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Parugu is a film of genre Drama directed by Baskar released in USA on 1 may 2008 with Allu Arjun
Parugu (2008)
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Add to a movie listParugu (English: Run) is a 2008 Telugu drama film written and directed by Bhaskar. Allu Arjun, Sheela and Prakash Raj played the lead roles while Poonam Bajwa and Jayasudha made crucial cameo appearances. Dil Raju produced the film on Sri Venkateswara Creations whilst Mani Sharma scored the film soundtrack and background score. Vijay C Chakravarthy and Marthand K. Venkatesh handled the cinematography & editing of the film respectively. This film's story made news for its similarity with the elopement drama of Arjun's cousin Srija, the daughter of actor Chiranjeevi with her then-boyfriend Sirish Bharadwaj though none of the mainstream media spoke about the co-incidence.
This film revolves around a person named Neelakanta and his love for his two daughters Subbalakshmi and Meenakshi. Neelakanta is a powerful man in his village who doesn't believe in love marriages. Subbalakshmi elopes with a guy called Errababu on the night of her arranged marriage. Neelakanta's men kidnap all the friends of Errababu and Krishna, a happy go lucky guy from Hyderabad, is one among them. Krishna falls in love with Meenakshi at first sight who happens to be the younger daughter of Neelakanta which he knows later. At first Meenakshi is scared and doesn't believe in love, but after Krishna saves her from a couple of men who want to rape her, she reciprocates his love. In the meanwhile, Neelakanta finds Subbalakshmi and Errababu but lets them go to find out she's pregnant. The rest is about how Krishna wins the heart of Neelkanta
The film was officially launched on 15 March 2007 at Hyderabad and the principal photography began in June 2007. The film was shot in Hyderabad, Kerala, Kodaikanal and Rajahmundry while a song was shot in Jordan. The principal photography came to an end in April 2008 though the makers planned it to complete by January 2008. The film was premiered in Prasads IMAX on 30 April 2008 at 10:45 PM while the film had its worldwide release on 2 May 2008. The film opened to mostly positive reviews and later emerged as a Sleeper hit and turned out to be one of very few hits of 2008. The film won 2 Nandi Awards and won 1 award & 3 nominations at the 56th Filmfare Awards South.
The film was dubbed into Malayalam under the title Krishna which too enjoyed similar success. It was dubbed into Hindi under the title Veerta The Power. The film is remade into Oriya in 2010 as Sanju Aau Sanjana with Babushaan, Parijaat, and Mihir Das, in Bengali in 2010 as Shedin Dekha Hoyechilo with Dev, Srabanti Chatterjee, and Tapas Pal, and in Hindi in 2014 as Heropanti with Tiger Shroff and Kriti Sanon while Prakash Raj reprised his role from the original. It opened to mixed reviews but eventually ended up as a Hit at the Box office.
Synopsis
Neelakanta (Prakash Raj) is a revered person in the village he resides whose daughters Subbalakshmi (Poonam Bajwa) and Meenakshi (Sheela) are more than anything for him in the world. Subbalakshmi loves a native called Errababu with whom she elopes on the night of her arranged marriage ceremony. Neelakanta's relative Chinnabbai (Subbaraju) suspects that Errababu's friends are involved in this and when interrogated brutally, they reveal that two more people Sarma from Ongole and Krishna (Allu Arjun) from Hyderabad also helped the couple to elope. By mistaken reference of initials in the names, P. Yagnanarayana Sarma (Sapthagiri) was kidnapped at Ongole while the original man was left unevoked. At Hyderabad, a drunk Krishna is kidnapped at night near his house who is notoriously known for being a nomad and an expert in escaping. They are literally imprisoned at the village's Temple and all of them plan to escape the next early morning by catching a train. While all others almost approach the train next morning, Krishna stops when he sees Meenakshi at an Anjaneya statue and falls in love with her though Meenakshi is unaware of his presence. They all are kidnapped yet again by Neelakanta's men there and are imprisoned in a small pent house near the main house of Neelakanta. Its doors remain closed an locked and only 3 windows are there where a man can see the entrance door of main house and the nearby flooring and parking area. While his friends are horrified, Krishna is not influenced by the fact that he is in love with a native of the village and on eloping with her, all of them have to face big trouble from the villagers. Meanwhile, Meenakshi tries to speak with them with an intention to find out details about Subbalakshmi and neither Krishna nor his friends can see her face because of the pent house's style of construction.Actors
Allu Arjun
(Krishna)
Sheela
(Meenakshi)
Poonam Bajwa
(Subbalakshmi (Cameo Appearance))
Prakash Raj
(Neelakanta)
Subba Raju
(Chinnabbayi)
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