Credits
Banner: Haarika & Hassine Creations
Cast: Superstar Mahesh Babu, Sreeleela, Meenakshi Chaudhury, Ramya Krishna, Jayaram, Prakash Raj, Rao Ramesh, Vennela Kishore, Eeswari Rao, Murali Sharma, Sunil, Rahul Ravindran, Brahmaji, Ajay Ghosh, Madhusudhan Rao, Mahesh Achanta,
Music: Thaman S
Cinematography: Manoj Paramahamsa & PS Vinod (50%)
Editing: Navin Nooli
Production Design: AS Prakash
Lyrics: Ramajogayya Sastry
Fights: Ram - Lakshman, Vijay
Choreography: VJ Shekar
Executive Producer: Suryadevara Naga Vamsi
Producer: Suryadevara Radha Krishna (Chinababu)
Release Date: January 12th, 2024
Interesting Facts:
As said before, On May 1st 2021 they officially announced the movie as SSMB28 and said 2022 summer release. On August 9th, 2021 they announced Pooja Hegde as heroine along with technical crew AS Prakash art, Navin Nooli editing, and Madhie as DOP.
Originally supposed to start shooting in November 2021 but due to SVP shooting delays they never started. Then Madhie was replaced with PS Vinod and on Feb 3rd, 2022 muhurtam pooja happened at Ramanaidu Studios.
But filming only started on September 12th, 2022 with what they called a high octane action entertainer that was choreographed by Anbariv master. What I heard was the original story was revenge drama action thriller in which Tabu plays Mahesh’s mom, he is fatherless, and Anil Kapoor is a huge Mumbai based gangster who Mahesh wants to take down. They filmed a 6 minute heavy fight with the footage Babu in full form. 2nd schedule was supposed to start on Dussera 2022 with Mahesh and Pooja Hegde but it never happened. Naga Vamsi removed Anbariv masters from the project
And then they scrapped the original action entertainer script and converted it into a commercial family entertainer with action. Full confusion started on the project and everybody wondered why they scrapped it to begin with. Then in Butta Bomma promotions in early 2023, Naga Vamsi said Pooja Hegde and Sreeleela are the heroine August 11th release or so we thought
New script and movie finally started filming on Jan 18th, 2023 in Saradhi Studios glimpse fight was filmed by PS Vinod and now Ram lakshman as fight masters.
Then as with any Trivikram movie, the huge house set you see in the movie was built by AS Prakash and they built it in Shankarapalli Telangana for a cost of 10 crores so they claimed. 2nd schedule started in Feb and ended in April. March 26th, 2023 first look poster released with Sankranthi release date on it Babu smoking beedi.
And then all the problems started. Filming stalled, people said the output wasnt good and they were gonna do reshoots. The only content they had were first look poster of Babu smoking beedi with chillies and then first fight so they released that in the glimpse on May 31st. Then filming never continued due to delays after delays.
Nobody knew what was happening. Pooja Hegde left and then Sreeleela took her role and then Meenakshi Chaudhury was cast in Sreeleela 2nd heroine role. Then due to more delays PS Vinod left the project and no DOP. Became like a big boss house set with elimination every week. Talk was also that Thaman was going to get replaced with GV Prakash Kumar but Naga Vamsi said no Thaman is our music director and they kept him. Filming continued on June 24th, 2023 but then a month later July 22nd, PS Vinod walked out of the movie.
Then Manoj Paramahamsa replaced PS Vinod and then filming continued. Somehow they were able to finish the entire film and shooting finished on December 28th, 2023. Movie did not release any actual content about the movie besides the glimpse in may and finally trailer came on Jan 7th, 2023.
First song Dum Masala on Nov 7th and then Oh my Baby on Dec 13th and then Kurchi Madhapetti on Dec 30th, 2023. Only Dum Masala got a good response but nowhere near AVPL range songs. So very disappointing stuff from Thaman. Negativity mainly from disappointing songs.
