Magadheera
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| Magadheera | |
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| File:Magadheera-10.jpg Theatrical poster | |
| Directed by | S. S. Rajamouli |
| Written by | S. S. Rajamouli Vijayendra Prasad Ratnam |
| Produced by | Allu Aravind |
| Starring | Ram Charan Teja Kajal Aggarwal Srihari Sarath Babu Dev gill |
| Cinematography | Senthil Kumar |
| Edited by | Kotagiri Venkateswara Rao |
| Music by | M. M. Keeravani Kalyani Malik |
| Distributed by | Geetha Arts |
Release dates | July 31, 2009 |
| Country | India |
| Language | Telugu |
| Budget | 35 crores [1] |
Magadheera is a 2009 Telugu language film directed by S.S. Rajamouli. Ram Charan Teja plays the lead role along with Kajal Aggarwal. The movie started filming in 2007 and was released on July 31, 2009. Magadheera hit theatres on 31 July in 1200 screens worldwide.
Plot
The movie opens with a dying Mithra asking Bhairava to touch her hand and accept the fact that he loves her-atleast in death.she suddenly slips off from the cliff and in order to touch her hand,bhairava jumps off. YEAR- 1609 Kalabhairava (Ram Charan Teja) is a guard in the Kingdom of Udayagarh. His family is praised by everyone for their sacrifice to the throne. Mithra (Kajal Aggarwal) is the only princess, she and Bhairava fall in love with each other; while her relative Randhev Billa (Dev Gill) wants to marry her to capture the throne. Randhev loses a bet with Bhairava for marrying Mithra and is sent to exile.
In Bhairava's ancestral background, no male lives more than 30 years and all of them died protecting the kingdom. And on winning the bet,the king takes a promise from bhairava that he will not marry mitra so as to avoid making her a widow. Meanwhile Randhev mingles with Sher Khan (Srihari), has been in a spree of conquering India, arrives at the kingdom of Udayagarh. They kill most kingdom subjects in the absence of Bhairava. He and Mithra are visiting Bhairava Kona (a spiritual place) to offer yagnas for the welfare of the kingdom. The enemies arrive at Bhairava Kona to capture Mithra and kill Bhairava. Sher Khan wants to prove that Bhairava's family reputation is a myth, that they kill at least hundred enemy soldiers before they die. He challenges Bhairava to kill a hundred of his soldiers or accept that he is a coward. Bhairava takes up the challenge and kills a hundred of Sher khan's soldiers. He kills Randhev too but Randhev kills Mithra before he dies. Mithra's dead body falls from the hill and Bhairava jumps from the hill to grab her.
The first half of the story is set in 2009: where Bhairava, Mithra, Sher Khan, Randhev Billa take rebirth in the current world. Bhairava is Harsha, a bike racer. Mithra is Indu, a college student. Ranadhev Billa is Ranadheer and Sher Khan is Solomon, a fisherman. One day, while going for a bike race, Harsha sees Indu and touches her hand. He gets a shock. He comes back and asks the people around about her not knowing he is asking Indu. She plays with him thoroughly not telling about whom he asked and thoroughly enjoying herself. Finally, he comes to know. Indu's father is fighting for his ancestral property with his brother-in-law and nephew Raghuveer who come to the city to kill him. On seeing Indu, he falls in love with her. He kills his father and befriends them. Harsha and Indu profess love for each other . When her father comes to know, Initially he does'nt agree but Indu convinces him. Raghuveer kills him and blames it on Harsha. Indu hates him and sends him away.He comes to know about his past and goes to meet Indu and kill Raghuveer who already knew about it.Initially, she does not believe him but later understands the fact and unites with Harsha after the death of Raghuveer. The film ends happily with the Rolling Titles song.
