Tollywood Kaburlu

By Teja RaoTV & Film

Tollywood Kaburlu episodes

September 15, 2023 Ms Shetty Mr Polishetty Review + Interesting Facts
Credits
Banner: UV Creations
Cast: Anushka Shetty, Naveen Polishetty, Murali Sharma, Jayasudha, Abhinav Gomatam, Sonia Deepti, Tulasi, Harshavardhan, Bhadram etc
Songs: Radhan
BGM: Gopi Sunder
Cinematography: Nirav Shah
Editor: Kotagiri Venkateswara Rao
VFX Superviser: Raghav Tammareddy
Production design: Rajeevan
Lyrics: Anantha Sriram & Ramajagoyya Shastri
Story - Screenplay - dialogues - direction: Mahesh Babu Pachigolla
Producers: V. Vamsi Krishna Reddy & Pramod Uppalapati
Release date: September 7th, 2023

Interesting Facts: https://www.idlebrain.com/celeb/interview/maheshbabup.html
Writing/Direction: Honestly speaking, this is a perfect movie that reminds you of the good old Telugu movies we grew up watching. The writing is so good such that there is entertainment in each and every scene and there is not a single boring moment in the entire film. Writing is masterpiece for me. This is how you write and make a film anipinchindi.
Story analysis wise, its very simple. A woman due to the abandonment issues and trauma suffered a child wants some companionship after her mother dies and wants to get impregnated.
This storyline has been shown in many movies like Naruda Donaruda, Ante Sundaraniki, basically there have been movies stories like this and the problem has always been with the treatment of the movie. It’s either cringe max or full on double meaning comedy and it lacks emotional connectivity and entertainment.
This is where this movie succeeds. It has 0 cringe, full clean entertainment and by casting two incredible actors, the movie just flies by.
Naveen and Anushkha chemistry is very good and the conflicts and characterizations are perfect. To be honest romantic comedies work on two things: chemistry between the leads and entertainment. This movie has both in full doses.
Sidhhu character is so relatable because he’s basically an introvert and ammayi gives him hand when she helped him withe everything in pursuing his dreams and giving him confidence. Who wouldn’t fall for somebody. It’s natural and its relatable because I have been through that and trust me it does happen.
Entertainment part right from when Naveen entry scene, hospital scenes,. Abhinav gomatam scenes, finding out about new donor scenes. Especially when hospital scene he’s asked for a semen sample and he thinks it’s a large bottle, he says nenu manishina gurram na.
Emotional part is also superb. Jayasudha scenes, ending scenes, Anuksha confession scene, most of all there’s a scene between Naveen and Murali Sharma. It was heart touching because the father who always berates his son accepts that he wants to be a stand up comedian and is trying and then understands his son wants Anvitha. He tells him one thing naaku Nuvvu kavali Annav kaani, neeku nenu vunnanu ani cheppava? Velli thanu nammakani gelavadam kosam fight cheyyi.
Most heart touching dialogue is Okka Chinna request, repu neeku papa babu puttina taravatha vaadu nannu yevado ani adigithe yevariki yeliyani oka sperm donor Kakunda, value Ammani preminchina manishi ani cheppu.
And each and every character is very good.
Direction by mahesh Babu P is perfect. To make a movie without a single boring moment and entertain people for 2.5 hours in 2023 is an impossible task and like that director told, I have also become his fan. Outstanding direction and writing.
Climax felt a little dragged but I already loved the movie then Shankar Mahadevan song came and then it was icing on the cake. Goosebumps final song and been on repeat ever since.
It’s a feel good movie and just so well made. Full credit to the director and entire team for making such an entertaining movie.
When I walked out I felt very emotional because it made me believe that Telugu cinema is still alive and capable of making great movies. My big problem is why can;’t we do it week in week out? Why is it only only once in a while and every other week we sit and wonder why every movie is so badly made and where to go from here.
59 min
September 12, 2023Revisting Chiranjeevi's Stalin (2006): Review + Interesting Facts
Bro, Baby, and Jawan Thoughts first!
Credits
Banner: Anjana Productions
Cast: Chiranjeevi, Trisha, Prakash Raj, Sunil, Pradeep Rawat, Kushboo, Riaz Khan, Mukesh Rushi, Brahmaji, Harsha, Suman, Brahmanandam, LB Sriram, Ravi Prakash, Ravali, Narsing Yadav, Paruchuri Venkateswara Rao and Anushka (item song)
Music: Mani Sharma
Cinematography: Chota K Naidu
Dialogues: Paruchuri Brothers
Art Direction: Anand Sai
Fights: Kanal Kannan
Lyrics: Suddala Ashok Teja, Peddada Murthy, Kandikonda & Ananth Sreeram
Written and directed by: A Muruga Doss
Nirmana Saradhyam: B Madhu
Producer: K Nagababu
Release Date: 20th September 2006
Interesting Facts
Most interesting fact was original music director was Harris Jayaraj and he started composing but soon after they felt he wouldn’t be able to give music in Telugu nativity and he was replaced with Mani Sharma, the top music director at the time in Telugu cinema. The song Naalone Pongenu Narmada in Surya S/O Krishnan was actually composed for Stalin movie but was not used.

