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Azad
Azad
Film score by Mani Sharma
Released	2000
Genre	Soundtrack
Length	28:56
Label	Supreme Music
Producer	Mani Sharma
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Azad
Azad
	Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Thirupathisamy
Written by	Paruchuri Brothers (dialogues)
Screenplay by	Thirupathisamy; Yandamuri Veerendranath; Bhupathi Raja; Crazy Mohan; Feroz Bhagat; Maharajan
Story by	Thirupathisamy
Produced by	C. Ashwini Dutt
Starring	Nagarjuna Akkineni; Shilpa Shetty; Soundarya
Cinematography	Chota K. Naidu
Edited by	Marthand K. Venkatesh
Music by	Mani Sharma
Production; company	Vyjayanthi Movies
Release date	29 September 2000;
Running time	150 minutes
Country	India
Language	Telugu

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Azad (transl. Independent) is a 2000 Indian Telugu-language superhero film written and directed by Thirupathisamy, and produced by C. Ashwini Dutt under Vyjayanthi Movies. It stars Nagarjuna Akkineni, Shilpa Shetty and Soundarya music composed by Mani Sharma. The film completed 100 days run in 4 centres and won four Nandi Awards. It was loosely remade in Tamil as Velayudham (2011) and in Kannada as Bhagath (2004). Besides a Tamil remake, the film was dubbed into Tamil as Kurukshetram.

Plot

Anjali, a journalist witnesses the murder of a fellow journalist who had discovered evidence against a mafia boss, Deva, and wants to sue him for his colleague's murder. Anjali is harassed by Deva when he discovers that she has the evidence. Deva is the most influential person in the region who runs Hindu Seva Samithi, but in reality, he is an undercover Islamic militant on a mission to release their terrorist group head imprisoned by the state administration. Deva is apparently a Hindu devotee who teaches the Bhagavad Gita to every human he meets. Anjali happens to see an accident in which a bunch of Deva's henchmen die. She takes this opportunity to create a character and names after the freedom fighter "Azad". She writes a letter that Azad has done this assassination to end crime in the city and state. The word spreads like wildfire that there is a man called "Azad", who is the rescuer of a common man.

A man named Chandra Sekhar Azad, has a widowed mother, a sister named Kaveri, and a fiancée named Kanaka Mahalakshmi to take care of. As Kaveri's marriage is fixed, Azad goes to Hyderabad, to get the five lakhs he saved in a chit fund company. There, he happens to be involved in a few bomb-blasting incidents and rescue incidents and avoids all the bomb blasts and crimes without his knowledge. People start to think that he is the "Azad". Anjali meets him and explains to him about her mission of ending crime in the state.

However, Azad is more interested in retrieving money from the chit fund company and going back to his home to marry off his sister. He refuses to enact the role and take the responsibility of the legendary character "Azad". But later on, the chit fund company turns out to be bogus, which was managed by Deva, to generate finance for the smuggling of ammunition to Pakistan. Upon seeing the victims of the chit fund company committing suicide, Azad wears the mask of 'Azad' to stop Deva's mission. All these incidents make Deva extremely frustrated, so he kills and blasts Kaveri at her wedding. Azad also learns that Deva is not a Hindu, but an Indian Mujahideen terrorist under the guise of a Hindu and is on a mission to destroy India.

Deva demands the state administration for release of their militant leader in exchange for the lives of train passengers hijacked by Deva en route to Pakistan via Punjab, India. Saleem, an IPS officer requests for a chance to fight them off instead of exchanging lives who would kill more people if released. Deva provokes Saleem that being a Muslim man, he is opposing his jihad. After Deva tries shooting Saleem with a Pakistan-made bullet, Saleem kills himself with his service revolver, just as freedom fighter Azad escaped the English bullet.

