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Magadheera 


Magadheera  

Magadheera  is a 2009 Telugu historical drama film directed by S.S. Rajamouli and produced by Allu Aravind.Ram Charan Tej and Kajal Aggarwal play the lead roles, while actors Sri Hari Raghumundri and Dev Gill play other prominent roles. This film is currently the highest grossing Telugu film of all time grossing nearly 138 (Telugu+Tamil+Malayam) crore and the only Telugu film to gross more than 100 crore. It features original soundtrack composed by M. M. Keeravani, cinematography by K. K. Senthil Kumar and editing by Kotagiri Venkateswara Rao. The film won the National Film Awards for Best Special Effects and Chreography.The story of the film is set in the 17th century, when the Mughals ruled most of India. The film is about a warrior who protects the princess of his kingdom, only to be killed, and born again 400 years later to take his revenge on his enemy. The plot is based on reincarnation, a belief that after death, the soul will return in a new body. 

Plot
Harsha (Ram Charan Teja) is an energetic and carefree bike racer. One day, while travelling in an auto he accidentally touches Indu's(Kajal Aggarwal) hands, who was trying to stop the auto. He feels strange vibrations and will realise that Indu was his soul mate in his previous life. He runs back to the bus stand where Indu was standing. As he doesn't see her face, he asks Indu unknowingly if she saw a girl wearing a white salwar. Indu meanwhile puts an overcoat over her dress as it was raining so he couldn't recognize her. With an intention of playing a prank on Harsha, she replies yes. This is followed by a sequence of humorous, yet subtly emotional events where Indu tries to identify if Harsha truly loves her and Harsha unknowingly impresses Indu with his love. Just as Indu begins to fall in love with Harsha, Raghu Veer (Dev Gill) meets her and gets smitten by her. He decides he must have her at any cost. A series of events get Harsha to realize that the girl whom he meets daily is the same Indu whom he accidentally touched. With the help of Sunil, he gets Indu to accept her love for him. During this process, Indu's father sees both of them getting intimate and rushes to confront Harsha.

Getting visions of his previous life and mistaking Indu's father for a king, Harsha proceeds to kill her father. The attempt is foiled. Having realized his folly, Harsha rushes to Indu's place to apologize. Using this as a chance, Raghu Veer makes sure Indu sees him trying to strangulate her father while Raghu Veer actually kills him. As Raghu Veer tries to escape, Harsha grabs hold of the helicopter and as they escape, Raghu Veer sees all the signs that his astrologer has talked about of a warrior who existed 400 years ago at whose hands he died and who'd take birth again to win his love. As he holds on to the helicopter, Indu touches Harsha's hand forcing strange vibrations following which he lets go and falls into a lake where he has visions of his previous birth.

The year is 1609. Kaala Bhairava (Ram Charan Teja) is the most formidable and honored warrior in the kingdom of Udaigarh. His family has been protecting the kingdom and royal family for generations. Yuvarani Mithravinda Devi (Kajal Aggarwal) is the princess and heir apparent to the throne. Her cousin Senadhipathi Ranadev Billa (Dev Gill) is head guard and is attracted towards Mithra. Sher Khan (Sri Hari), portrayed as a king who has never lost a battle is waiting outside Udaigarh planning an invasion. Bhairava and Mithra are in love. Ranadev Billa who is jealous of Kaala Bhairava forces a competition demanding that the winner would be worthy of both the throne of Udaigarh and the hand of Mithravinda. Mithravinda demands that the loser of the competition be exiled, thus proving her confidence in Kaala Bhairava. As she expects, Kaala Bhairava wins and Ranadev is exiled. Mithravinda's father, the king, asks Kaala Bhairava a favor of not marrying Mithravinda to which he reluctantly agrees.

To guarantee a victory in the upcoming war with Sher Khan, the head-priest of Mithravinda's kingdom asks to perform a ritual at a sacred Shiva shrine. As the ritual is being performed, Mithravinda again proves her love for Kaala Bhairava. Just as the ritual nears completion, a messenger comes to inform Kaala Bhairava that Sher Khan has attacked and with the help of Ranadev Billa who's turned traitor, he has killed Mithravinda's father. The entire army of Sher Khan along with Ranadev Billa comes to capture and kill Mithravinda. Sher Khan taunts Kaala Bhairava saying that if he kills one hundred of Sher Khan's soldiers, he'd accept defeat. This is because each descendant Kaala Bhairava's clan is famous for not dying in a war without killing at least hundred of the enemy's soldiers. Kaala Bhairava manages to kill hundred soldiers, but in the process, gets terribly injured. In the ensuing battle, Kaala Bhairava kills Ranadev Billa, but not before he hurts Mithravinda. As Mithravinda falls of the cliff, Kaala Bhairava jumps of the cliff too trying to catch her, but failing to do so, the reason why he feels vibrations whenever he touches her in the present life.

As the portrayal shifts to the current time, Harsha is rescued by Solomon (Sri Hari). Harsha kidnaps Indu from the clutches of Raghu Veer. He tries to convince Indu about his life and their previous life, but to no avail. He decides to take her to the place where they were killed in their past life. As Raghu Veer follows them, Indu remembers the painting she made in her previous life out of her blood to prove her love towards the then Kaala Bhairava, she recollects all the experiences of her previous life. In the battle which follows Harsha kills Raghu Veer with the same dagger as that of last time and saves Indu.
The movie ends with Harsha and Indu on one side of the cliff asking Solomon who is on the other side to get proper help to get them to the other side as they both rest.

