Friday, June 20, 2008

44.Lakshmi (film)

Lakshmi (Telugu: లక్ష్మి) is a Tollywood movie that released on January 14, 2006, starring Venkatesh, Nayantara, and Charmme Kaur.V.V. Vinayak directed this flick.Lakshmi Narayana (Venkatesh) is an elder son in a family with 3 brothers and 2 sisters. Janardhan (Sayaji Shinde) - a former employee of Lakshmi Industries - plans to take revenge on Lakshmi by creating difference in his family and succeeds in it.The film was released in 316 screens including 284 in Andhra Pradesh,11 in Karnataka,3 in Mumbai,2 in Orissa, in 2Chennai and 14 in Overseas.The film had collected Rs.8 crores in its opening week.The film had a 50-day run in 215 centres.

45.Vasantham

Vasantham is a Tollywood film directed by Vikraman and released on July 11, 2003.This film is a remake of Priyamana Thozhi.Ashok (Venkatesh) and Julie (Kalyani) are childhood friends.They are pretty close and they believe that friendship is above love. After they grow up Julie's father (Chandra Mohan) dies and Ashok brings Julie to his house and she stays along with his family.The rest of film revolves around how Ashok and Nandini get Julie married.The film had a 50-day run in 139 centres.

46.Nuvvu Naaku Nachav

Nuvva Naaku Nachav(Telugu: నువ్వు నాకు నచవ్) is a Tollywood film which released on September 6, 2001. K. Vijaya Bhaskar directed this film.Venakteswarlu alias Venky (Venkatesh) comes to the house of Murthy (Prakash Raj) on recommendation of Sekhar (Chandra Mohan) who is a child hood friend of Murthy and the father of Venky. Venky enters that place when Nandu is about to get engaged to software professional from USA. Murthy helps Venky secure a handsome job. Nandu expresses Venky that she is in love with him.But Murthy gets Venky back from Railway Station, as he thought Venky did not like the job he was given. The demure Nandu is in shattered mood as her lover is acting like a broker to her marriage.The film released with 113 prints in 147 centres.The film had collected a distributors' share of Rs.26.3 million in its opening week.The film had a 175-day run in 3 centres.

47.Jayam Manade Raa

Jayam Manade Raa is a 2000 Tollywood film which was written and directed by N. Shankar.The film went on to be a big hit.Abhiram (Venkatesh) is a fun loving guy staying with his parents in Europe.Uma (Soundarya) is one of the contest winners. A shy Uma could not express her love towards him so she leaves a message in Abhiram's answering machine.Hence, Uma presumes that Abhiram does not love her and leaves back to India with her companions. But it's too late for him, as the father of Soundarya (Prasad Babu) commits a marriage for her daughter with Purushottam (Surya), the son of main villain (Jaya Prakash).When the father of Prasad Babu sees the photograph of Abhiram, he gets frieghtened and approach Jaya Prakash with the photograph.When Abhiram comes to know that Uma may be forcibly getting married another guys, he decides to come to India to marry his sweetheart.They (Abhiraam & Uma) could manage to slip off the goons and get ready to flee from India to Europe.She takes him to a hideout where a group of people hide. He is the son of Mahadeva Naidu (Venkatesh), who was the savior or Dalitulu and downtrodden people of 'Karamchedu'.At the time of killing Rudrama Naidu (son) and Jhansi (daughter) are taken away by the lieutenants of Mahadeva Naidu so that they can be saved.Rudrama Naidu, who is raised as 'Abhiraam', comes to know about the flash back and rest of the film is about how he takes the revenge.The film released with 114 prints in 149 centres.The film collected a distributors' share of Rs. 30.4 million in its opening week.

48.Bobbili Raja

Bobbili Raja (Telugu: బొబ్బిలి రాజా) is a 1990 Tollywood film directed by B. Gopal and produced by Suresh Productions. Music was scored by Ilayaraja.The film had a 175-day run in 3 centres.