Cast
- Ram Charan Teja as Kala Bhairava and Harsha
- Kajal Aggarwal as Yuvarani Mitravinda and Indu
- Srihari as Sher Khan and Solomon
- Dev Gill as Senadhipathi Randhev Billa and Raghuveer
- Sarath Babu as King of Udaighad
- Brahmanandam in a special appearance
- Sunil as friend of Harsha
- Rao Ramesh as Aghora
- Saloni Aswani as Solomon’s girlfriend
- Surya as Indu's father
- Sameer as Maan Singh
- Sekhar as
- Hema as Brahmanandam wife
- Chiranjeevi in a guest appearance
Visual Effects
- Adel Adili .... 3D technical director
- Pete Draper .... visual effects pipeline technical director
- Kamalakkannan R.C. .... visual effects producer
- Pari Rajulu .... lighting and texturing
- Murali Manohar Reddy .... visual effects: technical head
- Sanath .... vfx supervisor: Firefly
- Srirengaraj .... set vfx supervisor: EFX
Production
Magadheera has been produced by Allu Aravind under the Geeta Arts banner. Magadheera is the highest budgeted telugu movie ever taken with a budget of over Rs.35 crores.This is the First high Budget Film in telugu Industry.[2]
Filming
The second half of the movie in the 17th century was shot in Gujarat, Rajasthan and Rann of Kutch. A part of the film was shot in Badami in Karnataka. The first and last part of the film was filmed at the Ramoji Film City in Hyderabad.
The first song of the film "Bangaru Kodi Petta" was filmed at the Chennai Port. "Naa kosam nuvvu" song of the film was shot in Switzerland. "Panchadara Bomma" song was shot at Golkonda fort in Hyderabad.
Reception
Boxoffice
Magadheera was released world wide on July 31, 2009. The film been released in around 1200 screens in 14 countries.[3] The overseas rights were sold for 2 crores[4]and the satellite rights for 7 crores. [5]
The film is the biggest hit ever in telugu industry. The overall share of the film is already touching 50 crores which is a massive 10 crores more than the previous record. If this continues the total collections after the maximum run may reach somewhere near 75 crores. The film has collected a share of Rs.22 crores [6]during its first week run and had a total collection 47.08 crores after five weeks.[7] Magadheera is the first movie to complete 50 days in 3 theaters at Guntur. Also, Magadheera is the first movie to be screened for 30 days in 2 theatres at Mandapeta. [8]
The rights for the movie was bought for Rs 1.5 crore in Karanataka,where it has grossed Rs 5 crore in collections. [9]Magadheera is the first movie to be screened for 50 days in 2 theatres at Nandyal, Kurnool Dist.
The film successfully crossed 50 days in morethan 302 direct centres which is a record .
It had collected 65+ crores world wide and the 7 crores for satellite.it has collected 80+ crores by the end of 8th week.[1] Sources are expecting to collect around 100+ crores world wide by 100th day.Its a second movie which collected 80+ crore in india after Gajini .
Some scenes had been added from the 51st day. And its going successfully in all the theatres till now.
Allegations of copyright infringement
A writer named S.P.Chari sent a notice to the producer Allu Aravind claiming that the story of the movie was taken from his novel "Chanderi" and poet [[Vangapandu Prasada Rao ]] held protests claiming that his lyrics were used without permission in the movie. [10]
Accidents
The release of magadheera resulted in several accidents across Andhra Pradesh. On 1 August 2009, a person died of electrocution at a theater in Nandikotkur.[11] Two persons were electrocuted and 15 others were injured following a short circuit at Bhavani Theatre in Kazipet on 8 August 2009. [12][unreliable source?] The movie was banned in Vijayanagaram after five persons were electrocuted and 20 severely injured, when an electric cable snapped and fell on the ground at Lakshmi Theatre in Salur, Vizianagaram district, on 9 August 2009.[13]
Soundtrack
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The soundtrack of the film was released worldwide on June 28, 2009. It had music scored by composer, M. M. Keeravani, and a remix song from Chiranjeevi's movie Gharana Mogudu titled "Bangaru Kodipetta". Lyrics have been provided by Bhuvanachandra, Chandrabose and M. M. Keeravani.[14] The music was launched on the night of June 28, 2009 at Shilpakalavedika by Ram Charan's father, film actor Chiranjeevi.[15]
| Song | Singer(s) | Duration | Lyrics |
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| Bangaru Kodipetta | Ranjith, Shivani | 6:02 | Bhuvanchandra |
| Dheera Dheera Dheera | Nikhita Nigam, M.M.Keeravani | 4:48 | Chandrabose |
| Panchadara Bomma | Anuj Gurwara, Reeta | 4:45 | Chandrabose |
| Jorsey | Daler Mehndi, Geeta Madhuri | 4:37 | Chandrabose |
| Naakosam Nuvvu | Deepu, Geeta Madhuri | 3:52 | M. M. Keeravani |
| Rolling Titles Music | Jassie Gift | 2:58 | M. M. Keeravani |
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