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Cast: Nani, Hari priya, indu Madhavi, Rao Ramesh, Nagineedu, Srini Avasarala, MS Narayana, Sameer, Dhanraj, Jai Venu, Thagubothu Ramesh, Raghu Karumanchi, Ranadhir, Vennela Kishore, Dr. Siva Prasad, Subhashini, Satya,

Music: Selva Ganesh
Cinematography: Sai Sriram
Dialogues: Chandra Sekhar
Art: Mani Varma
Editing: Praveen Pudi
Story - screenplay - direction: Ashok G
Producer: DS Rao
Release date: October 14th, 2011

Interesting Facts

Watched it in 2014 on Youtube, I was like how did I miss this amazing movie for so long. And over the years it has become one of my favorite movies. When I’m bored I watch the comedy scenes from time to time.

Nani said director Ashok came to meet me and narrated a different story to me at the time. I like his narration style, felt he will be a good director, I couldn’t do that story because I felt that situation and time, that story was not right for me and I shouldn’t it. But if I said I won’t do it, he will feel bad. So I asked him if he has anything else. He met me after 1 week and told me Pilla Zamindar. I said yes right away. Sometimes we crave for scripts that have everything we are looking for. And Sometimes we get lucky. My gut feeling was this is going to hit the bullseye.

Generally when making a film you feel that there could be some improvements. For Pilla Zamindar, the movie came out better than I had expected.

Selvaganesh music director, also worked for Bheemili Kabbadi Jattu, Sai Sriram was the cinematographer who later on worked for F3 worked recently.

Bindhu Madhavi and Kannada heroine were selected as female leads. Filming started in October 2010 and was planned for April 2011 but was postponed due to the 2011 Tollywood industry strike. Filming was completed in August 2011 and it released in October 2011. I remember I was in India during that time and there were a lot of bandhs back then.

Filmed majority in Hyderabad and Guntur the college portions. September 19, 2011 the audio was launched. Chief guest was SS Rajamouli while, Tarun, Uday Kiran, Varun Sandhesh and Nikhil.

Made 6 crores share at the box office and was a hit.

Comedy scenes list:

Rao Ramesh first meeting and talks

Store scene

Bathroom waiting scene

Cleaning the bathrooms and clothes

Ninna Monna tu kidar gaya re, MS Narayana, Meeru oka pani cheyandi, Telugulo mataladaku pothe meeru kodutharu, hindi lo mataladaku pothe meerà kodutharu, ninna monna meerà teeskunna vellandi, kidar gaya re ani meeeru teesukunni vellandi, mammalni ila vodileyandi sir

Veedutho yenti Chattha discussion

Ghost story with Sathya

Sindhu exam writing scene, Shakespeare Hamlet gurunchi telusa, helmet telusu, ommelette telusu, RK Narayan raa intiki pakka nun gurunchi telusu, Paradise lost, paradise biryani telusu

Buffalo scene

Interval scene when the debris falls on his hands - choodandi sir see dabba nah chuthulu ni jeevitham ni naasanam chesindi

Vennela Kishore scenes in 2nd half

Heart touching scenes:

Kannababu parents scene

Dhanraj father death scene

Entire Thalabadi song

Climax twist

Revisiting Pilla Zamindar (2011): Review + Interesting Facts