Swayamkrushi was dubbed into Russian and screened at the Moscow International Film Festival

Chiranjeevi and K Viswanath’s second collaboration after Subaleka, Swayamkrishi, is one of the milestones of the Telugu film industry.

The film that shows the life of a cobbler and his rise to riches from rags was screened at

Moscow

International Film Festival after it was dubbed into Russian. It was also screened at the Asia Pacific film festival.

The film that hit screens in 1987 has Vijayashanti, Sumalatha, JV Somayajulu and Brahmanandam in key roles. Chiranjeevi even won the state Nandi Award for Best Actor Male and

Vijayashanthi

won the Filmfare Award for Best Actress in Telugu.

Produced by Edida Nageswara Rao, the film had National-award-winning Ramesh Naidu composing the music. Cinematographer Lok Singh, who predominantly worked for Chiranjeevi’s films helmed the camera.