49.Sainikudu

Sainikudu (Telugu: సైనికుడు, translation: Soldier) is a Telugu ( Dubbed in malayalam as Sulthan ) film which released on November 30, 2006.The film stars Mahesh Babu and Trisha in pivotal roles. The film also had Irfan Khan as the main antagonist and Prakash Raj in a supporting role.Balasubramaniam handled the camera work while Sreekar Prasad handles the editing. Despite receiving bad reviews, Sainikudu has opened tremendously in India but ended up as an average grosser .The film starts with floods at Rangasaipet in Warangal District. Eight of his friends assist him in the rescue activity.Pappu Yadav is a goonda who wishes to earn big through politics and power. The food that needs to reach the victims of the flood is taken elsewhere to be sold out, an illegal way of earning money by selling the food and as well backing up the flood relief fund into the pockets of the politicians.This annoys Pappu Yadav for which Mondi Nani (Prakash Raj), Pappu's right hand, threatens Siddarth. Siddarth and his team get accolades from the people for this decision and thus start campaigning. Pappu Yadav declares Siddarth and Co as terrorists and wins the election.Siddarth, with the help of many college students kidnaps Varalakshmi from marriage hall in a dramatic sequence, demanding Pappu Yadav to let out his crimes before the court of law.ACP (Telangana Shakuntala) also assists him and spills a little comedy with her style of dialogues. Finally, how Siddarth puts and end to the game of crooked politicians has to be seen on screen.The music of the film was released simultaneously in 10 chosen venues from five different countries – India, USA, Australia, Singapore and Dubai on the morning of October 21, 2006. The music proved to be extremely successful upon release .The film released in 526 screens including 402 in Andhra Pradesh,40 in Karnataka,22 in rest of India and 63 in Overseas.The dubbed version of the movie in tamil was a Super Hit in Tamil Nadu. It was released in 50 prints in Tamil Nadu including 30 in Chennai alone.

50.Pokiri (2006 film)

Pokiri (Telugu: పోకిరి, English translation: Rogue) is a 2006 Telugu movie directed, written, and produced by Puri Jagannadh. Mani Sharma was the music director, Shyam K. Naidu handled cinematography , and was edited by Marthand K. Venkatesh.The film was premiered at the 2006 International Indian Film Academy Awards, along with Tollywood super-hit Tagore.Pandu (Mahesh Babu) is a mafia hench man who is willing to kill anyone and anywhere for money.Soon, he falls in love with Sruthi (Ileana D'Cruz). Just when Sruthi confesses her love to Pandu, a bunch of mafia goons attack Pandu.Sruthi has never known that Pandu was working for a mafia gang, and is terrified. Ali Bhai wants to kill a minister in public by using a bomb blast, but Pandu refuses as it will cause many innocent deaths.Ali Bhai’s rowdies kidnap the senior police officer's daughter.After coming from jail, Ali Bhai comes to know that somebody from his group is a police officer.He kills a man there believing him to be Krishna Manohar, but soon finds out that the man was only the police officer's step-brother. As the news spreads as to his father's death, the police vehicles arrive and out steps Krishna Manohar.Ayesha Takia was approached to play the role of Shruti but declined the role.Ironically, Ayesha Takia will now be playing the same role in the Hindi remake of Pokiri.The film has six songs composed by Mani Sharma.The film released in 297 screens,including 254 in andhra Pradesh, 20 in Karnataka,3 in Orissa,3 in Tamil Nadu,1 in Mumbai and 16 in Overseas.In its first week of release, Pokiri collected a share of 9.11 crores.The film grossed Rs.1.63 crores in 189 days from Sudershan35mm,which is the highest single theatre gross in Andhra Pradesh and also the 4th film of Mahesh Babu to gross more than Rs.1 crore in a single theatre.The film had a 100% opening in all the 12 theatres in which it was screened in Bangalore collecting a distributors' share of Rs.36 lakhs in 1 week.Pokiri debuted in Chennai at no. 2 position with a 98.5% opening,collecting a distributors' share of Rs.12 lakhs in its first week from Tamil Nadu.The film collected a share of Rs.12 lakhs in its first 2 weeks after the release and Rs.14 lakhs in 3 weeks.The film collected a share of Rs.15 lakhs in its first 2 weeks after the release and Rs.18.44 lakhs in 3 weeks.In the US,the film grossed $350,000 by June 2006.It collected a distributors' share of Rs.15 lakhs from Gulf region and Rs.12 lakhs from United Kingdom.
  • Mahesh Babu - Filmfare Award; Best Actor For The Year 2006
  • Puri Jagannadh - Filmfare Award; Best Director For The Year 2006

