The shooting of the talkie part of Donga Sachinollu directed by Raja Vannemreddy, presented by Koganti Ramakrishna and produced by J Sambasiva Rao and Ch SV Prasad on the banner of Sasidhar Productions with Raghubabu and Krishna Bhagawan in the lead was completed recently. Producers say, 'We shot the film between December 5 and 26 at Palakole and its surrounding areas. Later, we continued shooting at Hyderabad for another three days.

With this we have wrapped up the shooting of talkie along with three songs. Two more songs are yet to be shot and they were planned between January 20 and 30, one on Raghubabu and Abhinayasri, while another on Raghubabu and Rambha The film would be a complete entertainer and we are making efforts to release the film in February.' Director Raja Vannemreddy says, 'The entire village used to chide them as nincompoops (Donga Sachiollu).

How they earned a good name in the village is the basic story of the film.' Ali, Venumadhav, Sunil, Shafi, Chalapati Rao, Giribabu, Chandramohan, MS Narayana, Rallapalli, Kondavalasa Lakshmana Rao, LB Sriram, Brahmaji, Uttej, Ganesh, Sakunthala, Abhinayasri, Rajitha, Annapurna and others are in the cast. Dialogues are by P Rajendra Kumar, photography is by Adusumalli Vijaykumar, music is by Srilekha, editing is by Kotagri Venkateswara Rao, while art is by Srinivasa Raju. (bw)