Allu Arjun's Profile

Allu Arjun

Allu Arjun
Born	Allu Arjun April 8, 1983 (age 26) Chennai, Tamil Nadu,India
Othername(s)	Bunny

Allu Arjun (Telugu: అల్లు అర్జున్), is a Telugu language film actor, best known for his dancing skill and style. He was born 8 April 1983 in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. Many of his family members have been involved in the film industry.He is the only Telugu actor who has a huge fan following inKerala.His father Allu Aravind is a producer. His uncles are the famous actors Chiranjeevi andPawan Kalyan. His grandfather was the comedic actor Allu Ramalingaiah. His cousin Ram Charan Teja is also a Tollywood actor.

Career

Early Films

His first lead role was in Gangotri which was directed by K.Raghavendra Rao.^[1]

His second starring role was in Arya, which was released in 2004 and was a big hit at the box office.^[2] It was the role that first made him famous.

In 2005, his third film Bunny was released.Its an average grosser.His fourth film Happy which was released in 2006,also was average at Box Office.^[3] The film did, however, manage to make a decent profit in the Indian movie scene in the U.S.^[4]

Success: 2007 - present

In 2007, his fifth film, Desamuduru, directed by Puri Jagannadh, proved to be a box office hit^[5] and the first hit^[6] of the year in Tollywood. The movie grossed 6.58 crores in the first week of its release. This box-office take remains the highest so far in his career. In the same year, he also made a guest appearance in his uncle Chiranjeevi's film, Shankar Dada Zindabad. In May 2008, his sixth film Parugu, directed byBhaskar, was released^[7].

All of Allu Arjun's movies have been translated and dubbed into Malayalam. Desamudrudu was renamed Hero and Parugu was renamed Krishnaand Gangotri was renamed Simhakutty(lioncub). This made him accessible to audiences in the state of Kerala, where he has been well-received.

As of early 2008, Arjun was planning another Telugu film, to be directed byGunasekhar and produced by hit maker D.V.V. Danaiah. After he completes the Gunasekhar film, he has agreed to do an all-star feature, Vedam withManoj Kumar and the actess Anushka Shetty, directed byRadha Krishna Jagarlamudi (known for his famous film, Gamyam).

For 2009, Arjun had only one release, Arya 2, which is a sequel to the 2004 hit film Arya, which also starred Arjun in the lead role. The film was directed by Sukumar who directed the first film. Kajal Agarwal, Navdeep, and Shradda Das co-star with Arjun in Arya 2.ARYA 2 is being released in malayalam under the same name arya 2.

As of September 2009, Geetha Arts, the production banner owned by his father Allu Aravind, is planning to produce a mega budget movie. The titled “Badrinath” is in consideration. It will be directed by V V Vinayak. The estimated budget of the movie is Rs 35 crores. The movie is expected to begin in 2011.^[8]

Awards

Santosham Film Awards

2005: Best Young Performer for Arya

• 2006: Best Young Performer for Bunny

Filmograph

Year	Film	Role	Notes
2002	Daddy	Gopi	Special appearance
2003	Gangotri	Simhadri
2004	Arya	Arya	Winner, Santosham Best Young Performers Award Winner, Nandi Award for Special Jury
2005	Bunny	Bunny	Winner, Santosham Best Young Performers Award
2006	Happy	Bunny
2007	Desamuduru	Bala Govind
	Shankardada Zindabad		Special appearance
2008	Parugu	Krishna	Winner, Filmfare Best Telugu Actor Award Winner, Nandi Award for Special Jury
2009	Arya 2	Arya
2010	Vedam		Post-Production
	Varudu		Filming

Daddy (2001 film)

Daddy
Directed by	Suresh Krishna
Produced by	Allu Aravind
Written by	Bhupati Raja Satyanand Suresh Krishna
Starring	Chiranjeevi, Simran, Ashima Bhalla, Baby Akshaya, Sarath Babu, Kota Sreenivasa Rao, MS Narayana
Music by	SA Raj Kumar
Release date(s)	4 October 2001
Language	Telugu

Daddy is a 2001 Telugu (Indian) film.The movie has Chiranjeeviand Simran in title roles and was produced by Allu Aravind onGeeta Arts banner under the direction of Suresh Krishna. The film was an average performer at the boxoffice. The movie was released on 4 October 2001.

Gangotri (film)

Gangotri
Directed by	K. Raghavendra Rao
Produced by	Allu Aravind C. Ashwini Dutt
Written by	Chinni Krishna
Starring	Allu Arjun Aditi Agarwal Prakash Raj, Suman
Music by	M.M. Keeravani
Cinematography	Chota K. Naidu
Editing by	Kotagiri Venkateswara Rao
Release date(s)	March 28, 2003
Country	India
Language	Telugu

Gangotri (Telugu:గంగోత్రి) is aTelugu film which released on March 28, 2003 and was directed byK. Raghavendra Rao. Allu Arjun and Aditi Agarwal played the lead roles. This was Allu Arjun's first film as an actor andK. Raghavendra Rao's 100th film as director. Allu Aravind and C. Ashwini Dutt, both who are big-time producers, produced the film. This film was later dubbed into malayalam under the name "Simhakutty".