December 15th, 2006 movie was officially launched in Film Nagar and then January 18th, 2006 shooting officially started

Annapurna, Ramanaidu, Padamalaya, Saradhi Studios, Military Camp in Delhi, and then two songs Siggutho Chi Chi and Go Goa Goa were filmed in Austria. Anuksha was confirmed as item song and it was big news back then. 2nd star hero movie after Super. And director Gopichand Malineli worked as assistant director for this movie, he’s actually in the movie 31:48 seconds disabled girl montage asking for help he comes

In climax, Stalin was actually supposed to die but Parachuri brothers made the change in Tagore and he lives and they did the same for Stalin climax. To address the rumors that Murugadoos walked out of the project midway and Vinayak directed the rest, the clarity if Murugadoos wasn’t available for climax fight shoot so VV Vinayak directed that episode. Similarly in Khaidhi no 150, VV Vinayak wasn’t available so Chiranjeevi directed one scene.

August 22nd, 2006 Lalitha Kala Vedika in Public Gardens, Hyderabad audio was launched. Pawan Kalyan was the chief guest and Chirutha movie and Ram Charan first public appearance was announced.

Movie released on September 20th, 2006 amidst much fanfare with 550 theaters and 320 prints.

One of the most hyped movies in Telugu cinema at the time since Chiru had 2 average films (Jai Chiraanjeeva and Andarivaadu) in the last 2 years and just 2 hits (Tagore and Shankar Dada MBBS) in 5 years after Indra in 2002 and they were waiting for another blockbuster since he was number 1 at the time.

Even in USA, fans did hungama and movie had huge hype some dude Komati Jayaram bought the first ticket for $1116 dollars which is about 50,000 INR conversion.

Movie released but due to comparison with Tagore and high expectations, it finished as above average at the box office. Some scenes were really good but apparently not a great response to the songs which is shocking, and Trisha role was a big minus.

Sold for 30 crores and collected 15.5 crores share opening week which was an all time record and then at Prasad’s Multiplex it collected 9 Lakhs gross in one day state record,

50 days in 207 centers, 100 days in 34 centers it ran and collected 26 crores share overall becoming above average. First movie to collect more than 3 crores in Karnataka and first movie to collect 1 crores share in Guntur back then

If the movie got hit talk, then it would have even another industry hit. And also 4 of the top 5 highest grossers at the time release belonged to Chiranjeevi: Indra, Tagore, Shankar Dada MMBS, and Stalin.
1 hr 3 min
September 04, 2023Revisiting Gudumba Shankar (2004): Review + Interesting Facts
Credits
Banner: Anjana Productions
Cast: Pawan Kalyan, Meera Jasmine, Natanya Singh (SA), Asish Vidyardhi, Rajan P Dev, Sayaji Shinde, Kota Srinivasa Rao, Brahmanandam, Ali, Sunil, Venu Madhav, LB Sreeram, Raghu Babu, Tirupati Prakash, Vizag Prasad, Tanikella Bharani, Ponnambalam, Kavitha, Bhuvaneswari & Jyothy
Story - dialogues: Satyanand
Music: Mani Sharma
Lyrics: Seetarama Sastry, Chandrabose & Masterji
Camera: Chota K Naidu
Stunts: Stun Siva, Amin Ghani & Vijay
Choreography: Raju Sundaram, Brinda, Harish Pai
Editing: Yusuf Khan
Art: Anand Sai
Presented by: K Venkat Rao
Screenplay - Action Choreography - Songs Visualization: Pawan Kalyan
Script Consultant: Abbas Tyrewala
Direction: Veera Shankar
Executive Producer: Manyam Ramesh
Producer: K Nagababu
Theatrical release date: 10th September 2004

Context: Saw it on VHS and didn’t remember much, remember the songs they were so good especially Chitti Nadumune choosthunna. OVer the years just remember the movie name but the movie itself. This was another movie I watched during the lockdown and it seemed pointless and I could get a sense of Pawan Kalyan’s attempt at the screenplay but it just felt incomplete. That being said, PK has written screenplay for a film 3 times: Johnny, Gudumba and SGS. Among those 3 obviously Gudumba is the best of the lot. Movie was very funny and entertaining on rewatch but had some flaw

Interesting Facts
Director Veera Shankar had interest to adapt the novel Venal Aadapilla and wrote a treatment for it. He was worked as assistant to Jodi Ramakrishna Garu and KS Rama Rao have him an offer.

