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{{Short description|1998 film by E. V. V. Satyanarayana}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2015}}
{{Use Indian English|date=November 2015}}
{{Infobox film
| name = Aavida Maa Aavide
| image = Aavida Maa Aavide poster.jpg
| caption = Theatrical release poster
| writer = [[Marudhuri Raja]]<br />Esukapalli Mohan Rao {{small|(dialogues)}}
| story =
| screenplay = E. V. V. Satyanarayana
| producer = D. Kishore<br />[[Murali Mohan]] {{small|(presents)}}
| director = [[E. V. V. Satyanarayana]]
| starring = [[Nagarjuna (actor)|Nagarjuna]]<br />[[Tabu (actress)|Tabu]]<br />[[Heera Rajagopal]]
| music = [[Sri Kommineni|Sri]]
| cinematography = [[Ajayan Vincent]]
| editing = K. Ravindra Babu
| studio = [[Jayabheri Arts|Jayabheri Art Productions]]
| released = {{Film date|df=y|1998|1|14}}
| runtime = 153 minutes
| country = India
| language = Telugu
| budget =
| gross =
}}

'''''Aavida Maa Aavide''''' ({{langx|en|She too is my wife }}) is a 1998 [[Telugu language|Telugu]] comedy drama film written and directed by [[E. V. V. Satyanarayana]] and produced by D. Kishore under the [[Jayabheri Arts|Jayabheri Art Productions]] banner. The film stars [[Nagarjuna (actor)|Nagarjuna]], [[Tabu (actress)|Tabu]] and [[Heera Rajagopal|Heera]] in the lead roles, with music composed by [[Sri Kommineni|Sri]].<ref>{{cite web| url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/telugu/movies/news/tabu-completes-30-years-in-tollywood-revisiting-her-best-works/photostory/84379122.cms| title=Tabu Completes 30 Years In Tollywood; Revisiting Her Best Works| website=[[The Times of India]]| date=13 July 2021| access-date=18 July 2022| archive-date=12 November 2022| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221112224314/https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/telugu/movies/news/tabu-completes-30-years-in-tollywood-revisiting-her-best-works/photostory/84379122.cms| url-status=live}}</ref>

It is inspired by the 1940 American film ''[[My Favorite Wife]]'', which itself is based on [[Alfred, Lord Tennyson]]'s 1864 poem ''[[Enoch Arden]]''. The film had an average box office run despite a large opening.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.andhraonline.com/archives/tollywood/star38.htm|title=The year gone by 'Twas good for some and bad for most|work=Andhra Online|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19990428055419/http://www.andhraonline.com/archives/tollywood/star38.htm|archive-date=28 April 1999}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=7 February 1998 |title=Mammootty's Marumalarchi tops |url=http://www.screenindia.com/old/feb07/south2.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080215190052/http://www.screenindia.com/old/feb07/south2.htm |archive-date=15 February 2008 |access-date=19 November 2020 |website=[[Screen (magazine)|Screen]]}}</ref> It was dubbed into [[Tamil language|Tamil]] as ''Police Killadi'' and [[Hindi language|Hindi]] as ''Biwi No.2''.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Police Killadi |url=https://djpunjab.is/tamil/police-killadi-songs-slzemwe.html}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2000 |title=Biwi No.2 |url=https://www.discogs.com/release/14365601-Shree-Biwi-No2 |website=[[Discogs]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=9 June 2023 |title=Police Killadi C 30 Audio Jukebox |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drKsFAk3l4c |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240919215142/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drKsFAk3l4c |archive-date=19 September 2024 |access-date=19 September 2024 |website=[[YouTube]]}}</ref>

==Plot==
In Hyderabad, Circle Inspector (CI) Vikranth is pressured by his father, to get married. During a police encounter, he meets another police inspector, S. I. Archana and due to circumstances both keep bumping into each other. Eventually they fall in love, get married and have a son. Sometime later, while transferring a criminal to court their jeep gets blasted and everyone in jeep die along with Archana and their son. Vikranth in unable to forget Archana and his son in spite of support from his father and Archana's mother to forget her (as she has died) and move on with his life.

One day they arrange his marriage with a young lady, Jhansi and hide about Vikranth's first marriage. They tell Vikranth that she has accepted marriage on her behalf even after learning about his past and get married. After a while, Archana and their son come back into Vikranth's life. Vikranth learns that she did not die and terrorists had kidnapped her, their son and their men before the jeep blasted. Meanwhile, Jhansi wants to shift to a new flat in the same locality where Archana also resides. Eventually, Archana and Jhansi become neighbours as Vikranth fails to convince Jhansi not to move to the flat. Both women think that their husbands are look-alikes and that they are not married to one person. Vikranth does a double duty of managing both his wives so that they don't suspect him. Jhansi's cousin Kirloskar is a criminal who was once arrested by Archana and put behind bars. There he befriends another criminal, Murari who goes to jail due to Jhansi because of his multiple marriages and betrayal. These two keep interfering into Jhansi and Vikranth's life and try to expose the truth about Vikranth's first marriage. But they fail everytime. After many failed attempts, at last they expose Vikranth's betrayal to his respective wives. They get angry and think he has cheated on them and send divorce papers. Vikranth says that he loved Archana wholeheartedly while he was devastated by the deaths of his wife and son. His father had advised him to move on because he was living a solo life and he did not want him to live like his father after his mother's death when he was a child. Therefore, to respect his father and mother-in-law's wishes, he remarries Jhansi but he didn't know that Jhansi was unaware about his marriage to Archana. He says that he wanted to tell the truth to Jhansi but her father stopped him because Jhansi did not want to get married as she was a tomboy. He tells him to reveal the truth gradually to ease the matter. Archana and Jhansi say that they know about Vikranth's true nature and they want to divorce him because they cannot accept the each other. Finally, Vikranth admits he can accept only Archana as his wife, whereas Jhansi walks out with her father.