Contents [hide] 1 Plot 2 Cast 3 Box-office 4 External links

Plot

Neelakanta Naidu (Prakash Raj) is a big factionist. He has a loyal confidant called Narasimha (Suman), who is willing to give his life for the sake of his master. After gap of many years, Neelakanta Naidu's wife gives a birth to a baby daughter. But all the earlier babies born to Neelakanta Naidu expired due to some unknown reason. The priests advise Neelakanta to name his daughter as 'Gangotri' (Aditi Agarwal). They also warn Neelakanta that the kid is having 'jalagandam', hence they ask Neelakanta to take Gangotri to the holy place of Gangotri in Himalayas and do the 'abhyangana snanam' (bath with turmeric, milk etc.) for the next 15 years. After 15 years, Gangotri would be free of any dangers. When nobody could entertain the kid Gangotri; Simhadri (Allu Arjun) - the son of Narasimha - makes her smile by entertaining her with a song. Simhadri becomes a servant cum friend to Gangotri. They grow together. In the mean time mother of Simhadri (Seeta) sacrifices her life to save Neelakantam. When Gangotri attains puberty, Gangotri's aunt (Sakuntala) restricts Simhadri from meeting Gangotri. Gangotri and Simhadri realize that they fell in love. When Simhadri comes to Gangotri's place clandestinely to meet her, they are caught red-handed by Neelakantam. Neelakantam beats Simhadri. Meantime, Narasimha comes to the spot and interferes. This causes a rift between Neelakantam and his trusted lieutenant Narasimha. Neelakantam is misinformed about Narasimha's intentions; hence he bombs the house of Narasimha. Simhadri is away at that time. When Simhadri comes to know that Neelakantam is responsible for the bombing, he comes to Neelakantam's house and challenges that he would marry Gangotri in 365 days. Then Simhadri reaches Gangotri and waits for his ladylove to come to that place for the final sacred bath. The rest of the film is about how Simhadri and Gangotri unite together.

Cast

Name	Character Name
Allu Arjun	Simhadri
Aditi Agarwal	Gangotri
Prakash Raj	Neelakanta Naidu
Suman	Narasimha

Box-office

• The film had a successful 100-day run in 53 centres.

Arya (2004 film)

Arya
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Directed by	Sukumar
Produced by	Dil Raju
Written by	Sukumar
Starring	Allu Arjun, Anu Mehta Siva Balaji Subbaraju
Music by	Devi Sri Prasad
Cinematography	Ratnavelu
Editing by	Marthand K. Venkatesh
Release date(s)	7 May 2004
Running time	165 min.
Country	India
Language	Telugu

Arya (Telugu: ఆర్య) is a Telugu(Dubbed into Malayalam as the same title ) film which released on 7 May 2004 and was directed by Sukumar. This film has Allu Arjun in the main lead. Though Arjun's first film was a hit, he wasn't quite recognized by Tollywood. But this film made him a popular star.This movie was remade into Oriya as Pagala Premi and in Tamil as Kutty.

Contents [hide] 1 Plot 2 Cast 3 Crew 4 Music 5 Box-office performance 6 Arya 2 - A sequel 7 References 8 External links

Plot

Geetanjali a.k.a Geeta (Anuradha Mehta) goes to kanyakumari on a trip. She finds a poem in a diary left on a beach and signs in it. Her anklet falls into the sea and a guy jumps into the water in front of her eyes but no one sees him returning. But she doesn't see his face. She dreams about that incident frequently with the idea that the guy who jumped has died but her friends ask her to forget it. Ajay (Siva Balaji) is a spoiled brat, and is the son of local MP Avataram (Rajan P Dev). He likes Geetanjali and proposes to her. When she refuses, he threatens to jump from the top of college building. Being a meek girl, Geeta accepts the proposal with the thought that some guy has already died for her and she doesn't want someone to get hurt because of her and starts dating him. Arya (Allu Arjun) is a happy-go-lucky guy who enjoys his life with friends and kids. On his first day to the college,he sees Geeta who just proposes to Ajay who is at the top of the college building , threatening her. Charmed by her beauty, Arya falls in love with her and soon he proposes to her. She actually rejects his proposal saying that she is already committed to Ajay. One day Ajay's father, Mr.Avataram arranges a party in his house and it so turns out that Ajay introduces Geeta to his father and persuades him to fix their marriage. Ajay's father, who initially pretended to accept his son's marriage with Geeta, suddenly turns tables upside down by introducing another girl (Miss Lalasa by name) and announces that his son is going to marry Lalasa and not Geeta. He threatens his son not to marry anyone except Lalasa. Being embarrassed by the situation and helpless, Ajay sits down and starts to get frustrated. Arya, who loves Geeta so much that he never hesitated to help her, decides to go bring Ajay to Geeta and helps them elope. On their way, they are followed by Avataram's henchmen. The three youngsters find a train and get into it

