Credits

Banners: Mythri Movie Makers, GMB Entertainments

Cast: Mahesh Babu, Shruti Haasan, Jagapati Babu, Poorna (special appearance), Rajendra Prasad, Rahul Ravindran, Sampath Raj, Mukesh Rushi, Harish Uttaman, Vennela Kishore, Ali, Subbaraju, Kadambari, Edida Sreeram, Shravan, Sivaji Raja, Sitara, Tulasi, Sukanya, Sana etc.

Cinematography: Madhie

Editor: Kotagiri Venkateshwara Rao

Music: Devi Sri Prasad

Lyrics: Ramajogayya Sastry

Action: Anal Arasu

Choreography: Raja Sundaram, Gayathri Raghuram & Prasanna

Art: AS Prakash

Story, dialogues, screenplay & Direction: Koratala Siva

Producers: Naveen Yerneni, Y. Ravi Shankar & Mohan (CVM)

Release date: 07 August, 2015

Interesting Facts

Koratala Siva met Mahesh babu after Mirchi and narrated a story. He liked it and originally UTV productions were the movie producers and they announced the movie in October 2013. In march 2014 they backed out citing creative differences with Koratala Siva and then Mythri Movie Makers stepped in marking their debut in Telugu cinema
Mahesh Babu agreed to co produce the movie and take profit share instead of remuneration.
Gracy Singh, Nadhiya, and Sudha were offered Mahesh Babus mother but they declined and it went ti Sukanya
Mahesh Babu’s palace in the movie was actually filmed in Malaysia
Song Rama Rama was originally supposed to be shot outdoor location but due to seasonal weather being a factor, they shifted to indoors
Shruthi Hassan’s dorm is filmed at RFC
Art director AS Prakash created two Manduva house sets opposite each other in Ramoji film City and created a special lighting scheme with Madhie
Ramajogayya Sastry single card movie with the exception of Charuseela
Originally supposed to release July 17th, 2015 but after personal request from Show Yarlagadda and Rajamouli they released on august 7th
Movie coined the term Non BB industry hit and was the first film to do so, since then Rangasthalam, AVPL

- Why It Worked: Movie sticks to the story and doesn’t deviate from that. Typical village savior movie but most of the tropes like separate comedy track, hacking goons, making villain bakras and uniting a families and waiting for the Devudu to come save them aren’t there. The movie keeps going as per story requirement. Negatives are the emotions aren’t as strong. Not sure if its the writing or the villainy, but you’re not as emotionally invested. Pacing and writing is superb.

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