Muta Mestri re-release: Chiranjeevi’s 1993 hit returns to theatres in 4K on 22 November

Chiranjeevi’s 1993 action drama Muta Mestri is heading back to cinemas. The Muta Mestri re-release, in 4K, opens on Sunday, 22 November, Lahari Music announced on Friday, 13 November. The label, which put out the film’s soundtrack, first shared a 28-second clip of the song Ee Petaku Nene Mestri, captioned with the date, then posted a 46-second re-release teaser on its YouTube channel in the afternoon.

The teaser’s YouTube description lists Chiranjeevi, Meena and Roja in the lead, with A Kodandarami Reddy as director, K C Sekhar Babu and D Siva Prasad Reddy as producers, and Raj-Koti as composers. Brahmanandam, Sharat Saxena, Kota Srinivasa Rao, Gummadi and Mansoor Ali Khan fill out the cast. The clip’s post also named the original banner, Kamakshi Devi Kamal Combines, and tagged Mango Mass Media and a Muta Mestri 4K account.

From the market to a minister’s chair

The film first opened on 17 January 1993. Bhoopathi Raja wrote the story and the Paruchuri Brothers the screenplay. Chiranjeevi plays Subhash Chandra Bose, simply Bose to the labourers of a vegetable market, whose cause he takes up against Aatma, the local don played by Sharat Saxena. The Chief Minister, played by Gummadi, pulls Bose into politics and he rises to minister. After his sister dies, he gives up office and goes after Aatma.

The part won Chiranjeevi the Filmfare Award for Best Actor in Telugu. A Tamil dubbed version was released as Manbhumigu Maistri.

Six songs from Raj-Koti

Veturi wrote five of the soundtrack’s six songs and Bhuvana Chandra the sixth. S P Balasubrahmanyam sang Ee Petaku Nene Mestri, the number used in the new clip. Silk Smitha makes a special appearance in it. Raghava Lawrence appears among the dancers. Prabhu Deva and Sundaram Master are credited with the film’s choreography. Another track, Vana Gadiyaramlo, found a fresh audience in 2022, when a clip of Chiranjeevi dancing in a Batman costume became an online meme around the release of The Batman.

The re-release lands 52 days ahead of Chiranjeevi’s new film, Kaaka, directed by Bobby Kolli, which KVN Productions has set for 13 January 2027. Lahari Music’s posts did not list theatres or say when bookings open.