==Cast==
{{colbegin}}
* [[Nagarjuna (actor)|Nagarjuna]] as C. I. Vikranth
* [[Tabu (actress)|Tabu]] as S. I. Archana
* [[Heera Rajagopal]] as Jhansi
* [[Kota Srinivasa Rao]] as Murari
* [[Srihari (actor)|Srihari]] as Kirloskar
* [[Brahmanandam]] as Head Constable Ramakoti
* [[Mallikarjuna Rao (actor)|Mallikarjuna Rao]]
* [[Amanchi Venkata Subrahmanyam|AVS]] as Hotel Owner
* [[Giri Babu]] as Vikranth's father
* [[K. Chakravarthy|Chakravarthy]] as Jhansi's father
* [[Rama Prabha]] as Archana's mother
* [[Visweswara Rao]]
* Gadiraju Subba Rao
* [[Ironleg Sastri]]
* [[Shanoor Sana]] as Head Constable Victoria
* Anuradha
{{colend}}

==Soundtrack==
{{Infobox album
| name = Aavida Maa Aavide
| type = film
| artist = [[Sri Kommineni|Sri]]
| cover =
| alt =
| released = 1998
| recorded =
| venue =
| studio =
| genre = Soundtrack
| length = 29:35
| label = [[Aditya Music]]
| producer = [[Sri Kommineni|Sri]]
| prev_title = [[Anaganaga Oka Roju]]
| prev_year = 1997
| next_title = Naa Hrudayam Lo Nidurinche Cheli
| next_year = 1998
}}

Music composed by [[Sri Kommineni|Sri]]. Lyrics written by [[Sirivennela Sitaramasastri|Sirivennela Sitarama Sastry]]. Music released on ADITYA Music Company.

{{Track listing
| collapsed =
| headline =
| extra_column = Singer(s)
| total_length = 29:35
| all_writing =
| all_lyrics =
| all_music =
| title1 = Chummade Chummade
| extra1 = Rajesh, [[Sushma Shrestha|Poornima]]
| length1 = 4:59
| title2 = Hey Vastava Chhostava
| extra2 = [[Sri Kommineni|Sri]], [[Anuradha Sriram]]
| length2 = 4:15
| title3 = Intkedadham Padavamo Antha
| extra3 = [[S. P. Balasubrahmanyam|SP Balu]], [[K. S. Chitra|K. S. Chithra]], [[Swarnalatha]]
| length3 = 4:58
| title4 = Om Namami
| extra4 = K. S. Chithra, [[Hariharan (singer)|Hariharan]]
| length4 = 5:11
| title5 = Thathaha Thathaha
| extra5 = SP Balu, [[Sujatha Mohan|Sujatha]]
| length5 = 4:45
| title6 = Two in One
| extra6 = SP Balu, [[Sujatha Mohan|Sujatha]], Anuradha Sriram
| length6 = 5:13
}}

== Reception ==
The film was reviewed by ''Zamin Ryot''.<ref>[http://www.zaminryot.com/pdf/1998/Jan/30-Jan-1998.pdf Newspaper clipping] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221111010728/http://www.zaminryot.com/pdf/1998/Jan/30-Jan-1998.pdf |date=11 November 2022 }} ''Zamin Ryot'' Retrieved 5 April 2023</ref> A critic from ''Andhra Today'' wrote that "With hardly any story to carry it, the film rides on the sheer talents of the director and the acting skills of the lead man Nagarjuna. It is their show all along".<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.andhratoday.com/movie/maaavide.htm | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19980213002649/http://www.andhratoday.com/movie/maaavide.htm | archive-date=13 February 1998 | title=Reviews }}</ref>

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* {{IMDb title|id=0358914|title=Aavida Maa Aavide}}

{{E. V. V. Satyanarayana}}

[[Category:1998 films]]
[[Category:Indian romantic comedy films]]
[[Category:1998 romantic comedy films]]
[[Category:Fiction about polygamy]]
[[Category:Comedy of remarriage films]]
[[Category:Films directed by E. V. V. Satyanarayana]]
[[Category:1998 Telugu-language films]]
[[Category:1998 Indian films]]

Aavida Maa Aavide - Revision history

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