Azad now goes alone and gets badly beaten up by Deva. After Deva lashes that he would destroy India, Azad gets up and kills Deva. He then reunites with his family.^[1]

Cast

Nagarjuna Akkineni as Chandra Sekhar Azad
Shilpa Shetty as Mahalakshmi
Soundarya as Anjali
Raghuvaran as Deva/Dawood
Prakash Raj as Inspector Saleem
Brahmanandam as Thief
Kalairani as Azad's mother
Sujitha as Kaveri
Nutan Prasad as Anjali's father
Raghunatha Reddy as Mahalakshmi's father
Tanikella Bharani as Kanaka Raju
Ananth Babu as School teacher
Venu Madhav as Citizen
Dharmavarapu Subramanyam as Editor
M. S. Narayana as Constable
Banerjee as Banerjee
L. B. Sriram as Sastry
Narsing Yadav as Rowdy
Chitti Babu
Gundu Hanumantha Rao
Indu Anand as Mahalakshmi's mother
Rajashree Reddy as Doctor
Likitha Kamini
Urvasi Patil in an item number

Soundtrack

The music was composed by Mani Sharma. Music released on SUPREME Audio Company.

Azad - Telugu Tracklist (Original)
No.	Title	Lyrics	Singer(s)	Length
1.	"Koila Koila"	Suddala Ashok Teja	Abhijeet Bhattacharya	4:30
2.	"Kala Anuko"	Veturi	Hariharan, Mahalakshmi Iyer	5:21
3.	"Chemma Chekka Chemma Chekka"	Sirivennela Sitarama Sastry	S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, K. S. Chithra, Harini	4:32
4.	"So So Sonare"	Chandra Bose	Udit Narayan, Vasundhara Das	4:47
5.	"Sudigaalilo"	Veturi	Hariharan, K. S. Chithra	5:08
6.	"Hai Hai Nayakaa"	Veturi	Sukhwinder Singh, K. S. Chithra	4:24
Total length:				28:56

All lyrics are written by Piraisoodan, Muthulingam, and Ponniyin Selvan

Kurukshetram - Tamil Tracklist
No.	Title	Lyrics	Singer(s)	Length
1.	"Koila Koila"	Piraisoodan	Mano	4:30
2.	"Manadinile"	Ponniyin Selvan	Ramu, Sunandha	5:21
3.	"Sembaruthi Sembaruthi"	Muthulingam	Ramu, Harini	4:32
4.	"So So So Adi Sonare"	Piraisoodan	P. Unnikrishnan, Harini	4:47
5.	"Idi Osaiyo"	Ponniyin Selvan	Srinivas, Sindhu	5:08
6.	"Hai Hai Nayaga"	Muthulingam	Krishnaraj, Sindhu	4:24
Total length:				28:56

Awards

Nandi Awards - 2000^[2]

Second Best Feature Film - Silver – C. Ashwinidutt
Best Story Writer – Thirupathisamy
Best Dialogue Writer – Trivikram Srinivas
Best Fight Master – Kanal Kannan

Other awards

Andhra Pradesh Film Journalists Association Award - 2000 – Nagarjuna

References

^ "Telugu Cinema - Azad Review".
^ "నంది అవార్డు విజేతల పరంపర (1964–2008)" [A series of Nandi Award Winners (1964–2008)] (PDF). Information & Public Relations of Andhra Pradesh. Retrieved 21 August 2020.(in Telugu)

External links

Azad at IMDb

[1] "Telugu Cinema - Azad Review".

[2] "నంది అవార్డు విజేతల పరంపర (1964–2008)" [A series of Nandi Award Winners (1964–2008)] (PDF). Information & Public Relations of Andhra Pradesh. Retrieved 21 August 2020.(in Telugu)