When they get down from the train in the night, they are shocked to see the leader of Avataram's henchmen who forces Geeta to come with him, denying his boss' order too. On the other hand Ajay remains helpless, while Arya bravely fights all the men and finally defeats them,rescuing Ajay and Geeta. They walk on to the nearby town, Arya's hometown. Being Already late and tired, the three go to bed. The next morning they wake up and realize that Ajay is missing. Arya tries to convince Geeta that Ajay left to win over his father. This leaves private time for Arya and Geeta and they grow close to each other. Geetha starts liking Arya but when she tries to reveal it to him, Ajay and his father return. Avataram agrees to get Ajay married to Geeta. On the day of wedding, Geeta realizes that Arya was the guy who dived into the sea for her anklet and realizes that he came into her life much before Ajay. She leaves the wedding hall and reaches Arya. She expresses her love towards him and they live together happily ever after.

Cast

• Allu Arjun ... Arya
• Anuradha Mehta ... Geetha
• Siva Balaji ... Ajay
• Subbaraju ... Subbu
• Rajan P. Dev ... MP Avataram

Crew

• Director: Sukumar
• Screenplay: Sukumar
• Story: Sukumar
• Dialogue: Sukumar
• Producer: Dil Raju
• Music: Devi Sri Prasad
• Editor: Marthand K. Venkatesh
• Choreography: Raju Sundaram, Nixon, Shankar, Ashok Raj, & Harish Pai
• Lyrics: Viswa, Veturi, Chandrabose, & Sirivennela

Music

The film has six songs composed by Devi Sri Prasad:

• You Rock My World - Shaan

• Nuvvunte - Sagar

• O My Brotheru Chepputha Vinaro - Ravi Varma

• Thakadhimithom - Tippu

• Feel My Love - Kay Kay

• Aa Ante Amalapuram , Aaaa Ante Aahapuram - Malathi & Ranjith

Box-office performance

• The film had a 50-day run in 89 centres.The film had a 100-day run in 56 centres. it collected a share 0f 16 crores.

Nonstopcinema Box Office - Arya 50 days centers - 89 : Telugu movies, tollywood, cinema

• The film's dubbed version in Malayalam did a business of nearly Rs. 30-35 lakhs from Kerala.^[1]

Arya 2 - A sequel

• A sequel of Arya is released on 26 November 2009. In this Allu Arjun plays the role of an obsessive friend and lover. Role of Geeta is now being played by Kajal Agarwal. Navdeep plays the role of Ajay.Shraddha Das plays the role of Shanti. Sukumar ( Arya fame) directs this sequel titled Arya 2[[1]]. Aditya Babu produces the film under Aditya Arts banner with Bhogavalli Prasad presenting it

Bunny (2005 film)

Bunny
Directed by	V.V. Vinayak
Produced by	M. Satyanarayana Reddy
Written by	V.V. Vinayak
Starring	Allu Arjun, Gowri Mumjal, Prakash Raj, Mukesh Rishi , Raghu Babu
Music by	Devi Sri Prasad
Cinematography	Chota K. Naidu
Editing by	Gowtham Raju
Release date(s)	April 6, 2005
Running time	139 min.
Language	Telugu
Budget	15 Crores.

Bunny (Telugu: బన్ని) is a Telugu( Dubbed into malayalam as the same title ) movie that was released in the year 2005. This isAllu Arjun's third movie, which proved to be his third successive box office hit after Gangotri andArya. This film stars Allu Arjun in the lead role and Prakash RajandGowri Munjal in other roles.

Contents [hide] 1 Story 2 Cast 3 Crew 4 External links

Story

Somaraju (Prakash Raj) is a leading business man in Vizag. Mysamma (Mukesh Rishi) is a close member of Somaraju, who handles the deals of Somaraju in Hyderabad. Mahalaxmi (Gowri Munjal) is the daughter of Somaraju. Somaraju dearly loves his daughter. Bunny (Allu Arjun) joins the same college as Mahalaxmi. He impresses Mahalaxmi on the first day itself. Slowly, she falls in love with him. Somaraju, though reluctant initially, agrees to the marriage. Now Bunny has a condition that Somaraju should give his entire property to Bunny as dowry. The rest of the story explains why Bunny asks for Somaraju's property.

