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.

Revisiting Ragada (2010): Review + Interesting Facts