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 | story          = Thirupathisamy
 | screenplay     = Thirupathisamy<br>[[Yandamuri Veerendranath]]<br>Bhupathi Raja<br>Crazy Mohan<br> Feroz Bhagat<br>Maharajan
-| starring       = [[Nagarjuna (actor)|Nagarjuna Akkineni]]<br>[[Soundarya]]<br>[[Shilpa Shetty]]
+| starring       = [[Nagarjuna (actor)|Nagarjuna Akkineni]]<br>[[Shilpa Shetty]]<br>[[Soundarya]]
 | director       = [[Thirupathisamy]]
 | producer       = [[C. Ashwini Dutt]]
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 | music          = [[Mani Sharma]]
 | runtime        = 150 minutes
 | released       = {{Film date|df=y|2000|9|29}}
 | language       = Telugu
 | country        = India
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+'''''Azad''''' ({{translation|Independent}}) is a 2000 Indian [[Telugu language|Telugu]]-language [[superhero film]] written and directed by [[Thirupathisamy]], and produced by [[C. Ashwini Dutt]] under [[Vyjayanthi Movies]]. It stars [[Nagarjuna (actor)|Nagarjuna Akkineni]], [[Shilpa Shetty]] and [[Soundarya]] music composed by [[Mani Sharma]]. The film completed 100 days run in 4 centres and won four [[Nandi Awards]]. It was loosely remade in Tamil as ''[[Velayudham]]'' (2011) and in Kannada as ''Bhagath'' (2004). Besides a [[Tamil language|Tamil]] remake, the film was dubbed into [[Tamil language|Tamil]] as ''Kurukshetram''.
-'''''Azad''''' ({{translation|Independent}}) is a 2000 Indian [[Telugu language|Telugu]]-language [[superhero film]] produced by [[C. Ashwini Dutt]] under [[Vyjayanthi Movies]] and directed by [[Thirupathisamy]]. It stars [[Nagarjuna (actor)|Nagarjuna Akkineni]], [[Soundarya]], [[Shilpa Shetty]] and music composed by [[Mani Sharma]]. The film completed 100 days run in 4 centres. The film was remade in Tamil as ''[[Velayudham]]'' (2011) starring [[Vijay (actor)|Vijay]] and also dubbed into Tamil as ''Kurukshetram'' and into Hindi as ''Mission Azad''.
 == Plot ==
-Anjali ([[Soundarya]]) is a journalist who witnesses the murder of a senior journalist carrying crucial evidence about a mafia don. Anjali is on a mission to sue the criminal Deva ([[Raghuvaran]]), who is responsible for the murder. Anjali is also harassed by Deva's misdeeds. Deva is the most influential person in the region who runs ''Hindu Seva Samithi'', but in reality, he is an undercover [[Islam]]ic militant on a mission to release their terrorist group head imprisoned by the state administration. Deva is apparently a [[Hinduism|Hindu]] devotee who is bent upon teaching the [[Bhagavad Gita]] to every human he meets. Anjali happens to see an accident in which a bunch of Deva's henchmen die. She takes this opportunity to create and glorify a fictional character called "Azad". She writes a letter that Azad has done this assassination to end crime in the city & state. The word spreads like wildfire that there is a man called "Azad", who is the rescuer of the common man.
+Anjali, a journalist witnesses the murder of a fellow journalist who had discovered evidence against a mafia boss, Deva, and wants to sue him for his colleague's murder. Anjali is harassed by Deva when he discovers that she has the evidence. Deva is the most influential person in the region who runs ''Hindu Seva Samithi'', but in reality, he is an undercover [[Islam]]ic [[Terrorism|militant]] on a mission to release their terrorist group head imprisoned by the state administration. Deva is apparently a [[Hinduism|Hindu]] devotee who teaches the [[Bhagavad Gita]] to every human he meets. Anjali happens to see an accident in which a bunch of Deva's henchmen die. She takes this opportunity to create a character and names after the freedom fighter "[[Chandra Shekhar Azad|Azad]]". She writes a letter that Azad has done this assassination to end crime in the city and state. The word spreads like wildfire that there is a man called "Azad", who is the rescuer of a common man.
