Badrinath is a 2011 Telugu action film directed by V. V. Vinayak and produced by Allu Aravind. The film stars his son Allu Arjun in leading role along with Tamannaah and Prakash Raj. It released on June 10, 2011 simultaneously in Telugu and Malayalam. The Tamil version will have additional scenes of Santhanam and expected to release in July.The movie was released in 1,400 screens worldwide, it gained mostly negative response from the audience.
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Badri (Allu Arjun) is groomed by martial arts and spiritual guru Bhishma Narayan (Prakash Raj) to protect the Badrinath temple in Takshashila, where Sri Maha Vishnu (Hindu God of sustanance) is the presiding deity. Into that temple walks Alakananda (Tamannaah Bhatia ) who, due to circumstances, becomes a staunch agnostic. Badri converts her into a believer and in the process, without him being aware, becomes the object of her affection. She however doesn't convey the same to him. Her grandfather reveals her past to Badri. Her aunt married a goon called Sarkar (Kelly Dorjee) and that once Alakananda had humiliated her aunt. Her aunt now wants Alakananda as her daughter in law. Badri promises Alakananda's grandpa that he will save her. Meanwhile, Bheeshma wants to make Badri as the head of Takshasila after him. But for that, he has to remain a bachelor all his life. The rest of the story is on how Sarkar targets Alakananda and whether Badri fulfills the promise he made to his Guru Bheeshma.
Adhurs (Telugu: అదుర్స్; Tremors) is a 2010 Telugu-language film, directed by V.V. Vinayak. The film stars Jr.NTR in a dual-role, and Nayantara and Sheela as female leads. Music is scored by Devi Sri Prasad. The film was a "Hit" at the box-office.
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The story is about two twin brothers who get separated at birth. Narasimha (NTR) gets raised by a single mother and he becomes an undercover agent to a top cop. Chari (NTR) is brought up by a family of traditional Hindu priests. A gang of baddies (Asish Vidyardhi and Mahesh Manjrekar) are in search of the family of a top scientist. The rest of the story is about the relationship between the scientist and the twins and the comedy generated by switching between the characters.
Krishna (Telugu: కృష్ణ) is a 2008 Telugu film starring Ravi Teja and Trisha Krishnan. The film is directed by V. V. Vinayak and produced by B. Kasi Vishwanatham. The film released on 12 January 2008, during the Sankranthi festival. It was dubbed into Tamil as Madhura Thmiru.
This is the first movie which casts actor Raviteja with actress Trisha Krishnan. This has been a much anticipated combination by many, including the hero Raviteja. Raviteja's lack of enthusiasm in recent performances in Khatarnak and Dubai Seenu has spurred director V V Vinayak to tell the hero he must be more original, genuine, and enthusiastic about this present venture. Meanwhile, Trisha is busy with two films simultaneously after the success of Aadavari Matalaku Ardhalu Verule. One of these films is Krishna and the other is Bujjigadu, starring Prabhas, filming mainly in her hometown and residence Chennai.
The filming crew filmed in Vijayawada for a couple of weeks, departing on the 20th of September. There was a craze in Vijayawada to catch glimpses of filming. As per request of Raviteja, who hails from Vijayawada, the crew also filmed a song there.
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The film is about Krishna (Ravi Teja) who was once a software engineer but quits his job to give it to his friend and is unemployed in the city of Vijayawada. Sandhya (Trisha) is a girl from Hyderabad who studies in college and comes to Vijayawada for her vacation to stay with her brother Bobby (Brahmanandam). Bobby has a wife. Sandhya's elder brother is Bobby. Krishna falls in love with Sandhya at first sight and starts chasing her to win her heart and enters the upper portion of their house as tenants with his brother (Chandramohan) and sister in law (Sudha). Mistaking him to be one Tapori, Sandhya hates him first but later on she realizes his true nature . She returns to Hyderabad and lives with her older brother (Shinde), a former builder and now a very powerful Rowdy who is very possessive and protective about his sister. Krishna follows Sandhya to Hyderabad and works his way into their house with the help of Bobby and finally both of them confess their love. There, Krishna knows the flashback of Sandhya and how she is being chased by the notorious and cruel Jagga (Mukul Dev) assisted by his uncle (Jayaprakash Reddy) for marriage. Krishna fights Jagga, Sandhya's older brother kills Jagga, & Krishna marries Sandhya.
