03/23/08 ~ Early Tollywood

3.23.2008

Directed by
Surendra Reddy

Writing credits
Abburi Ravi dialogue
Surendra Reddy screenplay
Surendra Reddy story

Produced by
G. Ramesh Babu
Original Music by
Mani Sharma

Cinematography by
Ram Prasad
Sameer Reddy

Film Editing by
Gautham Raju

Production Management
Rao Laxman .... production manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Srinivas Tagore .... second assistant director
Cast
Mahesh Babu ... Athidhi
Amrita Rao ... Amrita
Brahmanandam ... Comedian
Vajja Venkata Giridhar ... Hero friend
Rajeev Kanakala ... Heroine father
Srinivasa Rao KotaNasser ... Home Minister
Gangadhar Panday ... Kidnap victim
Prakash Raj
Suneel ... Camedian
Ashish Vidyarthi ... Hero friend
Story:

A boy wanders through all of Delhi looking for a job. When selling balloons, he sees a girl and gives her a free balloon. A few days later, during a storm, the girl finds the boy getting soaked. The girl then gives the boy an umbrella. The umbrella blows into a dangerous place where the girls parents are headed. The boy stops them. The parents like him and the boy gets adopted by the parents. They name the boy "Athidhi" which means "guest." One day, while driving Athidhi to a hostel, they are stopped by a teenager named Kaiser who mugs them, and shoots the parents. In his rage, Athidhi lunges after the teen managing to take the teen's gun. Nearby witnesses see Athidhi with a gun and 2 dead peopleand think that Athidhi killed them. The police come and arrest Athidhi.The girl also thinks that it was Athidhi who killed her parents and starts to hate him and hopes that she will never see him again.

Fourteen years later, Athidhi (now Mahesh Babu) gets out of jail. In Delhi, he runs across a girl named Amrita (Amrita Rao).Amritha and Athidhi meet many times. Amrita starts to like Athdhi, but has to go back to Hyderabad before she can confess her love.When she goes to try tell him that she is leaving Athidhi gets annoyed. He continuously tells her to leave him alone, when she keeps asking to get some coffee and slaps her.She runs away crying.Later Athidhi goes to Amrita's to say sorry but only finds her friend.She tells him that Amrita just wanted to tell him that she's leaving.They then go to the cemetery seeing if she is there.Amrita's friend then explains that a boy named Athidhi killed Amrita's parents when she was young and Amrita goes to the cemetery to see their graves all the time.Athidhi then finds out that she was the same girl that he met in his childhood and leaves for Hyderabad to find her. When Athidhi also arrives to Hyderabad a few days later, he learns that a don named Kaiser is feared there. Later in the film, he realizes that Kaiser was the teen who killed his adopted-parents. Now Kaiser is trying to kill Amrita. Athidhi stops two attempts by Kaiser to murder Amrita. Meanwhile, a police officer(Murali Sharma) is trying to track down Kaiser. The police officer dies in an explosion in his house which was planned by Kaiser.Athidhi figures out later on that the inspector is also Kaiser and the explosion was fake. Athidhi manages to kill one of Kaiser's men.Kaiser then kidnaps Amrita and her cousin. Kaiser kills Amrita's cousin. Then Kaiser leds Amrita to a dungeon and calls Athidi and tells him that he will kill Amrita if Athidhi doesn't rescue her in 12 hours. Then Athidi comes and kills Kaiser and saves Amrita.

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KALYANI

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MUMAITH KHAN PROFILE

Mumaith Khan an Indian film actress known for her item numbers. She has acted in nearly 40 movies in Hindi, Telugu, Tamil and Kannada Languages.

Mumaith's family hailed from Pakistan but moved to India where they settled in the outskirts of Mumbai. Her father is an Indian (Tamil Nadu) and her mother is a Pakistani. She has four sisters and to support her family, she joined a small dance troop for Rupees 1500/- per month. Her sister Zobyn Khan also entered the film industry and has done some cameo appearances in Telugu films
Turning Point

Mumaith got the opportunity to play an item song in the Hindi Movie Munna Bhai M.B.B.S. and came into the lime light . After that, she became very busy in Bollywood as well as Tollywood and lately Kollywood. She gained more popularity with the item song in telugu film Pokiri (2006 film). In the Tamil film Pokkiri which was the remake of telugu film of the same name, also she danced in an item song. In Dr. Rajasekhar's film Evadaithe Nakenti, she played a police officer's role named F.Myssama. She has acted as heroine in the film ‘Bhookailas’ with Venu Madhav as the hero. She is known for her voluptous physique and her body piercings.
Trivia

* It said that Her Remuneration for Cameo in Tollywood is Rs 15 Lakhs INR now a days.
* Her Remuneration for Mysamma IPS is 35,00,000 INR

Filmography

Telugu

1. Sawaal (2008) (Cameo)
2. Mangatayaru Tiffin Centre (2008) (Announced)
3. Lakshmi Putrudu (2008) (Cameo)
4. Manchu Kurise Velalo (2008) (Cameo)
5. F.M - Fun and Masthi (2007) (Announced)
6. Maisamma IPS (2007)
7. Bhajantrilu (2007) (Cameo)
8. Veedu maamoolodu kaadu (2007) (Cameo)
9. Don (2007) (Cameo)
10. Sri Mahalakshmi (2007) (Cameo)
11. Bhookailas (2007)
12. Operation Duryodhana (2007)
13. Adavari Matalaku Ardhalu Verule (2007) (Cameo)
14. Yogi (2007) (Cameo)
15. Evadaithe Nakenti (2007)
16. Bhagyalakshmi Bumper Draw (2006)
17. Saamaanyudu (2006)
18. Pokiri (2006) (Cameo)
19. Chatrapati (2006) (Cameo)
20. 143 (2004) (Cameo)
21. Swamy (Cameo) (Debut Movie in Telugu)