-A humble and intelligent guy called Chandra Sekhar Azad ([[Nagarjuna (actor)|Nagarjuna]]) from [[Rajahmundry]], has a widowed mother ([[Kalairani]]), a beautiful sister Kaveri ([[Sujitha]]) and a cute fiancé, Kanaka Mahalakshmi ([[Shilpa Shetty]]) to take care of. As Kaveri's marriage is fixed, Azad goes to [[Hyderabad]], India, to get the five lakhs he saved in a [[chit fund]] company. There, he happens to be involved in a few bomb-blasting incidents and rescue incidents and avoids all the bomb blasts and crimes without his knowledge. People start to think that he is the "Azad". Anjali meets him and explains to him about her mission of ending crime in the state.
+A man named Chandra Sekhar Azad, has a widowed mother, a sister named Kaveri, and a fiancée named Kanaka Mahalakshmi to take care of. As Kaveri's marriage is fixed, Azad goes to [[Hyderabad]], to get the five lakhs he saved in a [[chit fund]] company. There, he happens to be involved in a few bomb-blasting incidents and rescue incidents and avoids all the bomb blasts and crimes without his knowledge. People start to think that he is the "Azad". Anjali meets him and explains to him about her mission of ending crime in the state.
-However, Azad is more interested in retrieving money from the chit fund company and going back to Rajahmundry to participate in his sister's marriage. He refuses to enact the role and take the responsibility of the legendary character "Azad". But later on, the chit fund company turns out to be bogus, which was managed by Deva, to generate finance for the smuggling of ammunition to [[Pakistan]]. Upon seeing the victims of the chit fund company committing suicide, Azad wears the mask of 'Azad' to stop Deva's mission. All these incidents make Deva extremely frustrated, so he kills and blasts Kaveri at her wedding. Azad also comes to know that Deva is not a Hindu, but a [[Kashmiri Muslim]] terrorist who is on a mission to destroy India.
+However, Azad is more interested in retrieving money from the chit fund company and going back to his home to marry off his sister. He refuses to enact the role and take the responsibility of the legendary character "Azad". But later on, the chit fund company turns out to be bogus, which was managed by Deva, to generate finance for the smuggling of ammunition to [[Pakistan]]. Upon seeing the victims of the chit fund company committing suicide, Azad wears the mask of 'Azad' to stop Deva's mission. All these incidents make Deva extremely frustrated, so he kills and blasts Kaveri at her wedding. Azad also learns that Deva is not a Hindu, but an [[Indian Mujahideen|Indian Mujahideen terrorist]] under the guise of a Hindu and is on a mission to destroy India.
-Deva demands the state administration for release of their militant leader in exchange for the lives of train passengers hijacked by Deva en route to Pakistan via [[Punjab, India|Punjab]], India. The rest of the plot deals with how Azad banishes Deva and his gang of militants.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.idlebrain.com/movie/archive/mr-azad.html|title=Telugu Cinema - Azad Review}}</ref>
+Deva demands the state administration for release of their militant leader in exchange for the lives of train passengers hijacked by Deva en route to Pakistan via [[Punjab, India|Punjab]], India. Saleem, an IPS officer requests for a chance to fight them off instead of exchanging lives who would kill more people if released. Deva provokes Saleem that being a Muslim man, he is opposing his jihad. After Deva tries shooting Saleem with a Pakistan-made bullet, Saleem kills himself with his service revolver, just as freedom fighter Azad escaped the English bullet.
+Azad now goes alone and gets badly beaten up by Deva. After Deva lashes that he would destroy India, Azad gets up and kills Deva. He then reunites with his family.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.idlebrain.com/movie/archive/mr-azad.html|title=Telugu Cinema - Azad Review}}</ref>
 ==Cast==
 {{colbegin}}
 * [[Nagarjuna (actor)|Nagarjuna Akkineni]] as Chandra Sekhar Azad
-* [[Soundarya]] as Anjali
 * [[Shilpa Shetty]] as Mahalakshmi
+* [[Soundarya]] as Anjali