Then KS Rama Rao talked to Srikanth and they made the film Hello I Love you which as based on Vennello Aadapilla. It was a flop at the box office but got Veera Shankar a good name in the industry.

Then Pawan Kalyan watched the movie and really liked it and gave him an offer to do a movie with him. Veera Shankar narrated a story around Tholi Prema Thammudu time but Pawan requested some changes which Veera Shankar didnt make and he kept quiet and got busy and made Vijayaramaju with Srihari

He met Pawan Kalyan again after that movie released and Pawan Kalyan didnt even listen to the story said you are doing a movie for Anjana Productions.

They actual were supposed to work on a film called Tiger Sitaramudu there are even posters of it. 1st half takes place in a forest, 2nd half takes place in foreign. Pawan liked it a lot and an official statement was put in the papers. At the time a movie called Kauravudu was released with Naga Babu and became a disaster adhukovadaniki ee cinema nirthamatha gaa pettadu pawan.
Then February 2004, filming started for Gudumba Shankar. Annapurna Studios, Padmalaya, Ramanaidu Studios, Ramoji Film City, Vikarabad and other parts of Hyderabad filming happened. Filming happened very smoothly and jovially.

Audio was released in July or August and became a huge hit. When fans heard the title gudumba Shankar, they expected a mass entertainer with baasha type flashback and huge expectations and expectations were at peak as it was releasing after Johnny and it was thought to be the comeback movie.

September 10th, 2004 movie released in 400 centers among huge fanfare as with any Pawan Kalyan movie back in the day and fans were disappointed.
Box office details are made with 6 crores excluding Pawan’s salary, sold for 16 crores pre release business, distributors who lost with Johnny were given Gudumba at low prices in some places to get some profits.

1st movie to cross more than 1 crore share on opening day in Nizam, first week share 8 crores share one of the highest opening at that time. 5 weeks later Shankar Dada MMBS released and replaced gudumba Shankar in many screens. It ran for 50 days in 82 centers direct and added and unfortunately didnt complete 100 days in any centers.

Overall it collected 13.5 crores share and remained average. It was low for a PK movie collections because Kushi had collected around 22 crores around that time.
57 min
August 25, 2023Episode 110 - Revisiting Desamuduru (2007): Review + Interesting Facts
Credits
Banner: Universal Media
Cast: Allu Arjun, Hansika Motwani, Pradeep Rawat, Subbaraju, Ali, Raghubabu, Ajay, Jeeva, GV, Raja Ravindra, Satyam Rajesh, Srinivasa Reddy, Chandramohan, Gowtam Raju, Ahuti Prasad, Telangana Sakuntala, Hema, Rama Prabha, Kovai Sarala, Sony Raj and Rambha (item song)
Music: Chakri
Choreography: Raju Sundaram, Pradeep, Nobel, Dinesh, and Ashok Raj
Lyrics: Bhaskarbatla and Kandikonda
Cinematography: Shyam K Naidu
Action: Vijayan
Art: Chinna
Editing: Marthand K Venkatesh
Story – dialogues – screenplay – direction: Puri Jagan
Producer: DVV Danayya
Release Date: 12 January 2007
Context: Watched it on VHS back in the day and liked it. Was really entertaining, Remember watching Nine Nine video promo on Idlebrain.com. Became a fan I guess of Allu Arjun back then due to the acting, body and mainly dance. Ali track was hilarious and album is classic. Decided to watch it by random but I do like the movie. On the rewatch it was average I felt. It’s timepass. But it never bored you and was entertaining which is the main criteria for these movies currently. But very mixed feelings overall. That being said, hero characterization and romantic trick made me very uncomfortable and lot to say about it so let’s proceed.
Interesting Facts:
Coming off industry hit Pokiri which rewrote records of 75 years of Telugu cinema.

Sumanth was the first choice for the movie and Puri narrated it to him but he said no as he felt he wouldn’t suit the characterization. He made the right choice as you cannot imagine but Allu Arjun in the role

After the release of Happy (2006), Allu Arjun was reported to be keen to act in the Telugu remake of Sivakasi (2005) starring Vijay and Asin.[5] He later accepted to act in a film directed by Puri Jagannadh and produced by DVV Danayya under the banner Universal Media.[6] The title was confirmed as Desamuduru.[7] Puri Jagannadh worked on the film's script at Bangkok and returned to Hyderabad on 16 June 2006.[8] The film had its official launch at the office of Puri Jagannadh's production company Vaishno Academy on 19 June 2006. Hero Allu Arjun could not make it to the launch as he is in abroad at present.