Yogi (Telugu: యోగి) ( Dubbed into Malayalam as Yogi) is a Telugu film directed by V.V. Vinayak,which has Prabhas and Nayantara paired up for the first time.Ramana Gogula, who composed music for V.V. Vinayak's earlier hit Lakshmi, also composes music for this film. Songs were shot in Canada, Egypt, & Malaysia. The film has been dubbed into Tamil as Murattu Thambi.This film is also dubbed in Hindi as "Maa Kasam Badla Lunga". This is a remake of Kannada superhit Jogi. The film released on 14 January 2007 in 225 theatres.
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Eeshwar Chandra Prasad (Prabhas) is the son of Ram Murthy (Chalapati Rao) and Shantamma (Sharada Urvashi). Ram Murthy wants his son to do some job. However, Shantamma pampers Eeshwar very much and hence he doesn't want to leave the village. Ram Murthy dies and in order to fulfil his last wish, Eeshwar goes to the city to earn money on the advice of his friend Basha (Ali), who was a pickpocket. Eeshwar could not meet Basha. On the other hand Kotaiah (Kota Srinivasa Rao) runs big land mafia in Hyderabad city and a bitter rival of Narsing Pahilwan (Pradeep Rawat). Saidulu (Subbaraju) is Narsing's brother. Once Saidulu hacks Kotaiah and his assistant, when Eeshwar accidentally saves him. Eeshwar gets a job in a tea stall run by Chandranna (Chandra Mohan). He earns good money and purchases two gold bangles for his mother and plans to leave the city. At this juncture, Narsing humiliates Eeshwar for saving Kotaiah and stamps the gold bangles of his mother. Irked over this, Eeshwar kills Narsing in broad day light. As a result, he turns the biggest goon of the city. Meanwhile, Santamma reaches Hyderabad city to search for her son and takes shelter with Nandini (Nayantara), a journalism student. In order to save him from the police, Chandranna takes him out saying that his name is Yogi. Learning that Yogi killed Narsing, Kotaiah wants Yogi to join him, but to no avail. Chandranna encourages Eeshwar who turned Yogi to stay back in the city to save the poor, who gets harassed by the goons. Yogi remains a terror for the goons. So, Kotaiah and Saidulu join hands and hatch a plan to kill Yogi. In the process Saidulu gets killed by Yogi. Nandini is also after Yogi for an interview to complete her practicals. Somehow, she falls in love with him. Though Yogi and Shantamma live in the same city, they could not meet each other. One day, Yogi meets Basha, who reveals that he saw Shantamma. Though Basha and Santamma go to the address, they could not find him as Eeshar because he is known as Yogi for the people. Shantamma waits for her son in front of a temple, as Basha tells her that Eeshwar is in the habit of visiting the temple on every Monday. But Eeshwar did not turn up on Monday fearing attack by Saidulu's people. Shantamma dies in front of the temple and Basha arranges funeral for her. At this time Yogi comes but fails to have a look at the covered face and helps the orphan body lifters with money for cremation and he even bring flowers and puts on the body of his mother. Yogi is unaware that the body is of his mother's body until it is moved to fire cabin. Basha finally arrives and explains the trauma but it is too late. He realizes the truth only after Nandini shows the belongings of his mother, who came to see him. The film ends with this emotional scene.
Lakshmi (dubbed into Malayalam as Lakshmi and Hindi as Meri Taqat) is a Telugu movie directed by V.V. Vinayak starring Venkatesh, Nayantara, and Charmme Kaur in the lead roles. The film was a "super hit" at the box office.
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Lakshmi Narayana (Venkatesh) is an elder son in a family with three brothers and two sisters. He owns a factory that is worth hundreds of crores. Janardhan (Shinde), a former employee of Lakshmi Industries, plans to take revenge on Lakshmi by creating division in his family; when he succeeds, Lakshmi must reunite his family and win his lady love Nandini (Nayantara).
Bunny (Telugu: బన్ని) is a Telugu ( Dubbed into malayalam as the same title ) movie that was released in the year 2005. This is Allu Arjun's third movie, which proved to be his third successive box office hit after Gangotri and Arya. This film stars Allu Arjun in the lead role and Prakash Raj and Gowri Munjal in other roles. This was dubbed into oriya as "dharmayuddha".The film has been copied in Bengali as "challenge... nibi na sala" by dev&subhashree,directed by raj chakraborty.
