Adhurs

Adhurs (transl. Marvelous) is a 2010 Indian Telugu-language action comedy film directed by V. V. Vinayak, written by Kona Venkat, and produced by Vallabhaneni Vamshi Mohan. The film stars N. T. Rama Rao Jr in a double role along with Nayantara and Sheela as female leads. Mahesh Manjrekar, Ashish Vidyarthi, Brahmanandam, Sayaji Shinde, Tanikella Bharani, and Nassar play supporting roles. The music is composed by Devi Sri Prasad with cinematography by Chota K. Naidu and editing by Gowtham Raju. The film was released in 1,300 screens all over the world upon its release on 13 January 2010. It was a box office hit and ran for 50 days in 155 centers. It was later dubbed into Malayalam as Kavacham.

Adhurs
Directed byV. V. Vinayak
Produced byVallabhaneni Vamshi Mohan
Written byKona Venkat
StarringNTR Jr.
Nayantara
Sheela
Music byDevi Sri Prasad
CinematographyChota K. Naidu
Edited byGowtham Raju
Production
company
Annapurna Studios
Distributed byReliance Big Entertainment
Release date
  • 13 January 2010 (2010-01-13)
Running time
150 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageTelugu
Budget₹26 crore[1]
Box officeest. ₹30 crore[1]

Plot

The story is about two identical twin brothers who get separated at birth. They were separated by an old woman (Vatsala Rajagopal) whose daughter-in-law gave birth to a dead child for the third time. Narasimha (NTR Jr.) gets raised by a single mother (Vinaya Prasad), and he becomes an undercover agent to a top cop named Naik (Sayaji Shinde) in order to be a cop himself. Chari (also NTR Jr.) is brought up by a family of traditional Brahmin priests. He has a priest guru, Bhattacharya aka Bhattu (Brahmanandam), who is in love with Chandrakala aka Chandu (Nayanthara), one of his common customers. She, however, falls for Chari after he saves her from eve-teasers (the one who saved her was actually Narasimha). Narasimha also has a girlfriend named Nandhu (Sheela), who is Naik's daughter. Dhanraj (Ashish Vidyarthi) and Baba (Mahesh Manjrekar) are in search of the family of a top army scientist (Nassar) who is Narasimha's father. As they find him, they force him to invent a target-killing device by kidnapping Narasimha, who is cheated by Naik for loving his daughter. Narasimha escapes from there, because of which two men go to Chari's house on his engagement day and make a deal that if Chari acts as Narasimha, they would give him 30 lakhs. What happens next forms the rest of the story.

Cast

Reception

Rediff gave four stars and said, "Brahmanandam is hilarious. Performance-wise, NTR Jr takes the cake. He is simply marvellous as Chari, the Brahmin spouting loud dialogues while his Narasimha is tough yet more sober. NTR presents the contrasts well. All in all, Adhurs is NTR's show all the way!"[2] Sify gave a verdict as "Mass entertainer" and noted, "NTR brings total justice to his dual role as Chari and Narasimha. His characterisation as a Brahmin youth is simply superb and hilarious, but at the same time raking up a controversy with a group of the Brahmins community approaching the State governor Mr. Narasimhan to ban the film. On the other hand, NTR's role as Narasimha as rugged guy would work well with the mass audience. Nayanthara and Sheela provide the glam quotient while Brahmanandam is hilarious as Bhattu, receiving a big footage which runs into nearly 40 minutes in the film."[3] The Hindu gave a mixed review stating, Ashish Vidyarthi "NTR in two roles is pretty easy with the diction. His dances are amazing and accord the 'mass kick' in the title song that comes before the climax. The humour component is adequately handled by Brahmanandam who hogs the limelight as a Hindu priest."[4]

Music
Adhurs
Soundtrack album by
Devi Sri Prasad
Released5 December 2009 (2009-12-05)
GenreFilm soundtrack
Length30:36
LabelAditya Music
ProducerDevi Sri Prasad
Devi Sri Prasad chronology
Arya 2
(2009)		 Adhurs
(2009)		 Namo Venkatesa
(2010)

The audio released on 3 December 2009. Adhurs soundtrack was composed by Devi Sri Prasad whilst lyrics were penned by Chandrabose and Ramajogayya Sastry.

Track list
#SongSinger(s)Picturised onLength
1 "Shiva Shambho" Devi Sri Prasad Jr. NTR 04:40
2 "Chandrakala" Hariharan, Rita Jr. NTR and Nayantara 04:13
3 "Neethone" Kunal Ganjawala, Shreya Ghoshal Jr. NTR and Sheela 05:00
4 "Chary" Jr. NTR, Rita Jr. NTR and Nayantara 04:17
5 "Assalam Valekum" Baba Sehgal, Priya Himesh Jr. NTR, Sheela, Nayantara, Mahesh Manjrekar and Brahmanandam 04:47
6 "Pilla Naa Valla Kaadu" Mika Singh, Suchitra Jr. NTR and Sheela 04:27
7 "Hip Hop (Remix)" Devi Sri Prasad Excluded in film 03:58
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References
  1. Namita Nivas (18 July 2010). "An Average Fare". Indian Express.
  2. "Adurs is NTR's show all the way". Rediff. Archived from the original on 16 January 2010. Retrieved 13 January 2010.
  3. "Movie Review-Adhurs". Sify.
  4. "'Adhurs' is just about fine". The Hindu. Chennai, India. 13 January 2010. Archived from the original on 17 January 2010. Retrieved 19 December 2009.
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