06/28/09 ~ Early Tollywood

6.28.2009

MAGADHEERA Audio Release Function Coverage

Music of Ram Charan Teja’s second film Magadheera in the direction of SS Rajamouli was launched at a function organized in Shilpa Kala Vedika on the night of 28 June. This function is attended by Chiranjeevi, Pawan Kalyan, Nagababu, Allu Arvind, D Rama Naidu, K Raghavendra Rao, Bhogavalli Prasad, Aswini Dutt, Dil Raju, DVV Danayya, C Kalyan, ML Kumar Chowdary, Ashok Kumar, Seenu Vytla, Muruga Doss, Meher Ramesh, Surender Reddy, Krish, Dr. Venkateswara Rao, Subhash, Chandra Bose, Jayadev, Allu Arjun, Srikanth, Ravi Teja, Sunil, Ali, Siva Reddy, Rajamouli, MM Keeravani, Rama Rajamouli, Srihari, Santhi, Senthi, Ravinder, Paruchuri Venkateswra Rao, Chinni Krishna, Devi Vara Prasad, Ram Charan Teja and Kajal Agarwal. Aditya music bought the rights.

Chiranjeevi launched the audiocassette and gave the first unit C Aswini Dutt, K Raghavendra Rao and D Rama Naidu. Pawan Kalyan launched the audio CD and gave the first unit to Srihari, Allu Arjun and Srikanth.

Trailers of the movie were also projected on this eve.

Comedian Sunil came on to the dais of Magadheera audio release function and revealed that he has seen Bangaru Kodi Petta song that was shot on Ram Charan as he happened to be the part of the film.

Sunil said looking at Chiranjeevi from dais, “Annayya! Sorry. I have to tell this. Ram Charan crossed you. He has torn the paper and thrown in air and those pieces were not seen again. He surpassed you. I have bigger attachment with bangaru kodi petta song as I have given many stage shows with that dance when the film Gharana Mogudu released. And I have also seen the chariot scene, the sounds of which will vibrate in hearts and make viewers dumb”.

Krish, the director also said that he has watched the chariot episode when the RR was going on for 5 minutes and found himself awestruck.

So, ‘bangaru kodi petta…’ song and chariot race scene are going to be biggest marketing points for the film.

SS Rajamouli said, “I don’t want my film to be the last movie in which Chiranjeevi acted. I request him to do another movie. Producer Allu Arvind and executive producer Bhogavally Prasad never came to the sets. That shows the kind of confidence they have on me. Ram Charan Teja might have been upset with me for the kind of the delay this film took. But he must have been satisfied the way trailers shaped up. I love horse riding and I could do horse riding while directing this movie. This kind of extravagant movie was never made in Telugu. Keeravani always score better music for this movie. And the music of this movie is also very good. He also penned two songs for this movie.”

Ram Charan has given a very subtle and sensible speech on dais. He thanked everyone and said that Magadheera will be pride of Telugu film industry and the credit goes to SS Rajamouli.

“Many said that I have crossed my dad in dance. But I’m not. And never wish to be. My grand father used to say, “Orai nayana! Manam devullani poojinchaali. Vaari deevenalu andukovaali. Spoorthi pondaali. Anthey kaanee…maname devullam ayipovali anukokoodadhu”. I consider my dad as my God. I can just take inspiration from him and cannot become like him. I watched ‘bangaaru kodipetta…’ danced by my father. I have forgotten what I danced in my version. That is his power”, said Ram Charan.

Theater was reverberated with claps and shouts for these words.

Pawan Kalyan said, “Charan took the classes for horse riding since when he was a five year old kid. Charan is going to enhance the image and popularity of Chiranjeevi by five times. This film will create records and will remain as a good movie.”

Magadheera is like a visual poetry - Chiranjeevi
Chiranjeevi said, “Attending this function is like home coming. I always trusted hard work. Be it cinema or politics. Politics is a different playground unlike cinema industry. I never concentrated on politics when i was doing films. And I am not going to think about films when I am in politics. I did a film titled Magadheerudu in the past. It is just a coincidence that Magadheera title was chosen for this movie. Keeravani is a highly talented music director and a thorough hard worker. Keeravani made some other tune for Bangaru Kodipetta song and I didn’t like it. He understood and came up with the final tune and I loved it a lot. The lyric for this song was ‘smuggled goods bandi vachenandi’. We changed the lyrics later. Prabhudeva put his heart and soul into choreography of the song. Prabbudeva used to ask for retakes and people around us used to wonder why Chiranjeevi is unable to do those steps in first instance. Hence we shifted to Dolphin hotel and rehearsed the steps for four days. Charan Teja did terrific steps in this movie. I also appear in the song for a few seconds. It’s been a long time since a movie based on rebirths is made in Telugu. Magadheera is like a visual poetry. SS Rajamouli will be the number one Telugu music director.

His family members also think about movies all the time. I felt jealous after watching Charan’s acting in this movie. Charan did well in horse riding episodes. Charan is like a wood which SS Rajamouli carved into a fine sculpture like Amarasilpi Jakkanna. Srihari came forward to do an important role in this movie. Producer Allu Arvind is a gusty producer and spent enormous amount of money. Charan is like a gem for mega family and it is up to the fans to protect him like a shield.”