For his role, Allu Arjun sported a long hairdo and built six pack abs. He was the first South Indian hero to sport a 6 pack for a role and 3rd actor after Salman Khan and Shah Rukh Khan. Makers decided to cast Hansika Motwani who had a role as Child Artist in Koi Mil Gaya was selected as the female lead which marked her debut in Telugu cinema as an lead actress at a very young age of 16. Rambha was selected for an item number in the film, despite initial reports stated that Charmee Kaur would dance in the song
- Filming began on 14 July 2006 at Hyderabad where the film's first schedule was shot. The next schedule began in Himachal Pradesh.[16] Few action sequences were shot at Manali in early September 2006.[17] Weeks later, few scenes between the lead pair were shot in Uttaranchal and Himachal Pradesh. This schedule was planned to be wrapped up on 5 December 2006.[18] However the schedule was completed on 10 October 2006.[19] Some crucial action sequences were shot at Aluminium Factory in Gachibowli in early December 2006.[20]
December 25th, 2006 audio was launched and became a huge hit, The song Ninne Ninni especially shook all of Andhra and was played for a very long time.

Amidst huge expectations, the movie released on January 12th 2007 along with Yogi and released with 500 screens in total: 424 in Andhra Pradesh, 32 in Karnataka, 8 in Orissa, 2 in Chennai, 3 in Mumbai and 31 overseas

Movie became a blockbuster at the box office and collected 22.5 crores share becoming the highest grossing movie in Allu Arjun’s career at the time

Ran for 50 days in 243 centers, 100 days in 129 centers, and 175 days in 10 centers.
50 min
August 21, 2023 Revisiting Sivamani (2003) Review + Interesting Facts + Jailer Thoughts
Jailer Thoughts First!
Credits
Banner: Vaishno Academy
Cast: Nagarjuna, Asin, Rakshita, Sangeeta, Prakash Raj, Benarjee, Brahmajee, Ali, MS Narayana, Ganesh, Bosu Babu, Vinod Bala & AVS
Music: Chakri
Dialogues: Kona Venkat
Cinematography: Shyam K Naidu
Editing: Marthand K Venkatesh
Lyrics: Bhaskartabhatla Ravi Kumar, kandikonda, Viswa and Chakri
Art: Chinna
Stunts: Vijay
Presenters: Bhagawan & Danayya
Story - Screenplay - Direction: Puri Jagannadh
Release date: 23rd October 2003

Context: Watched it on VHS way back and don’t remember anything except the fact that Asin becomes a mute person. During the lockdown, made a Hariharan playlist and obviously my favorite song is Mona Mona Mona and his and Chakri’s combination was amazing, so many classics. Decided to give a rewatch randomly and not planned to watch all Puri Jagan movies in row but that’s how it happened. It was strictly average. 1st half really good, 2nd half dead sleep but overall timeless. Def doesnt feel like a typical Puri jagan movie this was the starting stage.

Interesting Facts:

For Nagarjuna coming off a sensational year with two classics Santosham and Manmaadhudu after 10 months movie was coming so take one year

For Puri after Idiot and Amma Nanna O Tamil Ammai

Filmed the movie in Cochin actually in the fish markets and harbor for real. Also filmed it lib Bangkok because it’s the same island in the songs Malliswari title song, Adigi Adagaleka from Devasadu and 1 Nenokkadine scene

Story is inspired from the movie Message in a Bottle which is actually a novel.
9848022338 number: A legal suit was filed by an individual who owns the phone number alleging that the makers of the film did not attain his permission to use the phone number in the film. He alleged that he received calls from people in the hopes of speaking to Nagarjuna, and that it had caused him "immense agony"

Audio function of Shivamani 98480 22338 was held at VCC (Viceroy Convention Center) on the evening of 8th October 2003. Its been a lucky place for Puri Jagan as audio functions of his last two films Idiot and ANOTA were celebrated at the same venue.

Nagarjuna is busy with the shooting of Kamashi banner film at Vizag now. Hence he sent His wife Amala and son Akhil to the function. They were accompanied by Chalasani Ramesh, bother-in-law and manager of Nagarjuna. The other guests who graced the occasion include Honerable Minister Ayyanna Patrudu and Mass star NTR. The heroines Asin and Rakshita are also missing as they are busy with their shoots.

