Kandireega

Kandireega (transl.Wasp) is a 2011 Indian Telugu-language romantic action comedy film directed by Santosh Srinivas and produced by Bellamkonda Suresh under Sri Sai Ganesh Productions. The film features Ram, Hansika Motwani, Sonu Sood and Aksha Pardasany in the lead roles with the music scored by S. Thaman. Released on 12 August 2011, the film was a huge commercial success, grossing 22 crore at the box office. The film was commercially successful, becoming one of the highest grossing Telugu films of that year.[1]

Kandireega
Theatrical Poster
Directed bySantosh Srinivas
Written byAnil Ravipudi
Produced byBellamkonda Suresh
Starring
CinematographyPrasad
Music byS. Thaman
Production
companies
Sri Sai Ganesh Productions
and
Multidimension Entertainments Private Limited
Release date
  • 12 August 2011 (2011-08-12)
CountryIndia
LanguageTelugu
Box office22 crore[1]

It was remade in Bengali as Paglu 2 (2012) and in Hindi as Main Tera Hero (2014).

Plot

Sreenu is the son of Vishwanatham. He is a high school drop-out in Anakapalle and wants to marry his uncle's daughter Bujji. She rejects him, stating that he doesn’t have a basic college education. Sreenu, who is clever and street-smart, decides to go to Hyderabad for further education. While travelling in the train, he bashes up a bunch of rowdies teasing college girls. At the college in Hyderabad, he meets Shruthi and falls in love with her. The city gangster Bhavani is in love with her and blackmails her into marrying him. He beats anyone moving closely with Shruthi. Meanwhile, henchmen of Rajanna, a dreaded chieftain from Warangal, are looking for Sreenu in the city.

Sreenu meets Bhavani and forces him to a challenge, whereby, he will make Shruthi love him. Sreenu rescues Shruthi from being kidnapped by the gang of Yadayya, a rival of Bhavani. When Sreenu wins Shruthi's heart, and both of them decide to elope, she is kidnapped.

It is then revealed that Rajanna kidnapped Shruthi to get hold of Sreenu because Rajanna's daughter Sandhya is in love with Sreenu. She was on the train during the night and gets impressed by him. Sreenu lands at Rajanna's place and finds himself in a fix. Bhavani, too, arrives at Rajanna's place to take away Shruthi. A police intelligence officer, Avataram, Rajanna's brother-in-law, comes to attend Sreenu and Sandhya's wedding. Sreenu and Bhavani start their one-upmanship games to win Shruthi.

How Sreenu comes out of this quagmire to rescue Shruthi from the clutches of Rajanna and Bhavani and what happens to Sandhya are revealed in the climax interspersed with twists and turns.

Cast

Production

This film was initially announced in October 2009 with Ravi Teja playing the lead role and with Krishna Vamsi as director, with the producer announcing the film as a partly fantasy venture.[2] The film progressed in pre-production with Tamannaah Bhatia and Sneha Ullal being considered to portray the heroine role, whilst the fantasy elements in the original script were removed.[3] In April 2010, it was revealed that the producer and Ravi Teja had fallen out and he was replaced by Ram.[4] Thetfilming began in October 2010 with Ram and Hansika Motwani, whilst actress Swati Reddy shot scenes the following month.[5] Ram stated on his Twitter account that the film had three female lead roles, and suggested that Nisha Aggarwal was signed on.

During the first schedule, events on the set of the film became the reason for the Telugu film industry strikes of 2010 after Telugu film fighters attacked Tamil film technicians in Chennai on the sets of the film in December 2009.[6][7] Enraged by this, producers called for a bandh the next day. However, film workers declared a strike immediately after that for an indefinite period. The crisis affected the whole film industry and no films were shot in Andhra Pradesh during late December and early January during negotiations.[8]

After filming had resumed, the original music director Chakri was replaced by S. Thaman in March 2011.[9]

Soundtrack

Kandireega
Soundtrack album by
Released14 July 2011
Recorded2011
GenreFeature film soundtrack
Length21:53
LabelAditya Music
ProducerS. Thaman
S. Thaman chronology
Vandhaan Vendraan
(2011)
Kandireega
(2011)
Dookudu / Power
(2011)

Kandireega's audio was launched at Taj Deccan in Hyderabad on 14 July 2011. Senior actor Venkatesh was the chief guest at the audio launch. Dharmavarapu Subramaniam, hero Gopichand, producer Bellamkonda Suresh, director of the film Santosh Srinivas, senior director V. V. Vinayak, music composer S. S. Thaman, actress Aksha, Sravanti Ravikishore etc. all were present at the grand audio launch.[10]

No.TitleLyricsPerformer(s)Length
1."Gentleman"Bhaskarabhatla Ravi KumarRanjith, Chorus3:17
2."Champakamala"Ramajogayya SastryKarthik, Suchitra4:49
3."Nenkudithey"Bhaskarabhatla Ravi KumarNaveen Madhav, M. L. R. Karthikeyan, Aalaap Raju, Ranjith, Ranina Reddy, Dharshana4:35
4."Angelina"Ramajogayya SastryRanjith, Ranina Reddy, Suchitra4:14
5."Premey"Ramajogayya SastryRanjith, Hemachandra, Deepu, Revanth Kumar, M. L. R. Karthikeyan, Bindhu Mahima, Geetha Madhuri, Sravana Bhargavi4:58
Total length:21:53

Release

The film was theatrically released on 12 August 2011.

Home Media

As fast movie became popular in this time Gemini TV is busy in dealing with Viacom 18. So Gemini TV didn't catch this film as similar as Star Maa is busy in working in Musical Shows. Finally Zee Telugu aquired broadcast rights for 180 millions.

Later in 2015 Volga Video took DVD of this film currently available in You Tube.

Remakes

Film Language Staring Director Critical Response
Main Tera Hero Hindi Varun Dhawan,Illeana d cruz David Dhawan Box office of 23 crores
Paglu Bengali Koel Mallick Sujit Mondal Super response from Half of West Bengal

References

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  4. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 10 September 2012. Retrieved 1 April 2011.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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  6. "Tollywood back in action after 21 days". Archived from the original on 4 January 2011. Retrieved 6 October 2018.
  7. TNN. "4 film fighters suspended in a bid to end Tollywood tussle". The Times of India. Archived from the original on 26 April 2012. Retrieved 4 August 2012.
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