51.Athadu

Athadu ( dubbed in Tamil as Nandhu and in Malayalam as Target): అతడు) is a 2005 Tollywood film produced by Jayabheri Kishore and Murali Mohan and directed by Trivikram Srinivas.The movie soundtrack was scored by Mani Sharma. It became one of the highest grossers in 2005 in Tollywood.Nanda Gopal / Nandu(Mahesh Babu) is a professional assassin who partners up with Malli (Sonu Sood). A party leader Shiva Reddy (Sayaji Shinde) wants someone to attempt an assassination on him so that he could get more votes through sympathy.On the day of the murder attempt, before Nandu gets to shoot Shiva Reddy, someone else fatally shoots Shiva Reddy.Within minutes, police surround the building.Nandu assumes that Malli got trapped and died in the accident. With the police behind him and in front of him, he is helpless.There, Nandu meets Pardhu (Rajeev Kanakala), a talkative guy.Pardhu explains that he is finally returning to his village. Nandu escapes and not knowing what to do next, he remembers Pardhu's background. Meanwhile, A CBI officer Anjaneya Prasad(Prakash Raj) investigating the murder of Shiva Reddy comes across Nandu alias Pardhu.He tries takin nandu's fingerprints unconventionally but nandu outsmarts him.Meanwhile in Barslapudi, after the marriage of the daughter's was over, the CBI come because they find out that Nandu is not Pardhu and suspect that Nandu is the killer.After the CBI leave, Nandu returns to explain everything: who is he and how the real Pardhu got killed.Nandu calls Baji Reddy and demands who killed Shiva Reddy.It was Malli who killed Shiva Reddy for 2 crores.Nandu records that conversation and immediately leaves for the old church, where Malli is. But the same policemen who killed Pardhu barged in. Nandu hands over the recorded cassette to the CBI officer.Bajji Reddy thinks he's bluffing.Afraid that if his son were to discover that the nicest person was his father's murderer, he would behead him, Baji Reddy commits suicide.This movie is little bit based on Salman Khan starrer Tumko Na Bhool Paayenge.

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The film was released with 6 prints in U.S.A. and in 3 screens in Chennai.The film netted Rs.1.05 million from 3 screens in Chennai in its opening weekend debuting at no. 2.Its satellite rights were sold for Rs.1.8 crores.The film had a 175-day run in Sudarshan 35mm, Hyderabad.,grossing Rs.10.4 million from the theatre.For the first time in a South Indian film, a total of 120 cameras were used at the same time to shoot the climax sequence.This film will be remade in Hindi with Bobby Deol, Shriya Saran and Nana Patekar.It was dubbed and released in Tamil as Nandhu.

52.Arjun (film)

Arjun (Telugu:అర్జున్) ( Dubbed into Tamil as Varenda Madhuraiku and Dubbed into Malayalam as Arjun ) is a Tollywood film released on August 18, 2004, and was directed by Gunasekhar.Shriya Saran, Keerthi Reddy, Raja and Prakash Raj play other roles.Arjun (Mahesh Babu) and Meenakshi (Keerthi Reddy) are twins.Meenakshi and Uday (Raja) who study in the same class fall in love and they do not express it when they leave the college. Raja sends an invitation card along with a letter expressing his love to Meenakshi and she expresses her feelings to Arjun.Bala and Andal are cold-blooded murderers and they are not happy with this.The rest of the story of the film is about how he exposes evil nature of the in-laws.The film collected a share of Rs.55 millions in its opening week.The dubbed version of the movie released later in Tamil Nadu and it was a super hit there.In this film, the name of the character played by Mahesh Babu is not revealed till the end.The film is to be dubbed in Tamil as Varenda Maduraiku.

