Credits
Banner: DVV entertainment
Cast: Mahesh Babu, Kiara Advani, Prakash Raj, Sarath Kumar, Rao Ramesh, Devaraj, Posani Krishna Murali, Brahmaji, Ravi Shankar, Yashpal Sharma, Anish Kuruvilla, Ajay, Rahul Ramakrishna, Shatru, Devadas Kanakala, Prudhviraj. Jeeva, Suriya, Sithara, Aamani, Banerjee, Rajitha
Music: Devi Sri Prasad
Cinematographer: Ravi K. Chandran & Thirunavakkrasu
Lyrics: Ramajogayya Sastry
Production design: Suresh Selvarajan
Editor: Sreekar Prasad
Fights: Ram Lakshman
Story, Screenplay, Dialogues, Direction: Koratala Siva
Producer: DVV Danayya
Release date: April 20th, 2018
Interesting Facts:
- Mahesh Babu inspiration to play the character is his brother in law politician Jayadev Galla who also studies in America, the way he conducts himself, and in parliament videos he also says Madam Speaker
- Mahesh babu got tension when he Koratala said CM character as he’s not into politics, he got excited after a 10 mins narration, then 15-20 minutes and then in Bangkok in a health resort 5 hours narration: 1 day 2.5 hour narration first half, 2 days later 2.5 hours 2nd half narration, his first question was how are we gonna have 5 hours, how are gonna condense it down to 3 hours, after watching the final copy we feel could have made part 1 and part 2 because we left out so many scenes
- For the assembly scenes they didn’t want to cut the flow so Mahesh did what he calls master scenes which means they run the entire 5-8 page scene entirely without any breaks or lag and everyone is rehearsed all artists with 2-3 cameras, as you can see in the film they came out superbly with a lot of tension and intense dialogues and Mahesh found it difficult to pronounce the political dialogues. It was one of the first schedules they did for the film and they all clicked a photo together in the Assembly set
- Talking about the assembly set, Koratala Siva said it was all due to Suresh Selvarajan’s team and detail and worked on the film for 1.5 years. At max they will give one week to shoot in Assembly in Hyderabad and one week doesnt justify a set so let’s go other states like Bhopal, Kerala, and they saw it and felt our nativity isn’t there. They said let’s stay for 10 days to do some set work but they didnt allow it and they said shoot it as is. Lastly after doing some research for the Andhra Assembly, they built the set in Annapurna Studios for a cost of 2 crores
- About the first oath, Mahesh said that they filmed the scene in Lucknow first, after filming told Siva that let’s take proper care to dub. That January they filming the climax and Mahesh was filming the in the dust and then on jan 26th, media team came up with the idea of the first oath but I have to dub it right and later that evening we will do it
- First Devi and Koratala composed a different introduction song, but then after first oath used BGM to make 1 min rough cut
- Tuck for the chief minister was done as part of a look test in Mumbai
- Spent 4 crores for a set for the song of Vachadayyao Saami in an open ground in Hyderabad. It was built just for the song and they destroyed it after.
- Kiara Advani was selected as the heroine marking her Telugu debut and also marked Farhan Akhtar’s Telugu singing debut with the song I don’t know
- Plus everybody knows, there was a fight in the movie known as Holi fight. When Bharat (Mahesh Babu) develops closeness with his brother, both go out to play Holi, their faces smeared with colours. Then comes the fight sequence. Though they had shot the scene for nearly three days, the makers had to delete it. Fans have been asking and even after 6 years they still haven’t released it.
- Finally movie released on April 20th, 2018 to good talk. Overall movie collected about 95-100 crores share and was above average to hit at the box office, Its first 100 crore share movie for Mahesh babu and it collected 3.5 million at USA box office becoming 4th highest all time grosser after Rangasthalam.
- Completed 50 days in 25 centers and 100 days in 6 centers
