Namo Venkatesa

Namo Venkatesa (transl. Hail Venkatesa) is a 2010 Indian Telugu-language action comedy film produced by Achanta Gopichand, Achanta Ram, Anil Sunkara on 14 Reels Entertainment in association with D. Suresh Babu for Suresh Productions and written and directed by Srinu Vytla. It stars Venkatesh and Trisha in the lead roles and Brahmanandam, Mukesh Rishi, Subbaraju, Jai Akash, and Ali in supporting roles. The music was composed by Devi Sri Prasad with cinematography by Prasad Murella and editing by M. R. Varma. The film released on 14 January 2010. Although it received mixed-to-positive reviews, it was recorded as a super hit at the box office.

Namo Venkatesha
Movie Poster
Directed bySreenu Vaitla
Produced byD. Suresh Babu (presenter)
Ram Achanta
Gopichand Achanta
Anil Sunkara
Written byChintapalli Ramana (dialogues)
Screenplay bySreenu Vaitla
Story byGopimohan
StarringVenkatesh
Trisha
Music byDevi Sri Prasad
CinematographyPrasad Murella
Edited byM. R. Varma
Production
company
Suresh Productions
14 Reels Entertainment
Release date
  • 14 January 2010 (2010-01-14)
Running time
152 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageTelugu
Budget₹22 crore (US$3.1 million)
Box office₹38 crore (US$5.3 million)

Plot

Venkataramana (Daggubati Venkatesh) a.k.a. Venky is a ventriloquist. He is a naive and good adult, and everyone in his association usually likes him. An astrologer named Palasa (M. S. Narayana) predicts that if he does not get married in one month, he will be a single man forever. Venky goes to Paris as part of a group to perform for NRIs, where he meets Paris Prasad (Brahmanandam) and his gang. They fool everyone and try to avoid giving them remuneration. Venky manages them and gets his and his troops' payment. Later, Venky meets Pooja (Trisha Krishnan), the niece of Prasad, and falls in love. Though Pooja has no feelings for Venky, Prasad tells him that Pooja too loves him, just for fun.

Slowly, Pooja and Venky become friends, and Pooja gets an emergency call from India, where she finds out that her family, especially her grandfather (Jaya Prakash Reddy) arranged her marriage with Bhadrappa (Subbaraju), the son of her uncle, Changala Rayudu (Mukesh Rishi). She does not want to marry him and calls Prasad for help. She offers money to him if he could take her back to Paris. Prasad takes the risk as he needs money to repay the bank loan. He asks Venky for help, telling him that Pooja wants to marry him, but her family wants her to marry Bhadrappa. Venky innocently believes him and comes to Rayalaseema to take Pooja away.

There, Venky introduces himself to everyone as Praneeth and offers the partnership of a fake multimillion-dollar factory. In the hope of that partnership, everyone treats him nicely and makes minor changes in their household to please him. Prasad tells Pooja that he fooled Venky and asks her to go with his drama to escape from that place. Though she does not want to fool Venky, she reluctantly agrees to Prasad's plan as she needs to get out of there desperately. Actually, she loves an NRI named Ajay (Jai Akash) and wants to elope with him.

Finally, Venky succeeds to trick them and take Pooja and Prasad away. Pooja plans to escape with Ajay to Europe, but Venky takes them to his area in Hyderabad. He introduces his family, which includes his uncles Narayana (Chandra Mohan) and Malesh Yadav (Kota Srinivasa Rao). Everybody receives Pooja affectionately and makes arrangements for their wedding. Prasad and Ajay try to tell them the truth but could not succeed.

Bhaddrapa's grandfather overhears the conversation of Pooja's mother with Pooja on the phone and devises a plan to call them to their village and kill Venky. They tell Pooja that they will conduct their wedding within their place and asks her to come back. However, Venky ends up coming with his full family and friends, roughly a few hundred, failing their plan to kill him. Finally, he comes to know that Pooja loves Ajay and not him. Though devastated, he still wishes her happiness and saves them from their uncle's gang. Seeing his selfless love, Pooja's uncle and others stop fighting him and reconcile. At the end, however, Pooja realises that she loves Venky. Ajay understands this and leaves the decision in her hands. Finally, Pooja and Venky marry with everyone's blessings.

Cast

Soundtrack
Namo Venkatesa
Soundtrack album by
Devi Sri Prasad
Released2010
GenreSoundtrack
Length24:08
LabelAditya Music
ProducerDevi Sri Prasad
Devi Sri Prasad chronology
Kutty
(2010)		 Namo Venkatesa
(2010)		 Singam
(2010)

The music for the film was composed by Devi Sri Prasad in his second collaboration with actor Venkatesh after Tulasi. Lyrics were written by Ramajogayya Sastry. The soundtrack was released by Aditya Music.

Track listing
No.TitleSinger(s)Length
1."Namo Venkatesa"Mano, Megha4:11
2."Soundarya"Venu5:03
3."Tottadoing"Benny Dayal, Tippu, Priya Himesh4:44
4."Nee Kallalo"Sagar, Roshini4:35
5."Ding Dong"Shankar Mahadevan, Priya Himesh, Chorus4:23
6."Non Stop"Karthik, Sunitha Sarathy4:12
Total length:24:08

Box office reception

The film received positive reviews from critics and was declared a super hit at the box office.[1][2]

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References
  1. Namo Venkatesa Release
  2. "Namo Venkatesa raises exceptions". indiglamour. 2009. Archived from the original on 13 July 2011. Retrieved 10 January 2010.
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