Akhil released the audio of Shivamani and gave the first copy to NTR.

October 23rd, 2003 Sivamani movie released to much fanfare and the talk was average to above average. 2nd half was probably a big minus but circumstances and luck was in favor for the film and it became a hit at the box office collecting 12.5 crores share

It ran for 50 days in 106 centers and 100 days in 24 centers and Nagarjuna created another record with this movie.

Sangam Sharat Theater ran for 106 days

He is the first hero and only hero to have 3 consecutive 50 lakh grossers in Vizag and 6/7 films during that time collected more than 50L in Vizag. They are:

Santosham - 54,35,548
Manmadhudu - 61,65,392
Sivamani - 55,32,254
Nenunnanu - 54,19,088
Mass - 50,21,199
Super - 25,91,212
SriRamaDasu - 72,64,808

46 min
August 12, 2023Revisiting Idiot (2002): Review + Interesting Facts + Bhola Shankar Flop Reaction
Bhola Shankar Reaction first 12 mins
Idiot starts at 12:15
Credits
Banner: Vaishno Academy
Cast: Ravi Teja, Rakshita, Kota, Prakash Raj, Sangeetha, Ali, Jeeva, Giri Babu, Jr. Relangi, Bose, Narsing Yadav, Satya Narayana, Srinivasa Reddy
Music: Chakri
Cinematography: Shyam K Naidu
Lyrics: Kandikonda, Bhaskarabhatla Ravi Kumar & Peddada Murthy
Editing: Marthand K Venkatesh
Art: Chinna
Fights: Ram - Lakshman
Story - Screenplay - Direction - Dialogues - Production: Puri Jagannadh
Release date: 22nd August 2002

Context: Saw it on VHS way back, pretty sure it was my first intro to Raviteja, I didn’t know who this guy was but over the years became a fan because of all the entertaining action comedies he made over the years. Only reason I remember it because of Choopultho Gucci Gucci song and then Rakshita was the heroine and then disappeared. Decided to rewatch for the podcast and the movie was actually really good. Very entertaining and obviously iconic.
Interesting Facts:
Main is that it is the remake of the Kannada movie Appu which starred Puneeth rajkumar and launched him to stardom and also starred Rakshita as the heroine.

After Badri, Pawan Kalyan promised to do another film with Puri right after. Puri narrated him 4 stories and Idiot was one of them. Pawan didn’t give the green signal. Narrated it to Mahesh Babu, he said no, Tarun said no, and he was looking for a mass story to give Raviteja a break.

Then he made Bachi with Jagapathi Babu and had no offers in TFI so he went to Bangalore and got acquainted with raklumar family and directed the Kannada remake of Thammudu with Shivarajkumar titled Yuvaraja. It was successful

Then he met Puneeth Rajkumar and launched him as hero with the movie Appu it became a super hit. But before it released, they had already started Idiot movie in Telugu. Puri and Raviteja had already worked together on Itlu Sravani Subramaniam,

Budget was 2 crores when filming started. Political Chintakayala Ayyana Patrudu was a partner in the project and Puri produced the movie on Vishnu Academy banner.

March 24th, 2002 filming started. Entire talkie portion was filmed in Hyderabad. They filmed two songs in Bangkok and from here started Puri Jagan’s fixation with Bangkok.

Back in Vijaywada Puri had a friend named Sreenu and he used to talk about himself and boast himself. Puri took him as inspiration for hero character and wrote it and then tagline was Seenu gaadi prima Katha. But since Raviyeja liked the name Chanti as it was his character’s name in Sindhooram, Puri changed it to O chant gaadi prema Katha.

Released on Chiranjeevi birthday August 22nd, 2002.

The film opened up to Super-Duper Hit Talk. Ravi Teja's characterization was loved by all. Fans loved how Ravi Teja's character was carefree doing what comes to his mind, without hesitating about someone's opinion... The portrayal of the hero character seemed very new.

Puri set a new definition for heroism in his own style, saying that the hero should have a strong mentality, behave straight forward, be different in the way of thinking, and not be cynical.

Ravi Teja's body language was another highlight for the film.

The budget invested on the film was 2.20 crores and it grossed 16 crores.

Released with 45 prints, the film reached 100 prints after 4 weeks.

It played for 100 days at 36 centers.

The dialogue "‘Commissionerlu osthatu untaru, potu untaru, Chantigadu local, "Ye commissioner kuthurlaki mogudlu rara", and "Roju ee timelo ikkadikochi site kodtanani telusu kada, vachi nilabadalani telida?" are a highlight. The music album of the film is also a big hit.