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Somaraju (Prakash Raj) is a leading business man in Vizag. Mysamma (Mukesh Rishi) is a close member of Somaraju, who handles the deals of Somaraju in Hyderabad. Mahalaxmi (Gowri Munjal) is the daughter of Somaraju. Somaraju dearly loves his daughter. Bunny (Allu Arjun) joins the same college as Mahalaxmi. He impresses Mahalaxmi on the first day itself. Slowly, she falls in love with him. Somaraju, though reluctant initially, agrees to the marriage. Now Bunny has a condition that Somaraju should give his entire property to Bunny as dowry. The rest of the story explains why Bunny asks for Somaraju's property. Bunny's real father is Mahalaxmi's mom's brother. He was a great man with lots of land and property, as well as lots of regard from the government and other people. When Mahalaxmi is born, Mahalxmi's mom asks him to perform the baby naming ceremony and such. On hs way there, Somaraju attacks him with the help of a bunch of rowdies. They pretty much kill him and leave him to die in the forest. However, he manages to live and perform Mahalaxmi's ceremony, but he dies minutes after, without telling anyone what happened. Bunny comes to know of this when his so called father explains to him that he is really a godfather and not a father. In trying to save him, his godfather and godmother give up their own son to keep him alive. To regain his rightful property, Bunny fights Somaraju and his rowdes wo win his girl, and his heritage.
Samba (Telugu: సాంబ) is a 2004 Telugu film directed by V.V. Vinayak. The movie stars Jr. NTR, Bhoomika Chawla, Genelia D'Souza, and Prakash Raj. The movie deals with how important education is to kids.
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Dharmayya Naidu (Vijayakumar) a underworld kingpin who lost his wife because he is uneducated. Hence he wants to felicitate education in his seema area by constructing schools. He realizes that the quarry he owns has good quality granite deposits. Sambashiva Naidu (NTR) is the son of Dharmayya Naidu. Prakash (Harikrishna) is the son-in-law of Dharmayya Naidu. Pasupathy plays the game in such a way that Dharmayya Naidu is forced to give granite quarry as a dowry to Prakash's family, due to which Dharmayya Naidu's daughter commits suicide. When Samba comes to know the reason behind his sister's suicide, he occupies the quarry and kills the brothers of Prakash. Prakash kills everybody in the house of Samba in retaliation. Samba and his nemesis Prakash take shelter in Kanchi and Guwhati respectively as police ban them from entering AP for a year. Samba settles as a saree manufacturer and trader in Kanchi (Tamil Nadu). The rest of the story is all about how he returns to Seema and takes vengeance against Prakash and then starts serving in educational field.
Tagore (Telugu: ఠాగూర్) is a Telugu language Tollywood film which was a remake of the Kollywood film Ramana which starred Vijaykanth and Simran in lead roles. The film was released on 24 September 2003 and was directed by V.V. Vinayak. Chiranjeevi played the role of the protagonist and Jyothika, Shriya Saran, and Prakash Raj played some other roles as well. The soundtrack was scored by music director Mani Sharma. Some scenes in this film, were not shot originally, but instead, used the previously shot scenes from the Tamil original. For example, in one of the opening scenes, policemen stop all vehicles on the road, and do thorough checking. The scene was not shot, but instead, re-used from Ramana. The film was screened at the International Indian Film Academy Awards, along with the Tollywood film Pokiri.
Tagore (Chiranjeevi) creates his own vigilante military network called the Anti-Corruption Force (ACF) that eliminates the most corrupt individuals, from all walks of life, in a systematic manner. As pressure builds on Police and Government to track down the Man who masterminds these killings, Balbir Singh (Puneet Issar), is specially summoned to head the task. He is aided by Suryam (Prakash Raj) who, though being just a constable in the mammoth Police force, is compelled by his instincts to see through the underlying design. Together they unravel the mystery and unveil the phenomenon called Tagore, but not before Badrinaryana (Sayaji Shinde), the human face of evil, finds out that his revelry in the belief of Tagore’s death was a mistake he can never make amends for.
Dil (Telugu: దిల్) is a 2003 Telugu film which starred Nitin, Neha, and Prakash Raj in the lead roles. V.V. Vinayak directed and Dil Raju produced it. The film was a box-office hit. The comedy of the film was appreciable. It was remade into Oriya as Premi No.1 in 2004 with Anubhav Mohanty and Koyel Mallick, and also remade into Kannada as Student with Mayur Patel and Pooja Kanwal in the lead roles but was a flop. The movie was remade in Tamil in 2004 as Kuththu starring Silambarasan and Divya Spandana.
Seenu (Nitin) is a new admit at college. Nandini (Neha) goes to the same college. Seenu is from a middle-class family and Nandini is a rich girl. Nandini is the only daughter of Gowri Shankar (Prakash Raj), who is a land mafia don. Gowri Shankar suspects them to be lovers after he finds them dancing at the freshers celebration at school. Seenu gets beaten up. Irritated by this, Seenu is challenged to win Nandini's love. After several attempts, she falls in love with him. They elope and get married when Gowri Shankar tries to separate them. The story takes several turns before the movie ends in a happy note.