Hindi

1. Big Brother (2007) (Cameo)
2. Fight Club - Members Only (2006) [catfight](Cameo)
3. Ek Khiladi Ek Haseena (2005)
4. Dil Jo Bhi Kahey... (2005)
5. Chocolate (2005)
6. Lucky: No Time for Love (2005)
7. Dhadkanein (2005)
8. Hulchul (2005)
9. Asambhav (2004)
10. Munna Bhai M.B.B.S. (2003) (Cameo)

Tamil

1. Marudhamalai 2007 (Cameo)
2. Udambu Eppadi Irukku 2007 (Cameo)
3. Madurai Veeran (2007) (Cameo)
4. Lee (2007) (Cameo)
5. Pokkiri (2007) (Cameo)
6. Vettaiyaadu Vilaiyaadu (2006) (Cameo)
7. Thalai Nagaram (2006) (Cameo)

Kannada

1. Orata (2007)(Cameo)

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POSANI KRISHNA MURALI

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OPERATION DURYODHANA 2007

Directed by
Krishna Murali Posaani

Writing credits
Krishna Murali Posaani

Original Music by
Mani Sharma

Cinematography by
Raja

Film Editing by
Gautham Raju
Cast
Krishna Bhagavan
Brahmanandam
Chalapathi Rao ... Party President
Subramaniam Dharmavarapu
Kalyani ... Mahesh's Wife
Mumait Khan ... Party Secretary
Venu Madhav
Nagendra Babu ... Police Officer
Venkateswara Rao Narra
Srikanth ... Mahesh, Bagavanthudu
Story:

Writer Posani Krishna Murali turned to film direction some time ago. However, his debut film did not do well. In order to prove himself as a successful director, Posani took up a novel subject. He has chosen a political subject for his latest film and has almost succeeded in driving his message across the society that 'it is the people who are responsible for the maladies of political system'. Unlike other films where the police are treated as buffoons, this film highlights the value of police officials.

Mahesh (Srikanth) is a sincere circle inspector. He has a nice family consisting of his wife (Kalyani), two daughters and a son. Being a sincere officer, he used to get transfered frequently. He doesn't succumb to any kind of political pressures. Once, a farmer dies of electrocution and Mahesh arrests the MLA (Viswender Reddy) and his henchmen. As a result, the MLA is forced to quit politics. He bears grudge against Mahesh and hatches plan to kill his entire family, including his children.

However, Mahesh and his wife survive. Mahesh's wife is in coma and Mahesh decides to teach a lesson to the politicians who are responsible for the death of his kin. He changes his attire and changes his name to Bhagavantudu. With the help of Ruchi (Mumaith Khan), who has good influence in the ruling party gets the party ticket for elections. He gets elected as an MLA. Then he acts like a true politician and ignites ire among the people through his acts. In the process, he also gets the police insulted by the people. He creates a situation where ACP Rangaiah Naidu (Nagendra Babu), who is also an honest police officer and his team, get humiliated by the people. In protest against the humiliation, Rangaiah Naidu, in the capacity of the president of the Police Officers' Association calls for resignation of all the policemen including home guards and special police. With this, the entire police administration collapses. As a result, traffic goes haywire and the people suffer serious problems from goons, thieves and gangsters.

Unable to deal with the situation, the people plead with the ACP to save them. Even the Chief Minister appeals to Rangaiah Naidu to withdraw the stir, with an assurance of no political interference in police administration. The situation returns to normalcy. Bhagavantudu takes revenge against the MLA and eliminates all those who are responsible for the death of his kin. Chief Minister pats Bhagavantudu for enlightening and educating the people on the political and police system. As Mahesh achieves everything, he pleads with the CM to give him back his CI job, as he feels satisfied as a police officer. Bhagavantudu quits politics and turns CI Mahesh again.

There are several plus points in the film. Firstly, it is Srikanth's performance as a police officer and as a politician. He showed utmost restraint and truly lived the character. Next comes the gripping screenplay by Posani Krishna Murali. It was tremendous in the first half and above average in the second half, though the director lost grip here and there, for the sake of the story movement. One more highlight of the film is the dialogues. Though a little lengthy in some scenes, dialogues make the audience to rethink what the character says. The film is aimed at imparting a message to the masses and not the political system. With the film revolves around politics and political leaders, the director managed to justify in naming the film as Operation Duryodhana. The satires made on the division of state (separate Telangana, Rayalaseema and Andhra movements) is hilarious and worth watching. Nagendrababu, Prabhakar and Jackie have done justice to their roles and their characterisations are also among the highlights.

The film is worth watching for serious viewers. It has very less entertainment values though the satirical dialogues on separate state are hilarious. Paruchuri Gopalakrishna's dialogues in a scene stressing the need for a change in the voters' mindset is worth listening. Serious film watchers should not miss this flick.