53.Okkadu

Okkadu (Telugu: ఒక్క డు) is a 2003 Tollywood film which was directed by Gunasekhar.Music was composed by Mani Sharma and editing was done by A. Sreekar Prasad. This film released on January 15, 2003.Ajay (Mahesh Babu), is a young Kabbadi player who goes to Kurnool to take part in a match.Ajay brings Swapna to his house in Hyderabad and decides to send her abroad to save her from Obul Reddy.The movie has Charminar as its integral part.The music for the film was composed by Mani Sharma.M.S. Raju,who is known to produce films with technicians/actors when they were down with failures,decided to make a film with director Gunasekhar,whose previous venture Mrigaraju bombed at the box office.The film released on 15 January 2003 with 150 prints in 225 screens.The film collected a share of Rs.47.8 million in its opening week in Andhra Pradesh.The film had a successful 50-day run in 144 centres.The film had a 175 day run in 10 centres.

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The first 15 minutes of the movie, is an adaptation of the hollywood classic West Side Story.

54.Murari (film)

Murari(Telugu: మురారి) is a telugu film directed by Krishna Vamsi starring Mahesh Babu and Sonali Bendre.His family is cursed by Goddess Kanaka Durga.No one knows that murari is the next victim. next victim.The story turns into conflict when his grand mother knows the truth that he is the next victim.The film turned out to be a superhit running for 50 days in 50 centres.The film had a 175-day run in 2 centres.

55.Raja Kumarudu

Raja Kumarudu is a Telugu movie, released in 1999.Raj Kumar (Mahesh Babu) goes on holiday in Khandala and stays with his uncle Dhanunjay (Prakash Raj).However he ends up teasing her and she begins to despise him. Raj Kumar saves Rani from some thugs and she is impressed by his heroism. Unfortunately his uncle(Prakash Raj, who happens to be the hero's mother's brother) has made other plans for him, where-in he reveals the actual past of the hero's parents and his family.Complying to this, the hero informs the heroine that their relationship needs to end there, of course with a very heavy and broken heart!!!!On going back along with his uncle to the village for his uncle's daughter, to his joy he sees that it's none other than the heroine herself.The film had a 50 days run in 69 centres and 100 days run in 42 centres.The film was dubbed in Hindi as Prince No. 1 and dubbed in Tamil as Kaadhal Vennila.

56.Tholi Prema

Tholi Prema is a Telugu film which released on July 24, 1998 and directed by A. Karunakaran.The film was later remade in Hindi as Mujhe Kuch Kehna Hai starring Tusshar Kapoor and Kareena Kapoor. This movie was mentioned in the 2006 telugu movie Happy starrin Allu Arjun and Genelia D'Souza.Balu (kalyan) is the youngest son in the family, and is also a careless guy. Anu is impressed with balu, when he saves a kid's life and tries to get his autograph, but fails.Anu's car slips into a valley, and trying to save anu, balu slips off too. Balu is saved by a truck driver and admitted in a hospital.Balu thinks of proposing his love, but is warned by his sister(vasuki). Vasuki gets married and leaves, and at the same time anu too gets admission in USA and is about to leave. The film had run for more than 200 days in 2 centres.

57.Thammudu

Thammudu(Telugu: తమ్ముడు) is a superhit Telugu film which released on July 15, 1999 and written and directed by P.A. Arun Prasad.Music by Ramana Gogula was a chartbuster.Subrahmanyam (Pawan Kalyan),who is fondly called as Subbu by everyone prefers to be called as Subhash.Janaki(Preeti Jhangiani), is his neighbour and also his childhood friend. Subbu's elder brother, Chakri(Achyut) and his father runs a canteen in which malli(Mallikarjun Rao) is a cook.Subbu's gang and his govt. college mates are looked down cheaply by Model college's Rohit and gang and are insulted often. Subbu pretends as the lone son of a multi-millionaire and wins over lovely's heart by presenting her a diamond ring on valentines day.Lovely realizes subbu's true identity through rohit and ditches him. His father gets sick of his misdeeds and kick him out of his house.Chakri lies in hospital and is declared unfit to compete in kickboxing competition.But chakri's guru refuses to train subbu, as he suspects Subbu's integrity. He wins over Rohit and also everyone's heart again.The film was silver-jubilee hit;running for 50 days in 61 centres;100 days in 25 centres and 175 days in 1 centre.

He has a Black Belt in Martial Arts and did very dangerous stunts and martial arts in this movie by his own.

