Kandireega

Kandireega (English: Wasp) is a 2011 Indian Telugu-language romantic action comedy film directed by Santosh Srinivas and produced by Bellamkonda Suresh under Sri Sai Ganesh Productions. The film features Ram, Hansika Motwani and Sonu Sood in the lead roles. Aksha Pardasany played another lead role. The film's music was scored by S. Thaman. The film released on 12 August 2011, received positive reviews from critics and audience, and was a box-office Blockbuster. It was remade in Bengali as Paglu 2 starring Dev and Koel Mallick directed by Sujit Mondal, and is remade into Hindi as Main Tera Hero, directed by David Dhawan, starring Varun Dhawan, Ileana D'Cruz and Nargis Fakhri. It was also dubbed in Hindi as Dangerous Khiladi 4 in 2015.

Kandireega
Theatrical Poster
Directed bySantosh Srinivas
Produced byBellamkonda Suresh
Starring
Music byS. Thaman
CinematographyPrasad
Production
company
Sri Sai Ganesh Productions
and
Multidimension Entertainments Private Limited
Release date
  • 12 August 2011 (2011-08-12)
CountryIndia
LanguageTelugu
Budget₹ 15 crore
Box office₹ 32 crore(worldwide)

Plot

Sreenu (Ram) is the son of Vishwanatham (Chandra Mohan). He is a high school drop-out in Anakapalle and wants to marry his uncle's (Dharmavarapu Subramanyam) daughter Bujji (Swati Reddy). She rejects him stating that he doesn’t have basic college education. Sreenu, who is clever and street-smart decides to go to Hyderabad for further education. While travelling in the train, he bashes up a bunch of rowdies teasing college girls. At the college in Hyderabad, he meets Shruthi (Hansika Motwani) and falls in love with her. The city gangster Bhavani (Sonu Sood) is in love with her and blackmails her to marry him. He beats anyone moving closely with Shruthi. Meanwhile, henchmen of Warangal Rajanna (Jaya Prakash Reddy), a dreaded chieftain, are looking for Sreenu in the city.

Sreenu meets Bhavani and forces him to a challenge, whereby, he will make Shruthi love him. Sreenu rescues Shruthi from being kidnapped by the gang of Yadayya, a rival of Bhavani. When Sreenu wins Shruthi's heart and both of them decide to elope, she is kidnapped.

It is then revealed that Rajanna kidnapped Shruthi to get hold of Sreenu because Rajanna's daughter Sandhya (Aksha Pardasany) is in love with Sreenu. She was on the train during the night and gets impressed by him. Sreenu lands at Rajanna's place and finds himself in a fix. Bhavani, too, arrives at Rajanna's place to take away Shruthi. A police intelligence officer Avataram(Raghu Babu), Rajanna's brother-in-law, comes to attend Sreenu and Sandhya's wedding. Sreenu and Bhavani start their one-upmanship games to win Shruthi.

How Sreenu comes out of this quagmire to rescue Shruthi from the clutches of Rajanna and Bhavani and what happens to Sandhya are revealed in the climax interspersed with twists and turns.

Cast

Production

This film was initially announced in October 2009 with Ravi Teja playing the lead role and with Krishna Vamsi as director, with the producer announcing the film as a partly fantasy venture.[1] The film progressed in pre-production with Tamannaah Bhatia and Sneha Ullal being considered to portray the heroine role, whilst the fantasy elements in the original script were removed.[2] In April 2010, it was revealed that the producer and Ravi Teja had fallen out and he was replaced by Ram.[3] Thetfilming began in October 2010 with Ram and Hansika Motwani, whilst actress Swati Reddy shot scenes the following month.[4] Ram stated on his Twitter account that the film had three female lead roles, and suggested that Nisha Aggarwal was signed on.