Cast

• Allu Arjun ... Bunny
• Gowri Munjal ... Mahalakshmi
• Prakash Raj ... Somaraju
• Sarath Kumar ... Bhupathi Raja
• Mukesh Rishi ... Mysamma
• Raghu Babu ... Villain Supporter
• Sharat Saxena ... Bunny Gardian
• Seetha ... Bunny Aunt
• Venu Madhav

Crew

• Director: V.V. Vinayak
• Screenplay: V.V. Vinayak
• Story: V.V. Vinayak
• Producer: M. Satyanarayana Reddy
• Music: Devi Sri Prasad
• Cinematography: Chota K. Naidu
• Editing: Gowtham Raju
• Dialogue: Rajendra Kumar
• Art Director: Ashok Kumar

Happy (film)

Happy
Directed by	A. Karunakaran
Produced by	Allu Aravind
Written by	Kona Venkat
Starring	Allu Arjun Genelia D'Souza Manoj Bajpai
Music by	Yuvan Shankar Raja
Cinematography	R. D. Rajasekhar
Editing by	Anthony
Distributed by	Geetha Arts
Release date(s)	27 January 2006
Running time	152 min.
Country	India
Language	Telugu

Happy (Telugu: హ్యాపీ) is a 2006Indian Telugu romance filmdirected by A. Karunakaran. The film stars Allu Arjun, Genelia D'Souza and Manoj Bajpai in lead roles, music was scored byYuvan Shankar Raja. The film, a remake of the 2004 Tamil filmAzhagiya Theeye directed byRadha Mohan, was produced byAllu Aravind and released on 27 January 2006. Upon release, the film was dubbed into Malayalamand released under the same title.

Contents [hide] 1 Story 2 Cast 3 Crew 4 Music 5 Trivia 6 References 7 External links

Story

Madhumati (Genelia D'Souza) is the daughter of a politician who turns out to be a martinet at home with his attachment on power. He affirms that the behavior of his daughter would influence on his caste politics. Hence he keeps on abstaining her from continuing her MBBS as she goes to college and moves with friends of different mentalities. However, Madhumathi, comes to third year of medicine by maintaining her dignity and without involving in any affairs of love. Her focus is completely on studies. Once, she goes for a medical camp along with her class mates to Ooty. She meets Bunny (Allu Arjun) randomly in the woods nearby the medical camp. The story starts with his funny and playful encounters with Madhumathi.

However, Bunny comes to Hyderabad and joins in a Pizza Shop as a delivery boy and continues his MBA by attending evening classes.

In an incident, Madhumathi’s father doubts that his daughter is dating someone and comes to believe that its none other than Bunny . Hence he decides to get her married to a person of his own caste who settled in a top position. He is Manoj Bajpai, the Deputy Commissioner of Police.

Madhumati is more attached to her studies than marriage. She goes to Bunny and places the blame on him saying that he would be the reason for her suicide should she get forcibly getting married. Knowing that, Bunny plans to stop the marriage and meets the DCP. Bunny lies to him and convinces the DCP that he is in love with Madhumathi. But Bunny gets caught in his own white lie. Manoj Bajpai believes Bunny’s words and gets him married to Madhumathi in a Registered Marriage. He also gives his new flat for the couple to live in. Madhumathi becomes estranged from her family and in another series of events ends up lives with Bunny (or rather Bunny ends up living with her). Throughout their times together various mishaps and comedic events happen and Bunny ends up falling for Madhumati.Benig estranged from her family Madhumati has no way of paying for fees and one day expresses this to Bunny. Bunny gets into film industry as a stuntman taking high risk to his life to pay the semester fees of Madhumathi’s MBBS.

However, Madhumathi scores low in a subject and gets a negative feedback from her professor. Simply to focus on her studies, she scorns Bunny and drives him out of the house. Madhumathi then focuses on her studies and achieves her MBBS diploma with honors. On the day of her graduation she admits to her friend that she is indeed in love with Bunny. Her friend reveals to her that Bunny risked his life to pay for college tuition by doing dangerous stunts but told her not to tell Madhumati and that he was is leaving back to Vizag that day. With regret, Madhumati tries to reconcile with Bunny and goes to meet him at the train station. On the way there she gets caught by a road block set up by a police man who is her father's archnemesis. As she was giving a lift to a hooker (who she didn't know was a hooker at the time) she is jailed under prostitution charge. Soon her father is arrested as he storms the station and slaps the police who arrested in a rage of fury. She manages to contact Bunny with a cell phone provided by one of the prostitutes and Bunny comes to the station. Bunny also had an incident with the policeman who arrested Madhumati as he once berated him in public for smoking by a gas station. Bunny becomes enraged and begins to fight with the police. As he is about to deliver a finishing blow, the DCP who was transferred by Madhumati's father in contempt of him refusing Madhumati's hand in marriage, comes back just in time and stops Bunny. He says he'll take care of everything and Bunny and Madhumati leave.