58.Badri (2000 film)

Badri (Telugu: బద్రి) is a Telugu film which is written and directed by Puri Jagannadh.This is Ramana Gogula's second time working with Pawan Kalyan.The film grossed more than Rs.120 million.

59.Kushi (film)

Kushi is a Telugu film which released on April 27, 2001 and was directed by S.J. Suryah.Music by Mani Sharma was a huge hit.The film had a 175-day run in 5 centres.Kushi was the first film to run to get more than 1 crore gross in vijayawada and is still the highest grosser in that city.

60.Balu ABCDEFG

Balu ABCDEFG is a Telugu film which released on January 6, 2005 and was directed by A. Karunakaran.The film is produced by C. Ashwini Dutt under his production Vyjayanthi Movies.Ghani (Pawan) is an orphan raised by Delhi’s new don – Khan (Gulshan Grover) who is also from Hyderabad.The reason behind his decision leads to a sub plot.The next episode opens in Hyderabad where Pawan Kalyan christens himself as Balu, the name his dead lover used to call him.But, why should Balu try to eliminate Nayudamma who has no connection to his past? How do Shriya and Pawan Kalyan meet and what’s the revenge factor in the film? The answers to these form the story’s crux.The film has six songs composed by Mani Sharma.The film had a 50-day run in 61 centres.Dubbed in Hindi as Aaj Ka Gundaraaj-ABCDEFG.

61.Jalsa

Jalsa (Telugu: జల్సా, English translation: Fun) is a 2008 Telugu film directed by Trivikram Srinivas, who returns after directing the hit Athadu, and produced by Allu Aravind, under the Geetha Arts banner. The soundtrack of the film, composed by Devi Sri Prasad, was launched on February 29, 2008. Sanjay Sahu (Pawan Kalyan) is the son of a poor farmer. This forces him to take a decision to retaliate against society, and he joins the naxalite movement.He falls in love with a police officer’s (Prakash Raj) daughter Indu (Kamalini Mukherjee).Again, Jyotsna alias Jo (Parvati Melton) and Bhagyamati alias Baagi (Ileana) enter his life.But her father does not accept the alliance, as he knows well that Sanjay is a former naxalite. Reddy fixes Baagi's marriage by force with his second son.Jalsa is the most widely released south Indian film ever with over 1000 screens worldwide on the opening day.Though many feel that there is no relation between the films title and the story, but many stated that the film's title "Jalsa(Mean Fun or Enjoy)" is in par with the mood of the film as it runs mostly on entertainment only.The movie grossed Rs 7,67,00,000 ($1.89 million USD) on its first day itself .Boxofficemojo.com ranked this film in 9th position amongst all the films that released worldwide that week, which is cited as a great achievement for a regional film.It maintained its place in the World Top 20 in its second week, by grossing about $2 million according to BoxOfficeMojo.This film completed 50 days in 282 centers all over the world.The soundtrack of the film was launched on February 29, 2008.The music got very good reviews from websites and an excellent response from the public itself.

62.Student No.1

Student No.1 is a Telugu movie starring Jr NTR and Gajala.Aditya (NTR) joins a law college in Vizag as a student.Aditya has a halo of mystery surrounding him throughout the first half where he is shown with a man of flashback. In the interval, we would come to know that Aditya is a criminal who faced charges for murder and is serving his life term in central jail of Vizag.

Aditya is in Hyderabad along with his parents.He wants to do Engineering and his father wants him to do Law.Meanwhile Aditya unintentionally murders a goon while saving a girl from getting raped.

The rest of the film is how Aditya wins the heart of his father with the law degree he earned.The film was released with 40 prints.The film was sold at a price of Rs.2.75 crores and collected Rs.12 crores.The film had a 50 day run in 73 centres.This movie had a 100 days run in 42 centres.

