CHIRUTHA 2007

Directed by
Puri Jagannath

Writing credits
story, screenplay & dialogue:Puri Jagannath

Produced by
Dharma Raju C. .... co-producer
C. Ashwini Dutt .... producer
Sai Babu K. .... executive producer

Original Music by
Mani Sharma

Cinematography by
Shyam K. Naidu

Film Editing by
M.R. Varma

Stunts
Vijayan .... stunt coordinator
Cast
Ram Charan Teja ... Charan
Neha Sharma ... Sanjana
Prakash Raj ... Karthikeya
Ashish Vidyarthi ... Mattu Bhai
Subramaniam Dharmavarapu ... Subramanyam
M.S. Narayana ... Babi
Brahmanandam ... Krish
Ali ... Nachimi
Pragathi ... Charan's mother
Sayaji Shinde ... Jailor
Uttej ... Uttej
Ganesh ... Ganesh
Babloo ... Babloo
Tanikella Bharani ... Venkateswara Rao
Surya ... Charan's father
Venu Madhav ... Charan's uncle
Jeevi
Srinivasa Reddy
Aakash ... Young Charan (as Master Aakash)
Satyam Rajesh

Chiruta is a 2007 Telugu film produced by Ashwini Dutt and directed by Puri Jagannadh. The film marks the debut of Ram Charan Teja , son of the popular Telugu actor Chiranjeevi popularly known as MegaStar, in the lead role. Delhi-based model Neha Sharma plays the female lead. The film also features a soundtrack by Mani Sharma. Chiruta was released worldwide on September 28, 2007.

Plot summary

Charan Teja (Ram Charan Teja) is a juvenile convict who is released from prison after 12 years. In a flashback, his father(Surya), an auto driver is murdered by the gangster, Mattu Bhai (Asish Vidyarthi), who has also injured his mother who is in a critical condition.Charan goes to jail as someone offers him money if he goes to jail for someone else.Upon his release, Charan learns that his mother has died. While seeking revenge, Charan also falls in love with Sanjana (Neha Sharma), (Prakash Raj).

Charan gets a passport with the help of a police officer(Sayaje Shinde), and goes to Bangkok to join a travel agency. Sanjana and her friends arrive in Bangkok as tourists, and Charan is her guide. A young criminal,Biku, who happens to be Mattu Bhai's son, teases Sanjana and threatens her, until Charan attacks him and saves the girl. In another incident, Biku returns and tries to kidnap Sanjana.Charan saves her once again and in the process, they are then stranded on an uninhabited island, off the coast of Bangkok.

During their stay there, he confesses his love towards her and also reveals his secret mission to track down Mattu Bhai.He is now a notorious international criminal with network in Hong Kong, Bangkok, and elsewhere.

Meanwhile, the girl's father is desperate to undo the love between the two. In the climax, Charan discovers that his mother is still alive. The hero wins his girl, kills Mattu Bhai, and is united with his mother.

Box office

* The film released in 708 screens including 532 in Andhra Pradesh, 44 in Karnataka, 4 in Tamil Nadu, 3 in Orissa and 115 overseas. Chiruta collected a first day distributors' share of nearly Rs.4 million. In Chennai, it debuted at no. 1 and averaged 100% collections from 3 screens in its opening weekend. Its opening week share is around Rs.1 million films.

Records:

No telugu cinema has released in 650 centers, andhra record,
World record in imax six screnes present premire show,
First day collections 4.1 crorers,
No hero debut film in hyderabad has released in 43 centers

Finally Chirutha shares are out. Chirutha collected a whopping 18,00,07,514 Rupees(Eighteen crores seven thousand five hundred fourteen only) for one week across the globe. This is the highest first week share for any south indian movie in one regional language and Megastar Chiranjeevi’s STALIN stood second in the list of all time highest grossers. Except Krishna and Vizag area Chirutha created all time highest records for one week.
Distributors and fans gave an advertisement in Chitranjali film magzine about CHIRUTHA Shares. We are presenting them below.

S.No Area Share in Rs Comments
1 Nizam 5,60,13,171 All Time Nizam shares(Include share gurantees)
2 Ceeded 2,80,10,000 no SG’s
3 Vizag 90,22,945 no SG’s
4 East 83,82,189 no SG’s
5 West 83,82,901 no SG’s
6 Guntur 1,13,08,690 no SG’s
7 Krishna 83,50,832 no SG’s
8 Nellore 58,36,786 no SG’s
9 Karnataka 1,40,00,000 Inclusive of Share Gurantees
10 Tamilnady 50,00,000 Inclusive of Share Gurantees
11 North India 82,00,000 Inclusive of Share Gurantees
12 Overseas 1,75,00,000 Inclusive of Share Gurantees

Total 18,00,07,514 Rupees share -ALL time south India Record