Cast

• Allu Arjun ... Bunny
• Genelia D'Souza ... Madhumati
• Manoj Bajpai ... DCP Arvind
• Brahmanandam ... Pizza Place Owner
• Venu Madhav
• Tanikella Bharani
• Suman Setty
• Vijay
• Rama Prabha
• Seetha
• Apoorva
• Jahnavi

Crew

• Screenplay & Director: A. Karunakaran
• Producer: Allu Aravind
• Story: Radha Mohan
• Dialogue: Kona Venkat & S. N. Swamy
• Music: Yuvan Shankar Raja
• Cinematography: R.D Rajasekhar
• Editing: Anthony
• Art Director: Chinna
• Stunts: Vijay, Allan Amin
• Choreography: Raju Sundaram
• Movie Publicist: S.K.N
• Lyrics: 'Sirivennela' Seetharama Sastry, Chandrabose, Kulasekhar, Vishwa, Pothula Ravi Kiran, Anant Sreeram
• Banner: Geetha Arts

Music

Happy
Soundtrack by Yuvan Shankar Raja
Released	30 December 2005 (India)
Recorded	2005
Genre	Feature film soundtrack
Label	Aditya Music
Producer	Yuvan Shankar Raja
Yuvan Shankar Raja chronology
Pudhupettai (2005) Happy (2005) Pattiyal (2006)

The soundtrack was composed by noted Tamil composer Yuvan Shankar Raja, which was released formally on 30 December 2005.^[1] It features 6 tracks with 'Sirivennela' Seetharama Sastry,Chandrabose, Kulasekhar, Vishwa, Pothula Ravi Kiran, Anant Sreeram having penned lyrics for each one song. Yuvan Shankar Raja received much critical acclaim for the music of Happy, which was described as foot-tapping, brilliant and excellent.^[2][3][4] and also as the major highlight and main strength of the film.^[3][5]

Track	Song	Singer(s)	Duration	Lyricist	Notes
1	"Chal Chal Re"	Clinton Cerejo	3:24	Vishwa
2	"Happy"	Karthik	3:42	Chandrabose
3	"Ossa Re"	Jassie Gift & Suchitra	3:50	Pothula Ravi Kiran
4	"I Hate You"	Ranjith &Vasundara Das	4:39	Anant Sreeram
5	"Egire Mabulalona"	S. P. B. Charan	3:57	Kulasekhar
6	"Nee Kosam"	Shankar Mahadevan	3:18	'Sirivennela' Seetharama Sastry

Desamuduru

Desamuduru
Directed by	Puri Jagannadh
Produced by	D.V.V. Danayya
Written by	Puri Jagannadh Mahesh Bhatt
Starring	Allu Arjun Hansika Motwani Pradeep Rawat Ali
Music by	Chakri
Cinematography	Shyam K. Naidu
Editing by	Marthand K. Venkatesh
Distributed by	Universal Media
Release date(s)	12 January 2007
Country	India
Language	Telugu
Budget	10 crores[citation needed]

Desamuduru (Telugu:దేశముదురు) is an Telugu film, dubbed into Malayalam as Hero: The Real Hero and Hindi as Ek Jwalamukhi, which has Allu Arjun in the lead role andHansika Motwaniplaying the female lead. The film was directed by Puri Jagannadh, who directed Industry-hit Pokiri. D.V.V.Danaiah produced this movie under Universal Media banner. Chakri composed the music. Cinematography was handled by Shyam K. Naidu. Editing work was be done byMarthand K. Venkatesh. Stunts are by Vijayan. The movie released on 12 January 2007 in 400 theatres.^[1]

Contents [hide] 1 Plot 2 Cast 3 Crew 4 Music 5 Release 6 Box office 7 Trivia 8 References 9 External links

Plot

Bala Govind (Allu Arjun) is a program director in MAA TV. His fights for justice gets him into troubles regularly.During one of these incidents, he saves a person (Raja Ravindra) from goons and while severely trashing Murugan (Subbaraju) son of a notorious arrack smuggler Tambi Durai (Pradeep Rawat). Fearing retribution from Tambi Durai, the MAA TV crew sends Bala to Kulu Manali to shoot a travel episode, where Bala meets Vaishali (Hansika Motwani), who is a sanyasin. It is love at first sight for Bala.Vaishali though apprehensive of Bala initially,falls for him.The head sanyasin of the ashram Ramaprabha (Ramaprabha) unites the couple. By the time Bala was to return to Hyderabad with Vaishali in order to marry her,some goons kidnap her. Bala returns to Hyderabad and finds that she is with Tambi Durai. The person who was saved by Bala in the beginning reveals that Vaishali is the daughter of Narayana Patwari. In order to grab his property, Tambi Durai kills him and his wife and perform the marriage of Vaishali with Murugan before their dead bodies. However, Vaishali escapes and reaches Kulu Manali. So, Bala decides to save Vaishali from their clutches and succeeds in his attempt finally.

