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film directed by Balachari, who worked as an assistant director for

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and

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. The film stars newcomer

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and Aditi Agarwal in the lead roles, with

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and

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in pivotal roles.

Plot

A mafia don, Salim Ibrahim, creates issues at an engineering college by killing the chairman and closing the campus. The rest of the plot is how a student, Kranthi, saves his college.

Cast

as Kranthi *Aditi Agarwal as Jahnavi *

as Principal *

as Salim Ibrahim *

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*Malladi Raghava *Navabharat Balaji *

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Production

The

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of the film was at

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in October 2003. The chief guests included Harikrishna, Jagapati Babu, Uday Kiran, Tarun, Jeevitha, D Ramanaidu, Allu Arvind, M.S. Raju, NV Prasad, and Ashok Kumar. This film marked the acting debut of R. B. Choudary's son,

. Mamata Zhaveri, who acted in television commercials, was selected to play the lead actress. The film was shot primarily in Hyderabad and Mumbai. The first schedule of the film was on October 27. Zhaveri was later replaced with Aditi Agarwal. The film was scheduled to release in April 2004, but was further delayed to December.

Soundtrack

The soundtrack was composed by Mani Sharma. *"Sye Syete" – Ganapathi *"Hyderabad Hai" – Krishnaraj *"Oke Okkasari" – S. P. B. Charan *"Virise Prathi" – Hariharan *"Empilla" –

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*"Andhra Khiladi Vidyardhi" - Tippu, Mahalakshmi,

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(chorus/rap)

Release and reception

The film was released to negative reviews. A critic from ''

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'' criticized the contrasting first and second halves of the film. The second half of the film is reminiscent of '' Sye''. A critic from ''

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'' wrote that "The music of Mani Sharma is hummable though other aspects are formulaic and predictable with no major twists. Nothing much to write about the lead pair. Ramesh has no screen presence and the film fails to impress". A critic from ''Full Hyderabad'' criticized the film's vulgarity. The film did not run well.

References

External links

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