Okkadu

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Okkadu

Directed by Gunasekhar Varma Karri Produced by M.S. Raju Gunasekhar Varma Karri Written by Paruchuri Brothers Mahesh Babu Bhumika Chawla Starring Prakash Raj Mukesh Rishi Geetha (actress) Music by Mani Sharma Editing by A. Sreekar Prasad Release dates 15 January 2003 Running time 171 minutes Country India Language Telugu language 5 crore (US$840,000) Budget 30.86 crore (US$5.2 million) Box office

Okkadu (Telugu: ) is a 2003 Telugu melodrama film directed by Gunasekhar Varma Karri. It stars Mahesh Babu, Bhoomika Chawla, and Prakash Raj. Music was composed by Mani Sharma and editing was helmed by A. Sreekar Prasad. M.S. Raju produced this film. The film has garnered eight Nandi Awards and fiveFilmfare Awards South This movie was later remade into the Tamil as Ghilli and became a blockbuster.[1][2][3]

Contents

1 Plot 2 Cast 3 Crew 4 Music 5 Release 6 Box-office performance 7 Awards 8 Remakes 9 References

Plot
Ajay Varma (Mahesh Babu), is a young Kabbadi player who goes to factionism hit Kurnool to take part in a life changing match, which decides his sports future. There, in a twist of fate, he saves Swapna Reddy (Bhoomika Chawla), from Obul Reddy (Prakash Raj), a dangerous faction leader, who is in love with Swapna and wants to marry her against her wishes. Ajay tries to comfort her because Obul Reddy killed both brothers of Swapna. Ajay brings Swapna to his house in Hyderabad where he hides her and decides to send her abroad to save her from Obul Reddy. This is complicated by the fact that Swapna falls in love with Ajay and that Ajay's dad is the top Cop in charge of finding Swapna, as per the order of corrupt home minister (Rajan P. Dev) of the state. The home minister is into helping Obul Reddy. When Ajay's dad finds out that with Ajay's help Swapna is hiding in his house,Ajay and Swapna escape from there. Ajay conceals swapna in Charminar, this forms an integral part of the story. Police find out that Ajay and Swapna are hiding in Charminar, but with help of friends they escape to Airport. When Swapna is about to board for the flight, she couldn't control herself and reveals her love for him. Ajay falls in love with Swapna too. But police reach there and arrest Ajay. Swapna is taken back by Obul Reddy. Swapna challenges Obul Reddy to defeat Ajay and if he tries to touch her, she would kill herself. Obul Reddy intentionally releases Ajay on bail only on purpose of killing him. But Ajay with help of friends manage to tie-up every one. They forcibly bring Obul Reddy to Kabbadi match in which Ajay is trying to make their team win the championship. Obul Reddy escapes. Obul Reddy's family senses that Obul Reddy is missing to conduct marriage with Swapna and receives information from Obul Reddy that he is at stadium location. So everyone relocates to stadium location. Ajay and his team win the title. Obul Reddy and his henchmen surround Ajay. But Obul Reddy wants to fight Ajay alone. Obul Reddy initially manages to beat Ajay well with his marmakala tricks. Ajay outsmarts Obul Reddy by not allowing him to use marmakala tricks and beats him up so badly. When everyone is enjoying Obul Reddy tries to

stab Ajay from his back but fails as he is killed by Swapna's father. Ajay and Swapna get married and live happily ever after.

Cast

Mahesh Babu ... Ajay Varma ("Varma" comes only in the credits at the end) Bhoomika Chawla ... Swapna Reddy Prakash Raj ... Obul Reddy (factionist) Mukesh Rishi ... Assistant Commissioner of Police (Father of Ajay) Geetha (actress)|Geetha ... Mother of Ajay Chandra Mohan ... Father of Swapna Reddy Telangana Shakuntala ... mother of Obul Reddy Niharika ... Sister of ajay subhash prince kumar as ajay varma friend

Crew

Director: Gunasekhar Varma Karri Screenplay: Gunasekhar Varma Karri Story: Gunasekhar Varma Karri Dialogue: Paruchuri Brothers Producer: M.S. Raju Music: Mani Sharma Cinematography: Sekhar V. Joseph Choreography: Raju Sundaram & Raghava Lawrence|Lawrence Art Direction: Ashok Editing: A. Sreekar Prasad Stunts : Vijayan

Music
The music for the film was composed by Mani Sharma. The lyrics were written by Sirivennela Sitaramasastri.

"Hare rama"(sung by Shankar Mahadevan) "Nuvvemmaya Chesavokaani" (Shreya Ghosal) "Sahasam Swasaga" Mallikharjun "Cheppave Chirugaali" (Sujatha Mohan|Sujatha and Udit Narayan) "Hai re hai" (Karthik and K. S. Chitra) "Atharintiki" (Hariharan (singer)|Hariharan, Shreya Ghosal and the Priya sisters)

Release

The film released on 15 January 2003 in 165 screens. The audio was released on 19 December 2002.

Box-office performance
It collected a total share of over Rs.25-30 crores.[4]

Awards
Nandi Awards

Best Feature Film (Silver) - M.S. Raju Best Director - Gunasekhar Varma Karri Best Music Director - Mani Sharma Best Cinematographer - Sekhar V. Joseph Best Editor - A. Sreekar Prasad Best Art Director - Ashok Best Choreographer - Raju Sundaram Best Fight Master - Vijayan

Filmfare Awards

Best Film - M.S. Raju Best Director - Gunasekhar Varma Karri Best Actor - Mahesh Babu Best Music Director - Mani Sharma Best Cinematographer-Sekhar.V.Joseph

Santosham Film Awards

Best Film - M.S. Raju Best Villain - Prakash Raj Best Art Direction - Ashok

Remakes
Year Film Language Cast Director

2004 Ghilli Tamil

Vijay, Trisha Krishnan, Prakash Raj, Ashish Vidyarthi

Dharani

Year Film Language

Cast

Director

2006 Ajay

Kannada

Puneeth Rajkumar, Anuradha Mehta, Prakash Raj, Nassar Meher Ramesh

2008 Jor

Bengali

Jeet, Barsa Priyadarshini, Subrat Dutta, Deepankar De

Swapan Saha

2014 Tevar Hindi

Arjun Kapoor, Sonakshi Sinha, Manoj Bajpayee

Amit Sharma