Chennakesva Reddy (Telugu: చెన్నకేశవ రెడ్డి) is a 2002 Tollywood Faction Film, directed by V.V. Vinayak, released on 25 September 2002. The movie stars Nandamuri Balakrishna in double role father-son characther, while Shriya Saran and Tabu play the female lead.
Bharat (Balakrishna) is a sincere and dedicated police officer in Mumbai. In a short span of time he is regarded as a fearless officer who could single handedly bring the guilty to the justice. Preethi (Shreya) is a medico and daughter of Police Commissioner Prasad (Vizag Prasad). She falls head over heels for our Mr Bharat, but this does not make any difference to the storyline of present stream of faction backdrop movies. Meanwhile another super cop, Sivakrishna working in Rayalseema region of Andhra Pradesh becomes person in news as daring and dashing police officer who never bows his head to politicians. Inevitable Sivakrishna becomes an itch to local faction leader, Dhanunjaya Reddy (Anantraj) who runs a parallel government in that region. When Sivakrishna falls victim to the political clout of Dhanunjaya Reddy he is demoted and transferred to Tihar Jail as lower rank officer. In between we are shown a statue of Chenna Kesava Reddy who is considered as a man of high respect in the region and is missing for the past 22 years. Sivakrishna finds Chenna Kesava Reddy in Tihar Jail being imprisoned on some false case. Sivakrishna makes every effort to get Chennakeshava Reddy released. When Chennakeshave Reddy returns to his village after 22 years, he is pompously welcomed by one and all. Chennakesva Reddy halts the factionalist activities of Dhanunjaya Reddy and his henchmen. After knowing the return of Chennakesva Reddy his wife and son come to see him. Now the movie turns into flash back, in which Chennakeshava Reddy is shown as a generous and the most revered man in the village but has rivalry with Venkata Reddy (Jayaprakash Reddy). In one of the worst spar between the rivals Chennakeshava Reddy’s rivals hack his entire family members to death. When their bid to kill Chennakeshava Reddy falls short, they wangle some false case against him and send him to Tihar Jail. However, Chennakeshava Reddy's wife Sita (Tabu), younger son Bharat (Balakrishna) escape the attack by Venkata Reddy and his men with the help of his follower and reach Mumbai. Chennakeshave Reddy starts taking revenge on his rivals one after the other and there happens to be none to dare Chennakeshave Reddy in the Seema. In order to counter him Dhanunjaya Reddy gets Bharath posted in Seema. The movie continues with the son the chasing father to arrest – father moving ahead in his mission revenge Its An Hit Verdict.
Aadi (Telugu: ఆది) is a Telugu film released in 2002 with Jr. NTR in the main lead. V.V. Vinayak directed this movie. This hit film stands second in Jr. NTR's career, right behind Simhadri. It was also remade in Tamil as Jai with Prashanth. This film led both the actor NTR JR and director V.V. Vinayak into instant stardom.The film collected about 22 crore rupees.
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The story is set in the backdrop of Rayalaseema. The film opens with Veera Reddy (Ahuti Prasad) returning from USA after a long gap with his wife and 8 year-old kid Aadi Kesava Reddy. Veera Reddy's deceased father was a well-known factionist in that area and owned a land of 4,000 acres (16 km2). While leaving for USA, Aadi Sesha Reddy gave the responsibility of managing this land to Siva Reddy (Rajan P Dev). Now back in India, Veera Reddy realizes that Siva Reddy is misusing his power. He wants to donate all his land to the 2000 families staying in that village. When Siva Reddy comes to know of this charity giveaway, he attacks Veera Reddy, killing him and his wife. Veeranna (Chalapati Rao), a trusted lieutenant of Veera Reddy, takes the kid Aadi Kesava Reddy and escapes to the city (Hyderabad). After the murders, Veera Reddy's trusted people are put in jail with a prison sentence of 14 years. Then the film titles roll ending with the caption '12 years later'. We see the grown up Aadi (Jr. NTR) studying in a college. He falls in love with Nandu (Keerthi Chawla) and vice versa. Veeranna has raised Aadi in Hyderabad as a fun-loving boy but he is also hot tempered young man. Later on, it is revealed that Nandu is the daughter of Siva Reddy. Completing her studies, Nandu returns to her hometown at her father's place. After a hiatus of 14 years, Aadi re-enters the Rayalaseema along with other trusted members of his father who are released from jail. Veeranna wants to take revenge on Siva Reddy and get back all the land so that he can distribute it to the villagers. The rest of the film deals with how Aadi achieves his objective. This movie ran for 100 days in 98 centres.
