Credits
Banner: Sri Venkateswara Creations
Cast: Prabhas, Kajal Agarwal, Tapsee, Prakash Raj, K Viswanath, Murali Mohan, Nassar, Sayaji Shinde, Brahmanandam, Raghubabu, Master Bharat, Sameer, Kasi Viswanath, Raja Ravindra, Kaushal Prasad, Krishnudu, Subbaraya Sharma, Pragati, Tulasi, Rajitha, Sagar, Satyadev Kancharana
Music: Devi Sri Prasad
Cinematography: Vijay K Chakravarthy
Art: Ravinder
Editor: Marthand K Venkatesh
Fights: Peter Heins
Screenplay: Hari
Dialogues: Abburi Ravi
Story - Direction: K Dasaradh
Producer: Dil Raju
Release date: 22 April 2011
Interesting Facts Links:
https://www.idlebrain.com/celeb/interview/dilraju-mrperfect.html
Prabhas and Dil Raju Interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AB91VMM9fdk&ab_channel=PrabhasGirlsFC
The basic story idea was born out of the discussions I had with Sirivennela during the lyrics discussion for Parugu movie. I opined that Dasarath could do justice to this kind of script and called him. I asked him to work on this story idea. I liked the way Dasarath contributed to the story and wanted to make a film of 7 to 8 crores budget with a small hero. I explained the story idea casually to Prabhas when I met him. He asked me about the director and I told him that it was dasarath. Prabhas was not excited about the director. I asked Prabhas if would like to get a narration. He was in Malaysia to shoot for Billa (it was in the year 2008). I sent Dasarath across. Prabhas got excited about the first half and expressed doubts regarding a few aspects in the second half. We had worked on those aspects. Prabhas had returned to India in February of 2009, listened to the second half and okayed it.
Lot of my well-wishers and distributors questioned my judgment when I hired Dasarath to direct this film. I introduced several directors to film industry like Sukumar, Boyapati Seenu, Bommarillu Bhaskar, Vamsi Paidipally, Vasu Varma and Srikanth Addala. I liked the approach of Dasarath and wanted him to direct the movie. He has done complete justice to the script.
However, I had taken the best of technicians who worked for me in the past. Devi Sri Prasad composes music for my banner after a gap of 4 years (after Bommarillu). Abburi Ravi pens dialogues after Bommarillu in our banner. Vijay Chakravarthy who worked for my films like Bommarillu and Parugu has done cinematography. Peter Heins is composing fights.
Nobody had expectations on Mr. Perfect till the music was launched. The visuals and trailers have fetched lot of good will and craze in the market. The music composed by Devi Sri Prasad became an instant hit. People and distributors started taking notice of the film and there is very good buzz in the market for Mr. Perfect now.
Actually what happened was they filmed the entire movie from March 2010 to March 2011. But Prabhas watched the final copy and felt the output wasn’t like what Dasardh narrated. He told Dil Raju and he and Prabhas sat in the editing room and on Prabhas’s suggestion, they shot the entire 2nd half again within one month with limited resources and cast dates finalized. That’s probably why the 2nd half feels so weird and cheap production values due to limited time.
90% of it was shot in outdoor locations like Australia, Malaysia, Pollachi, Kerala, Ahobilam etc.
29 crores share and was a super hit at the box office made on a budget of 16 crores. 2nd highest grosser of 2011 after Dookudu