Cast

• Allu Arjun ... Bala Govind
• Hansika Motwani ... Vaishali
• Ali ... Himalayan Baba
• Pradeep Rawat ... Tambi Durai
• Jeeva ... Ponnuswamy
• Subbaraju ... Murugan
• Raghu Babu
• Chandramohan
• Ajay
• Kovai Sarala ... Sannyasi Elder
• Rambha ... Item number in song Athanthodde Ithanthodde ^[2]

Crew

• Director: Puri Jagannadh
• Story: Puri Jagannadh
• Dialogue: Puri Jagannadh
• Producer: D.V.V. Danayya
• Music: Chakri
• Cinematography: Shyam K. Naidu
• Editor: Marthand K. Venkatesh
• Stunts: Vijayan

Music

Desamuduru
Studio album by [(music director)
Released	25 December 2006 (India)
Genre	Feature film soundtrack
Label	Aditya Music
Producer	Chakri
[(music director) chronology
Chukkallo Chandrudu (2006) Desamuduru (2007) Dhee (2007)

The film has six songs composed by Chakri. Music of the film was launched on 25 December 2006. The song Ninne Ninne was the most popular song in the soundtrack among music lovers.^[3]

• Ninne Ninne - Chakri & Kousalya
• Gili Gili Ga - Devan & Andrea
• Satte Ye Godava Ledhu - Ranjith
• Gola Petti Nadiro - Raghu Kunche & Kousalya
• Manusuley - Chakri & Kousalya
• Athanthode Ithandode - Ravi Varma & Suchitra

Release

• The film released in 500 screens,including 424 inAndhra Pradesh, 32 inKarnataka,8 inOrissa,2 inChennai,3 in Mumbai and 31 in Overseas.^[4]

Box office

Despite receiving mixed talk from public, Desamuduru grossed 12.58 crores^[5] and a share of Rs.9.5 crores.^[6] worldwide in the first seven days since its release. The openings stand out as the highest in Arjun's career.

Desamuduru has grossed 19.75 crores in 2 weeks from its release. The film grossed 29 crores^[7] in four weeks and became a blockbuster.

• The film had completed 50-days in 243 centres.^[8]
• It completed 100 days in 129 centres. And 175 days in 9 centres^[9]

Shankar Dada Zindabad

Shankar Dada Zindabad
Directed by	Prabhu Deva
Produced by	Akkineni Ravishankal, Gemini Kilan
Starring	Chiranjeevi, Srikanth, Karishma Kotak, Dilip Prabhavalkar, Sayaji Shinde, Sadha, Pawan Kalyan, Allu Arjun, Ravi Teja
Music by	Devi Sri Prasad
Editing by	Malthand K. Venkatesh
Release date(s)	27 July 2007
Language	Telugu
Budget	30 crores.
Preceded by	Shankar Dada M.B.B.S(2004)

Shankar Dada Zindabad(Telugu language: శంకర్ దాదా జిందాబాద్,translation: Long Live Shankar Dada) is an 2007 Telugufilm which is a remake of the 2006 Bollywood blockbusterLage Raho Munnabhai. Rajkumar Hirani, the director and co-screenwriter of the Munna Bhai series, is one of the screenwriters for this film (along with the Paruchuri Brothers). In addition, Dilip Prabhavalkarreprised his role asMahatma Gandhi.

The film directed by Prabhu Deva, stars Chiranjeevi as Shankar Dada, Srikanth as A.T.M (Any Time Murder), Sayaji Shinde, Karishma Kotak, Sadhaand Raja . The Music is scored by Devi Sri Prasad.^[1][2] The movie, released on 27 July 2007 opened to very mediocre reviews.^[3]

Parugu

Parugu
Directed by	Bhaskar
Produced by	Dil Raju
Written by	Bhaskar
Starring	Allu Arjun Sheela Poonam Bajwa Prakash Raj
Music by	Mani Sharma
Cinematography	Vijay C Chakravarthy
Editing by	Marthand K. Venkatesh
Release date(s)	May 1, 2008
Country	India
Language	Telugu

Parugu (Telugu:పరుగు, Englishtranslation: Run) is a Telugu(dubbed into Malayalam asKrishna) film that released on May 1, 2008 and is directed byBhaskar. Allu Arjun, Sheela andPrakash Rajplay the lead roles.Dil Raju, a big-time producer, produces the film whilst Mani Sharmacomposes the music. The movie premiered in Prasads IMAX on April 30th at 10:15PM.^[1] The film has been dubbed to malayalam and released in Kerala as " Krishna" on August 8, 2008. There also film evoked good response and became an above average film.

Contents [hide] 1 Development 2 Plot 3 Inspiration 4 Reception 5 Trivia 6 Cast 7 Awards 8 Soundtrack 9 References 10 External links

Development

The film's title has been in major headlines prior to the film's release. During the film's production, the film has been referred to as Premikudu, Romeo,Enta Ghaatu Premayo, Araku and Varadhi, before being titled as Parugu.^[2]

Plot

Neelakanta (Prakash Raj) is a powerful man in the village Ramachandrapuram who doesn’t believe in love marriages. He has two daughters. His elder daughter Subbalakshmi (Poonam Bajwa) elopes with a guy called Erra Babu from a lower class on the night of her arranged marriage. Neelakanta's men kidnap all the friends of Babu. Krishna (Allu Arjun) – a happy go lucky guy from Hyderabad, Sreenu (Chitram Seenu) from Nellore are among them. Krishna likes a girl called Meena (Sheela) who happens to be the younger daughter of Neelakanta. The rest of the story is all about whether Krishna elopes with Meena or convinces Neelakanta to marry her.