Songs like 'Chupulto Guchiguchi Champake' were a big hit at that time. 'Idiot’ set a trend, especially the hero's role.

Many similar scripts have been made. This is a concept that still does not bore.

Raviteja age when this movie released was 34. He got his big break that long and waited almost 12 years. His first movie was Karthavyam back in 1990. It launched him to fame
52 min
August 08, 2023Revisiting Raja (1999): Review + Interesting Facts
Raja Movie Review
Banner: Super Good Films
Cast: Venkatesh, Soundarya, Sudhakar, Chandramohan, AVS, Brahmanandham, Abbas, Y Vijaya, Sana, Tanikella Bharani
Music: SA Rajkumar
Cinematography: Shyam K Naidu
Editing: Marthand K Venkatesh
Art Direction: Chinna
Dialogues: Rajendra Kumar
Story: Vikraman
Remake of: Unnidathil Ennai Koduthen starring Karthik and Roja
Screenplay - Direction: Muppalaneni Shiva
Release Date: March 18th, 1999

Interesting Facts
When he doing Subhalekalu with Srikanth they were filming a song, director Muppaleneni Shiva got a phone call from Suresh productions. He took Srikanth’s car and got there. Suresh babu said Venkatesh likes this movie Unnidathil Ennai Koduthen and watch it tomorrow and gave him the Tamil script ready to go. Siva had tried to make a movie with Venkaetsh for a long time and even tried making Preminchukundam Raa and had readied the story with Deenaraj but he was busy during that time and it went to Jayanth. He felt really bad about it.

Suresh Production then arranged the movie for Siva to direct and Venkatesh to star with original movie producer RB Choudary on board. Then he watched the movie and got scared because the entire first half he’s stuck in a room, and then Soundarya carried the 2nd half. But sensibilities are different between Telugu and Tamil audiences.

Then they started to work on the script and set the music director SA Rajkumar who composed 2 new original songs such as Kavvinchake O Prema and then dialogue writer Ranjednra Kumar, and comedy lunches were written by Satish Vegesna director of Satanaman Bhavati.

Director Siva said it was a great experience to work with Soundarya and all the actors. They made a set for the kitchen and the apartment set.

director Siva wanted to shoot the songs nicely so they went to New Zealand and Australia to shoot 4 of the songs.

The designed a gold frame for Eco Oka Raagam and brought it to New Zealand airport. People were throwing out around as they pleased and the producer said let’s remove it, director said no we have a lot of work with it. Don’t throw it around as you wish, it’s made of light wood. Then they put it in the shot and it’s now iconic on the beach.

Edo Oka Raagam was filmed in New Zealand and it became a super hit due to the beauty of the New Zealand locations. They filmed part of Kavvinchake O Prema in the christ church in New Zealand.

Then they went to Brisbane and Sydney and then shape choose mokku there.

Director Siva said there is a great amount of sentiment in the movie and the situations that happen in the movie are key for the movie and it turned out to be gripping.

Soundarya was actually filming Narasimha at the same time, Siva shot 40% of the movie without her, then whenever he got her dates, he filmed her scenes. His guru is Kondandi Rama Reddy who taught him how to do make a film without some resources, heroine to be specific. Helped a lot to make this movie.

Box office wise, it made 14 crores share at the box office and was a blockbuster. was 2nd highest grossing telugu movie of all time after Samarasimha Reddy. Ran for 100 days in 71 centers, and then 175 days in 4 centers.

Made more money in Nizam than Samarasimha Reddy and then was the highest grossing movie ever in Nizam ever at the time of it’s release.
54 min
August 06, 2023 Revisiting Bhadra (2005): Review + Interesting Facts
Credits
Banner: Sri Venkateswara Creations
Cast: Ravi Teja, Meera Jasmine, Prakash Raj, Pradeep Rawat, Deepak, Padmanabham, Murali Mohan, Brahmaji, Sunil, Jeeva, Vizag Prasad, Raghunadha Reddy, Gundu Hanmantha Rao, Subbaraju, Sriharsha, Raja Ravindra, Vizag Seenu, Ajay, Sudha, Revathy, Jhansi & Telangana Sakuntala
Dialogues: Koratala Siva
Music: Devi Sri Prasad
Lyrics: Sirivennela, Kulashekar Bhaskarbatla, and Viswa
Editing: Marthand K Venkatesh
Art: AS Prakash
Stunts: Ram Lakshman & Kanal Kannan
Cinematography: Arthur A Wilson
Visual Effects: Yugandhar - Junaid
Co producers: Sirish - Lakshman
Story - screenplay - direction: Boyapati Seenu
Producer: Dil Raju
Theatrical release date: 12th May 2005

Interesting Facts and Context: Saw it in VHS sometime after the movie released, usually took a while and liked it. Action packed with good emotion. Rewatched it for the podcast and it is a classic. It’s so good. Emotion, action, and suspense are all so good. Main thing is later Boyapati movies have a lot of cringe, since this is the first movie, there is none. It’s amazing direction and story telling. Songs are also amazing. Loved the movie.