AWARDS

National Film Awards-

Best Choreography- K. Siva Shankar
Best Special Effects R. Kamal Kannan

2009 Nandi Awards
Best Popular Feature Film
Best Director S. S. Rajamouli
Best Editor Kotagiri Venkateshwara Rao
Best Art Director Ravinder
Best Choreographer Shiva Shankar
Best Audiographer Radhakrishna
Best Costume Designer Rama Rajamouli
Best Special Effects Kamal Kannan
Special Jury Award Ram Charan Teja Konidala

2009 Filmfare Awards 
Best Film Allu Aravind
Best Director S. S. Rajamouli
Best Actor Ram Charan Teja Konidala
Best Music Director M. M. Keeravani
Best Male Playback Anuj Gurwara-(Panchadara Bomma)
Best Cinematographer K.K. Senthil Kuma

Records

Magadheera released in 1000 screens worldwide and grossed in India around 100 crores by 100th day. Magadheera is the highest grossing movie in the Telugu film industry ever. The film completed 730 days in 1 centre (the highest number of days by Telugu cinema beating Preamabishekam) in Kurnool Srirama Theater, at the end of the movie collections and records of the movie here

Highest number of 50 days (Direct) centers - All time Indian Record - 302 centers
Highest number of 100 days (Direct) centers - All time Indian Record - 223 centers
Highest Grosser Ever in Andhra Pradesh - 118+20 crores (with satellite+Tamil+Malayam)Highest Share Ever in Telugu cinema - 118 crore
Highest 100 days in Hyderabad - 13 centers (after Pokiri)
Highest number of days run for a Telugu film - 730+ days 
Run two theaters in same centers - 8 towns
2 national awards - never before for a single Telugu cinema
Highest Satellite Rate Till date - MAA TV(Telugu)

Gharana Mogudu

Directed byK. Raghavendra Rao
Produced byK. Devi Vara Prasad
Written byP. Vasu (story)
Paruchuri Brothers (dialogue)
StarringMegastar Chiranjeevi,
Nagma,
Rao Gopal Rao,
Kaikala Satyanarayana,
Vani Viswanath
Music byM. M. Keeravani
Release date(s)April 9, 1992
LanguageTelugu
Gharana Mogudu is a very popular Telugu film which has Megastar Chiranjeevi, Nagma in the lead roles. The movie was directed by K. Raghavendra Rao and was a sensational hit. It was released on April 9, 1992. The movie was the first Telugu film to gross over 100 million rupees. It made The Megastar Chiranjeevi the highest paid actor in India, prompting him to be catapulted to cover pages of all national weekly magazines and India Today had a caption, "Bigger Than Bachchan". This film was a remake of hit Kannada film Anuraaga Aralitu, acted by legendary Rajkumar based on a Kannada novel. This film was also remade as Mannan starring Rajini Kanth. There was a Hindi remake of this movie named Laadla in which Anil Kapoor and Sridevi played the lead roles. It was not as commercially successful as southern versions.

Synpopsis

Raju (Chiranjeevi) is a do-gooder who helps his co-workers in a Visakhapatnam shipyard, but when his mother suffers a paralytic stroke, he moves back to Hyderabad and looks for a job.
Uma Devi (Nagma) daughter of industrialist Bapineedu (Raogopal Rao) takes over the business from her father and helps it to reach new heights which also sees her head-strong ways reach new heights. In this scenario, she not only rejects Ranganayakulu's (Kaikala Satyanarayana) son's marriage proposal but insults them when the father-son duo show up at her house. To get their revenge, they send goons to kill Uma Devi. As fate would have it, Bapineedu shows up in the car instead of Uma Devi and is rescued by Raju who asks him for a job which Bapineedu readily agrees to. Raju wins over the employees in no time and takes on the high-handedness of Uma Devi and her management. This leads to constant conflict and Uma Devi decides to marry Raju so that he will not interfere anymore. To this end she plays an emotional blackmail game with Raju's mother and eventually makes Raju agrees to marry her. But Raju continues to trouble her even after marriage. Uma Devi's secretary, Bhavani (Vani Viswanath) is also a friend of Raju which leads to jealousy. In the meantime, Ranganayakulu with the help of Uma Devi's manager Sarangapani (Ahuthi Prasad) schemes against Uma Devi to sabotage her factory. The rest of film deals with how Raju thwarts the schemes of Ranganayakulu and teaches Uma Devi to be humble.

Cast

Box office performance
  • Gharana Mogudu collected a distributors' share of Rs.13.5 million in its opening week.
  • The film was a blockbuster with a 100-day run in 56 centres and a 175-day run in three centres ncluding a 183-day run in Sandhya 70mm, Hyderabad.
  • Gharana Mogudu collected a share of Rs.40 million in 50 days and ended being the first Telugu movie to collect a distributors' share of Rs.100 million.
  • It was dubbed into Malayalam as Hey Hero. It was a big hit in Kerala. It ran over 100 days in many centers in Kerala and the song "Punnara peda mane" (dubbing of "Bangaru kodi petta") became very popular


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