Credits
Banner: Sri Venkateswara Creations
Cast: Ravi Teja, Meera Jasmine, Prakash Raj, Pradeep Rawat, Deepak, Padmanabham, Murali Mohan, Brahmaji, Sunil, Jeeva, Vizag Prasad, Raghunadha Reddy, Gundu Hanmantha Rao, Subbaraju, Sriharsha, Raja Ravindra, Vizag Seenu, Ajay, Sudha, Revathy, Jhansi & Telangana Sakuntala
Dialogues: Koratala Siva
Music: Devi Sri Prasad
Lyrics: Sirivennela, Kulashekar Bhaskarbatla, and Viswa
Editing: Marthand K Venkatesh
Art: AS Prakash
Stunts: Ram Lakshman & Kanal Kannan
Cinematography: Arthur A Wilson
Visual Effects: Yugandhar - Junaid
Co producers: Sirish - Lakshman
Story - screenplay - direction: Boyapati Seenu
Producer: Dil Raju
Theatrical release date: 12th May 2005
Interesting Facts and Context: Saw it in VHS sometime after the movie released, usually took a while and liked it. Action packed with good emotion. Rewatched it for the podcast and it is a classic. It’s so good. Emotion, action, and suspense are all so good. Main thing is later Boyapati movies have a lot of cringe, since this is the first movie, there is none. It’s amazing direction and story telling. Songs are also amazing. Loved the movie.
Interesting Facts:
I belong to Peda Kakani which is in the outskirts of Guntur. I did my graduation in JKC College in Guntur and post-graduation in Nagarjuna University. We have a photo studio and it was our business. I was interested in photography. I have also worked as a part-time reporter for Eenadu newspaper. I was planning to start a small scale industry in Guntur’s Auto Nagar. That is when my cousin Posani Krishna Murali suggested me to join films. I came to Hyderabad with him and he made me join in the direction department of Muthyala Subbaiah in 1997. I worked with him for films like Oka Chinna Maata, Gokulamlo Seetha, Pelli Chesukundam, Pavitra Prema, Annayya and Manasunna Maaraju.
Then I have prepared the story of Bhadra. After the release of Gangotri, I approached Allu Arvind to narrate Bhadra story by keeping Bunny as hero. I know Allu Arvind well because I have worked for Annayya. He liked the story, but told me that Bunny was doing Arya film. He made Bunny to listen to the story. Bunny liked it and he directly took me to Dil Raju. He made me narrate Bhadra story to Dil Raju and made Dil Raju give advance to me right away. We had initially considered Prabhas as hero. But Prabhas’s dates were locked for Chakram film for 8 months.
Then he narrated it to Raviteja and he accepted. Actually Raviteja had just signed Khatarnak in Amma Rajashekar direction but chose to work on Bhadra instead.
First choice for role of Raja was actor Raja himself, but they selected Deepak instead. November 14th, 2004 muhurtham at Annapurna Studios. Ramanaidu Garu and VV Vinayak Garu were the chief guests
Filming was done in Annapurna, Padmalaya, Ramanaidu, and RFC majority of the filming happened. 5 month and 80 working days
Budget was 5.5 crores. May 2nd audio launch Prabhas and Allu Arjun were the chief guests.
May 12th, 2005 it released with 100 prints.
First day it had superhit talk and people loved all the commercial elements the faction backdrop and the emotional love story.
Dil Raju 3rd consecutive blockbuster, Raviteja DSP combo Patrick after Venky and Khadgam,
Ran for 50 days in 2 centers in Guntur, collected more than Simhadri, Tagore, and Mass in final run apparently
Ran for 50 days in 90 centers and 100 days in 42 centers and collected 23 crores at the box office and became a blockbuster.
