists, drama and touches upon social responsibilities too. Season 2 focuses on their children Mahidhar Naidu/Munna, Devi, Durga, Pallavi, Eshwar and Sindhu.

Synopsis

The story begins with three young boys Dharma, Satya and Daya and their little sister, Shanti. Four of them are the victims of a family feud where their parents and grandmother are murdered by their step grandmother and uncles. They are joined by their neighbor's child Keerthana, who is a victim of a mother's innocent passion for music. They decide to leave for Hyderabad but the things take twists and turns resulting the three brothers and Keerthana was being in Hyderabad and their sister Santi, after separating from her brothers, living with her uncle and step-grandmother.

ACP RK Naidu (who is later the DGP, Mumbai) is a strict, dynamic and responsible IPS officer who marries Shanti after saving her from clutches of her uncle and grandmother. Dharma meets Selva Swamy who indulges in illegal activities which brings the enmity between RK and Selva.

After knowing that Dharma is Santi's brother and many misunderstandings RK come to conclusion that Dharma being an honest friend and sensitive person is just helping his friend Selva in his activities and start adoring him. RK successfully puts the culprits of santi's parents behind the bars as promised to Dharma. A love triangle start confusion among Dharma, Keerthana and Selva (created by Selva's mother where she blackmailed Keerthana to marry Selva for saving Dharma) results in dire enmity of Selva for Dharma and RK where he plans a bomb blast to kill them and the results being death of Daya and Rk and Santi losing their son Mahidhar Naidu.

The serial is into second generation then having Munna, the son of RK Naidu as the hero, who has been orphaned due to the bomb blast who is brought up in a criminal background by a don Sikandar Bhai. Munna falls in love with Devi who is the niece of Selva. Selva feels attached to her as she resemble Selva's wife Meenakshi. Hence he decides to get her married to his elder son Eshwar. Due to some clashes Munna and Eshwar get into heated arguments and fight. But Munna and Devi become friends and her marriage with Eshwar is called off when she reveals her true feelings for munna on the day before wedding, bothering her parents, Eshwar and his grandmother. Munna and Devi get married. Munna plots to attack DGP RK as a part of his criminal life but decides not to because of his good nature and later learns that RK is his father. Munna unable to face his father, hides his identity and changes his name to 'Mahendhra' and starts a health service called AHS to serve rural people and comes back to RK after protecting RK from a bomb blast. While he is away, Devi goes to stay with RK's family by hiding her identity saying that she needs protection until her husband Munna comes back. Meanwhile, RK learns that Munna aka Mahidhar is indeed their son Mahi through Selva Swamy. In Meanwhile, Pallavi and Durga love each other despite their parents' rivalry. RK's family accepts Devi as their daughter-in-law and Devi conceives. The story ends with the two families of RK and Selva uniting by getting Selva's sons married with Dharma and Satya's daughters and also they learn that Dharma is alive.

Cast

Actor Character
Sagar RK Naidu, Munna/Mahidhar Naidu
Sheela Singh Shanti
Indraneil Varma Dharma
Selva Raj Arumugam and Ravi Varma (Santhosh Adduri) Selva Swamy
Madhusudhan Rao Shankar
Likitha Kamini and Karuna Bhushan Devi Priya
Sruthi Gomathi
Mukhtar Khan Sikandar Bhai
Pavan Sai Eshwar
Ravi Krishna Durga
Hari Krishna Ali
Sireesha Dhamera and Medha Bahri Sindhu
Reshma Rathore and Sonia Pallavi
Medha Bahri and Raga Madhuri Keerthana
Vijay Reddy and Dwarakesh Satya Vardhan
Pavitranath Daya Sagar
Likitha Kamini Meenakshi
Vijay Bhargav Shiva
Y. Vijaya Mahalakshmi
Anjali Anjali
Radha Krishna and Madhusudhan Shankar
Sripriya Rajini
Nagamani Muniamma
Rajani, Sowjanya, and Kalpana Latha Madhurima
Nitesh Phani
Lahari Vishnuwazhala Aishwarya
Muskaan Chowdhry Megha
Mohan Kumar Mohan
Kasi Sateesh
Ashok Rao Raghavendra
Vijay Pratap
Surya Surya
Sameera Swathi
Ranganath Brigadier Chandra Sekhar Rao
Sai Satish Imran
Bank Srinivas Viswanathan
Jyothi Rajeshwari
Harsha Mahidhar
BHEL Prasad DGP
Sri Lakshmi Annapoornamma
Irneni Ramesh Ram Moorthy
Madhumani Susheela
Uday Narayana Rao
Deepa Uma Devi
Swetha Gowri
Roja Smitha
Sravani Keerthana's mother
Mime Madhu Shiva Ram
Ravi Kishore Varma
Shiva Kumar Shivalkar
Jyothi Reddy Megha's mother
Captain Raju Chief Minister
Vara Prasad Surya's Brother
Raghavayya Home Minister
Sravani Manasa
Rajitha and Lalitha Raziya
Mohan Bhagath [3]
Pawon Sae

Production

Mogalirekulu marked the debut of Pavan Sai.[4]

Soundtrack

Track listing[5]
No.TitleLyricsMusicSinger(s)Length
1."Title Song"Balabadrapatruni MadhuBunty[6]Bunty2:41

Accolades

Award Category Recipient(s) Result Ref.
Ugadi Gemini TV Awards Best Primetime Serial Mogalirekulu Won [7]

References

  1. ^ "Mogalirekulu to make a comeback!". The Times of India. 5 May 2016. Retrieved 24 March 2026.
  2. ^ "All in the family". The Hindu. 16 April 2010. ISSN 0971-751X. Archived from the original on 6 December 2024. Retrieved 24 March 2026.
  3. ^ Chowdary, Y. Sunita (6 September 2018). "Meet the actors of 'C/o Kancharapalem'". The Hindu. Archived from the original on 28 April 2023. Retrieved 24 March 2026.
  4. ^ Murthy, Neeraja. "Telugu television actor Pavan Sai's dreams get bigger". Archived from the original on 13 January 2023. Retrieved 24 March 2026.
  5. ^ "Title Song - MogaliRekulu Telugu Daily Serial || Srikanth Entertainments". Gemini TV. 16 May 2016. Retrieved 24 March 2026 – via YouTube.
  6. ^ "Medicine with a musical touch". The Hindu. 25 July 2016. Retrieved 24 March 2026.
  7. ^ "Ugadi Gemini TV Awards - 4th Apr Part10". 4 April 2011 – via YouTube.