63.Aadi (film)


Aadi (Telugu: ఆది) is a Telugu film released in 2002 with Jr. NTR in the main lead.This hit film stands second in Jr. NTR's career, right behind Simhadri.This film led both the actor NTR JR and director V.V. Vinayak into instant stardom.The story is set in the backdrop of Rayalaseema.. Veera Reddy's deceased father is a well-known factionist in that area and owns a land of 4000 acres.Veera Reddy realizes that Siva Reddy is misusing the responsibility given to him.Upon coming to know about this, Siva Reddy attacks Veera Reddy and kills him and his wife. All the trusted people of Veera Reddy were put in jail for a life sentence for 14 years.We see the grown up Aadi (NTR) studying in a college.Veeranna raises Aadi in Hyderabad.Later on it is revealed that Nandu is the daughter of Siva Reddy.After a hiatus of 14 years, Aadi enters the Rayalaseema along with the just-released lieutenants and Veeranna to take revenge on Siva Reddy and get back all the land so that he can distribute it to the poor families.

64.Simhadri

Simhadri (Telugu: సింహాద్రి) is a 2003 Telugu film with Jr. NTR playing the lead role and Bhoomika, Ankitha, and Nassar playing the supporting roles. The film is the biggest hit in Jr. NTR's career.An innocuous and good-hearted lad Simhadri (Jr. NTR) is handpicked by Ram Bhupal Varma (Nassar). Kasturi (Ankita) is the grand daughter (daughter's daughter) of Ram Bhupal Varma.Once in a week, Simhadri visits a mentally retorted girl called Indu (Bhoomika Chawla).After coming to know about Ankita's liking towards Simhadri, Ram Bhupal Varma decides to get them married. The alliance breaks off.They found him at the banks of Godavari River along with Indu. When she comes back to her senses, she becomes a normal girl. Simhadri is hospitalized and is dying.In the flashback it is revealed that Ram Bhupal Varma's elder daughter Seeta (Seeta) elopes with a guy (Bhanu Chandar). Simhadri takes up the job of uniting family and visits Trivendrum.He convinces the separated family and when the reunion is about to happen, Seeta is stabbed by a local goon Nair (Rahul Dev).Nair and Bhai Saab belong to the same mafia.The local Kerala people starts calling him 'Singamalai'. Now Simhadri has two choices:to murder Indu's father so that all the lives on the train can be saved or he can let the bomb kill everyone on the train, including Indu's dad and Indu herself.As soon as Indu sees Simhadri kill her father, she gets hit in the head with a pole, causing her to become mentally challenged.Bhai Saab's men come to the hospital to kill Simhadri, but Simhadri, who had recovered and with the help of his friends and police, he takes down Bhai Saab and his goons.The film was released in 247 screens,including 21 in Karnataka,6 in Orissa and in Jayaprada,Chennai.The film had grossed Rs.63 millions in its opening week.It had a successful 50-days run in 173 centres and 100-day run in 147 centres.It had run for 175 days in 52 centres.

65.Samba (film)

Samba(Telugu: సాంబ) is a 2004 Telugu film directed by V.V. Vinayak.The movie deals with how important education is to kids.Dharmayya Naidu (Vijaya Kumar) lost his wife because he is uneducated.He realizes that the quarry he owns has good quality granite deposits.Prakash (Prakash Raj) is the son-in-law of Dharmayya Naidu.When Samba comes to know the reason behind his sister's suicide, he occupies the quarry and kills the brothers of Prakash. Samba and his nemesis Prakash take shelter in Kanchi and Amritsir respectively as police ban them from entering AP for a year.The rest of the story is all about how he returns to Seema and takes vengeance against Prakash and then starts serving in educational field.It was declared as an average grosser.The film had a 50-day run in 153 centres.

66.Ashok (film)

Ashok (Telugu: అశోక్) is a 2006 Telugu film directed by Surender Reddy (of Athanokkade fame).Auto mobile mechanic Ashok (Jr. NTR) is thrown out of his family's house by his is father (Prakash Raj), when his violent actions kill his grand mother (Ramaprabha). However, K.K.(Sonu Sood) also falls in love with Anjali, when he sees her involved in an accident. This angers Ashok who has, in the meantime, gone off to Delhi because of a plot by K.K and his mother (Vadipukarassi), which also involved Ashok's father. During the climax of the film Ashok is fighting K.K., whose mother arrives with the intention of shooting Ashok. Ashok is then free to tell Anjali of his undying love and we assume they go on to live happily ever after.The film has six songs composed by Mani Sharma.The film was shot in Super 35 format.The film released with 228 prints.Music by Mani Sharma was a big hit among the audiences.This film collected 10 crores in the opening week, which is approximately US$2.5 million.This film was also given an 'A' certificate, along with other Telugu releases in 2006 such as Bangaram, Pokiri, and Vikramarkudu.

