Wikipedia:Manikyam

Manikyam  is a 1999 Indian Telugu-language drama film produced by NV Prasad and Sanam Naga Ashok Kumar under his banner Sri Sai Deva Productions and Directed by Muthyala Subbaiah.

It starts Srikanth, Devayani, Sanghavi, Kota Srinivasa Rao, Brahmanandam and Ali. The film is the remake of Porkkaalam (1997).

Plot
Kind hearted Manikyam is a potter in a village living with his drunker father and his dump sister Lakshmi. His main aim in life is to get her married. He is always helpful and chirpy Each alliances fails to take off for a different reasons like insufficient money, ill intentions, robbery etc., He promises to marry Meenakshi that after his sister is married. At the end the sister stops dreaming about her marriage when she realizes the ordeals of her brother. She quietly sleeps in a kiln. Manikyam lights the fire thinking unknowingly his sister burns to death.

Cast

 * Srikanth as Manikyam
 * Devayani as Meenakshi
 * Sanghavi as Manikyam's sister-in-law
 * Rajeshwari as Lakshmi
 * Kota Srinivasa Rao as Manikyam's father
 * Brahmanandam as Saree seller
 * Ali as Manikyam's friend
 * Suthivelu as Meenakshi's father
 * Shiva Parvathi as Meenakshi's mother
 * Karan
 * Vinod
 * Kallu Chidambaram
 * Gundu Hanumantha Rao
 * Vasu
 * KK
 * Saraswathi
 * Anuja
 * Ragini
 * Bindu Madhavi

Soundtrack
The music was composed by S. A. Rajkumar and the lyrics were written by Sirivennela Seetharama Sastry, Bhuvana Chandra, Samaveda Shanmukha Sharma, Shiva Ganesh and Venkata Shivayya.