Inspiration

This film seems unintentionally is similar to the elopement drama ofChiranjeevi’s daughter Srija with her then-boyfriend Sirish Bharadwaj. Though non of the mainstream media spoke about the co-incidence, the movie received a lot of buzz amongst the movie goers for the similarity to the real life episode of the Srija.^[3]

Reception

• The film collected a share of Rs.10.82 crores in its first 9 days of theatrical run and collected 21 crores in 3 weeks.[1]
• There were mixed reviews for the film.
• The film ran 100 days in 54 centres [2]

Trivia

• This movie was dubbed into Malayalam as Krishna and was a blockbuster in Kerala too.

Cast

• Allu Arjun .... Krishna
• Sheela .... Meena
• Poonam Bajwa .... Subbalakshmi
• Prakash Raj .... Neelakanta
• Chitram Seenu .... Sreenu
• Bhaskar

Awards

Nandi Awards

• Won the "Third Best Feature Film" for 2008 films
• Allu Arjun won "Special Jury Award" for this film

Filmfare Awards-south

• Allu Arjun won the "best actor" award.
• Nominated for "best film"
• Bhaskar was nominated for "Best director"

Soundtrack

The music is composed by Mani Sharma and lyrics for the songs are written by Ananth Sreeram, Sirivennela, and Chandrabose. On April 8, 2008, film actor and Arjun's uncle Chiranjeevi launched the soundtrack in Hyderabad,Andhra Pradesh.^[4]

Tracklist
#	Title	Artist(s)	Length
1.	"Parugulu"	Ranjith	04:20
2.	"Nammavemo"	Saketh	04:49
3.	"Yelageyalaga"	Kailash Kher, Saindhavi	04:23
4.	"Chal Chal Chalo"	Ranjith	04:37
5.	"Hrudayam"	Hemachandra	03:49
6.	"Manakanna Podiche"	Rahul Nambiar	04:40

All music composed by Mani Sharma.

Arya 2

Arya
Directed by	Sukumar
Produced by	Aditya Babu
Written by	Sukumar
Starring	Allu Arjun Kajal Aggarwal Navdeep Shraddha Das Brahmanandam Mukesh Rishi
Music by	Devi Sri Prasad
Cinematography	B. Rajasekhar
Editing by	Marthand K. Venkatesh
Release date(s)	27 November 2009
Country	India
Language	Telugu
Preceded by	Arya (2004)

Arya 2 is a 2009 Telugu filmdirected by Sukumar, and is a follow-up to the actor's and the director's previous successful film, Arya. Stylish star Allu Arjunplays the lead role, with Kajal Aggarwal and Shraddha Dasplaying the heroines ^[1]. Kajal Agarwal is the female lead of the film.Sukumar, who directed the original is directing this movie too. Navdeep and Shraddha Dasare doing supporting roles in this film. Music of the film is by Devi Sri Prasad. V Aditya Babu and Bhogavalli Prasad are combinely producing the film on Aditya Arts banner.

Contents [hide] 1 Synopsis 2 Cast 3 Controversy 4 Box Office and Reception 5 Soundtrack 6 References 7 External links

Synopsis

The first scene of the film shows Arya(Allu Arjun) being carried into an operation theatre. His friend Ajay(Navdeep) narrates how Arya changed his life.In their childhood, Arya stays in an orphanage where has no friends or family. By force, he befriends Ajay who also is in that orphanage. One day, Ajay is adopted by a rich family and therefore he leaves the orphanage behind him.As time passes, he becomes a big shot business tycoon and has his own software company.One day, Arya returns and by force, he joins in Ajay's company only to stay close to him.But Ajay has one condition that if Arya is proven as a "bad boy" in the office, he has to leave the company.Thus, Arya transforms himself into a "Mr.Perfect" without any defect and joins in the company.Everyone in the company are fond of Arya especially Shanti(Shraddha Das)who is madly in love with him.One day Geetha(Kajal Aggarwal)joins the company and Ajay and Arya both immediately fall in her love.Arya is now Geetha's Team Lead.In a lift one day, while Geetha converses with Arya, suddenly he kisses her. In many other instances also, Arya keeps confessing his love to Geetha without anyone knowing about it. Ajay now wants to get rid of Arya. So, he crashes his(Ajay's)car and weaves a story that Arya has crashed him. He did so, so that everyone would accuse Arya and he would be fired.At this juncture, Geetha comes to know that Ajay too loves her.The next day at the office, Arya shows his true colours and arranges Ajay and Geetha's wedding.But on the day of their wedding, Geetha is taken away by her family to her hometown.Arya decides to bring her back at any cost.He is introduced to her family and he stays at her house amid the preparations for the wedding.Due to some reasons, the wedding is stopped and Arya is asked to marry Geetha.After their marriage,Ajay arrives to their town and the trio decide to go away from the place before they could find out that Geetha does not love Arya.The three of them stay at a hotel and decide that they must forget all of their worries for Geetha and Ajay would be gone and Arya left alone.But, Geetha's father finds them and while attempting to stab Ajay, Arya rescues him.But he is stabbed instead.Arya is rushed to hospital where it is seen that Geetha is truly in love with Arya.At the end, Arya asks Ajay to press a button. Unknowingly, Ajay does so.Suddenly, Arya starts suffocating for the supply of Oxygen is stopped.Geetha slaps Ajay for doing so and Arya asks to forgive him.