67.Rakhi (film)

Rakhi (Telugu: రాఖీ) is a Telugu film directed by Krishna Vamsi and has Jr. NTR in the lead role and Ileana D'Cruz and Charmme Kaur in supporting roles.Although commercially its not a profitable venture bute the movie got excellent reviews.Rama Krishna or Rakhi(Jr. NTR) aspires to become railway stationmaster like his father (Chandramohan).For Rakhi, his sister Gayathri (Manjusha) is everything.The greedy in-laws burn her alive for more dowry. A police officer Meenakshi Iyer (Suhasini) convinces him to surrender before the law.Finally in jail, he kills his sister's friend's murderer like a tiger and in the climax, the main villain ministers .The court drama forms the rest of the story.The film has six songs composed by Devi Sri Prasad.The film was released in 545 screens,including 431 in andhra Pradesh,29 in Karnataka,6 in Orissa,3 in Tamil Nadu,3 in Mumbai and 73 in Overseas.The film had a 100-day run in 13-centres.Well known Malayali actress Mamta Mohandas who made her debut as a Telugu actress in Yamadonga movie has sung a song in this film.Bhavana Balachandran rejected a role in the film.

68.Yamadonga

Yamadonga (Telugu: యమదొంగ) is a 2007 socio-fantasy Telugu film which is directed by S.S. Rajamouli and produced by American based businessman P. Chiranjeevi (Cherry) and his wife Urmila Gangaraju.This is Jr. NTR's third time with S.S. Rajamouli. M. M. Keeravani, who composed music for all of S.S. Rajamouli's films, is composing music for the film.The film released on August 15, 2007, which also coincides with Independence day in India.raja(Jr. NTR), an orphan, is a ruthless robber. And then, he stumbles on a fine opportunity.The girl happens to be his childhood well-wisher and has always considered him her prince.But the villains play foul, and kill him. He creates confusion in Yamaloka by stealing Yamapasam as whoever in possession of Yamapasam will become Yama. After regaining power, Yama sends Raja back to earth, but only to take away his life once again.Audience are showing their overwhelming response for the scene where Hero enters like Tiger. This is another blockbuster in the combination of Rajamouli, and NTR. This film ran successfully for 50 days in 200+ theatres all over the world.Yamadonga grossed a share of Rs. 4.5 crores on the opening day.The film got very good reviews.
CineMAA Awards 2008
  • Best Actor - Jr. NTR
The DVD version of the film was released on February 29, 2008.It is available in 16:9 Anamorphic widescreen, Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround, progressive 24 FPS, widescreen and NTSC format.Actress Priyamani slipped while walking on the stones and got her ankle sprained with minor bleeding injury during shooting.Kirat Bhattal and Meera Chopra rejected the offer for Priya Mani's role.

69.Kantri

Kantri (Telugu: కంత్రి) is a 2008 film starring Jr. NTR, Hansika Motwani, Tanisha Mukherjee, and Prakash Raj.The movie is produced by the prestigious Vyjayanthi Movies banner, being produced by C. Ashwini Dutt.The opening scenes give you an indication of how the movie is going to shape up.However, when the family along with his old father is on its way home with the money, fellow villager PR backstabs, kills all and runs away with the money leaving his wife and son behind.Enters out hero, Kranti (NTR), who flexes his muscles, shakes his leg and gets into the gang of PR to earn money for his orphanage, where he grew up (he's orphaned at a very young age).Varalakshmi initially does not like Kranti.The director takes the audience to believe that Kranti is PR's son till the twist in the tale.The movie Kantri was released in more than 1080 theatres wordlwide with 430 prints.The Business in 'B' & 'C' Centers of Andhra Pradesh is Outstanding.The film took a good opening and is declared as a hit by the trade.Released on March 29, 2008, Kantri's soundtrack was composed by Mani Sharma whilst lyrics were penned by five different lyricists: Meher Ramesh, Ananth Sreeram, Sirivennela, Veturi, and Ramajogayya Sastry.

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