Interesting Facts:
I belong to Peda Kakani which is in the outskirts of Guntur. I did my graduation in JKC College in Guntur and post-graduation in Nagarjuna University. We have a photo studio and it was our business. I was interested in photography. I have also worked as a part-time reporter for Eenadu newspaper. I was planning to start a small scale industry in Guntur’s Auto Nagar. That is when my cousin Posani Krishna Murali suggested me to join films. I came to Hyderabad with him and he made me join in the direction department of Muthyala Subbaiah in 1997. I worked with him for films like Oka Chinna Maata, Gokulamlo Seetha, Pelli Chesukundam, Pavitra Prema, Annayya and Manasunna Maaraju.
Then I have prepared the story of Bhadra. After the release of Gangotri, I approached Allu Arvind to narrate Bhadra story by keeping Bunny as hero. I know Allu Arvind well because I have worked for Annayya. He liked the story, but told me that Bunny was doing Arya film. He made Bunny to listen to the story. Bunny liked it and he directly took me to Dil Raju. He made me narrate Bhadra story to Dil Raju and made Dil Raju give advance to me right away. We had initially considered Prabhas as hero. But Prabhas’s dates were locked for Chakram film for 8 months.
Then he narrated it to Raviteja and he accepted. Actually Raviteja had just signed Khatarnak in Amma Rajashekar direction but chose to work on Bhadra instead.
First choice for role of Raja was actor Raja himself, but they selected Deepak instead. November 14th, 2004 muhurtham at Annapurna Studios. Ramanaidu Garu and VV Vinayak Garu were the chief guests
Filming was done in Annapurna, Padmalaya, Ramanaidu, and RFC majority of the filming happened. 5 month and 80 working days
Budget was 5.5 crores. May 2nd audio launch Prabhas and Allu Arjun were the chief guests.
May 12th, 2005 it released with 100 prints.
First day it had superhit talk and people loved all the commercial elements the faction backdrop and the emotional love story.
Dil Raju 3rd consecutive blockbuster, Raviteja DSP combo Patrick after Venky and Khadgam,
Ran for 50 days in 2 centers in Guntur, collected more than Simhadri, Tagore, and Mass in final run apparently
Ran for 50 days in 90 centers and 100 days in 42 centers and collected 23 crores at the box office and became a blockbuster.
44 min
August 01, 2023Revisiting Preminchukundam Raa (1997): Review + Interesting Facts
Mem Famous, Samajavaragamana and Project K Thoughts first!

Credits
Banner: Suresh Productions
Cast: Venkatesh, Anjala Zhaveri, Jaya Prakash Reddy, Srihari, Chandramohan, Ahuthi Prasad, Parachuri Venkateswara Rao, Gokina Rama Rao, Raghunatha Reddy, Kolla Ashok Kumar, Banerjee, Jeeva, Babu Mohan, Venu Madhav, Brahmannandham, Gundu Hanumantha Rao, Uttej, Annapurna, Sudda, Ramaprabha, Rajitha,
Music: Mahesh Mahadevan & Mani Sharma
Dialogues - Screenplay: Parachute Dialogues
Story: Deenraj
Editing: KA Marthand & Marthand K Venkatesh
Art Direction: A. Chanti
Fights: Kanal Kannan
Direction: Jayanth C Paranji
Producer: Suresh Babu
Release Date: May 9th, 1997
Interesting Facts
Jayant worked as assistant director for Suresh Productions for 3 movies. He was also looking to become a full time director. And he was doing documentaries and ad films in the mean time. He was working on a mass movie called Adavi Manishi starring Venkatesh in the lead role and Parachute Bros were working on the story but it wasnt working out

Then Deenraj came with this story titled Premichukundam Raa and actually Jayant was not the first director for the movie. That director didn’t like it so he left. Then they took the story to Jayanth. The original story was actually Venkatesh helping Chandramohan and Sudha’s kid they were actually older, intermediate student and he was the one who falls in love with Angela Zhaveri and then Venkatesh helping their love succeed. Jayanth said no why don’t we give Venkatesh himself the love story. Parachuri Brothers, Suresh Babu, Venkatesh, team, 3-4 months rewrite with Rayalaseema backdrop and movie got set.