Cast

• Allu Arjun as Arya
• Kajal Aggarwal as Geethanjali
• Navdeep as Ajay
• Shraddha Das as Shanti
• Ajay as Raja Reddy
• Brahmanandam as Mr. Dasavathaaram
• Mukesh Rishi as Raji
• Sayaji Shindeas Kasi Reddy

Controversy

On December 16, 2009, Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) activists caused problems to theaters and multiplexes screening the film in the Nizam district.^[2] TRS activists were angry about Arjun's uncle actor-turned-politicianChiranjeevi about attacking Telangana and supportingSamaikya Andhra - United Andhra Pradesh. In retaliation, TRS supporters have decided to ban not only Chiranjeevi's films, but also his sonRam Charan Teja's films and nephew Arjun's films.^[3]

Box Office and Reception

Though the film had good openings, the reaction was mixed and didn't fare as expected. It was also not listed in the "2009 hits" list of any leading newspapers. Arya 2 emerged as the second biggest hit of 2009. The film collected 16+ rs a in its first week including 4+ rs from Nizam and 1 rs fromVisakhapatnam district. But there was a huge drop in the collections in the second week because of the Telangana Agitation. The film was banned in all Telangana regions because of Allu Arjun's relation with Chiranjeevi. Dil Raju, the distributor of Nizam has lost about one and a half rs due to the Telangana Agitation. But Arya 2 has been declared as a major hit and the second major hit of 2009 after magadheera worldwide.^[4]

Soundtrack

The soundtrack and background score is composed by Devi Sri Prasad. The music was released on November 1, 2009 at Rock Heights,Madhapur,Hyderabad. The audio rights of the soundtrack were purchased by Sony BMG^[5]. The track Ringa Ringa has been a chartbuster and is a rage among songs.

Arya 2
Soundtrack by Devi Sri Prasad
Released	1 November 2009 (Audio Release)
Genre	Feature film soundtrack
Label	Sony BMG
Producer	Aditya Babu
Devi Sri Prasad chronology
Kanthaswamy (2009) Arya 2 (2009) Adurs (2009)

All music composed by Devi Sri Prasad.

Tracklist
#	Title	Artist(s)	Length
1.	"Mr. Perfect"	Baba Sehgal, Rita	04:35
2.	"Uppenantha"	K.K.	05:26
3.	"Baby He Loves You"	Devi Sri Prasad, Chandrabose	05:20
4.	"Ringa Ringa"	Priya Hemesh	05:32
5.	"Karige Loga"	Kunal Ganjawala, Megha	06:02
6.	"My Love is Gone"	Ranjith	04:47
7.	"Karige Loga (D-Plugged)"	Sagar	02:53
8.	"Mr. Perfect (DSP Mix)"	Devi Sri Prasad	04:15

Vedam (film)

Vedam
Directed by	Krish
Produced by	Devineni Prasad, Yarlagadda Shobhu
Starring	Manoj Manchu , Allu Arjun, Anushka Shetty, Lekha Washington, Manoj Bajpai
Music by	MM Keeravani
Language	Telugu

Vedam (Telugu: వేదం) is an upcoming 2010 Telugu film directed by Radhakrishna Jagarlamudi. It will star Manoj Manchu, Allu Arjun,Anushka Shetty,Lekha Washingtonand will be released in January 2010.^[1]

Varudu

Varudu
Directed by	Gunasekhar
Produced by	D. V. V. Danaya
Written by	Paruchuri Brothers
Starring	Allu Arjun Arya Suhasini Mani Ratnam
Music by	Mani Sharma
Cinematography	R. D. Rajasekhar
Editing by	Anthony
Distributed by	Warner Bros. Pictures
Release date(s)	Early 2010
Country	India
Language	Telugu

Varudu (Telugu: వరుడు) is an upcoming Tollywood film directed by Gunasekhar due to be released in early 2010. This film, starring Allu Arjun in the lead role along with Tamil actor Arya, enacting a negative character for the first time,^[1] Suhasini Mani Ratnam, Ashish Vidyarthi,Sayaji Shinde andBrahmanandam in supporting roles.^[2] D.V.V. Danaiya is producing the film.

This Movie was attacked by TRS activist on Dec 22.

Cast

• Allu Arjun
• Arya
• Suhasini Mani Ratnam

• Sayaji Shinde
• Naresh
• Ahuti Prasad
• Brahmanandam
• Brahmaji
• Vinaya Prasad