 * [[Raghuvaran]] as Deva/Dawood
 * [[Prakash Raj]] as Inspector Saleem
 * [[Brahmanandam]] as Thief
 * [[Kalairani]] as Azad's mother
@@ Line 46: / Line 47: @@
 * [[Raghunatha Reddy]] as Mahalakshmi's father
 * [[Tanikella Bharani]] as Kanaka Raju
-* [[Ananth Babu]] as School Teacher
+* [[Ananth Babu]] as School teacher
 * [[Venu Madhav (actor)|Venu Madhav]] as Citizen
 * [[Dharmavarapu Subramanyam]] as Editor
@@ Line 53: / Line 54: @@
 * [[L. B. Sriram]] as Sastry
 * [[Narsing Yadav]] as Rowdy
 * [[Chitti Babu Punyamurthula|Chitti Babu]]
 * [[Gundu Hanumantha Rao]]
 * Indu Anand as Mahalakshmi's mother
 * Rajashree Reddy as Doctor
@@ Line 94: / Line 95: @@
 | extra1  = [[Abhijeet Bhattacharya]]
 | length1 = 4:30
-|-
 | title2  = Kala Anuko
-| lyrics2 = [[Veturi Sundararama Murthy]]
+| lyrics2 = [[Veturi]]
 | extra2  = [[Hariharan (singer)|Hariharan]], [[Mahalakshmi Iyer]]
 | length2 = 5:21
-|-
 | title3  = Chemma Chekka Chemma Chekka
 | lyrics3 = [[Sirivennela Sitaramasastri|Sirivennela Sitarama Sastry]]
 | extra3  = [[S. P. Balasubrahmanyam]], [[K. S. Chithra]], [[Harini (singer)|Harini]]
 | length3 = 4:32
-|-
 | title4  = So So Sonare
 | lyrics4 = [[Chandrabose (lyricist)|Chandra Bose]]
 | extra4  = [[Udit Narayan]], [[Vasundhara Das]]
 | length4 = 4:47
-|-
 | title5  = Sudigaalilo
-| lyrics5 = [[Veturi Sundararama Murthy]]
+| lyrics5 = [[Veturi]]
 | extra5  = [[Hariharan (singer)|Hariharan]], K. S. Chithra
 | length5 = 5:08
-|-
 | title6  = Hai Hai Nayakaa
-| lyrics6 = [[Veturi Sundararama Murthy]]
+| lyrics6 = [[Veturi]]
 | extra6  = [[Sukhwinder Singh]], K. S. Chithra
 | length6 = 4:24
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 | total_length = 28:56
 | all_writing =
-| all_lyrics = Piraisoodan, Muthulingam, and Ponniyin Selvan
+| all_lyrics = [[Piraisoodan]], Muthulingam, and Ponniyin Selvan
 | all_music =
 | title1 = Koila Koila
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 ==Awards==
+;[[Nandi Awards]] - 2000<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://ipr.ap.nic.in/New_Links/Film.pdf|title=నంది అవార్డు విజేతల పరంపర (1964–2008)|trans-title=A series of Nandi Award Winners (1964–2008)|publisher=[[Andhra Pradesh (magazine)|Information & Public Relations of Andhra Pradesh]]|access-date=21 August 2020}}(in [[Telugu language|Telugu]])</ref>
+*[[Nandi Award for Best Feature Film|Second Best Feature Film - Silver]] – C. Ashwinidutt
+*[[Nandi Award for Best Story Writer|Best Story Writer]] – [[Thirupathisamy]]
+*[[Nandi Award for Best Dialogue Writer|Best Dialogue Writer]] – [[Trivikram Srinivas]]
+*[[Nandi Award for Best Fight Master|Best Fight Master]] – [[Kanal Kannan]]
+;Other awards
-*[[Nandi Award for Best Feature Film]] - Silver - 2000
+*Andhra Pradesh Film Journalists Association Award - 2000 – [[Nagarjuna (actor)|Nagarjuna]]
-*[[Nandi Award for Best Story Writer]] - [[Tirupathi Swamy]] <ref>{{Cite web |url=http://ipr.ap.nic.in/New_Links/Film.pdf|title=నంది అవార్డు విజేతల పరంపర (1964–2008)|trans-title=A series of Nandi Award Winners (1964–2008)|publisher=[[Andhra Pradesh (magazine)|Information & Public Relations of Andhra Pradesh]]|access-date=21 August 2020}}(in [[Telugu language|Telugu]])</ref>
-*Andhra Pradesh Film Journalists Association Award - 2000 - [[Nagarjuna (actor)|Nagarjuna]]
 ==References==
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-[[Category:Films about terrorism in India]]
+[[Category:Films about Islamic terrorism in India]]
-[[Category:Indian films]]
 [[Category:Politics of Jammu and Kashmir]]
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 [[Category:Films scored by Mani Sharma]]
 [[Category:Telugu films remade in other languages]]
-[[Category:Films featuring an item number]]
 [[Category:Indian romantic action films]]
 [[Category:2000s romantic action films]]
+[[Category:Films about journalism]]
+[[Category:Films about journalists]]
+[[Category:Films about the mass media in India]]
+[[Category:Films about mass media people]]
+[[Category:Kashmir conflict in films]]
+[[Category:Vyjayanthi Movies films]]