During the first schedule, events on the set of the film became the reason for the Telugu film industry strikes of 2010 after Telugu film fighters attacked Tamil film technicians in Chennai on the sets of the film in December 2009.[5][6] Enraged by this, producers called for a bandh the next day. However, film workers declared a strike immediately after that for an indefinite period. The crisis affected the whole film industry and no films were shot in Andhra Pradesh during late December and early January during negotiations.[7]

After filming had resumed, the original music director Chakri was replaced by S. Thaman in March 2011.[8]

Soundtrack
Kandireega
Soundtrack album by
S. Thaman
Released14 July 2011
Recorded2011
GenreFeature film soundtrack
Length21:53
LabelAditya Music
ProducerS. Thaman
S. Thaman chronology
Vandhaan Vendraan
(2011)		 Kandireega
(2011)		 Dookudu / Power
(2011)

Kandireega's audio was launched at Taj Deccan in Hyderabad on 14 July 2011. Senior actor Venkatesh was the chief guest at the audio launch. Dharmavarapu Subramaniam, hero Gopichand, producer Bellamkonda Suresh, director of the film Santosh Srinivas, senior director V. V. Vinayak, music composer S. S. Thaman, actress Aksha, Sravanti Ravikishore etc. all were present at the grand audio launch.[9]

No.TitleLyricsPerformer(s)Length
1."Gentleman"Bhaskarabhatla Ravi KumarRanjith, Chorus3:17
2."Champakamala"Ramajogayya SastryKarthik, Suchitra4:49
3."Nenkudithey"Bhaskarabhatla Ravi KumarNaveen Madhav, M. L. R. Karthikeyan, Aalaap Raju, Ranjith, Ranina Reddy, Dharshana4:35
4."Angelina"Ramajogayya SastryRanjith, Ranina Reddy, Suchitra4:14
5."Premey"Ramajogayya SastryRanjith, Hemachandra, Deepu, Revanth Kumar, M. L. R. Karthikeyan, Bindhu Mahima, Geetha Madhuri, Sravana Bhargavi4:58
Total length:21:53
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See also

Reception

The film received positive reviews from all central critics.

Box office

The film was released on August 12, 2011 and on its first day, it collected a total of 2 crores. In its worldwide release it collected a total of 10.61 crores. The film was declared a 'Blockbuster' at the box office.

Sequel

After the film's success, a sequel titled Kandireega-2 was planned. Ram again will be playing the lead role. However, it was later decided that Ram will be replaced with N. T. Rama Rao Jr. Afterwards, plans for a sequel have been shelved so Santosh Srinivas instead decided to work with Jr. NTR on the film Rabhasa.

Remakes

Reportedly the Hindi remake rights of the film were sold to Ekta Kapoor of Balaji Motion Pictures for ₹ 20 million which has Varun Dhawan in lead, directed by his father David Dhawan.[10] The film was named Main Tera Hero.This film was also remade in Bengali as Paglu 2 starring Dev and Koel Mallick directed by Sujit Mondal.

References
  1. "Ravi Teja as Kandireega!". Sify.com. 21 October 2009. Retrieved 4 August 2012.
  2. "Kandireega awaits total makeover". Sify.com. 24 December 2009. Retrieved 4 August 2012.
  3. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 10 September 2012. Retrieved 1 April 2011.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. "Kandireega | Colors Swathi Kandireega | Ram | Hansika Motwani | Santosh Srinivas | Bellamkonda Suresh". CineGoer.com. 16 November 2010. Archived from the original on 29 September 2012. Retrieved 4 August 2012.
  5. "Tollywood back in action after 21 days". Retrieved 6 October 2018.
  6. TNN 28 Dec 2010, 04.44 am IST. "4 film fighters suspended in a bid to end Tollywood tussle – Times of India". Articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com. Retrieved 4 August 2012.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  7. TNN 12 Jan 2011, 08.41 am IST. "Tollywood back to action – Times of India". Articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com. Retrieved 4 August 2012.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  8. "Chakri out and Thaman in for 'Kandireega' – Telugu Movie News". IndiaGlitz. 7 March 2011. Retrieved 4 August 2012.
  9. "Telugu Cinema News - Telugu Movie Reviews - Telugu Movie Trailers - IndiaGlitz Telugu". Retrieved 6 October 2018.
  10. "Ekta Kapoor brings David and Varun Dhawan together for the remake Kandireega in Hindi".
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