Original setting the faction backdrop was in lighter vein in Deenraj’s original story

Jayanth took care of Venky’s styling in the movie with checkered shirts and everything.

Jayanth saw Angela’s photo in Filmfare magazine and then did a 3 day screen test in Hyderabad and it was a unanimous decision that she was the right choice. 99% of the movie she wears a white dress to show the purity in the character.

Mahesh Madhavan was the original music composer and Mani Sharma worked for him as a keyboard player. Unfortunately Mahesh Mahadevan got cancer during the shoot and was in the hospital and since Jayanth already had good rapport with Mani, he asked to finish the rest of the album. First song he composed for the movie was Meghale Thakindi. Out of respect for Mahesh, Mani Sharma asked that his name not be in the credits.
They started filming and the first scene they shot was the love letter little hearts biscuit scene. It ended at 4:30 PM in the afternoon and everyone was shocked

They filmed in Kurnool and Kadiri and it was a huge challenge due to the climate extremely hot sun, equipment handling, and crowd control. It was a tough thing to manage but they accomplished it.

They filmed the songs in Switzerland and Amsterdam, ooty and Kashmir.
Movie release day they watched it in a mass movie theater and there was no response for the interval. 2nd half had a great response and climax got claps.

Movie was declared a hit and Jayanth got tears and called his wife. Nobody in the industry believed in him but he delivered a classic with his first movie

Breakthrough for Anjala Zhaveri, Jayaprakash Reddy, Srihari, and Mani Sharma. Venkatesh career took a turning point and started the path towards becoming the ultimate family hero of Telugu cinema

Box office it collected 12 crores share overall, blockbuster at the box office. In Vizag, ran for full shows for 120+ days, RTC X Roads 70 lakhs gross, created an all time record at the time for running for 50 days in more than 100 centers, first movie to run in 6 centers for more than 100 days in Andhra Pradesh.
57 min
July 25, 2023Revisiting Ragada (2010): Review + Interesting Facts
Banner: Sri Kamakshi Enterprises
Cast: Nagarjuna, Anushka, Priyamani, Charmme, Kota Srinivasa Rao, Pradeep rawat, Dev Gill, Brahmanandam, Dharmavarapu, Supreet, Tanikella Bharani, Raghubabu, Sri Lalitha, Sana, V Nirmala
Music: Thaman
Cinematography: Sarvesh Murari
Editing: Marthand K Venkatesh
Fights: Vijay
Art: Prakash
Story - screenplay - dialogues - direction: Veeru Potla
Producer: D Siva Prasad Reddy
Release date: 24 December 2010
Interesting Facts and Context: trailer has no dialogues, its just music. Watched it in theaters on Christmas 2010 and it was houseful. Great experience. Back then it’s all about fights and this movie has 8 fights all of them are superb and it was very entertaining. Also listened to the album a lot and love it. Its a classic in my opinion, love all the songs except Ey Pillo Apple Oh. Rewatched it in 2020 and didnt give the same feeling. Felt just average and then rewatched it for the podcast again and gave same feeling but you’re never bored at any point which was great.
Nagajruna did Kedi which released Feb 12th and then Bindaas released a week before and destroyed it at the box office. Kedi producer D Siva Prasad Reddy as well Kamakshi banner and then Nagarjuna saw Bindaas and liked Veeru Potla’s style and taking so he called him and said I want to do a movie with you and prepare a story for me.

Love stories, families, friendship, devotional genres Nag had done in the recent times and Veeru Potla said I won’t write something like that it will be different. He wrote a revenge drama with Rayalaseema backdrop with two heroines with 2010 nativity. He readied the script in a month and narrated it to Nag. He instantly okayed it. Movie title Ragada

Anushkha and Priayamani were selected as the heroines and then Thaman who was just new in the industry was selected as the music director.

Filming was completed in just 4 months and then they also filmed in Jordan at Petra which is one of the famous wonders of the world.

November 29th, 2010 they launched the audio at Shilpa Kala Veda and audio became a super hit such that they did a triple platinum disc launch a day before the release on December 23rd, 2010

Movie released on December 24th amidst much fanfare and the response was average from the audience. Despite all the commercial elements being there, it never really amounted to anything great was their feeling apparently and after watching the movie it makes sense.

That being said it collected 19 crores share at the box office and completed 50 days in 89 centers and ten 100 days in 1 center in Vijaywada Venkateswara Palace theater

If you observe, it’s the last all around commercial movie from Nagarjuna in his career. Manam was class, Soggade Chinni Nayana was more supernatural family drama, Oopiri was full class, and since then all duds. hopefully he can make something like this again.
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