Annayya (English: Elder Brother) is a Tollywood film which released on 7 January 2000 and was directed by Muthyala Subbaiah. This film stars Chiranjeevi, Soundarya, Ravi Teja, Sarath Babu and Kota Srinivasa Rao. The music was composed by Mani Sharma. While Bhupati Raja provided story, writer Satyanand penned the dialogues.
The film had collected a distributors’ share of Rs.60 million in the initial two weeks after its release.[1] It completed 50 days in 92 centres[2] and 100 days in 60 centres,[3] which made Annayya one of the highest acclaimed films of Chiranjeevi in his career. The film was dubbed in Tamil as Moothavan.[4] Then was remade into Bengali titled Devdoot (2005), Starring Mithun Chakraborty and Sreelekha Mitra. The film was also dubbed in Hindi as Khoon Ka Rishta. The film recorded as Blockbuster at box-office.